Focus On The Rainbow

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.

On July 1, 2009 Focus On The Rainbow at CT Media/Hearst Newspapers was started and is available on all four websites of the newspapers which CT Media/Hearst Newspapers owns in Connecticut.

There is also a sports edition of Focus On The Rainbow at SportsFags.com  and another blog has been developed on another LGBT website from the publishers of SportsFags.com .

The website is OutLoudBlogs and Evans was asked to participate on the website as a featured writer and editor. This gave Evans the opportunity to create an “edgier” version of  Focus On The Rainbow.

Evans is now a co-host on BlogTalkRadio’s Gay Agenda with James Hipps discussing the LGBT community, its issues and rights of equality, and is also a contributor to the website Gay Agenda and Best Gay Blogs where some postings from the Focus On the Rainbow blogs are cross-posted.

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