About The Author
Lyndon Evans, has had several “careers” but is best known for his work in radio broadcasting.
His first round in radio was in 1977 when he joined Danbury’s radio stations WLAD/WDAQ as sports director, reporter and anchor.
During his tenure he was sports director, producer of all live local sporting events and oversaw studio production on the local end during such events as coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament broadcast live from England.
Besides doing several daily sports reports on both stations, he also produced and hosted a weekly sports program. During the 1980 Winter Olympics from Lake Placid, NY, Evans produced and voiced over 70 reports utilizing the AP Wire Service and AP Radio.
Aside from his sports reporting, he would on occasion anchor the hourly newscasts and also do street reporting. Each year he was at WLAD/WDAQ he was the anchor/reporter at Democratic Headquarters in Danbury during the station’s election night coverage. He was asked by Danbury Democrats if he would consider entering politics based on his local popularity and said, “thanks but I would rather be reporting political news than be making political news”.
He was a contributor to the AP Wire Service and AP Radio, did stringer work for WPOP-AM in Hartford which at the time was an all news station, did occasional stringer work for WCBS-AM in New York City and the ABC Sports Radio Network. Many of his reports for AP Radio and ABC Radio were aired on various radio stations around the United States.
For three consecutive years, 1977 – 1979, he was cited for his reporting by the Associated Press in Connecticut, reaching his highest honor in 1979 for providing Best Sports Coverage.
In 1981 he left radio broadcasting to pursue other interests.
20 plus years later he returned to radio broadcasting, this time behind the scenes when he went to work for CBS Broadcasting in 2003. Unfortunately, in July 2006, he was among 100 plus CBS Radio employees who were downsized across the United States.
LGBT Rainbow Links, a link site to LGBT websites and blogs was the first “blog” he developed for LGBTs in 2007.
Evans also publishes a sports version of Focus On The Rainbow at SportsFags.com .
Evans was asked to participate on OutLoudBlogs as a featured writer and editor and is the new home of the new and edgier version of Focus On The Rainbow.
“After a successful year (FOTR was started in July 2009) at CT Media/Hearst I wanted to create an edgier version which of course couldn’t be done at the current CT Media/Hearst website. So when the owner of the website SportsFags (and owner of OutLoudBlogs) asked me to come on board I thought this move will be beneficial to both FOTR, OutLoudBlogs and indeed readers.” The last official posting at Hearst was on July 14, 2010.
“I think readers will enjoy and find the new version of FOTR to be an eclectic mix of the serious and the fun side of being LGBT. One thing for sure this blog will never get boring and repetitive as so many other LGBT blogs and websites often become.”
Evans is now a co-host on BlogTalkRadio’s The Gay Agenda hosted by James Hipps discussing the LGBT community, its issues and rights of equality.
The websites Gay Agenda and Best Gay Blogs have permission to cross-post content from Focus On The Rainbow and Focus On The Rainbow – Sports.
Favorite Quote – Edward R. Murrow – “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar ”
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