Georgia Radio Hall of Fame names nominees

The 2019 Georgia Radio Hall of Fame is giving Atlanta radio ladies much love in its latest career achievement nominations: WSB Radio’s veteran reporter Sabrina Gibbons Cupit, V-103 late-night host Joyce Littel and jazz specialist Rene Miller. This is Gibbons’ second nomination and first for both Littel and Miller.

Gibbons, 51, joined News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB in 2000 and was first nominated in 2017. She has been in radio since she was 15. “It’s an honor to be included among such a great group of professional broadcasters!” she said. “It’s a blessing to be able to do something you love for so many years.”

Littel started the Quiet Storm show on V-103 in 1990 and worked there for 20 years. She was let go in 2000 and returned on a part-time basis V-103 in 2014. She was recently named program director of news/talk 1380/WAOK-AM, where she hosts a Sunday relationships talk show from 4 to 6 p.m.

Miller has been in Atlanta for decades, working at WAOK/ AM 1380, Jazz Flavors 104.1, Smooth Jazz 107.5, Majic 107.5/97.5 and now Smooth Jazz 101.1/1310. She is now program director and afternoon host.

“I am humbled, grateful and thankful,” Miller wrote me. “I came to Georgia with no job, a U-Haul, $900 in my pocket and a dream. I just wish my father was here to share this moment with me.”

Others from metro Atlanta who are being considered: 91.9/WCLK-FM jazz expert Jamal Ahmad, WCLK 1970s jazz king Dr. William “Bill” Gay, Athens WGAU news director Tim Bryant, WSB Radio news anchor Bob Coxe, former WGST, 790/The Zone and GPB executive Bob Houghton, former Fox 97.1 and Peach 94.9 exec Tim Johnson, long-time Georgia Radio Network Bulldog sideline reporter Loran Smith, former WDUN news director Ken Stanford, former WDUN radio host Joel Williams and former Z93 and WGST host Brian Wilson.

Founding 99X program director Sean Demery will be honored as a legacy inductee, along with former WSB-AM voice-over man and weekend host Gary Guntor and former WAOK host Burke Johnson and former “Miss America” host Bert Parks.

Members of the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame nominate and vote each year. Anybody can be a member for a onetime fee of $25. Voting occurs via email in July. This year’s ceremony will be in LaGrange on Oct. 26.