Ron Chapman Returns, Subbing For Broadcast Hero

Listeners to WBAP-AM News/Talk 820 heard a familiar but unexpected voice this morning: that of legendary local DJ Ron Chapman. Chapman’s pinch-hitting today and tomorrow for the “dean” of radio news, Paul Harvey, whose ABC Radio Network program, “The Rest of the Story,” is heard by 23 million people on more than 1,200 stations, including WBAP. The venerable Harvey’s been a lifelong inspiration for Chapman–formerly the a.m. jock on KVIL-FM and KLUV-FM, recently absent from local airwaves–and, this morning, Ron sounded an awful lot like his broadcast hero, right down to Harvey’s trademark long, dramatic pauses. You can check out “The Rest of the Story” again today on 820 at 10:45 a.m. and 7 p.m.