Capital District radio great Bob Cudmore (and former New York Almanack contributor) hosted and produced WGY‘s nightly radio talk show “Contact,” from 1980 to 1993.
This summer he was a guest on “Vox Pop,” WAMC’s call-in program to talk about old time radio and the history of the region with host Ray Graf.
A native of Amsterdam, New York, Cudmore started in radio at Amsterdam’s local station, WCSS, when he was in high school. As a student at Boston University he worked at WBUR public radio. He has a BA and MA in English from B.U. He had other radio jobs in Boston, Cambridge and Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
When his show on WGY was cancelled, he became a public relations spokesman for the State University of New York and helped produce the WMHT television documentary Historic Views of the Carpet City: Amsterdam, N.Y. (2000).
He left SUNY in 2001 to host the morning show at WVTL radio in Amsterdam. He “retired” in 2014, the same year he established The Historians podcast. You can read about that transition here.
You can hear Bob Cudmore talk about radio history and local history here.
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