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Clint Formby in 2004 had just completed 15,472 consecutive broadcasts of daily "Day by Day Philosopher" programs, on the air Monday through Saturday at 7:45 am for 49 years. Clint Formby is the president of KPAN AM-FM and Hereford Cablevision Company in Hereford, and KTEM in Temple, Texas. A graduate of Texas Tech University, Clint also attended the University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Tennessee. Clint is a member of the nine person Telecommunication Infrastructure Fund Board for Texas. He is a former member and Chairman of the Board of Regents of Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University (Past-National/ Health Sciences Center (12-year member of Board), a former Chairman of the Radio Board of Directors of National State Association of Broadcasters. He is past president of Broadcast Education Association in America, president of the Associated Press Broadcasters, former President of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, served six years as a member of the Associated Press Corporate Board and was a member of the Select Committee on Study of Higher Education Governance in Texas as appointed by the Texas Coordinating Board. Clint served as Past President of the Texas Tech University Ex Students Association and retired after 18 years as a member of BMI. Clint is the only person to have served as President of the Texas Tech Student Association, President of the Texas Tech Ex Students Association and Chairman of the Texas Tech Board of Regents. In 1994 he was named the Texas Broadcaster of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TAB) and was recognized as Texas Communicator of the Year (presented in all phases of media by Baptist General Convention of Texas). He is a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas Tech University and was named the Panhandle Citizen of Year by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Pioneer Broadcaster of the Year by the Texas Association of Broadcasters in addition to being honored as Hereford Citizen of the Year. He has been inducted into the Texas Tech Mass Communications Hall of Fame and Texas Panhandle Broadcaster Hall of Fame. He also was named the Texas Association of Broadcasters (TBEF) Broadcaster of the Year. Clint served in the U.S. Army for 40 months in WWII, 18 months in European Theater. Born in McAdoo, Texas on December 6, 1923, Clint has one daughter who lives in New York. Of his three sons, one lives in Los Angeles and New York, the other two live in Lubbock and Hereford, where he is the manager of KPAN. |