ROANOKE THIS WEEK w/ GENE MARRANO
Saturday/Sundays 11:30-12pm
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Roanoke This Week with Gene Marrano is a half-hour weekly program that will keep listeners informed on the issues and personalities shaping the Roanoke Valley. The program airs every Saturday & Sunday mornings at 11:30am.
Roanoke This Week with Gene Marrano will feature in-studio interviews with local newsmakers, local government, civic leaders, arts & culture, journalists, sports, non-profits, etc. There will also be news segments from the field, interviews recorded at local events, press conferences, etc.
Host Gene Marrano has 15 years of experience in Roanoke as a journalist, in radio (commercial and public radio), print (Roanoke Star-Sentinel, Roanoke Times, CITY Magazine, Roanoker Magazine, Valley Business Front, Play By Play, Associated Press, etc.) and on Cox Channel-9 as the longtime and current host of The Interview with Gene Marrano.
Gene hosted Studio Virginia, an arts & culture show, on WVTF Public Radio for 8-plus years, a weekly sports program on WFIR for one year and was the occasional host of other public affairs programs on both stations. He also wrote and voiced news stories in both commercial and public radio for 14 years. For the past five years Gene has hosted The Interview with Gene Marrano, a one-on-one Cox Cable TV interview show featuring local newsmakers.
“Its good to be back on radio with a newsmagazine format program,” said Marrano, “this is what I like to do. I think people will enjoy hearing more from newsmakers they may only encounter in a brief sound bite or newspaper quote elsewhere.”
E-mail Gene: gene@foxradioroanoke.com
