Dr. Charles Gene Bailey has been the Faculty Manager of WMUL, Marshall University's student operated radio station, since 1985.
Dr. Bailey was raised in Proctor Bottom, Logan County, West Virginia, where, as a child, he listened to Cleveland Browns games on the radio and dreamed of becoming a broadcaster.
He subsequently accepted the position of faculty manager with WMUL, which at that time had won 3 awards in broadcasting championships.
Shortly after becoming WMUL's faculty manager Bailey purchased a 1987 red and white Ford Bronco, which he still drives.
[3] In 2013, Bailey was inaugurated in the first ever class of the West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame during a ceremony held at the Museum of Radio and Technology in Huntington, WV.