Albert Sahley
- Actor
Albert, a Lebanese-American, was a graduate of Charleston High School and attended WVU and Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston). He was a well-known Radio Broadcasting personality who woke up the Charleston area every morning. Albert loved his family, his church and was a very proud Charlestonian. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2006. While most of Sahley's radio career took place in the Kanawha Valley, mainly at stations WKLC and WCHS, he hosted a morning show for a Miami, Florida, station in the early 1960s that lasted until the station's format changed from Top-40 to Big Band, and management replaced all on-air personalities. Sahley's morning show was given to Larry King, the future host of "Larry King Live" on CNN. Sahley returned to Charleston, hosted "Charleston at Night" on WCHS, and branched into television, first as Bozo the Clown at WCHS-TV, and later as "Fat Drac", the vampire-costumed host of "Friday Night Dead," a weekly horror movie program on WVAH-TV and a play on NBC's then-new "Saturday Night Live."
In the early 1990s, Charleston Mayor Mike Roark appointed Sahley to serve as the city's parking director, and in 1996, he was asked by the Kanawha County Republican organization to run against Democrat Phyllis Gatson, who was unopposed, for the county assessor's post. He lost that race, left the field of radio, and turned his attention to developing real estate in the Teays Valley area with his brother.
In the early 1990s, Charleston Mayor Mike Roark appointed Sahley to serve as the city's parking director, and in 1996, he was asked by the Kanawha County Republican organization to run against Democrat Phyllis Gatson, who was unopposed, for the county assessor's post. He lost that race, left the field of radio, and turned his attention to developing real estate in the Teays Valley area with his brother.