Rome's Michael McDougald is scheduled to beinducted into the Alabama Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame of Broadcasting later this month.
A ceremony is planned for Saturday, July 19t, at Point Clear, Alabama’s Marriott-Grand Hotel Resort. He will be cited for special accomplishments in radio broadcasting in Alabama during a seventeen year period from 1960 to 1977.
McDougald had previously been named Broadcaster of the Year in Alabama and along with other named nominees will be placed in the newly formed Hall of Fame to be established by the Alabama Broadcasters Association, which represents most of the radio and television stations in that state.
McDougald previously owned WAAX-570 and WQEN, which covered much of Alabama.
News coverage included the emerging civil rights history in the state, including dramatic on-the-scene coverage of the integration of the University at Oxford, Mississippi by James Meredith.
McDougald sold his Alabama interests in 1977 and purchased WRGA and WQTU in Rome. He sold sold his Rome-based broadcast properties to Southern Broadcasting, Inc. and currently serves the state of Georgia as Vice Chairman of Georgia Public Broadcasting and Chairman of the Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia, Inc.. He is Georgia’s representative to the national Association of Public Television Stations in Washington.
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