The AP Awards

Had a great time catching up with lots of fellow broadcasters tonight at the Texas Associated Press Awards at the Headliners Club.
I haven't been to too many AP awards banquets since I was Chairman of the Board in 1990. It really was fun going to one again.
Thanks to my boss Paul Mann for letting me go represent the mighty KRLD Newsradio 1080. It was a good night for KRLD picking up 7 first place awards.
It was also good seeing a couple of my TSN affiliate stations do well in the awards and great to catch up with those guys too.
In the picture is my girlfriend Chris and I. One of the few times you'll see me in a suit.

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A Great Night

Thursday was my 20th year to be the announcer at the Battle of Flowers Band Festival in San Antonio. It's part of Fiesta Week and one of the bigger events of that week. It's a long story as to how I got there but I'll make it short. My father, George Wood, announced the Festival for 20 years starting in 1969. When he died in January of 1990 I was asked to take over. It made sense because I was on morning radio in the San Antonio market and fairly well known, although not as well known as Dad who had spent years on television in that market.
So here we are 20 years later and I have matched the 20 years that my Dad did the show. I also love the fact that in the 71 years of the band festival a member of my family has announced the show for 40 of those years.
It is really something I look forward to doing every year. It's also something that I still do to honor my father. I feel that this is something that was important to him that I keep doing as long as they will have me and every year I do it and every year I get better at it that is one step closer to doing it as well as he did it (and he was really damned good).
One thing I didn't tell you. Before he died my Dad called the producer of the festival that year and asked that I be allowed to host. He is really the person that got me the deal in the first place. That's why I say that it was important to him that I host the show...it was one of his last wishes.
Hopefully I'll be around to do another 20 more but when I'm ready to leave the show or when I'm ready to leave the earth there is another Wood in the wings waiting to host...and she would be the first Female to do it. Yes Amanda has already expressed interest. Way to follow in the old man's footsteps, it would be my honor.

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Trying Posterous

So I have moved this blog, at least for now, over to Posterous. It's really easy to use and really easy to post stuff on the go, including mobile pics, so I thought to myself...if it's that easy then maybe I will post more. So far I have posted two little short blogs and that's probably what I will be doing over there, little short bursts of thought that I can quickly type into an email, attach a pic and boom there ya go. So here is the link if you want to check it out. Posterous also has some pretty interesting folks over there, including several I already knew, which is something else that led me there. http://robertowood.posterous.com/