{"id":196740,"date":"2026-05-19T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196740\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:01:18","slug":"jack-holcomb-celebrates-65-years-on-weeu-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196740\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Holcomb celebrates 65 years on WEEU in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2014 Jack Holcomb, a familiar voice to generations of Reading radio listeners, has reached another milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Holcomb, the host of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/830weeu.com\/?cat=26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jack&#8217;s Backyard<\/a>&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/830weeu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WEEU 830 AM<\/a>, is celebrating 65 years with the radio station.<\/p>\n<p>Holcomb made a special appearance Friday morning on WEEU&#8217;s &#8220;Feedback,&#8221; a program he hosted for many years before he retired from full-time work in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack&#8217;s Backyard,&#8221; his popular bird-watching and nature show, airs on Saturdays from 8 until 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 Jack Holcomb, a familiar voice to generations of Reading radio listeners, has reached another milestone.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,1681,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-196740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-entertainment","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}