Newsmakers with Tim Bryant

Tuesdays-Fridays
9am-10am
Sunday Mornings
10am-11am

Tim talks with the people who make the news and cover the news in Athens and around the state. The Newsmaker Hour follows the 9 a.m. news each Tuesday through Friday, with occasional rebroadcasts on Sundays.


State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler was a guest on Newsmaker Thursday, as was Kathryn Hamoudah with Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. We also talked with Cham Dallas, a nuclear disaster expert at the University of Georgia, and with state Senator Frank Ginn.

We spoke with state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers on Newsmaker Friday, and we recapped Thursday night's Athens-Clarke County Commission meeting. We talked with House Speaker Pro-Tem Jan Jones, and with Mel Cochran in the Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department.

Tim began his radio career in Bainbridge Georgia in 1988, after completing a stint at the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. Subsequent stops on the dial include Augusta, Tallahassee, and Atlanta. Tim has also worked as a correspondent for ABC and the Associated Press, and provided commentary for the BBC and Radio New Zealand.

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