Longtime Raleigh Staple Gives Birth to New Syndicated Show

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, March 8, 2021 | 7:31am CT

Don Curtis

Sunday night marked the end of a 25-year run for one of Raleigh's longest-running radio shows - "Sunday Night Hall of Fame." The show had aired Sunday nights from 8pm - midnight on WPTF 680 AM since 1996. While the show is retiring, the "Sunday Night Hall of Fame" format model will be used for a new syndicated show - "Solid Gold Hall of Fame" - which will air on stations nationwide.

Since its inception, "Sunday Night Hall of Fame" was hosted Don Curtis, owner of Curtis Media, who played oldies from the 1950s to the late 1970s, reserving the 11 p.m. hour for love songs, in tribute to legendary broadcaster Jimmy Capps and his "Our Best to You" program. "Solid Gold Hall of Fame" will also be hosted by Curtis and will also feature classic hits, but will play more recent music as well.

"When we started the program in 1996, I was the only member of the staff who had knowledge of music from the 1950s, so I said I would develop the playlist and do the first program or two," Curtis said in a press release. "Now, 25 years later, I'm still the only person on staff who actually worked as a disc jockey in the 1950s."