{"id":28886,"date":"2022-01-28T05:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/?page_id=28886"},"modified":"2022-01-28T05:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T11:29:37","slug":"jim-vice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/jim-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Vice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jim Vice (born 1941) is a native Alabamian who began his broadcasting career at WMAK in Nashville and WKSR in Pulaski. He was born in Alex City and attended Auburn University and graduated from the Mid South School of Broadcasting in Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n

His Alabama broadcasting started in 1961 in Anniston at WDNG. Following a stint at WNUZ in Talladega, he moved to Albertville in 1962 with WQSB where he was involved in announcing and sales positions for five years. After two years as manager of Arab Cablevision, Jim became Sales Manager of WJSU-TV in Anniston for nine years until he purchased WELR-AM\/FM from Earl Manning in 1988. The licensee became Eagle’s Nest Inc and in 1992 Jim purchased WLAG-AM in LaGrange, Georgia.<\/p>\n

Jim’s has served his community and industry many leadership roles, they include:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Alabama Broadcaster of the Year 2003<\/p>\n

\u00b7 President of Alabama Broadcasters 1996 \u2013 1997<\/p>\n

\u00b7 President of Albertville Jaycees<\/p>\n

\u00b7 President of Arab Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Vice President of the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Served on Committees for Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce; Military Affairs Committee, Crimestoppers Committee ands Calhoun Leadership Committee<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Active in formation of the Randolph County Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Jacksonville State University Seminars on \u201cHow to Buy and Use Advertising\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim is married to the former Kay Coleman and they have three children. His hobbies are Ham Radio (WD4KTY), computers and trout fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Vice (born 1941) is a native Alabamian who began his broadcasting career at WMAK in Nashville and WKSR in Pulaski. He was born in Alex City and attended Auburn University and graduated from the Mid South School of Broadcasting in Nashville, TN. His Alabama broadcasting started in 1961 in Anniston at WDNG. Following a … Continue reading Jim Vice<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28887,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28886\/revisions\/28887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}