BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green community has lost a legend, as longtime radio icon with WBGN as well as former PA announcer for WKU Basketball Barry Williams passed away on Thursday, September 25 at the age of 78.

“He would call me Cowchip. It was just… if you know Barry, that’s the way he was, he would call you by a different name. He’d say something quirky or kind of smart alecky, but it was all in good fun. Back to him, I called him Jay Barely,” News 40 Weather Chief Chris Allen, who worked with Williams at WBGN, says.

Barry was a huge impact on the radio community in Bowling Green, helping move WBGN across Fairview Avenue to become The Gator G-107.

“It gave me an opportunity to get to work with Barry and his staff for several years, and I can tell you that Barry is one of th

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