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Date Posted: 03:54:05 10/22/08 Wed
Author: Dave James
Subject: Re: Strong Line-up
In reply to: Oldies Dave 's message, "Re: Strong Line-up" on 21:03:08 10/21/08 Tue

I freelanced at KD in late 1968 and early 69, after I left WIIC-TV to get back into broadcasting, and I worked with all of those guys. Also on staff were Paul Long, Tom Bender and Bill Steinbach, among others. As I've mentioned in this forum before, those were the days when we went to work early and stayed after our shifts just to hang out. Oh, the stories that cannot be told here! KD was a great place to work back then. It wasn't when I left five years ago.



>Take it a step further and within two years, Art
>Pallan and Jim Horne were the only people still at
>KDKA. By 1969 Clark Race was in LA, Terry McGovern was
>in San Fran and Big Jim Williams left radio.
>
>>If that lineup is from the end of '67, it got a pretty
>>strong jolt four months later. Bogut came in to do
>>mornings, which pushed Pallan back to middays and
>>pushed Trow and Tracey out the door. Jim Williams was
>>bumped to the overnight shift and Jim Horne moved into
>>evenings.
>>
>>You're right about Jim Williams, he was 50 when he
>>died.
>>
>>
>>>This was a pretty strong line-up. Jim Williams died
>>>fairly young. But, an interesting observation is
>that
>>>of the rest of these people who were working on what
>>>was one of the top radio stations in the country,
>only
>>>Art Pallan spent his career principally in the
>medium.
>>> And, only Art completed his career with KDKA. Other
>>>occupations included television, movies, theater
>>>and...cycle sales.

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