1963 — The booth was located on the 8th floor (just across the skybridge) and adjacent to “The Beautiful Sky Lounge of The Bon Marché.”
Dick Keplinger did a daily newscast from the Bon studio weekdays at noon.
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Very cool!
KTAC also set up a booth at the Tacoma Mall. This was located near the Bon Marche. I remember seeing Joe Fiala (News) but I don’t recall who the disc jockey was.
It was Don Patrick in the booth with Joe Fiala. (It took me a couple hours to pull that out of my memory.) Don Patrick went from KTAC to KJR. He flubbed the call letters several times on that first night at KJR.
I met Dave Allen when he and I worked weekends at KMPS’s birth. Since I didn’t have a full-time job, I also filled in during the week. I never knew anything about Dave’s previous experience until now. He was a good guy. As I recall, he was working on station promotions after I got the all-nighter.
I can’t believe that was almost fifty years ago.
Great promo! Dj’s and radio personalities mattered to people at that time.
True. After the radio comedies and dramas were trounced by television, after Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter had their time, the local radio personality became a new broadcasting phenomenon. They were comedy relief, a friend you could count on, a friendly voice in the night. I think those all-night talk and truckers programs have a place on radio. It seems like there should be more of them.
I worked with Daryl Allen Sauve (Dave Allen) at KTAC in 1967 (he was the afternoon jock, I was news director), and then again in the mid-1970s at KVI.
And yes, as noted above by Mr. Ellingson, a good guy.