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Ed Mayberry is KUHF's business reporter, covering news about business and industry here in Southeast Texas. It seemed that many business stories and issues were going unreported, and at the urging of listeners, KUHF added expanded business news coverage in fall 2000.
The KUHF Business Newscasts can be heard during our news programming at 6:04 a.m., 8:04 a.m. and 5:04 p.m. each weekday.
As a hobby, Ed maintains an international website at InternationalListener. Ed has been in radio since 1971, with many of those years spent on the disc jockey side of the business. He spent most of his career in Austin, working as part of a morning show team on album rock station KLBJ-FM, and later as the co-host of a morning show at adult rock station KGSR. He also conducted a daily talk show on KLBJ-AM during the first Gulf War, along the way getting a chance to speak with guests such as Steve Allen, Timothy Leary, Tony Randall, Al Gore and others.
Ed was fortunate enough to meet most of his music heroes during interviews. He is a major Beatles fan, and was able to meet Paul and Linda McCartney, and interview Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and Julian and Sean Lennon. He also interviewed the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Burdon of the Animals, various Rolling Stones, the late Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, members of Genesis, Yes, Moody Blues, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, as well as Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Carlos Santana, Wavy Gravy, the lady in the blanket on the “Woodstock” album cover and many others. As you can see, interviewing is one of Ed's favorite parts of radio! Ed kept most of these tapes, but they were ruined in the June 2001 floods from Tropical Storm Allison.
He returned to news at KLBJ's AM station for a few years before coming to Houston as an anchor at KTRH. In 2001, Ed came to KUHF as a business reporter. Instead of rock stars, now he's interviewing CEOs and politicians! His work also includes the opportunity to produce non-business features that are heard during local breaks in Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Ed has two grown children and a young son in elementary school.
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> email Ed Mayberry: emayberry@kuhf.org