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For Bud Buschardt, it all began right out of
The University of Houston in 1963 when, armed with a
Radio-Television degree, he joined WFAA-TV. There -- long
before there was an MTV -- he produced the first concept
music video to be shown in North Texas -- in 1967.
Bud Buschardt is an on-air personality, a program director, a radio consultant, an innovator, a producer and a writer, an advisor, an expert witness, a record collector and an entertainer -- and is probably Texas best known -- if not America's best known -- musicologist! Not only does he have a music library of more than 100,000 records, tapes and CD's, he also produced a song that topped the charts at # 2 in 1968 with the Dallas group "Southwest F.O.B.", he received a screen credit for music research on Columbia Pictures "The Buddy Holly Story" in 1977 and he is currently working on a book about the era of television bandstand shows focusing on Texas Radio Hall of Famer Ron Chapman's "Sump 'n Else" show. He is also an adjunct professor and lecturer at the University of North Texas and has been associated with Southern Methodist University. For ten years, between 1981 and 1991, he was the writer and host of the "KVIL Oldies Show", THE top rated oldies show in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for those ten years. He also restructured the entire KVIL music rotation system during that time, said to be one of the reasons that KVIL had 4 double-digit ARBitron books. As a free-lancer, Bud directed the first 13 programs of the enormously successful "Country Crossroads" with Texas Radio Hall of Famer Bill Mack and Jerry Clower in 1983 -- and appeared on TV as a musicologist with another Texas Radio Hall of Famer, Ed Busch, on the TV show "Ed Busch and the Movies." Before his KVIL days, during the 70's, before there was a full-time regular oldies radio station, Bud was the writer and host of 570 WFAA AM's "57 Nostalgia Place" show, the first regularly scheduled oldies show in Dallas-Fort Worth. Bud's creativity led to the program director crediting him with being a "musicologist" -- and the title has stuck through almost 4 decades. Today, Bud Buschardt is the program director of the ABC Radio Network's "Stardust" format and has produced and programmed other formats for ABC since the 1980's. |
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