2011 Inductee
A Buffalo radio legend, Shane Gibson, also known as “The Cosmic Cowboy” and “Shane
Brother Shane,” spent more than 30 years dedicating his life in roles as both a deejay and program director all across the United States.
Gibson began his radio career in 1962 at KFWB in Los Angeles. A year later he moved to Montana working at several stations across the state. In 1967, he traveled cross country to WCOG in Greensboro, NC replacing Jack Armstrong as deejay and program director. Shortly after that, he headed back west to KGA in Spokane, WA and then KMAK in Salt Lake City, UT in 1969. Gibson finally came to Buffalo in 1973, where he came in second place after doing a one show audition at WKBW for the “Great American Talent Hunt.”Several months later he replaced the winner as the KB night man. He continued to work in Buffalo at WYSL in 1974, then WGR until 1985, leaving as PD. He was brought back by the Rich family as program director again until 1989.
Shane has received many honors, including being rated the number one jock in America by Billboard Magazine in 1965 while working at KUDI in Great Falls, Montana. Gibson moved back to Richmond, VA to once again work at WLEE until finally leaving radio and joining the PGA in 2002. He currently serves as a golf instructor in Richmond.
Shane Gibson
Just saw this for the 1st time if my addled memory can be trusted. Actually was looking for the 2017 class as so many wonderful Pros I worked with or were/am friends with or both. So nice to see and so good of you to do. Two things, if I may. First, the Billboard thing was unofficial as it was before the introduction of the Billboard Awards which did not start until the 70’s. Am so much more proud of winning the Billboard Award twice (in the 70’s). The first was in 1972, Radio Personality of the year on the legendary WLEE out of Richmond, Va. The second time I believe was 1976, the Bicentennial, where Buffalo’s WGR (GR-55) won Radio Station of the Year. That one is my favorite. It is a neat thing to be singled out but it is far greater to be a part of the best team in America for large markets. Well, Got to get back to this years class so as to send them heartfelt congratulations as each and every one is so well deserved. Thank you, my friends. I’ll have to look up the video and remember the good times, the memories pressed between the pages of my mind. Congratulations to Buffalo Broadcasters Ass. for a truly, outstandingly great team in twenty-seventeen.
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i had to look up Shane… wife and I were reminiscing about our bar time in the mid 70s.
He was behind the bar… at the Red Balloon Cabaret bar that was at Sheridan and Colvin…
We were sitting at the bar. Someone was talking to him.. and had just lit a smoke with a match.
He shook the match out (it didn’t go out…) and he held his hand to his ear to listen better… and lit his shaggy hair on fire.
It was kinda funny at the time.