WTAW - Interviews

This podcast contains comments from the December 15, 2025 Bryan ISD school board meeting and the December 16, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. Those associated with Bryan ISD schools now have their calendar for the 2026-27 school year. That's after school board members approved on December 15th, the choice of more than 60 percent of employees and community members and more than 70 pe...

This podcast contains comments from the Burleson County sheriff's office Facebook page. December reports on the Burleson County sheriff's office Facebook page includes asking for assistance to find suspects in oil well pad thefts. Sheriff Bill Rios says investigators believe five thefts took place on the same day but were reported on different days. Rios also announced developing a new ride along...

This podcast contains comments from the December 18, 2025 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting and comments from a December 8, 2025 Zoom call involving Texas A&M faculty members and representatives of the provost's office. November's meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents included unanimous action to amend policies affecting faculty members and students. One policy chang...

Some businesses in Bryan/College Station did better in 2025 and others didn't. Chamber of commerce president Glen Brewer discussed the subject during a visit with Will Welch on WTAW's The Infomaniacs. The conversation included an invitation to attend the chamber's annual economic outlook conference on January 28th to learn more about what 2026 has in store.

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners at its December 16th meeting approved the purchase of cameras that read license plates for the sheriff's office. But before the unanimous vote of the nearly $76,000 dollar purchase, was commissioner Fred Brown's opposition to buying the equipment through the education service cen...

This podcast is a visit with Brazos County county attorney Earl Gray and WTAW's Bill Oliver. Five weeks after a DPS trooper was ejected from a Texas A&M football game after coming in physical and verbal contact with South Carolina players, the trooper will not face criminal charges. Brazos County county attorney Earl Gray said his decision followed a review of reports submitted by Texas A&...

This podcast contains comments from Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez's visit on WTAW's The Infomaniacs on December 16, 2025. The January regular meeting of the Bryan city council will include consideration of giving property tax breaks to an international company for a more than $65 million dollar project. Click HERE to read and download the notice from the city of Bryan's website. A city spokeswoman c...

This podcast contains comments from the December 15, 2025 Bryan ISD school board and December 16, 2025 College Station ISD school board meetings. A common topic at December's Bryan and College Station ISD school board meetings was safety and security. How either district is doing with state required inspections was not brought up. Bryan ISD administrators at the December 15th meeting did a present...

This week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update features partner agency Scotty's House.

This podcast is a montage of Chelsea Reber's last day as a member of WTAW's The Infomaniacs on December 22, 2025. In addition to The Infomaniacs, Chelsea's work at Bryan Broadcasting included composing news stories, conducting interviews, and anchoring newscasts on Candy 95, Peace 107, Willy 97, Maverick 100.9, My Magic 97.3, and The Zone. Chelsea also administered public service announcements on...

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. This week's Brazos County commission meeting included an update on activities in the juvenile services department. The first detailed report requested by commissioners from director Linda Ricketson included 30 juveniles in the 80 bed detention center and 21 wearing electronic monitoring devices. 89 juvenile...

This podcast is a visit with the winner of season 28 of The Voice, Aiden Ross of College Station, and WTAW's Will Welch. This week's winner of The Voice, Aiden Ross of College Station, visited with Will Welch on WTAW's The Infomaniacs. In the conversation, which aired Friday morning (December 19), Ross says it's a full circle moment because he's watched the show since its debut when he was six yea...

Bret Richards joined WTAW's The Infomaniacs to discuss Texas A&M Volleyball's historic run and the upcoming national championship match on Sunday. 

College Station Councilman Bob Yancy visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about affordable housing, land deals, the former Macy's store, community relations, a future multievent center, his political future, healthcare, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners take no action on a request made by the Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to make a $40,000 dollar contribution towards another study about how to deal with separating pedestrians from vehicular traffic along University Drive in the Northgate district...

Bryan Councilman Ray Arrington visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about end of year business, the new city manager, new development, promoting the city, Midtown Park, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County Commissioner Bentley Nettles visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about March's primary elections, citizen input, Union Pacific, the first county subdivision, the freeway expansion, the new medical examiner's office, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is Texas A&M football head coach Mike Elko's visit with reporters on December 17, 2025.

This podcast contains comments from the December 9, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Action at last week's meetings of the Brazos County commission and College Station city council included spending millions of dollars to replace radios. The College Station council at its December 11th meeting had no discussion prior to the unanimous vote to spend $4.1 million dollars to replace 602 handheld...

This podcast contains comments from the December 17, 2025 College Station ISD school board meeting. College Station ISD school board members learn at its December meeting, the process of selecting out of district transfer students for next year. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the December 16, 2025 CSISD school board meeting. An undisclosed number of kindergarten throug...

Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about mold remediation at a fire station, the fire department social media situation, new fire trucks, new fire station locations, tax abatements, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from College Station councilman Mark Smith and WTAW's Scott DeLucia on The Infomaniacs on December 10, 2025. After the College Station city council approved a budget at the end of August, it took until November for the city and the Brazos Transit District (BTD) to agree on a contract for the fiscal year that began October 1. At the council's last meeting (December 11...

This podcast contains comments from the December 9, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting. Brazos County commissioners table one of three appointments to the board of Emergency Services District (ESD) #3, which covers residents south of Highway 21 and west of the Navasota River down to Carter's Creek. Kyle Greenwood, who was nominated to fill a vacancy, is a Republican candidate for precinct two c...

This podcast contains comments from the December 11, 2025 College Station city council meeting. Last Thursday's (December 11) College Station city council meeting included the approval of 19 items on the consent agenda. Two of the 19 items drew the interest of councilman David White. White recused himself without saying why on a staff request to spend $180,000 dollars in hotel occupancy tax money...

This week's United Way of the Brazos Valley update features Jennifer L'Herault discussing early literacy and this weekend's Jingle Book Bash.