WBOY Alumni

09/18/2024

Best wishes to WBOY’s newest alumni, Don Graye-WBOY 12 News!

10/16/2022

Promotional photo in the WBOY control room taken circa 1985 with (l to r) news co-anchor Mimi Wilson, sports anchor Don Gray, news co-anchor Randy Thomas, and weather anchor Bob Fulton. Thanks to Don Gray for the photo. If you have any vintage WBOY -TV photos, email them to [email protected].

02/26/2021

Frank Graff anchors the weekend news in about 1985.

10/14/2020

Judas Priest! Bud was such a great guy and chief engineer, although he never really cared for our field-engineering the recording decks (kicking or lightly dropping them on the ground to get them to work out on a story)! He was certainly one of a kind! RIP

Berlin L. “Bud” Thayer, 79, of Clarksburg, W.Va., died Tuesday, October 13, 2020, at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg. He was born December 22, 1940, in Bergoo, W.Va., a son of the late Hoy L. and Geneva G. Brown Thayer. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his sister, Yvon...

07/06/2020

Clarksburg Desert Storm troop return parade in 1991 - Jamie Logue and Lorie Wyant
Photo courtesy Howard Noble.

08/09/2018

WBOY alum Frances Basile will be among six radio and TV professionals inducted this year into the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The late WBOY broadcaster and program director will be recognized during the HOF’s inductions on October 27 at the Museum of Radio and Technology in Huntington, W. Va.

Her induction write-up highlights her groundbreaking work for women in broadcasting.

Frances Basile

Starting in 1957, she spent 30+ years at WBOY, Clarksburg, first in radio news and then anchoring TV news. Wrote, produced and hosted her own radio/TV shows and served as program director at WBOY during the last 14 years of her career. Known to have a ‘nose for news,’ she interviewed anyone of interest to her community who passed through Clarksburg, including John F. Kennedy. Her family fan club reports that walking down the street with her was like strolling with a celebrity—everyone knew Frances Basile, a woman who made it to the top of her industry in an era when men maintained the power positions.

04/15/2018

News Anchor Lorie Wyant sitting at her desk which doubled as the 5:30/10:30 update set in the newsroom. This was when it was upstairs in the old building, about 1989.

09/13/2017

WBOYers old and new, along with members of the business community gathered on September 12, 2017, to celebrate 60 years of broadcasting by WBOY.

07/12/2017

Calling all WBOY alumni! The date has been set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the station. The event will be September 12, 2017, at the Bridgeport Conference Center. For more information, contact WBOY Promotions Director Jeff Schrock at [email protected] or at 304-326-6709.

02/19/2016

WBOY Alumni mourns another loss. John Westbrook, who worked production for WBOY In the early 1990s, died on February 17, 2016. Former Channel 12 weathercaster Al Mayo remembers him well.
"He was just a great guy who was interested in a lot of things," Mayo said. "I knew John when he worked the weekend shows and I think he did just about everything - directed a few times, audio, and switcher - he was a great softball player too."

http://www.mcculla.com/obituaries/john-c-westbrook/