{"id":1607,"date":"2015-10-27T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/ed-walker-of-the-big-broadcast-at-wamu-fm\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:48:00","slug":"ed-walker-of-the-big-broadcast-at-wamu-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/ed-walker-of-the-big-broadcast-at-wamu-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Walker of “The Big Broadcast” at WAMU-FM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed Walker, the long-time host of “The Big Broadcast” on WAMU-FM in Washington DC passed away on Sunday night, a few hours after his final broadcast. I was a regular listener. <\/strong><\/div>\n
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He obviously had an abiding love for radio. His obituary in the Washington Post notes: <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Born blind, Mr. Walker grew up with radio as his constant companion from an early age. By age 8, he was operating a low-power radio transmitter in his family\u2019s basement, beaming music to his neighbors\u2019 houses down the block.<\/span> He would go on to spend almost all of his adult life involved in the medium in some way, all of it on stations in Washington.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Wow, sounds like he had the Knack. I wonder if he ever had a ham radio license?<\/strong> <\/div>\n
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Ed Walker, the long-time host of “The Big Broadcast” on WAMU-FM in Washington DC passed away on Sunday night, a few hours after his final broadcast. I was a regular listener. He obviously had an abiding love for radio. His obituary in the Washington Post notes: Born blind, Mr. Walker grew up with radio as … Continue reading “Ed Walker of “The Big Broadcast” at WAMU-FM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}