Premiere Networks and TALKERS top 10 Heavy Hundred-star Michael Berry interviewed Mark Starling, morning host and news director of iHeart’s WWNC, Asheville, NC yesterday (10/9) about his broadcast team’s experience serving the public while surviving themselves during the wrath of Hurricane Helene. Berry tells TALKERS, “The WWNC staffers were stranded inside their studios in Asheville during the worst of the storm. They rose to the occasion, reminding everyone why radio matters more than ever. Not just the medium, the people who create the magic. He explains why this storm proves we need AM radio in our cars. It saved lives.” Berry adds, “I want every congressman and senator to hear this. Starling tells about his family being stranded in rising water, trying to get to them and safety, and he and his entire station were flooded in the building, unable to get out. They had no power, internet, nothing. Radio at its best. Humanity at its best. Grace.” To listen to a podcast of the conversation between Berry and Starling, please click here.
To read a comprehensive story in the Asheville Citizen-Times about WWNC’s role in the storm, please click here.