“That cool chick with the great voice on the radio,” otherwise known as Brunswick-Golden Isles radio personality Beth Walters, has been nominated by The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame members as a 2015 Career Achievement Candidate. Beth currently is the production director and a popular host of mid-day shows on WHFX and afternoons on WYNR. “To be honest, I’m still a little shocked by the nomination,” Walters says. “I’m so grateful to even be considered.”
Ever since she was a little girl, Beth wanted to be involved in the entertainment business. “I spent hours listening to Paul Harvey and the like with my great grandmother, and it always fascinated me how someone in a room somewhere was reaching thousands of people.” It was then that her lifelong love affair of radio began. Young Beth was known to carry around a tape recorder and "interview" her friends and family, and, if you know her, you’re well aware of her passionate love of music and the fact that she’s not exactly a shy performer herself.
Beth began her career doing mornings on WYNR and nights on WHFX in Brunswick. She was news director for Qantum Radio's Brunswick cluster, then traffic director and local producer for UGA Football. In 2014 she became a multi-market morning host on WYNR in Brunswick and WGTR in South Carolina. At the same time she hosted shows WHFX and WRXZ. “It was truly a stroke of luck that I got into the business, and now it’s extremely gratifying to see my hard work, dedication, and love of music paying off with this sort of recognition,” says Walters.
Beth Walters
The Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame was founded in 2007. The museum in St. Marys opened in 2014 is home to a large collection of antique radios and equipment, Georgia radio historical memorabilia, the interactive Georgia Radio Inductee Wall of Fame, and displays depicting a radio in a typical 1940s American living room and an authentic 1950s radio control room. The museum is open from 9:00 am-5:00 p.m. Monday-Saturday and from noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays.
Other Career Achievement candidates are: Ron Arnold, Deane Clark, George Van Voorhis, a/k/a George Mason Dixon, Greg McClure, Val McGinness, Bob Noble, “Southside” Steve Rickman, Mary Catherine Sneed, Steve Splitt, Christie Tanner, Allen Tibbetts, and Larry Tinsley. The Georgia Radio Hall of Fame induction awards ceremony will take place at 7:30 p.m. at The Earl Smith Strand Theater in Marietta on October 24. We wish Beth the very best!
