Program Director and host of "Augusta Morning News"
Harley was born for radio. He started out as a self-taught broadcasting engineer. He spent many of his days helping run wires for one radio station while being an on-air personality at another. Harley likes to read science books and believes in UFOs. UFOs? Yes, he had his own UFO sighting while in Alaska that made a true believer out of him!

What Does Congress, Harley Drew and July 23, 2009 have to do with each other?

News Director and Morning Show Host
"The Lovely and Vivacious Mary Liz" got her start in radio during her freshmen year of college. She worked the next 11 years in the news department at a top 40 radio station near Indianapolis, Indiana. Mary Liz then decided that 11 years of early morning radio was enough and took on the job as a public relations director for a bank. After two years of hating her "real job" she decided to go back to what she truly loved......"radio".

Talk Show Producer and Copywriter
Keith has been in radio since 1974. His radio tour is as follows: Augusta's WAUG, James Brown's WRDW radio station, WNGC/WGAU in Athens, Ga, back to Augusta at WBIA, WGAC, KICKS 99 and then back to WGAC radio. Keith is the former producer of the Austin Rhodes Show and has moved into the producer's chair for the Morning Show with Harley and Mary Liz. When Keith is not at the producer controls, he is heavily involved in much of the advertising copywriting for all of our Beasley Augusta Stations. He is a big fan of golf and cool weather!

The Austin Rhodes Show
Austin Rhodes has been an active member of the Augusta media since 1983.  He began his radio career assisting with live high school football broadcasts, working his way into news and features programming. 

Professionally, Austin has worked for WGAC and WRXR radio stations, WRDW-TV Channel 12, Comcast Cable of Augusta, and the Metro Spirit newspaper. 

He is the only active member of the local media scene to have had a regular TV show, a regular radio show, and a regular newspaper column all running concurrently. 

He began hosting The Austin Rhodes Show on WGAC in July of 1992. In his capacity as a radio personality, Austin has regularly been named "Best of Augusta" by the readers of Augusta Magazine, and for two years now has taken top honors in the Metro Spirit newspaper's Metro Best awards. Austin has also been honored as Communicator of the Year by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE). During Austin's tenure as host on Comcast Augusta's Connect Live Show, the program won numerous awards for Best Local Cable Show for both the states of Georgia and South Carolina. 

Austin originated the Insider column for the Metro Spirit in 1989, he began writing a column under his own name for the Spirit in 1999.

 

Investigative Reporter
Scott began his radio career at WGAC in 1989 when he was 19 years old  and eventually spearheaded the WGAC 50th (actually 51st) anniversary celebration. After five years in radio, Scott worked as a marketing executive and then finally went to college at age 30. He studied pre-law and history and became a member of Augusta State University's prestigious Honors Program. Rather than pursue law school after finishing his undergraduate work, Scott decided to instead return home to WGAC and become a reporter once again. Recently, Scott won an Associated Press award for best general reporting.

The Scott Hudson Articles
 Some stories are too complex to condense into 30 seconds or less, so each week Scott covers breaking local stories in depth. Also, from time to time Scott may post up information that gives insight into the world of news gathering. Email Scott anytime at scott@wgac.com with story ideas or breaking news.