

2024 Awards Banquet
and Celebration






































































Note for 2024 Event photos (above): If you see a Friends of Georgia Radio watermark on the photo, they were taken by Ray Bernal for our event. You are welcome to use them as you wish with the watermark. Please credit Ray where appropriate.
If there is NO watermark, the photos were shared with us by Rick Diamond. He shoot for Getty Images. You are welcome to use them for personal use-- including social media-- but not for commercial use. And, again, please credit Rick Diamond Photography for these.

2023 Awards Banquet
and Celebration
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Tara VanCantfort with
Dawn and Kenny Burgamy
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Steve and Karen Goss

Bill and Emily Bailey w Tommy and Crystal Swygert

Ernie Johnson Jr. with FoGR Board Member Ron Parker

Sanders Hickey greeting John Lauer







Streetz 94.5's Steve Hegwood with Ernie Johnson, Jr.





FoGR VP Dennis Winslow with Don Benson
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Roddy Freeman, JJ Jackson
WABE's Rahul Bali with Legend of Georgia Radio Class of 2022 inductee Sandra Parish
GSU Special Collections Archivist Brittany Newberry with Michael Lynch
Jackson Sneed with Larry Schuster
Southern Company's Michael Quirk and wife Katy with Ernie Johnson, Jr.
Kristin Scott with 2023 FoGR Scholarship recipient Blue Tannery
Pete and Marlene Konenkamp
David Wesley, Mike Roberts, & Mary Catherine Sneed
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Ray Bernal, FoGR Board Member Sanders Hickey with Karen Hickey

FoGR Board Member Shirley "Mama Mia" Ellis with DJ Ova One
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Ernie Johnson Jr., with FoGR President Richard Warner

Mark Kanov, VP/GM WQXI-AM/WSTR (Retired)
Legends of Georgia Radio Class of 2023
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IPhotos above courtesy of Ray Bernal
Photos below courtesy of Rick Diamond





(Back) Rob Stearns, Jeff Winter, John Willyard, JJ Jackson, Dave Kabakoff
(Front) Don Benson, Dot Blum, Mark Kanov, Eddie Esserman

Larry Schuster

David Nolin

Ernie Johnson, Jr., Carol Blackmon, Richard Warner


Dr. Dale VanCantfort

Ron Parker, JJ Jackson, George Montiel

Charles Kinney, Cox Media Group Chief Engineer
Legends of Georgia Radio Class of 2023

Mike Roberts, David, Wesley, Mollie Wesley

Carol Blackmon, former co-host,
"Mike and Carol in the Morning"- V103
Legends of Georgia Radio Class of 2023
Radio Bash 2022
August 27th, The Metropolitan Club
Alpharetta, GA
























































AIl photos above by Ray Bernal
