Media

Mike Lawrence

Year Inducted: 2025

Category: Media

Schools / Organizations:

KGRC-FM/WTAD/WBIG

Biography:

During a 25-year broadcasting career in Illinois, Mike estimates he worked more than 700 basketball games. He and Jeff Myers started a sports talk show called Sports Rap in 1977 at KGRC-FM that featured local players and national figures, including President Ronald Reagan.

Mike moved to WTAD and broadcast Quincy High School, Quincy Notre Dame High School and Quincy University football and basketball games through 1989. He later worked in Elgin and continued Sports Rap through 1993, then purchased WBIG Radio in Aurora.