Bill Heywatt
America’s Second Favorite Assistant Booth Announcer – is proud to have been a part of Succotash from the “get-go”. Bill’s resume reads like a road map of small-town USA, spending decades filling in for the pros at stations like KHIH-AM in Honolulu, HI, KCUF “The Boss 690” in Crescent City CA, WKKK-TV in Montgomery AL, KSDC-TV in Grand Forks ND, and WJJP-TV in Joplin, MO to name but a few. At KNSH-TV in Olathe, KS, he’s remembered for playing the beloved but short-lived Kiddie Show host, Buffalo Dick of the Circle J Ranch. Bill is a proud graduate of the Foonman School of Broadcast Arts – with an emphasis in elocution, and studied at the feet of Grizelda Prisk herself at Grizelda Prisk’s School of Speech and Diction. Bill has been a semi-regular contributor to the British podcast, Strange Times, and is host of the irregular Succotash featurette, Boozin’ With Bill. A portion of his recent liver biopsy is currently on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.