radio and surfing

Beach city radio stations were broadcasting short regularly scheduled reports on wave and beach conditions as far back as the mid- 1960s, with the information usually phoned in by a well-known surfing personality. Radio surf reporters from the '60s and '70s include South Africa's John Whitmore, Australians Shane Stedman and Mark Warren, Hawaii's Lord Blears and Joe Teipel, and Cali- fornia's Mike ...