Education
University of South Carolina.
University of South Carolina.
He is from Concord, North Carolina and majored in communication at the University of South Carolina. Raiford got his start in broadcasting in 1944 by calling play by play at baseball games. His first real radio job was at WEGO in Concord, North Carolina.
Raiford has played in 28 movies—he usually plays judge characters.
He is best known for his quote "Who says that? I say that!", which is also the title of his book containing excerpts from his commentary from the show. Early in his career, Raiford worked for WTOP radio and WTOP-television, both Columbia Broadcasting System News affiliates.
His best-known work was a live radio broadcast on WTOP, a Columbia Broadcasting System Radio affiliate, covering the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. He also worked at Charlotte radio station WBT. Raiford also hosted a show on WIST, which aired Charlotte"s first telephone talk radio format.
He later taught Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
From 1978 to 1986, Raiford was a news anchor and talk show host for Charlotte"s National Broadcasting Company television affiliate. lieutenant was known as WRET-television and then WPCQ-television during his tenure there. lieutenant is now WCNC-television