Two legendary players from the National Basketball Association will be guests on WRST-FM at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson will both be interviewed on Oshkosh Sports Saturday at 1 p.m. Feb. 28.
Abdul-Jabbar and Robertson were both with the Milwaukee Bucks in the team’s early years, with Abdul-Jabbar drafted by the team in 1969 and Robertson joining the team in 1970 having been traded from the Cincinnati Royals. Robertson retired after the 1973-74 season and Abdul-Jabbar was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1975, closing out his career there in 1989. Both are in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and both are among the top 50 basketball players of all time as selected in a poll in 1996.
In appearing on WRST, they join over 140 other sports figures who have been guests this academic year on Oshkosh Sports Saturday and its companion program, The Sports Page, heard weeknights at 6 p.m. Guests have included coaches and players as well as sports journalists and broadcasters from places like ESPN, Fox Sports and CBS Sports. WRST even aired an interview with former NFL player Ickey Woods, who recently became an internet sensation through his “get some cold cuts” commercial for Geico Insurance.
UWO radio-TV-film senior Greg Peterson has conducted most of these interviews. He spent the summer of 2014 in the RTF Professional Internship program as a talk show producer at Yahoo Radio Sports in Houston, Texas. He’s applying that experience to the WRST operation and sharing what he’s learned with other students, who are also scheduling radio guests.
In addition to these sports talk programs, WRST is also the exclusive radio home for UW Oshkosh Titans athletics, covering football, volleyball, soccer, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball contests, both at home and on the road. These student-produced broadcasts have won local, regional and national awards.
WRST is heard in the Oshkosh area at 90.3 on the FM dial and is also available worldwide at www.wrst.org.