Bill Bigelow has been involved in public speaking and broadcasting since his school days. He was named the most outstanding extemporaneous speaker in New York State as a Jamestown High School junior, and was active in debate both there and while at Colgate University.

He is a former U.S. Navy officer, has lived in Hawaii for over 40 years and is a well known local radio and TV journalist, having been a reporter and news anchor on KHON-TV and KGMB-TV, plus drive-time radio news anchor on KCCN and KHVH in Honolulu. He was host & producer of the popular Hawaiian music international radio program “HAWAII CALLS” in the early 1990s, and recently hosted a weekly TV program called “NOW HEAR THIS” sponsored by the Navy League of the U.S.

Bill Bigelow spent a decade as Vice President of Sheraton Hotels in charge of all their advertising and public relations activities in Hawaii and the Pacific, and managed a media and P.R. agency in Honolulu for several years.

An avid reader, lecturer, military historian and expert on China, his new Navy spy novel “RED SKY AT NIGHT” has recently been published and is now available at major book stores nationwide. It’s about to go into its second printing.

He is also a veteran actor, having appeared in speaking roles on such network television programs as “HAWAII FIVE-O,” “CHARLIE’S ANGLES,” “MAGNUM P.I.,” and “JAKE AND THE FATMAN.”

He is extensively involved in local civic and service organizations, including the Rotary Club of Honolulu, is currently president of the East Oahu Council of the Navy League, a board member of the Honolulu Armed Services YMCA, and is a trustee of the Hawaii Army Museum in Waikiki. Bill Bigelow is also a former Vice Chairman of the City of Honolulu Planning Commission; past president of the Waikiki Rotary Club; and past president of the Honolulu Chapter of the American Marketing Assn.