6/9/88-Ryan & Ryan are front and center again

VICTOR STREDICKE — June 9, 1988 –Three familiar voices are back, with four familiar names.
The first two names, Ryan and Ryan, returned as afternoon drive-time disc jockey team to KRPM-AM-FM – the station that fired them 18 months ago.

The other two names: Delilah-Rene. The former queen of nighttime dedications began a daytime shift on KJR. She had previously been one of the top-rated KLSY disc jockeys.

Delilah-Rene’s role on KJR, 950 kHz., is yet to be defined. No more snuggling in front of the fireplace. Maybe some radio aerobics.

She is using this first week to find out what listeners want.

However, just last week KJR listeners found out they were golden-oldies fans. KJR is now describing its music format as “Classic Gold.”

Delilah-Rene was kept off the air because of a no-compete clause in her contract with KLSY. Ryan and Ryan, however, apparently found the route back to KRPM, 770 kHz. and 106.1 mHz., because of a change in management.

The man who fired them left the station and the state.

“The new guy appreciates personality radio. He looked at our ratings. We started talking two months ago,” Gary Ryan said.

The new guy is Bill Stairs, KRPM program director. He had been familiar with Ryan and Ryan’s work when he was in Spokane.

“We found they were very popular with the audience,” Stairs said. “They are risk takers, perceived as maverick kind of guys.”

One of the pair’s first-week bits involved redoing the employment application. Stairs said Gary Ryan’s form listed previous employment as “test pilot for Seagrams,” a personal reference of Charles Manson and a character reference from Richard Nixon.

“I wasn’t going to be the program director who sent that kind of information to the files in the corporate office,” Stairs said.

Twisting the dial

— With the death of Hal Greenwald, producer of “The British Hour” for the past 18 years, son Andrew Greenwald has taken over the program, with Linda of London as host. The program airs at 1 p.m. Sunday on KKMO, 1360 kHz., and 9:30 a.m. on KBRO, 1490 kHz.

— Delilah-Rene on middays means that Marty Riemer has moved to afternoon drive time on KJR. That’s right: The much-ballyhooed search for Ross Shafer’s replacement turns out to be Marty, right on KJR all along.

— The Ryan-and-Ryan return means Bob B. Scott and Dewey Boynton were blown out. Ken Moultry is new midday host and Shelia Knight is new after-midnight jock on KRPM-AM-FM.

Appeal the decision

The board of directors of Jack Straw Memorial Foundation will appeal the decision of a Federal Communications Commission judge who rejected the application to share time with the Seattle School District’s student station, KNHC.

The board said shared time would be to the advantage of the school training program and to radio listeners, who would get a more powerful signal.