 LISTEN TO AWAKE WITH DRAKE ON 103.3FM!
For the last 36 years Bill Drake has reigned as Spartanburg's most popular radio personality as well as a most persuasive emissary for businesses in the Spartanburg area. His show, "Awake With Drake," has been broadcasting on WOLT103.3FM since October of 2005. He currently broadcasts Sunday through Friday from 6 AM to 9 AM. The show’s format consists primarily of interviews with community leaders and people involved in making Spartanburg and the Upstate a better place to live and work. Bill also interviews many of his sponsors about their businesses, gives the news, sports and weather, and talks about what's going on in Spartanburg in his own inimitable style. Listeners look to him for the information they need, from what schools & businesses are closing in inclement weather to what his interesting guests are having to say. Regular guests include city and county officials, local legislators, doctors, educators, accountants, authors, policemen, veterinarians, pastors and much more. Without doubt, Bill has his finger on the pulse of what's happening in the Spartanburg community. He calls it Relationship Radio, “weeping with those who weep and rejoicing with those who rejoice”. " Facts About Bill Drake:- He was a fraternity brother of actor, Harrison Ford.
- He sang in a barbershop quartet with Al Jarreau.
- His brother directed major TV showslike Golden Girls, Night Court & Sanford & Son.
- He covered sports during the VinceLombardi era in Green Bay, WI
- He's a three-time winner of the SCRadio Personality of the Year award
- In 2004 he was presented with TheOrder of the Palmetto, SC's highest Award.
- Since 1959, this Chicago native and die-hard Cubs fan has been a Radio & TV personality, interviewer, sports play-by-play announcer (he was on the Gamecock Football Network for two years), after-dinner speaker, lay preacher and the man who invented the 36-hour day!
- Arriving in Spartanburg in 1976 Bill has been involved not only on the local airwaves, but in many community activities, including serving as Board Chairman of the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.
- Since 1980, Bill's been the Producer & Executive Director of the annual BILL DRAKE CHRISTMAS MUSIC FESTIVAL, bringing singing and instrumental groups from area churches and schools to sold-out performances at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.
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Bill invented and conducts the BATTLE OF THE BRAINS, an annual awareness/current events/academic knowledge quiz bowl involving teams of 7th and 8th graders from 36 schools in Spartanburg, Greenville, Cherokee and Union counties.
- Bill has been an adjunct professor of Public Speaking at The University of South Carolina Upstate for over 25 years.
- Bill was chosen Distinguished Alumnus of the Year by his alma mater, Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1994.
- Bill & his wife Judy, an RN at Gibbs Cancer Center , are parents of three children and have four grandchildren.
- He attends St. John's Lutheran Church, where he sings once a month.
- Bill takes great pride in being dubbed “Spartanburg's Goodwill Ambassador”!
- Finally…Bill hasn't worked since 1959, as his job is also his passion and hobby!
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