Ed Busch Talk Show Aircheck – 1983.mp3
Resume of Ed Busch
1968 – Present
Self-employed by Ed Busch Productions, Inc.
- 2004 – 2005 – Producer, writer, interviewer for Black History Month television features for Cadillac and Chevrolet. Identified subjects to be profiled within the African-American community, conducted interviews, wrote scripts for profiles and voiced the segments. Aired on CBS 11 and channel 21 in Dallas/Fort Worth.
- 1992 – 2003 – Voice, writer/producer of audio newsletters for Frito-Lay, Interstate Batteries and La Quinta Inns. This consisted of interviews with the public, experts, authors and employees.
- 1986 – 1993 KLIF-AM Dallas. Talk show host and fill-in host.
- 1986 – 1988 Consultant to KLIF-AM Dallas. Responsible for helping change the station from a country music format to a talk format.
- 1984 – 1986 Host/producer of the “Ed Busch Talk Show” national call-in talk show in joint venture with the Associated Press and carried by their network.
- 1982 – 1983 “America Overnight” programmer/host of national call-in talk show. Joint venture with RKO Networks and carried on 100+ stations.
1976-1982 WFAA-AM Dallas Talk Show Host
1975-1976 KNBR (NBC O/O) San Francisco Talk Show Host
1980s – 1990s freelance work: Talk program consultant to WPLP-AM Tampa, WCKY Cincinnati, KFJZ –AM Fort Worth, KTBB-AM Tyler and KOA-AM Denver. Hosted daily mid-day movie on Channel 27 (“Ed Busch and the Movies”) and a weekly TV version of my radio show on WFAA-TV Channel 8 with audience.
Recognition/Civic Highlights: San Francisco Bar Association media award for staging a trial on my program with the audience as the jury. Dallas Independent School District award for swapping jobs with the Superintendent. Dallas Observer voted Best Talk-Show Host. Elected on the first-ever ballot to Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Two-term president SPCA of Texas. Mabank ISD bond committee member.
So adding to the earlier line up, it brings us to early 1968: WTTO-AM Toledo
1968 WKNR FM
1969 WKNR-AM
1970, 1971: WCAR
1972 WWWW-FM
1973 (my first talk gig) WERE-AM Cleveland
And then to WFAA-AM…
Okay, I think that’s my whole life George.
Ed
PS, Dick Purtan once told me I was talented but my problem was I’d go across the street for another $50 a week. I guess he was right.
Ed graduated From Lincoln Park High School
W X Y Z Jingle – Lincoln Park High School.mp3
I first caught your radio talk show in Dallas years ago and still judge all others vs you. I was thrilled to receive the La Quinta cassettes as a road warrior. Are you still doing a talk show somewhere and if so, where?
A loyal fan!
Rich
I remember Ed Busch back in the mid-70s on KNBR. Was in 7th and 8th grade at the time and was the first talk show I listened to regularly.
I worked for the “Ed Busch Talk Show” on WFAA in Dallas in 1985. I generated an audience for the abortion show and others.
Ed busch was so damn good that i wanted to be a radio talk show host.thanks ed for all the great shows.
I was in attendance (under the tarp) at the Ed Busch Show taping in Dallas at the State Fair in ’87 or ’88. It was the session with Joe Bob Briggs. I was on the front row, had a camera shot that lasted about 5 seconds. Do anyone know where I can get a copy of that video??
I first started listening to Ed Busch while I was in high school in Temple, Tx. He was on in afternoons while Kevin McCarthy had the 9-noon spot. After graduation, I attended NTSU (UNT) in Denton and spent many a late night studying, writing programs, papers, etc and listening to he and Mitch Carr on “America Overnight”. I guess the last time I listened to Ed with any regularity was his weekend show.
I couldn’t believe I found the aircheck from America Overnight. While playing the aircheck I realized I was singing along – almost 40 years later I remembered most of the cities in the jingle.
I ‘religiously’ listened to the Ed Busch Talk show in Dallas in the mid ’70s here in Dallas, TX when I was an impressionable 15 & 16 yr old high schooler. I lived for those shows interviewing UFO regulars such as Betty and Barney Hill, crackpot inventors such as Ed Gray and his Static Electricity Engine, and who could forget the outlandish claims and escapades of Liz Carmichael? Interestingly, it was Ed’s engineered debate between renowned First Baptist Church Pastor W.A. Criswell and Madalyn Murray O’Hair that may have first let the light of reason peek through to my brain, and started me on my path to atheism.
Finally, the America Overnight jingle! I was a listener back then. Loved the show and like the other poster here, I can’t get that musical roll call and sing “Calling Ed Busch!” out of my head decades later. I was sad that the show didn’t last longer.
Looking for an archive recording of Ed Busch interview with actor Phyllis Coates from Superman. It would be around 1981-83