Radio Personality

Baltimore Ravens' Terrence Cody is fat, according to Mike Golic from ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning show. Golic's comment was made on Friday morning, during a discussion about Cody's objections to the new NFL jerseys : "Terrence Cody is about 350. Terrence, I don't mean this in a bad way, but you're fat. I mean am I making up that you have some fat on you when you weight 350? Listen, if you're under 10 percent fat percentage, god love you, but I am pretty sure you are not. "

This time of year, "thankfulness" and "gratitude" are terms folks throw around so much that they almost become greeting card platitudes. Maybe people mean it, maybe they don't. Doctors have linked the concept of gratitude to inner peace, even physical well-being. It's at least true that there are people quietly living with real thankfulness, though they might not use that word. It's just life lived, something that warms them from the inside and maybe helps them sleep through the night.

A 21-year-old man was charged yesterday in the slaying of gospel radio personality Alfred Jerome Stewart, who died after being gunned down Wednesday on an East Baltimore street.Gary Ricardo Ward of the 1600 block of Darley Ave. was charged with first-degree murder and felony handgun violations, Baltimore police said.Police arrested Mr. Ward at 6:30 a.m. yesterday at his girlfriend's home in the 900 block of Luzerne Ave. in Baltimore. The motive for the crime appears to be drug-related, police said.

Baltimore Ravens' Terrence Cody is fat, according to Mike Golic from ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning show. Golic's comment was made on Friday morning, during a discussion about Cody's objections to the new NFL jerseys : "Terrence Cody is about 350. Terrence, I don't mean this in a bad way, but you're fat. I mean am I making up that you have some fat on you when you weight 350? Listen, if you're under 10 percent fat percentage, god love you, but I am pretty sure you are not. "

LOOK UP the list of celebrity birthdays in today's paper, and you probably won't find Tim Watts listed there. But if you're a rhythm-and-blues fan in the Baltimore area, today is worth celebrating. Watts, WWIN-FM 95.9's drive-time disc jockey from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., turns 50 today. It's tempting, and downright cliche-ish, to say that Watts, with nearly 25 years as an on-air radio personality in this town, is a Baltimore institution. But that's not quite the word. A Baltimore monument is more like it. Who else would have stayed in this burg after what Watts has been through?

William H. Shriver Jr., a longtime Baltimore radio personality who offered drive-time commentary on WBAL-AM for two decades, died Sunday of a heart attack at his Annapolis home. He was 84. A figure in Baltimore radio since the 1930s, when he appeared on a 15-minute weekly program in the role of a city Department of Health physician called Dr. Ashley, he went on to write radio and advertising copy and television reviews, and to appear on local stages. He was best known for his show Views and Reviews, which aired five days a week at 5:35 p.m. from 1963 until his 1983 retirement.

Alfred Jerome Stewart, a morning drive-time personality for gospel radio station WWIN-AM, was shot to death late last night in what city police said appeared to be a drug-related slaying.Mr. Stewart, 51, of the 8700 block of Mary Lane in Jessup, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the back beside his Mercedes-Benz just south of Clifton Park.Police were summoned there -- at a corner of Cliftview Avenue and Harford Road -- at 11:25 p.m. by reports of a shooting. Mr. Stewart was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene 12 minutes later, police said.

After making a name for itself in radio and cable television, Lanham-based Radio One Inc. said yesterday that it is extending its reach into the media world by agreeing to acquire a majority interest in Reach Media Inc., a Texas media company owned by popular radio personality Tom Joyner. Radio One will pay $56.1 million in cash and stock in a deal that will give it ownership rights to Joyner's syndicated radio show, which reaches 8 million listeners on 115 stations. The purchase also gives Radio One control of www.Black- AmericaWeb.

BRIAN CLEWER, 79 Radio personality Brian Clewer, a London-born radio personality who was host of Cynic's Choice, a program of British comedy and music that aired in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, and who also owned the Continental Shop for British foods and other goods in Santa Monica, Calif., died of pneumonia April 16 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Suzanne. He had been a resident of Los Angeles since the early 1960s. His radio show was launched in 1962 and continued until 2005.

Thich Thien Hao, 86, a senior Buddhist monk who fought beside communist guerrillas in Vietnam, died Sunday in Hanoi. He was vice president of the state-sanctioned Vietnam Buddhist Church.Roby Yonge, 54, the radio personality known as Big Kahuna, died of a heart attack Friday in Miami. At Miami radio station WQAM, he created a radio personality called the Big Kahuna. The character, spiritual king of the beach, was a sarcastic take on Yonge, who was not the athletic surfer type.Pub Date: 7/24/97

CBS radio is billing it as "the alternative rock music Baltimore grew up and the personalities who made it popular" returning to the airwaves starting at noon today with the debut of HFS at 97.5 FM on the local radio dial. Featured artists on the playlist will include:  Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Incubus, and Green Day, according to the station's release. Station personalities will include: Tim Virgin, Gina Crash, Jenn Marino,Chris Emery, and Neci.  One  question is whether HFS will be going for the some of the same audience as WTMD-FM, the Towson Unibversity station?

When radio personality Bob Lopez died in May 2005, after 27 years on 98 Rock, his bosses knew finding someone to fill his shoes wouldn't be easy. "We had lost a guy who had been on the air almost since the birth of the radio station," said Dave Hill, at the time three years into his tenure as program director at WIYY-FM (97.9). "After Lopez died, by just playing music and highlights of Lopez's career, it gave the audience time to reflect. It also gave us the chance to step back for a second.

BRIAN CLEWER, 79 Radio personality Brian Clewer, a London-born radio personality who was host of Cynic's Choice, a program of British comedy and music that aired in Los Angeles for more than 40 years, and who also owned the Continental Shop for British foods and other goods in Santa Monica, Calif., died of pneumonia April 16 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Suzanne. He had been a resident of Los Angeles since the early 1960s. His radio show was launched in 1962 and continued until 2005.

Last Saturday I covered the 12th annual Polar Bear Plunge, which benefits the Maryland Special Olympics, at Sandy Point State Park. Now, I grew up in Minnesota, so I am used to people doing crazy things to pass away the winter. I'm just not used to 10,000 crazy people doing the same thing. I'm told that when this event started, there were just a few people, no media and no warming tents. Now, people start to arrive at dawn, in a full array of costumes. Some even set up tail-gating parties like Ravens football fans.

Harry R. Shriver Jr., the legendary Baltimore radio executive who brought such personalities as Johnny Walker, Peter Berry -- "The Flying Dutchman" -- Charlie Eckman, Ron Matz and Tom Marr to WFBR-AM, and created "Conference Call," an innovative lunchtime radio current events discussion program, died Satuday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 74. "He had his pulse on the radio business in Baltimore during the 1970s and 1980s, and took chances in an era when broadcasters weren't taking chances.

Radio personality Tom Joyner took to the stage at Morgan State University yesterday and voiced support for historically black colleges, encouraged his listeners to vote and raised questions about the war in Iraq. And after he got his audience thinking about serious issues, he hit them with the absurd - he offered $100 to the woman with the thickest mustache and another $100 to the man with the largest breasts. Twelve times a year, Joyner, 57, takes his Dallas-based show on the road to drum up support for black colleges.

CBS radio is billing it as "the alternative rock music Baltimore grew up and the personalities who made it popular" returning to the airwaves starting at noon today with the debut of HFS at 97.5 FM on the local radio dial. Featured artists on the playlist will include:  Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Incubus, and Green Day, according to the station's release. Station personalities will include: Tim Virgin, Gina Crash, Jenn Marino,Chris Emery, and Neci.  One  question is whether HFS will be going for the some of the same audience as WTMD-FM, the Towson Unibversity station?

Pauline Wells Lewis, known to thousands of Baltimore-area gospel music fans as Aunt Pauline or the Godmother of Gospel during a career as a radio-show host and gospel singer, died Tuesday of heart failure at Mercy Medical Center.For more than 50 years, Mrs. Wells, 87, of West Baltimore sang and was host of gospel music radio shows in Baltimore and nationwide."She worked her own style, and it was such a great delivery she had," said Su Wood, station manager for WBGR-AM, Mrs. Lewis' last radio station, where she worked until health problems forced her to resign this year.

After making a name for itself in radio and cable television, Lanham-based Radio One Inc. said yesterday that it is extending its reach into the media world by agreeing to acquire a majority interest in Reach Media Inc., a Texas media company owned by popular radio personality Tom Joyner. Radio One will pay $56.1 million in cash and stock in a deal that will give it ownership rights to Joyner's syndicated radio show, which reaches 8 million listeners on 115 stations. The purchase also gives Radio One control of www.Black- AmericaWeb.

Former state Sen. Larry Young, a prominent radio talk-show host in Baltimore, was improving yesterday after being rushed last month to a hospital with a life-threatening condition related to his lungs and heart, close friends and state leaders said. Doctors at Union Memorial Hospital examined his heart yesterday to see how it was functioning and to determine what happened Feb. 20 when he became ill during his WOLB radio show. "He's progressing," said state Sen. Joan Carter Conway, who spoke with Young this week and visited him shortly after he became sick.