{"id":4281,"date":"2023-06-01T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2023-06-01T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T14:45:54","slug":"director-of-broadcast-digital-network-retires-after-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/06\/01\/director-of-broadcast-digital-network-retires-after-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Broadcast &amp; Digital Network retires after 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 After over 50 years in broadcast, TROY&#8217;s Broadcast and Digital Network director bid farewell to the university he has served for 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday afternoon, Buddy Johnson stepped into retirement while surrounded by members of his family, his department and his friends. As a respected industry professional, Johnson has played a pivotal role in shaping TROY&#8217;s reputation for excellence in broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed it,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I graduated from here in 1975. My wife did, all of my children did so I love TROY. I&#8217;ve always loved radio and TV. This is my 50th year in radio television.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his career, Johnson inspired many people to go into the broadcast field while sharing the knowledge he gained by working at different stations. Dedicated listeners may recognize Johnson&#8217;s voice from WTVF, FOX34 and his time spent covering local football and basketball games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done a lot to help build up this program in the last 15 years,&#8221; said Television Manager Aaron Taylor. &#8220;He&#8217;s helped create where we are right now and help guide where we are as a department. It&#8217;s going to be crazy to not have them around anymore. It might be a little more quiet around here but still a little bit crazy not to have him around anymore. Buddy loves to talk and get to know everybody and share and his family is most important.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Johnson embarks on a new chapter of life, those who know him say his legacy will continue to encourage broadcast excellence in years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 After over 50 years in broadcast, TROY&#8217;s Broadcast and Digital Network director bid farewell to the university he has served for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday afternoon, Buddy Johnson stepped into retirement while surrounded by members of his family, his department and his friends. As a respected industry professional, Johnson has played a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/06\/01\/director-of-broadcast-digital-network-retires-after-15-years\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}