2006 / Keith Shipman – Horizon Broadcasting Group

April 2006/Bill Virgin-Seattle P-I…Keith Shipman, who at one time was on TV and radio in Seattle, is now chief executive of Horizon Broadcasting Group. He says the company’s central Oregon group of stations includes several familiar names from the Puget Sound region — Bruce Cannon, formerly of KTAC-AM, and Jeff Nelson, son of long-time KOMO morning host Larry Nelson and a former morning host on Bellingham’s KAFE-FM. One of Horizon’s FM stations in Bend is also the new home of Bryon Mengle, who was the producer for the Murdock, Hunter & Alice show and more recently was promotion director for KLSY-FM and KIXI-AM.