A KJR Cash Call “Major Announcement” during the Kevin O’Brien program.
Pat O’Day steps in, following the Frank Thompson newscast, to announce….
“It’s CONTEST TIME!!!!”
[Sam Lawson audio]
Sam Lawson’s Audio Vault: And Now, It’s…Contest Time!!
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Since I was bored today, I looked it up. Kevin came to KJR in June 1972, hired a few weeks before but he had to finish high school in Oklahoma before moving to Seattle. He was 18. In May 1975, PD Steve West cut him loose…saying they were looking for more maturity on-air at KJR. Replaced by Ric Hansen and they brought in Tracy Mitchell to fill Ric’s evening slot.
Kevin was too much of a cut-up. No sense of control. So how did he become such a controlling twit at WNBC? Narcissist maybe.
His dad was a radio honcho friend of O’Day …or so I understand it. When he was hired at age 18 lots of jocks in the state were surprised because he seemed too green and immature for Channel 95. I always figured it was connections, although Pat would boast about his hiring choice based on Kevin’s popularity with high school age teens.
Yes. O’Day may have owed the guy a favor. Wally Cleaver would have referred to Kevin as a goof.
The ’70s bit where Greg Aust on KVI spoofed the KJR cash call was classic.
$1529 was a huge chunk of change in 1968 (? guessing the date of this aircheck)
Anyone knowing the Kevin O’ career timeline, please lay it on us.
Kevin was there in the vicinity of 1972 until 1975.
Sounds about right.