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Red Barber was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1908, he began his broadcasting career in 1930, while a student at University of Florida, with the university's WRUF. He later married his nurse (Lylah Murray Scarborough) after a 1931 accident. He broadcast his first major league game in 1934 at Cincinnati. He broadcast the major league's first world series in 1935. He then moved to the Dodgers in 1939 and broadcast the major league's first televised game. Later he switched to the Yankees in 1954 and stayed through the 1966 season when he was fired. He wrote a weekly column for the Miami Herald, a monthly column for the Christian Science Monitor, and six books. He moved to Tallahassee in 1972 where he began writing a weekly column for the Tallahassee Democrat and weekly broadcasts on National Public Radio with Bob Edwards in 1981. He died in 1992.

From 1963 to 1992, photographer Donn Dughi worked for a number of media outlets in Tallahassee, including WCTV, the United Press International (UPI), and the Associated Press. From 1992 until his retirement in 2001, Dughi was a photographer for the Florida House of Representatives.