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• Peabody Award winning radio journalist for
"The Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay Records," producer and critic
for WRKS-FM (KISS-FM) in NYC for 30 years;
• On-Air personality on the Wake Up Club featuring Jeff Fox,
Talent and Shaila from 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. and previously on the Isaac
Hayes Morning Show;
• On-Air personality & Co-Host for KISS-FM’s Sunday
morning public affairs program, OPEN LINE (10 A.M. to 12 noon),
and its Sunday evening weekly news (11 P.M.) program, WEEK IN REVIEW;
• Executive Producer, Soul Beginnings which won the NY Metro
A.I.R. Award for “Best Evening Show” in NYC in 1997
and Producer for The Legend Series for KISS-FM /1998;
• A Harlem, New York native, Bob Slade's original dream was
to become an actor. He attended Queens College where he studied
acting, and he eventually became a member of the Negro Ensemble
Theatre Company and the Harlem YMCA Theater Group in NYC.
• He began doing news radio in 1971 at a Long Island radio
station, and then he proceeded to a radio station in Upstate New
York. It was in 1980 that Bob joined the KISS family and became
its News Director.
• Bob's ability to answer almost any question regarding entertainment,
sports, music, past events, and current affairs has made him the
98.7 KISS FM historian on just about any subject. His diverse knowledge
on music, Black History and the Women's movement is simply impressive
and encyclopedic.
• Bob has won two Achievement In Radio Awards; The first
for the Best Night Time Show (Soul Beginnings), and the other in
1997 for Soul Beginnings.
• The recipient of the 1998 & 2002 New York Metro A.I.R.
Award for the “Best Public Affairs Program” for KISS-FM’s
"Open Line Show."
• Recipient of two Armstrong Awards from Columbia University
(one of them was for his documentary on the history of Black music).
Other awards he received were from CEBA, United Press International
and International Radio Festival of New York.
• Recipient of the Garden State Association of Black Journalists
award for the best syndicated show, Visions of Black America, as
producer and writer
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SOME FACTS
ABOUT BOB SLADE
