Two familiar voices on the Wyoming sports scene are about to be inducted into the state broadcasters’ hall of fame. Gene “Gabby” Barrus of Cody and Tim Ray of Grand Junction, Colorado will be inducted into the WAB Hall of Fame on June 11th in Cody.
Barrus started his play-by-play career for KODI AM in Cody in 1947 when KODI AM first went on the air. One of Barrus’s friends, WAB Hall of famer, Curt Gowdy, once referred to him as “the voice of high school sports in Wyoming.”
He covered sports for KODI AM most of his career, but also worked as a sports reporter for KPOW AM in Powell for two years. Barrus was awarded several broadcasting awards over his twenty plus years in broadcasting.
He was also a mentor to future sports broadcasters, taking time to critique their work and show them the ropes.
Meanwhile, Ray started his Play-by-Play career in 1980 at KWYO AM in Sheridan. In 1984, he started the first sports program for sister station KROE AM, which also included play-by-play and “live” weekly community sports talk shows from a variety of businesses in Sheridan.
In 1987, Ray moved to KTWO Radio/Wyoming Radio Network where he did various radio and television assignments for the station and the University of Wyoming, which included sideline reporting, some play-by-play and studio broadcasting. The Wyoming Association of Broadcasters have inducted forty-one of Wyoming’s finest broadcasters since its inception in 2003.
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