WTAW - Interviews

This podcast is a montage of Chelsea Reber's last day as a member of WTAW's The Infomaniacs on December 22, 2025.

In addition to The Infomaniacs, Chelsea's work at Bryan Broadcasting included composing news stories, conducting interviews, and anchoring newscasts on Candy 95, Peace 107, Willy 97, Maverick 100.9, My Magic 97.3, and The Zone.

Chelsea also administered public service announcements on the air and online for many of the Bryan Broadcasting stations.

Her work earned her multiple awards from the Texas Association of Broadcasters, Texas Associated Press Broadcasters, and contributing to two Edward R. Murrow regional awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association.

This podcast includes a proclamation, which was the idea of Ellen Fuller of the local chapter of Wreaths Across America, and recorded by College Station mayor John Nichols, Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez, and acting Brazos County county judge Kyle Kacal.

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

This week's Brazos County commission meeting included an update on activities in the juvenile services department.

The first detailed report requested by commissioners from director Linda Ricketson included 30 juveniles in the 80 bed detention center and 21 wearing electronic monitoring devices.
89 juveniles are on pre-court monitoring waiting to go to court and 191 are on probation.

Ricketson also provided information about counseling services that are provided.

She also brought up Christmas presents being donated from two sources. 54 families are being served by the MASH toy drive. And the Badell Chapter No. 9 of the Order of The Eastern Star that is located in Bryan provided 32 stockings for those in the juvenile center. The stockings contain a variety of snacks and restaurant gift cards.

This podcast is a visit with the winner of season 28 of The Voice, Aiden Ross of College Station, and WTAW's Will Welch.

This week's winner of The Voice, Aiden Ross of College Station, visited with Will Welch on WTAW's The Infomaniacs.

In the conversation, which aired Friday morning (December 19), Ross says it's a full circle moment because he's watched the show since its debut when he was six years old. 

Ross says his coach, Niall Horan, is almost like a Texas A&M student.

Ross said one of the coolest things after winning season 28 was receiving a gold chain from another coach, Snoop Dogg.

And Ross plans to continue taking online courses from Texas A&M, which he started while competing 
on the show.

Bret Richards joined WTAW's The Infomaniacs to discuss Texas A&M Volleyball's historic run and the upcoming national championship match on Sunday.

College Station Councilman Bob Yancy visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about affordable housing, land deals, the former Macy's store, community relations, a future multievent center, his political future, healthcare, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast contains comments from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

Brazos County commissioners take no action on a request made by the Bryan/College Station Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to make a $40,000 dollar contribution towards another study about how to deal with separating pedestrians from vehicular traffic along University Drive in the Northgate district.

Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the December 16, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the April 2, 2025 meeting of the MPO board showing options for separating pedestrians and vehicles along University in the Northgate district.

MPO director Dan Rudge says the funding request has also been made of the university, the cities of College Station and Bryan, and property owners along University.

Rudge says there are currently seven options to separate vehicles from pedestrians. One is favored by A&M, a different option is favored by the city of College Station, and another option is favored by the city of Bryan.

When asked if there can be a compromise, Rudge said the compromise is building a tunnel under University to separate pedestrians from vehicles. And the cost of doing that is more expensive than the $671 million dollar expansion of Rudder Freeway that started this month.

Bryan Councilman Ray Arrington visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about end of year business, the new city manager, new development, promoting the city, Midtown Park, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

Brazos County Commissioner Bentley Nettles visits with WTAW's Scott DeLucia about March's primary elections, citizen input, Union Pacific, the first county subdivision, the freeway expansion, the new medical examiner's office, and more during his appearance on The Infomaniacs.

This podcast is Texas A&M football head coach Mike Elko's visit with reporters on December 17, 2025.

This podcast contains comments from the December 9, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.

Action at last week's meetings of the Brazos County commission and College Station city council included spending millions of dollars to replace radios.

The College Station council at its December 11th meeting had no discussion prior to the unanimous vote to spend $4.1 million dollars to replace 602 handheld and 52 mobile radios. 

Background information says public safety radios have not been replaced since 2016 and public works radios have not been replaced since 2019.

Click HERE to read and download information from the December 11, 2025 College Station city council meeting.

Brazos County commissioners at its December 9th meeting held a 30 minute discussion before approving the nearly $1.7 million dollar purchase of 170 radios for the sheriff's and constable's offices.

Information technology director Eric Caldwell says the new radios also employ wi-fi and cellular technology that allows communication in places where traditional radio transmission is not available.

Commissioners were also told this purchase was part of a ten year replacement of radios that is estimated to cost $4.6 million dollars.

Click HERE to read and download information from the December 9, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.