{"id":401845,"date":"2026-08-09T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401845\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:08:14","slug":"tprs-ruben-o-garcia-posthumously-inducted-into-san-antonio-radio-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401845\/","title":{"rendered":"TPR&#8217;s Ruben O. Garcia posthumously inducted into San Antonio Radio Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten radio professionals who all left their mark on San Antonio were honored Saturday at the 15th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/saradiohall.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Antonio Radio Hall of Fame<\/a> induction ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was the late Ruben O. Garcia, who was Texas Public Radio\u2019s vice president of technology and operations until his untimely passing on Feb. 3, 2026. Garcia\u2019s time in radio went all the way back to the 1970s, and included stints on KZ100, KONO-FM and Y100.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting the award on his behalf was his daughter, Amanda Garcia, who said her father loved \u201cconnecting with people through the microphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia remembered spending time with her father at the KONO studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would just be hanging out in the studio, with him in the chair, playing my Game Boy,\u201d she said, oblivious to the fact that thousands were listening to his voice.<\/p>\n<p>Friends would ask her, \u201cHow does it feel, your dad being famous? To me, he was always just my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the other honorees was KTFM&#8217;s \u201cHot\u201d Henrietta Hernandez, who recalled being an insecure Latina teenager who loved to argue with her parents, so she thought, \u201cWhy not do radio?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hernandez said it was always meaningful to meet listeners who benefitted from station giveaways.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime community voice Milton Glueck (KLUP) was also inducted into the San Antonio Radio Hall of Fame, and echoed the sentiments of many who spoke, saying radio is a powerful medium for connection. He described one listener who told him, \u201cI hated being alone \u2026 but I listened to you &#8230; on the music show &#8230; on the garden show, and you were my companion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Amanda Garcia, radio is still a meaningful way to connect with her late father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf y\u2019all tune in to Texas Public Radio, he\u2019s still on air. I tune in to him every night. \u2026 It brings me comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten radio professionals who all left their mark on San Antonio were honored Saturday at the 15th annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-401845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}