T.J. Callahan, former morning show personality at KILT FM, and Chuck Wolf, former KIKK radio news director, are recent inductees of a prestigious radio group – the Texas Radio Hall of Fame (TRHOF). In November 2018, Sugar Land residents Callahan and Wolf joined 16 other broadcasters, from across the state, at the induction celebration inside the Texas Museum of Broadcasting and Communications in Kilgore, TX.
Callahan began working in media when she covered sports for the University of Houston's newspaper, the Daily Cougar. She then landed an internship her senior year with Wolf at radio station KIKK in Houston. She also worked at WTAW/KTAW in College Station, but eventually ended up back in Houston, taking a job as a traffic reporter. KILT radio then came calling with Callahan providing traffic reports, writing and reporting the news. Most of Callahan’s broadcast career was spent at KILT. In all, she has over 30 years in radio. Callahan is now a member of the Houston Film Critics Society, a nonprofit organization of print, broadcast and internet film critics based in the Houston metro area. She’s also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, producers of the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which Callahan attends each year in Los Angeles.
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Sugar Land native Wolf, with nearly 30 years of broadcast experience, worked as the news director for KIKK AM/FM from 1980 to 1993. He also brought in Callahan as the station’s news intern. Wolf worked in several markets in addition to Houston: San Antonio, Denver, Kansas City, and Omaha. While working at KIKK, he also chaired the Federal Communication Commission’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) for the Houston/Galveston area for eight years.
His involvement with broadcast media EAS led him to his second career with the start of his company, Media Consultants. Along with his wife Melanie Miller, who worked as the news director at KTRH NewsRadio 740 AM, the couple and their new company focused on crisis communications, training over 6,000 media spokespersons in over 200 government agencies and corporate clients worldwide. Wolf, now retired, sold the company earlier this year. He now volunteers at Sight into Sound, formerly known as Taping for the Blind in Houston. The organization provides live and pre-recorded radio broadcasts of local newspapers, magazines and books to listeners who are blind or visually impaired.