He's got the longest continuously running morning show in Connecticut. He's Wayne Norman, who started at WILI doing afternoons on August 24, 1970 before taking over the morning show "temporarily" on November 1, 1971.
Wayne has been heard statewide as color analyst for University of Connecticut basketball and football broadcasts since 1979 on a network of stations that includes WILI. He worked with Joe D'Ambrosio to call UConn's 2004 and 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball National Championships. He broadcast his 1000th UConn game on the network in 2004. Wayne is the play-by-play voice of WILI's broadcasts of Eastern Connecticut State University baseball , winners of four NCAA national championships, most recently in 2002. He has also been the color commentator for the New England Sports Network (NESN) telecasts of the Norwich Navigators- -the former New York Yankees "AA" affiliate, now the Connecticut Defenders, a San Francisco Giants franchise. And he has broadcast countless high school baseball, football, basketball, American Legion baseball games and Windham High School's 1979 State Championship Softball game. In 2003 he teamed with WILI's John Tuite to broadcast play-by-play of a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park. |