STATION EDITORIAL
Posted June 17, 2023
This is a station editorial, I'm Randal J. Miller, station president. I had a couple of time markers take place the weekend of June 16th and 17th.
The first was not expected, when I was honored to receive the "Community Impact Award" at the Greater Taylorville Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet June 16th, for my 30 years of service to the Taylorville community. It was one of the rare times in my life, I was speechless. Found out later that several members of my staff, as well as several community leaders, nominated me for this honor.
As I've said before in this space, I thank God every day for bringing my family and I to Taylorville over 30 years ago, to provide local radio service to Taylorville and a 6-county area. It's been and continues to be a privilege to serve our listeners and advertisers in Taylorville, Pana, my hometown of Shelbyville, as well as Nokomis, Hillsboro, and many other towns and villages that count on our 6 Taylorville-based radio stations and our on-line daily newspaper taylorvilledailynews-dot-com for information and entertainment.
The 2nd of the 2 time markers that weekend, took place June 17th, when my wife Cathy and I hosted my 50th Anniversary in Radio show on the WTIM platforms. We reminisced thru 50 years of history on both sides of the microphone, starting at my first part-time job at the former WSHY AM and FM in Shelbyville the first Saturday of June 1973. That history took us and our listeners thru my years in many communities where I worked, then towns where I built or bought radio stations. The most fun of the 50th Anniversary show, was playing audio clips from our 3 daughters Michelle, Ramey, and Sheri, and listening to them as they literally grew up on the radio.
I am blessed to be still be doing what I love, 50 years later. Not many people can say that.
As I look ahead, I hope to continue to be serving all of you for years to come in providing the local news, agriculture information, sports play by play, and entertainment, on our 6 stations serving 6 counties in south central Illinois.
That's our opinion, we welcome yours. Our e-mail address is: editorial@randyradio.com.
