Former Neuhoff Media stations broadcaster and WICD-TV weathercaster Doug Quick retired in 2021, but he’s remained very busy in promoting the history of broadcasting in Downstate Illinois; and now he’s being honored as this year’s Illinois Broadcaster’s Association “W. Russell Withers, Jr Downstate Broadcast Pioneer.”
Quick says, his interest in broadcasting began in a very simple way.
AUDIO: The seeds were planted probably when I was four or five years old. I learned to read TV Guides, essentially. And I had a stack of old TV Guides from the 1950s when I was growing up, and that’s what I learned to read. I got an interest in television; and my parents were young enough that I listened to rock and roll radio when I was a kid, and so that was kind of a seed as well.
And today, Quick’s passion is reflected in his work as a broadcast museum curator; keeping the history alive, and also encouraging broadcast facilities to do so.
AUDIO: Of course the book that I wrote was based on the first ten years of television across Central Illinois. And it was kind of neat to go over to Danville to be at WDAN and WDNL for those numbers of years because that facility also has a heritage of television, and I remembered that as a kid. And little did I know I was going to end up there many years later. That was kind of a neat thing to happen to me personally.
Quick will accept his award and be honored opening night of IBA’s annual conference, October 24-25 in Normal, IL. For more details visit https://ilba.org/event/iba2022-leadingfortomorrow/
For more on the Central Illinois Online Broadcast Museum, go to DougQuick.com.
