When Gary Todd left KOL, the new guy’ was from KISN in Portland.
Paul Oscar Anderson
Early 1960s KOL DeeJays | KOL Jocks @ the Seattle Center -1968
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UAL back in the day...
Reader Submission • August 30, 2026
United Airlines metrics for a stewardess:
POA and the stews
Bill Taylor • August 30, 2026
I was POA’s newsman during that period in 1968, and still have a couple airchecks of his “Hide a Hubby Club” conversations with anonymous married stewardesses (as they were called at the time).
After some failed on-air attempts to get airline officials to go on the air with him, one morning he successfully got through to George Keck, who was then president of United Air Lines. Our otherwise tight Top 40 format fell to the wayside, and during the interchange, Keck listened to a taped call between POA and a UAL “stew,” and as the segment wound down, promised to look into the company’s no-marriage rule. A man of his word, United was the first airline to change its policy.
A feather in POA's cap
Jason Remington • August 30, 2026
Sounds like he would have done well at a station like KVI.
Short-timer
Jason Remington • August 29, 2026
I can honestly say, I did not hear one of POA’s KOL broadcasts. He was gone in December.
‘CRUSADER’
Jason Remington • August 29, 2026
October 1968 — KOL’s irascible morning disk jockey, Paul Oscar Anderson has appointed himself the standard bearer for airline stewardesses for whom marriage means an automatic loss of job.
P.O.A. took up the cause on Monday morning after learning that a United Airline’s stewardess was fired for telling the truth by answering “yes” when asked if the gentleman sharing her abode was her husband.
Apparently, had she denied the legality of the relationship, the officials would have allowed her to continue as an employee.In order to force a change in this unsavory policy, Anderson, also known as Big Daddy Blue Eyes, is urging all stewardesses, married or not, to wear wedding bands in protest.
RESPONSE — Judging from the initial influx of phone calls to Radio KOL from irate stewardesses pledging their support, the movement could prove effective.
If Big Daddy Blue Eyes has his way, the companies will now think twice before posing that familiar rhetorical question, “Is this any way to run an airline?”