Gary Beaty

For over thirty years, I have rarely been at a loss for words; I’ve been too busy. My fascination with broadcasting began when I was a teen-ager at a radio station in my hometown of Jamestown, Tennessee. After pursuing a degree in English from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, I put in time as either a d.j., news director, music director, or program director for stations in Nashville (WMAK), Knoxville (WKGN), Murfreesboro, Tennessee (WMTS), and then in Pensacola, Florida (WBSR), and Huntsville, Alabama (WAAY). In the mid-seventies, I returned to Nashville and WSM AM/FM, and was in position to play a key role in the development of the country-music television industry. In 1981, I was selected to announce/write Nashville Alive, a weekly variety show produced by WTBS/Atlanta. When TNN launched in 1983, I was there as the announcer for Nashville Now, and later co-hosted Video PM for the network. From 1985 to 1991, I acted as co-host of the syndicated telecasts of three FARM AID concerts, announced two years of HEE HAW, and still hold the grand-slam record of announcing The Academy of Country Music Awards, The Dove Awards, The TNN-Music City News Awards and the CMA Awards, all in a SINGLE season! I have been busy with multiple commercial and industrial projects as a free-lance talent, including over 600 consecutive, live telecasts on Saturday mornings for a Nashville automobile dealer on Newschannel 5, and a continuing assignment with one of the big four accounting firms. I have also recently been involved with a radio campaign for Nashville author Darren L. Johnson and joined The VOice Team in Nashville. Weist-Barron School of Television-Workshop/Seminar; Marilou Henry’s Working Actor Seminar – Nashville; Alan Dysert’s Acting Workshop - Nashville Private Pilot (SEL), Golf, Firearms, Horseback Riding Commercial and VO PSI Net (national) Businessman Music Partners, Inc. Marks and Morgan Jewelers Customer Studio Prod. Choice Care Pharmacist Kraemer Group Trickett Honda Spksmn/Live – On Cam Garmezy Media Kettering Medical Cntr. Doctor Kraemer Group Citizen’s Bank (Evansville, IN) Banker/On Cam Buntin/Bubbalou Prod. Columbia/HCA VO Image III Sony Music VO Direct 7-Eleven VO Whistling In The Dark Prod. Action Furniture/Lane VO Creative Network Industrial (video / live) PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Duke CE CEO/Audit Partner Erroyo Prod. AARP Cust Erroyo Prod. Alcoa (8 Projects) Spksmn/On Cam Direct AT&T (3 Projects) Spksmn/On Cam Panoptic Averitt Express Narrator Stagepost Prod. National Rural Telecom. Co-operative Narrator Host Tractor Supply Co. (2) Spksmn/Cust./On Cam Choice Prod. St. of Wisconsin/ALIS Owner/On Cam Edge Prod. Star Bank Businessman Agency GeoSolutions, Inc. Spksmn/On Cam Garmezy Media Cintas Cust/On Cam/Mgr On-Location National Fulfillment VO Direct Nissan VO Direct Ray Stevens Live! VO Direct Gaither Homecoming Packages VO Springhouse Prod. Miss Tennessee/Tenn. Teen U.S.A. Pageant Emcee Direct Watertown Jazz Festival Emcee Direct Television/Radio Unspoiled Country w/Dan Rather Anncr HGTV/TNN Fishing/Outdoor Universities Anncr/VO Thirty’s Southern California Spec./Xmas w/Vince Gill Anncr Fred Tatashore Prod. CMA/ACM/TNN Music City Awards Anncr CBS/NBC/Dick Clark Prod/TNN Farm Aid I, III, IV, V, and VI Co-Host TNN/Dick Clark Prod. Hee Haw Anncr GEC Nashville Alive Anncr/Writer WTBS-Atlanta Film/Stage Dearest Heart Pres. Andrew Jackson Tennaissance Theatre Co. Hollywood Beach Murders Bartender Zebra prod.