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Dec 30, 2020 · Slideshow: On Orion Samuelson’s last day at WGN, take a look around his home office at 68 years’ worth of people, places and perspectives. Plus, find links to each story in this series. Orion Samuelson, the beloved farm broadcaster, retires today from a landmark 60-year career at WGN — marking 68 years in farm broadcasting.
December 30, 2020 at 6:40 pm CST. Expand. Orion Samuelson started his career at WGN Radio in September 1960, when the presidential election involved Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. During his ...
Dec 19, 2020 · CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — One of the most famous voices in radio will end a remarkable 60-year career later this month. WGN Radio’s Orion Samuelson has graced airwaves throughout the heartland — in places across the Midwest and beyond. WGN Radio personality Bob Sirott sat down with Samuelson for a trip down memory lane.
Orion Samuelson. Orion Samuelson (ˈɔːriənOR-ee-ən; born March 31, 1934) is a retired American broadcaster, known for his agriculture broadcasts and his ability to explain agribusiness and food production in an understandable way. [ 1 ] He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2003. [ 2 ]
Dec 7, 2020 · Woodstock, Ill., farmer Linnea Kooistra remembers well how she came to know Orion. “We became close friends with Orion after we bought a dairy calf to raise money for ag scholarships. Big O was the master of ceremonies. He said at the auction that he would come out to milk the calf when it had its first calf. Two years later, he did,” she ...
Aug 30, 2010 · Sept. 26 will mark Samuelson’s 50th‚ year on WGN, with tributes leading up to that date planned by admirers at the Tribune Co.-owned station and the Farm Progress Show, among others. Samuelson ...
Jul 21, 2018 · July 21, 2018. Max Armstrong shares the story of a Farmall F-20 owned by the Samuelson Family – a machine that Orion Samuelson’s father bought new. It was restored by the IH Collectors Chapter 10 in Central Illinois. Max's Tractor Shed is a regular feature of This Week in Agribusiness. If you have a tractor story you'd like to share for ...
