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Tell me about Dick Graham and Kal Rudman?

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LordAntler

So people have been uploading old World Wrestling Federation shows from the 1980's PRISM network and I'd like to know more about play-by-play announcer Dick Graham and the locker room interviewer, Kal Rudman. I thought both guys were awful at their jobs, but haven't been able to find out much.

Apparently Rudman was either a Philly DJ who did a lot of promo work for the various wrestling theme song albums that the WWF put out in the mid-1980's, and that's how he got the job as interviewer, OR, he was a local marketing exec who put out a weekly newsletter about the Philly radio industry and used his influence with that to get the interviewer gig.

As for Graham, I can't find anything save that he was the local Philly PBP announcer for the WWF dating back to the 1970's. Does anyone know why he wore a women's heart-shaped pendant necklace? Did that belong to his dead wife or something?
 
LordAntler said:
So people have been uploading old World Wrestling Federation shows from the 1980's PRISM network and I'd like to know more about play-by-play announcer Dick Graham and the locker room interviewer, Kal Rudman. I thought both guys were awful at their jobs, but haven't been able to find out much.

Apparently Rudman was either a Philly DJ who did a lot of promo work for the various wrestling theme song albums that the WWF put out in the mid-1980's, and that's how he got the job as interviewer, OR, he was a local marketing exec who put out a weekly newsletter about the Philly radio industry and used his influence with that to get the interviewer gig.

As for Graham, I can't find anything save that he was the local Philly PBP announcer for the WWF dating back to the 1970's. Does anyone know why he wore a women's heart-shaped pendant necklace? Did that belong to his dead wife or something?
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Kal Rudman founded the FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback) radio tipsheet which goes back, IIRC, about 50 years. I first subscribed in the early 70's and used it at WERC-FM in Birmingham, AL... far from Philly. I don't know too much about Kal personally, but at least this is a start.

Later examples of FMQB: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/FMQB.htm
 
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