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| The Joe Bev Hour airs five times per week on radio stations around the world. |
WGTD HD3 will once again be showcasing the talents of “Joe Bev” five nights a week, with Joe’s full array of five different programs, all under the banner of “The Joe Bev Hour.” The five programs include: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, Cartoon Carnival, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, The Joe Bev Experience, and The Joe Bev Audio Theater.
“The Joe Bev Hour” can be heard Monday through Friday, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., (CT), at 91.1 FM, HD3, and on the Internet athttp://www.wgtd.org, and also through your smart phone “app” and TuneIn.com.
In 1971 Bevilacqua’s father bought him a cassette recorder, on which is created his first audio story, “Willoughby and the Professor,” providing all the voices himself at the age of 12. In 1975, Daws Butler, the voice ofYogi Bear and many Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward cartoon characters, dubbed himself Joe Bev’s personal mentor, after hearing a 120-minute cassette of Bev’s Willoughby improvisations.
In 2003, Bevilacqua co-founded Waterlogg Productions with his wife Lorie Kellogg. In 2012, he signed an exclusive distribution deal with Blackstone Audio, for his more than 40 years of audio work. As of 2013, he has released more than 75 audio books, including hundreds of hours of audio documentaries, comedies, dramas, autobiographies.
Joe Bevilacqua also acts on stage, playing Martin Dysart in “Equus”, roles in “Bedroom Farce,” “Applause,”
He has authored several books, including Daws Butler, Characters Actor, and Uncle Dunkle and Donnie.
According to WGTD HD3 Program Director, Dr. Steve Brown, “We are thrilled to have ‘Joe Bev’ once again back on WGTD HD3. We started with Cartoon Carnival over five years ago, and now we will have five great shows from Joe every week for our audience to enjoy. WGTD HD3 is proud to be Joe Bev’s home here in Wisconsin and in the Midwest. Welcome home, Joe and Lorie!!”
Here is a quick summary of the five programs WGTD will bring to the airwaves and from the creative mind and many voices of Joe Bev:
§ The Jazz-O-Rama Hour is a weekly music show
hosted by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) and featuring 78 RPM and
early LP recordings remastered from his own personal collection
spanning the 1920s to the 1960s.§ The Joe Bev Experience is a weekly omnibus of
the forty plus year career in audio of Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev),
including documentaries, interviews, comedy and drama.
§ Cartoon Carnival is a weekly hour of rare and classic
cartoon audio, children’s records, cartoon music and sound
effects, new radio cartoons, interviews and mini-documentaries
about the wonderful world of animation, hosted by Joe Bevilacqua
(Joe Bev).
§ The Joe Bev Audio Theater is a weekly one-hour
anthology representing more than forty years of storytelling by
Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev), the veteran, award-winning actor,
writer, producer, director.
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“The Joe Bev Hour” can be heard Monday through Friday, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., (CT), at 91.1 FM, HD3, and on the Internet at WGTD.ORG (HD3),
