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Ron Wiley
e-mail
me at:
ronwiley@hawaiilink.net
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The Morning Man
by Ron Wiley Here's the story...
Ron Wiley a true morning man. I will have been playing on
the radio for 40 years on August 12, 2007 ....18 years here
on KONG as of April 1, 2007. Most of my morning career has been
as the morning personality. I started in Tucson, Arizona
at a Spanish language radio station (KXEW). My first words on the air were
"Buenos dias..esta es la "W" mas grande del
todo el mundo"
(Good morning. This is the biggest "W" in the world). Yes my first
words in radio were Spanish for "Good Morning" and I still say Good
Morning at 5 AM, 6 days a week thirty nine plus years later.
In the meantime I've worked at stations like KHOS, KMOP, KCEE, KTKT, KFIF,
KGMB, KRTR, KPOI, KDUK, KKUA, KPIG, KIKI, AND NOW KONG.
I was part of an early effort to play music videos on television and was one
of the first VJ's in the nation. I ran a full time
VHF TV channel that programmed nothing but music videos and live announcers .
In our capacity as the Civil Defense radio station we have
served Kaua’i
with non-stop information broadcasts during the Anahola flood, Huricane Iniki and The Kaloko Resevoir break during 40 plus days and nights of rain.
Some of thrills in my radio career (besides being on the
air when practically "everything that ever happened" in the last 35
years happened!) have been doing my radio show in extraordinary live
broadcasts on Friday the 13ths over the years. I have broadcast live from a
hang glider over Makapu'u for 2 hours and 20
minutes, from a shark tank surrounded by 6 foot sharks, buried in a casket
under 2 tons of dirt for 4 hours, on the end of a building crane some 26
floors above the street in Honolulu, and on the window washing scaffold of
the same building when it was completed.
During my first parachute jump from an airplane over Mokule'ia
I stood on the wing a few minutes taking phone calls on the air before
jumping. I commented on the view and the thrill on the way down and took a
request for a song from an 8 year old on the ground, when I landed... all
live on the air!
 When you
ask me about these wild shows I usually recall the show from the nudist park
at the beach in Kahuku ( I
did that show twice... "I had to go back").
I still love running around naked weather.
I am now involved in the community of Kauai...
The President of the Kauai Blood Bank, and am on the board of directors of
the Kaua'i United Way
campaign. I have done a little local stage
acting and you can see me riding my motorcycle in my limited free time. You
might also see me at the beach with my wife LAURA and our dogs Wilbur and
PRISCILLA. (ELVIS passed away in June of 2006). Elvis has left
the building.Please e-mail me. I love to hear from you! I will answer your
email.
Oh, and I must say I Love You
Laura!!
You can reach me
at ronwiley@hawaiilink.net
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