Brad Smith
Substitute Host/ReporterBrad Smith won the Cortland County (NY) spelling bee as a seventh grader from Homer High, in a championship broadcast live on local radio. Brad’s been trying to relive the “magnificent” (winning word) moment ever since.
Brad’s search for winning words took him to radio work in Geneseo, Geneva, Dansville, Warsaw, Syracuse and Rochester.
His work as a television newsroom manager brought him to to Austin, Texas, where he occasionally rode the elevator with Lady Bird Johnson at the TV station she and LBJ used to own.
Need further proof he can’t hold a job? Brad’s is on a very short list of those who have worked in every TV newsroom in Rochester.
Brad hopes to talk to you soon when another host or reporter needs a day off. Thanks for listening!
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A Rochester community activist has died. Bobby Johnson, a poet, jazz lover and prominent figure in the city's Third Ward died this past weekend at the age of 93. -
Pittsford native and retired soccer star Abby Wambach faces a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol in Portland, Oregon.Portland Police say… -
If you like to keep up with the falcon family nesting atop the Times Square building in downtown Rochester, here's a sign of spring.Not one, but two eggs… -
This is National Boys and Girls Club Week and the celebration peaks on Thursday at 500 Genesee Street in Rochester.Executive Director Dwayne Mahoney told… -
Nancy Reagan was not a regular visitor to Rochester, according to what WXXI News has turned up Sunday.She may have accompanied husband Ronald for a… -
At a special Saturday morning meeting of the Brockport Village Board, the date for a referendum on dissolution of the village was set.Members of the Board… -
A mother from Rochester and her 13-month old child were seriously injured in an early morning crash Saturday in Henrietta.Monroe County Sheriffs deputies… -
New York State Police in Waterloo tell WXXI that Angela M. Wheeler, 37, of Seneca Falls, and Michael A. Brewer, 39, of Interlaken, were charged with… -
A firefighter from East Avon was injured at a fire early Saturday in the Livingston County town of Lima.Seven volunteer fire departments responded, along… -
It could be the only one of its kind in the country and Saturday, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren recognized the volunteers celebrating the Edgerton Model…
