Bob Rivers, host of The Bob Rivers Show with Bob, Spike and Joe in Seattle for 25 years, will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
Born in Connecticut, where Rivers started his 50-year career in radio, Rivers had stops in Massachusetts and Maryland before he arrived at KISW in Seattle in 1989.Feeling nostalgic today. As the worst player ever on the team I loved just being on the bench whenever possible. Thank you Cathy Faulkner for bringing this back!
would be known worldwide, with six studio albums of parodies covering pop culture, current events, and songs about local sports teams and their players., Rivers mentions a time he confessed on-air that he had a lifetime fear of flying. He was ridiculed on-air to take flight lessons, which eventually led Rivers to buying his own plane.
In Sept. 2001, Rivers and his cast moved from KISW to 102.5 KZOK, where it would be simulcast in Portland, Oregon, for several years. His show would raise over $10 million for World Vision, finding sponsors for more than 3,000 children in Senegal, Ethiopia, and other Third World countries.A year later, Rivers and company were on 95.7 The Jet from 2011 to 2014, ending on the 25th anniversary of his first day on the air in Seattle.According to bobrivers.com, he continues his charitable work, using his podcast audience to launch The Black River Innovation Campus in Springfield, Vermont.
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