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William Engelhardt
Lee Askervold was my mentor at KING, when I worked there as a switchboard operator and tour guide in 1965. Lee had the overnight show, and after my shift on the switchboard, I’d hole up in a production room with a reel-to-reel Ampex, records, news and commercial copy, and be a DJ. Lee would critique my tapes, and helped me assemble my first audition tape, which got me a gig at KMO (Tacoma). After stints at KMO and KJNO (Juneau), I was hired by Lee in January 1967, to replace Bruce McMichael who was heading to KIRO Radio. At the time, KTAC’s business offices and newsroom were in the Winthrop Hotel. Jerry Geehan owned and managed the station, Fred Kaufman (formerly of KOMO) was the sales manager. The jocks did their shows from a ramshackle studio out at the transmitter site near the Puyallup River. Dave Allen (Darrel Sauve) was doing mornings, John Welsh afternoons. Lee Knudsen, a former KING FM announcer, did 6 p.m. -12m. Jack Allen (Thompson) came to KTAC from Idaho just before I left for KOL in June 1967. Dave and Jack and I worked together again in the ‘70s at KVI.” William Engelhardt retired in 2011 after 27 years as a public information officer for the Washington State House of Representatives.
Seattle PI - November 23, 1937
KVI air personality J.J. Valley was chosen by the Seattle Seafair Pirates as their figurehead leader -- Davy Jones --…
Pat Lewis -- main control room. (No idea who the chap on the phone might be.)
Seattle Center -- summer 1968 Left to right -- Dick Curtis, Robin Mitchell, Gary Todd, Jeff Boeing, Greg Connors. Far…
Dick Smart, who was KOL's chief engineer at the time, gifted this to me in 1968, as he headed out…
Not sure what the event was, but the photo was taken in 1967: Left to right: Robin Mitchell & Rhett…
Outside the KOL Harbor Island studios: A couple avid listeners showed off their cars papered with the black on yellow…
1963 -- The booth was located on the 8th floor (just across the skybridge) and adjacent to "The Beautiful Sky…
From left: KOMO's Captain Puget (Don McCune); Pat Lewis (KING);Dave Clark (KVI);Lan Roberts(KJR); Bryant's owner, Jerry Bryant; Lee Perkins (KJR);…
"When I was hired in Feb. 1966, it was automated MOR (IGM Simplimation), and the on-air staff comprised yours truly,…
4501 Pacific Highway East, Fife, WA - Phone: 927-1360 KMO 1360 AM - owned by Jim Baine at the time…
Bill Taylor from Blatherwatch (2010) Dick Haase arrived in Seattle from Toronto‘s CHUM, (where he was known on the air…