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Author: Craig_adams
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 8:32 pm
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Very sad to report this. He worked as Allen Wolf on KINK, KGON & KSGO, plus contributed information to the KGON History. This from All Access:
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Allen Stagg Dies
It's with sadness that we report that Allen Stagg passed on last night (1/1) in Battle Creek MI from pneumonia. Allen had worked for the last year in Grand Rapids at WLAV and in December relocated to Battle Creek as PD/mornings at WWKN (ROCK 104.9).

Allen worked for 18 years in Chicago (WCKG, WLS/WXCD, WDRV) and 12 years in Detroit (WCAR, WDEE, WOMC, WABX), with shorter stints in Denver (KAZY) and Portland OR (KINK, KGON/KSGO).
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Allen had been News Director at WCAR & WDEE.

Author: Randy_in_eugene
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 8:51 pm
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Wasn't he KINK's image voice for many years?

Bummer. I enjoyed his KINK afternoon show back in the day.

Author: Kkb
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 9:12 pm
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Didn't he do afternoons in between Jeff Clark and Jeff Clark?

Then went to KGON

Author: Kkb
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 - 9:24 pm
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Maybe some KINK and KGON folks could tell us more about him. Interesting that he had taken his current station over only 6 weeks ago....but had obviously made a huge impression in a short time.

Author: Jeffrey
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 9:20 am
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Yes, he did -- 1985 - 86 -- I returned early in '87. Allen was just great, voice-quality wise, and his talent/content was outstanding as well. What he had to say was interesting and uniquely amusing; he did some great bits.

I'm not sure why he parted ways with KINK -- probably the usual "agreeing to disagree" with the PD -- but I was not unhappy to return to KINK for another stint, following some misadventures in the SF Bay Area. Allen certainly went on to great, if not greater, success, in larger markets, and did remain "The Voice" of KINK for many years, after all.

I liked "Wolf" very much; he was quite an original dude with an excellent voice and all-in-all sterling radio abilities.

Author: Dolby
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 9:27 am
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Allen did do some weekend work on KGON for a very short time in the mid-80's. Then he landed the PMD gig at KSGO which had just flipped from the old News Station KYXY (now KGDD). I got to know him briefly there, original is an interesting way to describe him Jeffrey... We both became fathers around the same time so we had lots to discuss. I liked him quite a bit. Sad news. Huge loss.

Author: Radiowoman
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 - 8:48 pm
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Allen had those amazing huge radio pipes, sounded incredible on production, and like Jeffrey said, was uniquely amusing. I got to know him, as Dolby did, when he was at KGON and KSGO. He was warm and funny.

Wow, these obits are hitting hard.

Author: Craig_adams
Thursday, January 04, 2007 - 6:05 pm
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Allan's real name was Juris H. Josts. He started in radio in 1965 at WLAV. A tribute blog has been set up for Allan by Dave Martin. There is also a picture in studio and lots of links including Allan's obit.

http://davemartin.blogspot.com/


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