Vince Sanders

Vince Sanders is a veteran of the broadcast industry having spent nearly 40 years on the job. He has written two books, both titles dedicated to his years behind the microphone or on the stage as an actor: Can't Get HERE from THERE and That's Not Funny! Sanders began his broadcast career as an on-air talent at WBEE-AM in Chicago in 1958. He retired in 1995 as Vice President and General Manager of station WWRL-AM in New York City. Simultaneously, he was Vice President of Broadcast Operations at the National Black Network (NBN). WWRL and NBN were owned by the same company. Sanders won the Gabriel Award in 1972 while an anchor/reporter for NBC (WMAQ) news, a position he held from 1971 until 1973. This followed his achievement of the same award in 1963 while working with the Chicago Centennial Authority.

Vince Sanders (aka Vinson J. Sanders) was born in 1935 on a small farm in Waldo, Florida, a sprawling railroad community about 50 miles south of Jacksonville. His mother and his father divorced when Vince was six months old, thereby relegating much of his formative years to the tutelage of his grandparents.

After being forced to adjust to several schools, Vince wound up at the historic Jones High School in Orlando in 1948. In his junior year of high school, he suffered a dislocated hip, causing him to sit out a full school term. Following his mother's second marriage, he became a permanent resident of Orlando, with a new stepfather. His mother provided as much wisdom for him as she could, for which Vince often credits her as his eventual sculptor in life. After pursuing a military career and further education, Sanders moved to Chicago, where he studied speech and drama under the renowned Ethel Minns Lucas of the Chicago Conservatory and the EML School of Speech and Drama.

Sanders began his radio career at WBEE-AM in Chicago as an on-air actor in 1958. In addition, he was notably active as a theatrical performer. while simultaneously performing weekends at the (Joe) Louis Theater under the tutelage of renowned playwright Theodore Ward, who specifically sought Sanders to play the lead role of Joshua Tain in his three-act drama with music, Our Lan’. Most of his performances back then, including his radio theatre appearances, were unpaid under the auspices of Community Theatre.

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