{"id":813744,"date":"2026-05-22T04:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813744\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:07:30","slug":"san-diegos-shotgun-tom-kelly-inducted-into-radio-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/813744\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s Shotgun Tom Kelly inducted into Radio Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 The Museum of Broadcast Communications has announced the Radio Hall of Fame Class of 2026, and San Diego\u2019s very own Shotgun Tom Kelly is on the list to be immortalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Chicago-based museum narrowed down the field from 25 potential candidates to six inductees, including Kelly, who has been in radio for over 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shotgun Tom joined \u201cGood Morning San Diego\u201d on Thursday to thank all the listeners and radio peers who voted for his induction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI love our fans,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cI want to thank each and every one of you for getting me nominated. And I want to thank all of our people in the Hall of Fame, like Tommy Sablan, thank you so much; I richly appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The induction ceremony will take place Thursday, Oct. 8, at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 The Museum of Broadcast Communications has announced the Radio Hall of Fame Class&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":813745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,71960,330471,330470,3549,7264,330472,330469,330473,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-813744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-kelly","tag-museum-of-broadcast-communications","tag-radio-hall-of-fame","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-shotgun-tom","tag-shotgun-tom-kelly","tag-tommy-sablan","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116616262194237746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}