Host/Executive Producer
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About Bud Wilkinson...

Award-winning print and broadcast journalist Bud Wilkinson hosts the syndicated radio show Broadway's Biggest Hits and writes the "Eye on Broadway" and "RIDE-CT" newspaper columns.

Broadway's Biggest Hits airs on stations across North America, including Phoenix's KOY, Denver's KEZW, Seattle's KIXI, Toronto's AM 740, Richmond's EZ 100.5 and Syracuse's WTLA.

In Connecticut, where the show is based, Broadway's Biggest Hits is heard on three stations, including New Haven's WQUN, Middletown's WMRD and Old Saybrook's WLIS.

The "Eye on Broadway" column premiered in February 2003 in The Litchfield County Times in Connecticut. It takes readers into the dressing rooms of the stars of the biggest Broadway hits and offers the latest Broadway news.

The "RIDE-CT" column premiered in July 2005 in The Waterbury Republican American. It celebrates motorcycling and promotes safe riding.

A Connecticut native, Wilkinson spent more than two decades in high profile media positions in Phoenix, Arizona. He launched Broadway's Biggest Hits as a local show on KOY radio in late December 1997. It became an instant ratings success, prompting syndication nine months later.

Prior to creating Broadway's Biggest Hits, Wilkinson spent eight years as Entertainment Editor at Fox-owned KSAZ-TV (Channel 10) and Entertainment Reporter for news/talk KTAR radio, preceded by 10 years as TV/Radio Columnist for The Arizona Republic newspaper.

A graduate of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont and Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, Wilkinson brings an award-winning background in journalism to Broadway's Biggest Hits and to the newspaper columns.

Wilkinson was honored with a Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award in 1992 for a series of reports on adult literacy for Channel 10 and received a regional Emmy Award for commentary on Channel 10 that same year. He also won an Arizona Press Club Award for spot news reporting on a hostage situation at a Phoenix TV station in 1982.

During his career he has also written extensively for Arizona Highways, Phoenix, (Arizona) Diamondbacks, Arizona Golf Journal, Passport and Theater CT magazines as well as the entertainment/trade publications Variety and Electronic Media.

Wilkinson lives in Harwinton, CT and may be reached by phone at 860-485-0700 or by e-mail at either budw@broadwaysbiggesthits.com or budw@ride-ct.com.

Updated 6/23/07