HUNTINGTON —
Longtime local radio host J.B. Miller is among 12 people named to the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
Miller, who lives in Ashland with his wife, Sandra, is originally from Ironton. He has been on the radio in the Tri-State area since 1977, starting at WGNT and currently with Big Buck Country 101.5 while continuing his work with Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity.
Miller has always been a community-minded radio personality. He’s taken caravans of cars to Lexington to show support for restaurants such as Red Lobster and Cracker Barrel to locate in the Huntington market, which they did.
He rallied support for flood victims in Clarksburg, W.Va., and did a show from the second floor of the fire station there as floodwaters were flowing through the first floor. He did a dating program in Cincinnati that got national attention, and during Desert Storm, he led a program in Michigan to collect toilet paper for troops overseas. Operation Two-Ply was in response to a soldier’s comment about the inadequacies of the troops’ supply.
After “We Are Marshall” was released, he rounded up props from the movie, had them signed and auctioned to raise money for charity.
Miller also has hosted Ironton’s annual Memorial Day Parade on local cable for the past 15 years.
He was inducted into Huntington’s Wall of Fame in 1991.
The other inductees are Debra Thomas, West Virgtinia’s first full-time female television news anchor, Willis Cook, Jo Corey, Mark Davis, Steve Mazure, George Parnicza, Jim Reader, Garry Ritchie, Loray Robinson, Vernon Stanfill and Rich Wachtel.
An induction ceremony will take place Oct. 27 at The Museum of Radio and Technology in Huntington. The event is invitation-only.
Hall of Fame committee chairman Tom Resler says the inductees have created a diversity of programming at radio and TV stations across the state.
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