From
Bill's son Tom Taylor; "Bill Taylor came
to Orlando in March 1959 and followed WHIY
general manager Carl Hallberg
over to WDBO in late September of that year, to do mornings at 'DBO. In
1965 he succeeded Allen Actor as PD, and
held both those positions until he left the Orlando market, for family
reasons, in 1972. (His last job in broadcasting was managing then-WBT-FM
in Charlotte, near where he'd grown up, in Hickory, NC. One of WDBO's
hires during that time was Jim
Turner. (Observing Jim's longevity and prominence there, Taylor says
"That was certainly a good hire.") For several years in the
early 1960s, Bill also hosted a late-morning live TV show on
then-co-owned WDBO-TV, Channel 6. That ended when he became the PD at
WDBO radio, and needed more time at the studios on Lake Ivanhoe."
"...These days, he's retired in the Clermont
area."
According to All
Access, Bill left radio in 1977 and began a career in real estate
and construction. He was a pilot and aircraft builder and musician,
getting early radio exposure as part of a family Country music act with
his father and brother Ralph in Hickory, NC. |