Walt Baby Love

Few interviews have been as informative, entertaining and moving as the one we recently conducted with nationally syndicated radio celeb - Walt "Baby" Love. With nearly thirty years of radio experience under his belt, and two syndicated shows listened by millions, weekly, Walt had much to share on his remarkable broadcasting journey.

Bringing his perspectives on Urban vs. Gospel music popularity on radio and his fortunate break into radio broadcast was insightful. As a popular personality across America with his two very popular syndicated radio shows - The Countdown & Gospel Traxx - his comments and outlook are invaluable.

But when Walt began to share his daunting battle and miraculous victory over Cancer, it became pure testimony. Walt Love was surprisingly personal, insightful and refreshingly honest throughout our exchange. In the end, we received more than we bargained for. On behalf of all of us at GOSPELCITY, we'd like to thank you for such an uplifting testimony, Walt.

Christopher Heron: First, let me congratulate you on your 20th anniversary with your syndicated radio show - The Countdown…it's quite an achievement. Did you leverage your success of that show to start your latest success story - Gospel Traxx - which has been on the air for the last seven years?

Walt Baby Love : We became interested in wanting to do Gospel Traxx basically because I'm a born-again Christian and accepted Christ when I was a young boy. Then, like most people, I went along just trying to serve the Lord but got distracted with the world, got distracted from the standpoint of meaning. Then when I became more of an adult in this business and began to look at things, I realized the only reason I was succeeding was because of my faith in God. When man stepped in my way, opportunities still came about and those opportunities came because of the Lord.

It was just put in my heart about 10 years ago to do a program like Gospel Traxx. But, I thought I'd be able to go to other major syndicators and convince them, "here was something not only good to do, but could be a new revenue stream because it hadn't been tapped." And much to my surprise, no one wanted to hear what I was talking about. That's when my faith really played a role. I shouldn't say just my faith but my wife's faith also played a role.