Remembering Sean Hall
• We were saddened this weekend to learn that veteran radio journalist Sean Hall had been killed in a car accident Saturday evening in New Hampshire. As reported by WMUR-TV/Manchester, NH, Hall was travelling southbound on Route 32 in Richmond, NH around 5:18pm on Saturday, Nov. 24, when his car crossed the centerline and collided head-on with a pick-up truck driven by Dana Goodell, 48, of Richmond. Hall was pronounced dead at the scene; Goodell suffered only minor injuries.
Over the course of a nearly 50-year radio career, Hall’s voice had been heard on CNN Radio, CBS MarketWatch and NBC Radio/Mutual Broadcasting System. As his website indicates, Hall’s major market radio stops included WTOP & WBIG/Washington and WBSB (B104) and WQSR/Baltimore, to name a few.
More recently Hall had been working as a news reporter at WKBK/Keene, NH and had also done a stint on Hound Radio, the online station operated by DC radio fixture Loo Katz.In a Facebook post, Katz said, in part, “I’ve known Sean and worked with him as far back as the early ’70s. He was a native Washingtonian, and started out as a jock, then decided to do news. He did both amazingly well. His father, Jim Hall,was a network anchor at Mutual News and years later, so was Sean. It was a high point in his career. He had many health issues over the years, but always bounced back… Due to some voice issues, his time on Hound Radio was brief. He was an only child, divorced with no children. Sean was 63. We’ve lost a great one.”
Jason Kidd, who currently does afternoon drive on WRQX (Mix 107.3)/Washington was a 16-year-old intern at B104/Baltimore when he first met Sean Hall. “I had grown up listening to him on the Brian & O’Brien show under Steve Kingston,” Kidd recalls. “It was one of the best morning shows in the country. Sean delivering the news every hour on that show sounded larger than life — like a major network newscast. It’s a lost art today at Top 40 and even many Hot AC’s. Sean also was a great jock as he did some occasional weekend shifts on B104. He contacted me a couple of years ago when I started New Generation Radio about us working together on some possible projects and joining our roster, and I was more than honored.”
