He’s described as a “dynamic husband and father” and is known across the radio broadcasting industry as the longtime leader of two groups of stations — one in Austin and the other in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
Now, many are pausing to remember Bob Sinclair Sr., who died April 20 at the age of 79.
Born on May 31, 1945, Robert Lindsay Sinclair Sr. studied history at Harvard University and in the late 1960s joined a company founded by his father. It was Bob would played a key role in its growth, expanding from ownership of a single Country station — WHNE-AM 1350 in Norfolk. That property was acquired in the middle of 1977 and helped Sinclair Communications (not related in any way to broadcast TV station group owner Sinclair Inc.) expand to five stations serving the Norfolk market: Alternative WROX-FM “96X,” News/Talk WTAR-AM 850 and its two FM translators at 96.5 MHz, Adult Hits WNOB-FM “93.7 BOB FM,” Country WUSH “U.S. 106.1,” and Talk WNIS-AM 790…