1960-1969 WSB EVENTS
1960's - WSB Radio wins: Outstanding News Operation of The Year, The Alfred P. Sloan Radio Award, The Edison Foundation National Mass Media Award, and many others.
1960's - WSB begins giving awards to listeners; The Worth Safety Boosters, Outstanding Young Americans, WSBeavers, Great Georgians, Great Americans, The 750 Award, and The Sports Scroll.
May 1960 - WSB adds a helicopter to it's news fleet allowing the news department to be where news was being made.
1962 - WSB radio celebrates it's fortieth birthday. Jerry Vandeventer produced a nostalgic review of the station's first forty years.
1962 - WSB FM begins began broadcasting in stereo multiplex and originating it's own programming.
April 3, 1962 - WSB became the first station in the South to broadcast editorials.
October, 1962 - WSB was one of six radio stations asked by the government to carry Voice of America programs in Spanish for eleven hours a night during the Cuban missile crisis.
February 25, 1963 - James M. Cox received a congratulatory telegram from President Kennedy on the occasion of WSB receiving the Broadcast Pioneers Golden Mike Award.
June 1963 - WSB's Aubrey Morris traveled to Paris with Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen and phones reports back on the jet crash which killed 122 Georgians.
1965- Elmo Ellis composes, and WSB Women's Director Sherrie Johnson records, "Won't You Come Home Vince Dooley" when the UGA coach was being courted by another university. Dooley stayed put.
1966 - WSB receives a Peabody Award
1967 - WSB's Aubrey Morris interviews Robert F. Kennedy.
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1967 - WSB gives Billy Graham the "Great American Award".
1969 - WSB's Elmo Ellis received a personal commendation from President Nixon for a campaign to raise money to provide school lunches for needy children.
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