FLYNN ON THE RADIO

ALL-TIME ALL-SUBJECTS FLYNN RADIO FEATURES
LIST OF NATIONALLY RUN ASSOCIATED PRESS FEATURES
SPORTS BREAKDOWN/PERSONALITIES
AWARDS    TESTIMONIALS
HENRIETTA POST FLYNN ARTICLE


BILL FLYNN's MEDIA INFORMATION/ TIME LINE

- Freelance writing since 2013 for The Canandaigua Messenger/Messenger Post Media,
and New York Horse magazine

- Gained Producer certification in 2013 at RCTV (Rochester, NY);
2013-14 created videos that aired on RCTV

- Through 2010, Flynn had produced over 1300 4-minute-or-longer features
on sports and general topics, mainly spotlighting Rochester-area people

- 2011 was his 26th consecutive year of reporting on the Rochester stop of the LPGA
(on-course live WHAM reporter for te 2002-2008 events)

- Instituted hourly WHAM overnight newscasts in 2002, produced/aired 5 daily

- Spent one year researching and writing the documentary When We Saved the Amerks-
1972-73: The Story of Cherry, the Battleship and Hockey Revival in Rochester, New York
...aired 2003 on WHTK and WHAM

- Produced/aired 24 features and wraps, aired mainly on WHAM's Sunday Magazine program

- Co-host/producer of the WHAM Wine Show, 2001-2005

- Joined WHAM-AM in 2001

- Only Rochester media person to travel/cover (active) record Zippy Chippy
loss #96 in Northampton, Massachusetts, September 2000

- Spent nine years of Fridays with the Times-Union's Rick Woodson on WXXI's
For The Record, for a back-and-forth sports conversation feature

- Spent three months researching, writing the documentary Sounds of Silver; Baseball Sounds and Memories;
Celebrating Rochester, New York's Silver Stadium 1929-1996 ...aired 1996 on WXXI-AM

- Hosted monthly hour-long call-in talk show history segment with retired history professor
John MacNaughton on the 1370 Connection 12/95 through 9/96. Topics included: History Quotations,
Transportation, Pain and Punishment, Custer's Last Stand, The Guns of August, The Titanic,
The Civil War

- Fill-in host for hour-long call-in talk show 1370 Connection
Topics included: Divorces From Hell, Streets of Rochester, Modern Day Noah's Ark,
Antiques & Collectibles, Toy Inventor

- Fill-in host for hour-long call-in talk show 1370 Sports Connection
Topics included: Hockey Rules, Golf Rules, Presidential Golf, Rochester Red Wings/Naomi Silver,
Rochester Knighthawks/Steve Donner, Rochester Baseball History, Fencing/Felicia and Iris Zimmerman,
Woodson So Long, Besides Baseball, Wrestling Phenomenon

-Produced/aired over 1300 short features. Besides airing locally, nearly 500 aired
nationally on the Associated Press Radio network, and around the world via the Armed Forces
Radio Network. Several also aired on National Public Radio (Morning Edition, Only a Game, 51%),
and via the Great Lakes Radio Consortium

- Volunteer reader for Reachout Radio program/AVBI
(Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired)

- Joined WXXI-AM in 1984 as Morning Edition local host

- Aired nightly sports reports for WRTK-AM 1982-1983

- Joined WHTK-AM in 1982 as operator for The Larry King show.

- In 1978 he broke the news of Frank Robinson becoming the new Rochester Red Wings
manager, on WSAY-AM...and produced an hour long documentary on local basketball star
David Everett, plus a short feature on the Rochester Grey Wolves lacrosse team

- Joined WSAY-AM in 1976 as transmitter operator

- In 1975 as a sophomore at Rush-Henrietta Sperry HS, he started on air with sports
reports for WRHR-90.5 FM (now WBER-FM). His sports work at WRHR included
play by play of baseball, football and basketball- including Rush-Henrietta's
Section V '76 championship basketball season. He was named station manager during his
senior year


FLYNN AWARDS
1989- ASSOCIATED PRESS... US Open Losers... SPECIAL MENTION
1992- ASSOCIATED PRESS... The Glove... 1ST PLACE
1995- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Negro Leagues Batboy... SPECIAL MENTION
1995- ASSOCIATED PRESS... The Old Back House... SPECIAL MENTION
1996- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Domonique Moceanu... 1ST PLACE
1999- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Zippy Chippy... 1ST PLACE
1999- EDWARD R. MURROW... Zippy Chippy... 1ST PLACE
2000- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Women's Hockey... SPECIAL MENTION
2000- EDWARD R. MURROW... Women's Hockey... 1ST PLACE
2002- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Nancy Lopez Farewell... 1ST PLACE
2003- ASSOCIATED PRESS... Baseball's Magic Mud... SPECIAL MENTION
2004- ASSOCIATED PRESS... The Sharpener... SPECIAL MENTION
2004- ASSOCIATED PRESS... French's Mustard... SPECIAL MENTION
2004- EDWARD R. MURROW... The Sharpener... 1ST PLACE
2004- EDWARD R. MURROW... Awaiting Annika... 1ST PLACE
2004- NY STATE BROADCASTER's ASSOCIATION... The Sharpener... 1ST PLACE
2010- FRONTIER FIELD WALK OF FAME... Induction... FRONTIER FIELD
2010- RUSH-HENRIETTA ALUMNI HOF... Induction... ELMER GORDON STADIUM
2016- SYRACUSE PRESS CLUB... BEST FEATURE Zippy Chippy... 1ST PLACE

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SPECIAL PROJECTS

SOUNDS OF SILVER
Baseball Sounds and Memories
Celebrating Rochester, N.Y.'s
Silver Stadium 1929-1996
(Aired 1996 WXXI-AM)
By Bill Flynn- Producer, Announcer
[format: cassette/1 hour] Accepted into
Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York)
[with: Fran Fitzgerald, Marv Foley, Steve Springer,
George Christoff, Mike Roman, Specs Toporcer,
Dorothy Fox, Stan Musial, Jay Stalker, Russ Derry,
Robert Turner, Joe Budny, Harry Walker, Joe Altobelli,
Boog Powell, Earl Weaver, Don Baylor, Johnny Oates,
John Hart, Dick Sirens, Morganna "The Kissing Bandit",
Dan Boone, Gina Satriano, Tommy Lasorda, Bob Gibson,
Len Lustik, Fred Costello, George Grella, Joe Cullinane, Jim LaVilla-Havelin]




WHEN WE SAVED THE AMERKS
1972-73: The Story of Cherry,
the Battleship and Hockey Revival
in Rochester, New York
(aired 2003 on WHAM, WHTK)
by Bill Flynn- Producer, Announcer
[format: CD/1 hour] Accepted into
Hockey Hall of Fame Library, Toronto, Canada
[with: John Bednarski, Jeff Brown, Pete Brown, Jerry Castle,
Don Cherry, Bob Clarke, John Den Hamer, Steve Donner,
Emile Francis, Dick Gamble, Christine Giambra,
Bill Jarosinki, George Konz, Walt Krehling, J.Paul Lortie,
Bob Malcolm, Gayle Markle-Horn, George Mayer,
John Muckler, Ann Paddock, Virginia Paddock, Sam Paolini,
Gary Sankey, Hans Tanner, Sam Toth, Bob Wetmore,
Lynn Zimmerman]





HISTORY COMES ALIVE!
with John MacNaughton
(aired 2000 on WXXI)
by Bill Flynn- Producer, Announcer
[format: Taped/1 hour]
John MacNaughton taught the subject of history for
nearly 40 years at various colleges in western New
York, spellbinding his students with a unique
storytelling style. Bill Flynn visits John at his
home in Caledonia, NY- a homestead that his family
settled in 1826- and where MacNaughton claims a
rare boast: sleeping in the same bed he was
born. Browsing MacNaughton's massive book
collection (which numbers into the
thousands) plus a sampling of John's radio
appearances makes for a terrific review
of John's career as an educator and
memorable world history events.

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