George Sheldon

Location

Burnsville, North Carolina, USA

Favorite Artists

Alabama, Aretha Franklin, Barry White,Billy Joel, Billi Holiday Blondie, Cher, Disco Music, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Frank Sinatra,Isaac Hayes, Jennifer Holiday, Madonna, Ronnie Milsap, and more.

About Me

George Sheldon has had a tremendous career spanning 28 years originally from the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market got his start at WQAM (Florida`s first radio station) in 1984 while @ WQAM he was their weekend overnight personality until the end of 1987 George from that point went onto WAFC AM/FM in Clewiston, Florida as Assistant Program Director and Music Director then six months later in 1988 Returning to Fort Lauderdale to work for WJQY FM (Joy 107 FM) as their mid-day personality and music director and stayed with them until their sign off (format change and call letter change) to a Spanish AC format in the fall of 1994.

George also got his start in traffic reporting in South Florida with Metro Traffic Control which later became Metro Networks then later became owned by Westwood One Radio Networks in 1988 now owned by Clear Channel. He was them until 1997. He flew airborne traffic for WIOD, WINZ, WEDR, WJQY, WMCU, WRBD, WWNN,WJNO & fill in traffic reporter for WTVJ TV & WSVN TV- then later a studio anchor for several South Florida radio stations then in October 1997 he was forced out by a budget cut.

After that point George moved to Asheville, North Carolina to serve out his 2 year non-compete and worked for Clear Channel Communications WKSF (99.9 Kiss Country and WWNC AM 570) He stayed with them from 1997-2000 then in 2000 became a substitute teacher in the North Carolina state public school system and is still employed by the state of NC as a substitute teacher for Buncombe County Public Schools, Asheville City Schools and Yancey County Public Schools.

In 2003 George was offered to come back to South Florida to join known traffic vetern Joe Brennan as his assistant director of operations and traffic reporter for Clear Channel’s Total Traffic Network. That position started December 20th 2004 and lasted until March 6th 2007. He did traffic in the studio for 20 South Florida radio stations from Vero Beach to Key West and voice tracked other market’s such as Savannah, Ga, Macon, GA and markets up and down the eastern seaboard. George had inside knowledge that CC was going to start laying people off because of Clear Channels merger with Bain Capital partners and laid off 7% of their workforce which was around 1,850 between 2007-2009. Because of philosophical programming changes with George’s traffic reporting gig. George was one to go. While in South Florida he taught @ Connecticut School of Broadcasting and Pine Crest School.

George returned to the Asheville, NC with the idea of starting traffic reporting for a TV station that has never done traffic before and that station was WLOS-TV CH-13 owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. George has been there since April 7th 2008.

Then December 15th 2009 George was contacted by Scott McWilliams via Facebook to be the station’s consultant and the rest is history! "I am fortunate and glad to be a part of one hell of the best radio stations on the internet" George is also a member of the American Meteorological Society as following the weather is a hobby for George.