[courtesy of Bill Taylor]
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KOL Terrible Tigers
2011/05/20 – 3:07 pm
Home of the 7 Terrible Tigers, including:
Al Cummings — 5 am – 9am
Art Simpson– 9am-12n
Ron Bailie– 12n-3pm
John Stone — 3pm-6pm
Gary Todd — 6pm- 9pm
Les Williams — 9pm -12m
Tom Phelan -12m-5 a.m.
A former New Orleans DJ named Lan Roberts had been one of the Tigers in 1961 before heading to KJR.
Gary Todd returned to KOL in 1967.
[Bill Taylor]
Bobby Wooten – Radio Consultant
2011/05/12 – 6:22 pm
We enjoyed listening to Bobby Wooten on Country KAYO in the 1960s. He was program director for a period and, as the story below points out, moved on to consult other country stations…
[Billboard Magazine July 1967]
1962 KAYO music survey
2011/05/11 – 7:34 pm
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· Mike Phillips went on to do middays at KJR
· Hal Raymond to morning drive at Portland’s KGW
· After KJR and KAYO, Chris Lane headed to Chicago, where he launched a county/western format on WJJD
[Update and photo courtesy of Bill Taylor]
Where in the world is Al Cummings?
2011/05/11 – 7:19 pm
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I had lunch last summer with Al, Frosty Fowler and longtime KIXI newsman Bill Wippel. After our gathering, Al was heading off to Mexico, and promised to get in touch once he got settled. To date, none of us has heard from Al, who refers to himself as El Chingón de San Miguel.
So, here ya go – some memorabilia:
· A Seattle Magazine ad from 1965 with the lineup at Contemporary KING
· The photo of Al, Frosty and Bill Wippel
[Story and photos courtesy of Bill Taylor]
Live! From our Bon Marche studio…
2011/05/11 – 7:03 pm
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Before there was a radio studio in the Space Needle (used at various times by KING, KIRO and KAYO), KVI had a broadcast facility in the early 1960s on the 8th floor of the Bon Marché.
If you could read it, the sign in the window says that on Friday, July 1, Dick Keplinger would do a noon newscast from the booth — located near the Skybridge — and that Buddy Webber’s show would air from the studio from 2-5:45 p.m.
[photo and story courtesy of Bill Taylor]
PRESS STRIKE Sees Tacoma Radio Boom
2011/05/10 – 3:39 pm
PRESSMEN’S strike which stopped publication April 12 of the Tacoma News Tribune, the city’s only daily, has expanded news and feature coverage on Tacoma’s radio stations and made business “awfully good,” according to station executives. A week after the strike hit Tacoma’s afternoon and Sunday publication, all local stations reported success in (1) meeting the community’s need for news, and (2) serving advertising requirements of local business. To its normal 12 daily newscasts, KMO Tacoma swiftly added special commentary programs, two extra news shows Saturday and Sunday, and an extra sportcast daily, Jerry Geehan., general manager, reported. Notices of club meetings, Philharmonic concerts and other public events, and a quarter-hour of funeral and obituary notices, were being aired as a public service. Mr. Geehan said advertisers who heretofore have used radio consistently found business up to standard, although department stores and others who threw in a quick spot schedule to substitute for their normal newspaper ads were not having equal success. KTNT (FM), the transit-radio station owned by the News Tribune, took over the AP bureau for Pierce County (Tacoma) and -added two persons to its news staff. Burke Ormsby, KTNT director of news and special events, reported the station also launched a Sunday program with eight actors dramatizing the weekly comics. Over-all spot business at KTNT doubled after the strike began, he said. KTAC (formerly KTBI) Tacoma, which began a concentrated news coverage when it went fulltime February 11, augmented its news schedule tremendously, according to H. J. Quilliam, president. Business at the station boomed after the strike began, he said. [1952--Broadcasting Magazine]