The evolution of sports talk in the Triangle with a 50 year North Carolina broadcast veteran.
Tony Riggsbee has spent 50 years in Triangle radio and might be the last connection to what was broadcast media to what currently exists in the area.
Let's take it back to 1982. North Carolina has Michael Jordan and Dean Smith. Woody Durham yells "thrown away to Worthy" and the Tar Heels win the NCAA championship. Then the following year in 1983, Jim Valvano and NC State become legends of March Madness. Can you imagine what it would've been like on sports talk radio back then? Wait, was there even sports talk radio back then? Yes, but not like you know it today. Tony Riggsbee has spent 50 years in Triangle radio and was part of those incredible moments and more. Riggsbee sat down with Joe Ovies to discuss his connection to what was broadcast media to what currently exists in the area.
