Stan Raymond, former Georgia sportscaster, owner and president of a group of stations, has been honored with election to the Georgia Association of Broadcasters (GAB) Hall of Fame. This is the highest honor bestowed on an individual by the association. Previous honorees include Tom Brokaw of NBC and Douglas Edwards of CBS news. The GAB Hall of Fame was established in 1984 and is housed at the University of Georgia’s Henry Grady College of Mass Communications in Athens, Ga.

Stan started as an announcer in Hannibal, Mo., moved to Charleston, S.C. then to Atlanta where he announced University of Georgia football games for two years. He then continued to do a nightly sports show, interviewing sports and entertainment celebrities such as Jack Dempsey, Ted Williams, Bob Hope, and Walt Disney. Babe Ruth, Dick Van Dyke, Ted Turner and many others. He started WAOK, Atlanta, which became the top Rhythm and Blues station in the market. After ten years, he sold the station and remained as president with it through two owners for 10 more years before he started his own company, Stan Raymond and Associates, Inc. Brokers and Consultants. The FCC has just approved his most recent sale of a station in Charlotte, N.C. and 2 more sales are pending at the Commission.

Raymond was honored in this year’s class of inductees with Lowell Register of Macon. They join John Lauer, who was inducted last year to the GAB Hall of Fame at the Association’s Winter Institute on the Athens campus of the University of Georgia.

Stan and his wife, Nancy reside in Longboat Key, Florida.