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City Beat: Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame honors Gene Lovin, WSKZ

Longtime radio personality Gene Lovin works live on air Thursday at WFLI, the AM radio staple in Lookout Valley.
Longtime radio personality Gene Lovin works live on air Thursday at WFLI, the AM radio staple in Lookout Valley. Longtime radio personality Gene Lovin works live on air Thursday at WFLI, the AM radio staple in Lookout Valley.

Longtime radio personality Gene Lovin and WSKZ-FM will be honored by the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame in the spring.

Lovin, who can be heard on WFLI-FM from 3 to 6 p.m. every weekday, has spent nearly 40 of his 52-year career in Chattanooga. He was at WDOD-FM for many years in the ’80s, where he was instrumental in starting the statewide March of Dimes Radio Day and the station’s annual Christmas project, the Forgotten Child Fund.

photo Barry Courter

Today, the Chattanooga radio host can say he’s in the Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame board member Chip Chapman said also that WSKZ has been named the Legendary Station of the Year.

» If you haven’t already, and I hope you have, please check out our third annual PB & Holiday Jam. It’s part of the Music Wednesdays program we do each week at the Chattanooga Public Library in its incredible studio space.