I remember when sitcoms had theme songs and the booth announcer would come on at 7:59:55 with "This is KOIN TV..Channel 6..Portland." As I recall, the booth announcer would do top-of-the-hour ID's, commercial tags and live announcements. Who were the booth announcers in Portland? I recall Dick Novak doing a superb job at KATU. And Rod "Ramblin Rod" Anders would alert viewers that..."This is KPTV..Channel 12...Portland..a Chris Craft Station." Wow, that dates me!

KATU - Dick Novak.
KOIN-TV - George "Bud" Beachwood.
KGW-TV - Gordon Miller.
KPTV - Gene Brendler, later: "Ramblin'" Rod Anders.

KATU - Chuck Bernard, Kaari Halvorson,Larry Caramella, Dick Novak

KOIN-TV - Gordon Scott

I ran into Bud Beechwood two years ago. He is in his early 80's and he is doing just fine. After speaking with him for a couple of minutes, I had him do one of those top of the hour ID's...This is KOIN-TV...Channel 6, Portland. He still has the smooth delivery and great pipes.

KGW did something a little different with their "booth" announcers. They were actually former Master Control Engineers with decent voices who did the switching on Channel 8 during breaks in shows and handled 'booth' announcing chores. Those tasks included tags, live spots, "Please Stand By" and the infamous "Mechanical Reproduction Announcement" which was required by the FCC so that the audience wouldn't be fooled into thinking we had Bob Hope and the cast of Saturday Night Live actually at 1501 SW Jefferson at 11.30pm Saturday. "Some of all of todays NBC Television Network Shows were recorded earlier for release in this time zone."

The news and other live shows were switched in their respective Studios - so it was Studio A, Studio B or C Booth. When I got to the building there were 4 C Booth operators and my memory is thin here but one was Jim Moffitt and another was E.C. Herald. Classic Portland TV voices.

I worked at KPTV one summer and to me the "King of the Booth" was Frank Bonnema. Frank and Rod pulled Booth shifts in addition to their live on-camera shows. That summer Gene Brendler was the PD and scheduled all those performers. Graham Archer is another old pro who spent some time in there while I was out hanging film and tape in Master wishing I could be a booth announcer.

Thanks for all the great responses to this subject. This was a wonderful part of Portland broadcast history.

"This is the Mutual Broadcorping Castration!"

Let's add Eddie Butherus to KOIN's stable of booth announcers...

I also remember Don Coss pulling weekend chores at the booth mike for KPTV.

John Edwards who was pd at kpfm during the McAnulty days....also the parents owned KKEY.
He was the national voice doing this live
"THIS...IS A.B.C !
AKA Warren Wygant

Warren was/is Ralph Weagant's brother although the latter finished raising the former. He was the image voice of KKEY for decades, through to the end!

And there was an E.C Harold at KGW TV. Lot of times he did the live sign off, some news weather and sign off. I used to hear him doing the IDs once in awhile as well. E.C later was hired by Paul Hanson at KYXI when they first went All News Radio.

I dont know which guy it was but one of the KOIN booth announcers that had a very distinctive way or IDing KOIN...lets see if I can phonetically describe it in print.....

KAY... ohhh EYE ENNNNN tayvaeayy..>>>PORTLANDDDD

he kind of delivered it like that pink lion cartoon character...what was his name...Snagglepus? something like that. Or maybe a bit like W.C Fields...

Also, when I was a kid, I could have sworn that one of the KATU booth announcers was a serious Rusty Nails ! Is that one of the guys that Jimbo listed above?

I also miss things like :

The CBS top o the hour BONG..right before
Archie and Edith going went into thier theme song

Oh the way Glenn Miller played.....

I'm assuming it's all recorded and tracked now, such as the "Tonight's programming on KOIN News 6 is brought to you by...". Am I right?

"KAY... ohhh EYE ENNNNN tayvaeayy..>>>PORTLANDDDD"

Maybe this was on a cue card posted in the booth?

"Rusty Nails ! Is that one of the guys that Jimbo listed above?"
No. I don't know if he had done any booth work there or not. I don't know about pre 1970. However, in 1970, the day booth was Chuck Bernard, who I believe, was formerly a news reporter for KPOJ when they were in the Odd Fellows building. The evening booth was Kaari Halvorson, who was an announcer/dj on various stations, most recently prior to KATU, with KXL. Kaari was booth announcer until about 1979. When Chuck left, Larry kinda took over those duties for a while. Larry had been a DJ at KPOJ (Odd Fellows Days) and also KXL prior to joining KATU as a studio engineer. Chuck used to record the weekend announce things on a reel to reel tape that was in Master Control and was started by "kicking" a panel switch at the master control position at foot level. For many years, when it was time for an announce the director or whomever would call for "kick Charlie". Eventually, Dick Novak took over all announce duties when it was cut back and he would cut the tapes for when he wasn't there but it was still referred to as "Kick Charlie".
Dick was also the tape librarian until he retired. Other announcer tasks were done by contractors and sometimes Joel Miller, who came from KQIV.

"and sometimes Joel Miller, who came from KQIV."

And, after 34 years, I'm still doing it at K2! Yikes!

Funny what comes back from the grey matter isnt it?

....K A T U Channel 2....ABC for Portland.......

This about late 1964 or early 65 when they took ABC from KPTV and got thier main xmitter in the west hills so thier signal was super decent and no longer ghosty from Livingston Mt.

Ya, and Joel, he is living "the" life of local Portland TV Broadcast History, unlike many of the rest of us who just talk about it or had a brief affair with it or something similar to "it" in radio broadcast.

Thanks, Kennewickman! Yep, still enjoying "the short hours, high pay and prestige!" ;)))

By the way, here's some info regarding Jim "Rusty Nails" Allen.

oh ..Jim Allen...it mustah been my imagination that he was doing the K2 booth then...mm? ok..well somebody that sounded a lot like him I guess.

Kennewickman:
Are you positive about the Livingston Mt. location? I was told many years ago that KATU was located on Silver Star Mt. which is higher than Livingston and a few miles N.E. of it.

I'll answer that question. KATU's original transmitter was on Livingston Mountain.

Kq4:
Thank You! Years ago, when KATU was first on the air, my parents and I visited friends that lived near Battle Ground, the only two things that I remember about that trip was that when I asked about the tower (which could be seen from their house) they said it was on Silver Star, and that their parrot bit me really hard. I guess they were wrong about the location (but I still have a slight scar from the parrot).

You're welcome, Jr! Well, Silver Star and Livingston are both out there southeast of Battle Ground, so I suppose there could have been some confusion. As a 10-year-old in Tigard, I remember my dad being all excited about this new station coming on. He whipped up a home brew antenna in the living room, and we did see K2 sign on! But, as I vaguely recall, there was disappointment that the signal was so weak. That problem, of course, soon would be fixed!

"That problem, of course, soon would be fixed!"

If I remember correctly, the tower by Willamette stone went up shortly after the Columbus Day storm... was the tower in Washington lost in the storm?

Jr. tech: No, the tower at Livingston Mtn. was not damaged by the Columbus Day storm. The reason why Fisher built in Washington was for spacing for channel 3 which had been assigned to Salem first. As the rules were relaxed on spacing K2 was able to move to Skyline. That might not be the exact story but I think it's close.

P.S. I remember Rusty Nails as a K2 booth announcer.

"That might not be the exact story but I think it's close. "
Once again, Craig, you are exactly correct. KPOJ was one of the earlier applicants for the channel and they also originally planned for the Livingston Mountain location. There was a third but I don't remember who it was. Eventually they dropped their apps and that left Fisher as the only one.

Livingston Mountain was (may still be) the first microwave hop for Pacific Northwest Bell's (ATT) eastern microwave route. Original television satellite signals were received at Brewster Flats in Washington and passed through the Livingston Mt. repeater to Portland on their way to New York or LA. That was back when telco carried all the network radio and television signals.

As mentioned a while back in another thread, KATU is the only station in town that has had the same owner since the beginning, even though the makeup of the parent company has changed over the years.

The other applicant was Tribune Publishing Co., owners of KTNT-AM-TV channel 11 Tacoma.

There was another applicant for channel 2 for about three months before bowing out. Seattle, Portland & Spokane Radio, Inc. owners of KXL. The announcement was made on October 25, 1957. Plans were to mount KXL-TV's antenna on the Council Crest Tower. By February 15, 1958 KXL was out of the running for the C.P.

This information came from my forthcoming KXL history.

THATS RIGHT ! I remember that story now. KXL TV which didnt happen. That was told to me by Kermit Raaen, retired KATU engineer.

Yes, I thought Jim Allen dba Rusty Nails was doing some booth announcing at KATU. Seems to me this was about 1970 or 71 or so. Maybe later than that in the mid 70s perhaps, before Dick Novak went over to KATU.

"KTNT TV Channel 11 ..Seattle-Tacoma" ( with their old Mount Rainier logo bumper slide ) there is another interesting station history.

I am originally from Tacoma. And KTNT ( I forget what the call sign is now, they changed if from KSTW) was located, in its very beginning in 1951, in a converted house and another lot next door where they tore down the house 2 blocks south of where my Grandparents lived ( my sister lives there now cause she inherited the house ) on the Tacoma Hilltop neighborhood at 11th and Grant streets the highest point on the Tacoma hilltop range, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN! They had a 120 foot tower that was insulated at the bottom and loaded for the AM radio station KTNT ( I think they were on 1490 ) and at the top of that tower were the batwings for the TV antenna. The place went on the air from that location, studios, and transmitter. My grandparents, like everyone else in Tacoma, had an external multi-yaggi TV antenna set up to recieve signals from Seattle, ch 4,5,7,9 and Tacoma had an 11 and 13. The 11 signal was so strong at his house that he had to buy a set of rabbit ears on an antenna switch with an attenuation pad in it so they could cut down the signal. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 him fooling around with the antenna leads so that he could disconnect the outside antenna and just let the signal hit the 'front end' RF amps in the TV set..it was good enough for reception 2 blocks away. I talked to him years later about all this and he described what it was that he had to do to get KTNT without hum bars and an overloaded front end on his Packard Bell rim light TV set. LOL...What I remember about this was when I was flipping around the TV channels when visiting my Grandparents place I would come across KTNT and the signal looked like crap. I didnt know how to 'fix it ' like Grandad did and so I had to watch it with hum and distortion out the ying yang

KTNT went to a Seattle Transmitter site on Queen Ann Hill a few years later and then later out to an Island ( think FOX island ) in the Puget Sound where they still are, also they went to Seattle studios in the mid 50s with the Tacoma site as some kind of an alternate main or some such arrangement. KTNT radio and eventually KNBQ FM were located at the building and tower site for years afterwards. KNBQ became KBSG, I think after Tribune sold it. That site was a functional TV alternate site I think until about 1970 or so because I always would look at the tower when I went up there to visit. I noticed the batwings were gone about 1970.

When Gaylord bought the Station in 1978 or so...and I knew some folks who worked for them at the time and told me that the old TV transmitter and studio equipment was still in that old house, in the Garage portion of the place, along with KTNT AM and KNBQ in another part of the building...LOL...

Now for the last 25 years or so the self supporting tower has been disassembled so that only about 50 feet of it still exists. The broadbase of it now houses microwave services, cell phones etc with a new equipment buiding at its base.

Kennewickman: KTNT-TV began operation from South 11th & Grant Streets in Tacoma on March 1, 1953. AM sister KTNT was on 1400kc.
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"Tiger" Tom Murphy E-Mailed me to mention another booth announcer he remembers. Keith Griggs was at KGW-TV doing the evening shift in Spring 1959. Tom remembers this because Keith had worked at KPDQ in 1958 as a DJ before the station switched to religion. Tom was also a frequent KGW Radio visitor to Red Robinson & Wes Lynch and remembers Keith in the TV booth.

Here's something really fascinating. Tom also remembers visiting KEX-TV at the "Radio Center" studios at 1230 S.W. Main St. during a grade school field trip in 1953 or 54. Tom:

"We went into the TV studio where they had two cameras and some other TV studio "stuff". Barney Keep was conducting the tour and chose me to demonstrate how they could make a person disappear on TV. Of course they used two chairs and two cameras and just "switched". Fun day and "Old" Barn was great."

KEX-TV of course was never on the air. Westinghouse had an application for channel 8 but King Broadcasting end up with the C.P.

I appeared once on "Brakeman Bill" on KTNT-TV. He competed with "JP Patches" over at KIRO-TV. He also worked the KTNT radio side.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/callaghan/story/126142.html

Bremerton was 1490.

Kennewickman,
Kermit was the original transmitter engineer at the Livingston Mt. site for KATU and also when they moved to Skyline. He eventually moved down to the studio and became the evening VTR editor. Prior to KATU, he was working out in your neck of the woods...I forget now. It was either Spokane, Yakima, or Tri-cities. Maybe all three. You can still catch him on ham bands. I believe he is still active.

I was stationed at McChord AFB in Tacoma in 1965. I remember watching some Tacoma station, I don't remember which, on a late evening movie show. The host sat in a basic studio with no set... just a curtain in the background. Still black and white. It was a summer day and they must have had the doors open to outside. Simple lighting. There were bugs flying around, obviously drawn by the lights, and the host would occasionally swat at them as he would talk. We're talking basic television production here. I thought it was funny at the time.

I didn't know KEX had tv in those old studios but I remember that they were the last station in town to have the big radio studios for audience participation shows. They used to do the Stars of Tomorrow show there. It was a big station in that old studio building. I also had visited old Barn and others in that building. It was fascinating to a youngster. Tom is a little older than me so he went there before I did. Tom was there prior to KGW-TV, which started out across the street from KEX. When they put KGW-TV there, KGW radio moved there,also. Prior to that, they did most of their broadcasting from the transmitter site by Expo. Konnie Worth did her show from a small studio at their office site at 13th and Burnside. I also would occasionally visit Red Robinson and Wes Lynch at the 13th Avenue building across from KEX. Before KGW-TV, I would go to their transmitter site where the transmitter engineer, Art Bean, was a good friend of my dad's so that got me in.
Those were the days.... prior to the security measures now in place everywhere.

"I thought Jim Allen dba Rusty Nails was doing some booth announcing at KATU. Seems to me this was about 1970 or 71 or so. Maybe later than that in the mid 70s perhaps..."

Kennewickman, it must be someone other than Rusty you're recalling. I just received a reply from Kerm Raaen, and he does not remember Rusty ever being a booth announcer. Nails hosted cartoons on KPTV from 1958-62, at KATU 1962-67, and returned to KPTV in '67.

Ok, I was wrong about Rusty, but it sure was somebody that sounded like him..anyway..

Brakeman Bill was my favorite kids show in the afternoon when I still lived in Tacoma. I lived next door to a kid who had a humungus train set, courtesy of his father who really liked it as much or better than he did. I used to get to come over and play with it sometimes and that is how I got hooked on Brakeman Bill, cause Robbie always wanted to watch the trains after we just got through playing his trains...a real rollin' railroad afternoon in 1958 ! Also, B.B had the corner on the 3 stooges by 1960. The Stooges were a big hit with the college crowd too, so they tuned in after class to see Moe , Larry and Curly. I watched J. P sometimes but mostly Brakeman Bill McLain.

Ya, KQ4, Kermit worked for Fisher @ KXLY ch 4 in Spokaloo ( I think Fisher owned KXLY then )..before he was transfered down to KATU as I remember it..that is why he always lived in Vancouver because of its proximity to Livingston Mt. I dont know if he still does, I think so, cause my Dad ran across him about 10 years ago at the Janzen Mall. Then one of our other Ham friends told me that Kerm had passed away...and you told me otherwise ...LOL... Rumors and more rumors..

I wouldnt surprise me that KTNT would be doing a late night movie from thier old studio in the bug lights. Might have had something to do with an alternate main FCC requirment where they had to broadcast from that old Tacoma site for a certain number of hours each week. It also could have been channel 13, then KTVW. The W was originally for Westinghouse as they were put on the air by and a Westinghouse O&O. I forget what year, its on the net though (1954?)...KTVW was the low rent bush league station of the Seattle Tacoma Market for many years ( now KCPQ FOX 13 ). I dont think that station ever had a network affiliation until CW in the 90s then Fox later after the debalicle with KIRO gettin' dropped by CBS for prempting too many CBS prime time shows with Mariners baseball, KSTW picking it up and dropping FOX, Kiro gettin' FOX for one year and then back to CBS with KSTW odd man out inherting CW and KCPQ with FOX...what a mess that was...all this in about 1 year !

And in 1959 KIRO got CBS away from KTNT. There must have been somekind of issue with contracts because Seattle Tacoma had TWO CBS affiliates for a couple of months. I used to get a charge out of watching Walter Cronkite on 7 and 11 at the same time !

I spent a lot of time living underneath TV transmitters. While my granparents lived under KTNT ch 11, I lived with my parents in North Tacoma underneath ( about 1/2 mile away ) from KTVW ch 13's transmitter site off North Pearl between there and North Shirley st at about north 32nd st. That was another 'overload the front end" ouf our Sears Airline TV set. My dad had some kind of ch 13 notch or attenuation filter in the feedline of the antenna that he had hidden in the attic of our relatively new house. He and my mom didnt like the appearance issues regarding outside yaggi antennas, so they put it in the attic space. That tower is still there, its a guyed type and I think it has had a section or two removed from it since 1955. I see that there is somebody's Jampro 3 bay antenna on top of it now.

Kerm lives in Eugene now, close to the kids. I had the pleasure of working dayside tape room with him for a few years in the 70's!

Oh good to hear that ! Keep on goin' Kerm..

Yes, Kermit is still kicking. His wife died a few years ago, not him. But when she did, Social Security office for some reason thought he did. That took some time to clear up. I used to meet with him and some other hams once a week for lunch until he moved down south to be near the kids. I thought he went to Salem but Kq4 says Eugene so that may be correct.
Yeah, when he moved to days in the tape room in 1970, I moved into there in the evening where I was until late 1973. Those were the days when tape was really busy before computers and small tape machines. ALL editing was done on the quads.
And we were good!!!

Kennewickman: KTVW channel 13 signed on the air as KMO-TV August 2, 1953. KMO-TV was an NBC affiliate until December when KOMO-TV signed on the air. KMO-TV was owned by Carl E. Haymond who had purchased KMO radio in 1926. Mr. Haymond has a Portland connection. In 1929 he purchased the Meier & Frank station KFEC and moved it to Yakima where it became KIT.

Also, Kennewickman:
-- KTNT radio was at 1400 AM
-- Channel 11 is still KSTW.
-- I am not aware that the "W" in KTVW ever stood for Westinghouse; I assumed it stood simply for Washington. KTVW were the call letters assigned to the station after J. Elroy McCaw purchased KMO-TV, I believe.
-- Channel 13 has never been a CW affiliate. KCPQ came on the air as an independent and then became the Fox affiliate, and still is.
- I think the legal battle over CBS affiliation between KIRO and KTNT may have lasted as late as 1961. I, too, remember watching CBS shows on both stations at the same time.
-- KIRO never had Fox. KIRO was briefly a UPN affiliate before regaining the CBS affiliation in the late 90s.
-- Are you sure that Channel 11 moved its transmitter out to one of the islands? I was under the impression that Capitol Hill was still the transmitter site. I could be wrong, though...

I received this reply from former KATU announcer, Larry Caramella:

"Jim (Rusty Nails) Allen never was a K2 booth announcer. The originals were Lex Boyd and myself. Lex was replaced by Chuck (Kick Charlie) Bernard. Chuck was replaced by Kaari Halvorson. Kaari was replaced by Dick Novak."

I thought I read someplace that Ch 13 was a Westinghouse station originally,I must be mixed up a lot over several things and leave it to this forum to straighen me out ROFL LMAO.

Now that you mention it, it would be incongruant because Westinghouse broadcast was a major big market broadcast company and that was obviously NOT the case with the old ch 13. I will never forget the minimal programming of that station in the late 50s and early 60s and I think they signed on at noon and off about 9pm. Ah there there is that name again, J. Elroy McCaw ! back again...McCaw broadcast of course and now I know what TV station he had because in his Obit I read about Radio and TV..mm? interesting...KMO huh? Well that is an old Tacoma tradition isnt it? So KMO-TV was ch 13 and NBC? Then it became KTVW ? Ok I am going to look again on the Tacoma Library Web site where I remember reading about KTVW and see where I went wrong in all this.. Well Ok..in 1953 I wasnt remembering much about anything except where my next bottle of formula was comming from...but just a couple years later my current grey matter starts to kick in....

And as far as I know..someplace I read..and again I might be confusing it with ch 13...that 11 went out to one of the islands...but then you might be right on Capitol hill in Seattle being the transmitter site after 11th and Grant being the original one...Capitol is over one from Queen Ann as I remember to the S.E or is that Beacon Hill?...I dont remember.. I am not sure who actually broadcasts from Queen Ann or Capitol Hill anymore at least not as a primary site.

I remember THE DAY KIRO went on the air in 1957. My Dad was all jazzed up about it because he said " this is our new Movie TV station ". Running movies all day long was quite the concept in TV programming for 1957. Many of the movies they ran, especially in primetime were only 2 or 3 years old...and it was a bit like going to the drive-in theater. I believe this went on for about a year or more until they grabbed up CBS from KTNT. KIRO also developed a real "cracker jack" news department during this time as well, seems to me they won awards for best news on an independent Television Station.

Well this is somewhat different than any of us chickens really knew about KTNT, I guess.

source : Tacoma public Library photography archive.

http://www.tacomapubliclibrary.org

go to main page click on left fields 'Tacoma past and present"

then click on "photgraphy archive"

then you get two choices. Use the 'Subject/Topical
field, type in "television".Lots of choices on the left in blue, click on " television broadcasting" about midway thru the list. Sorry the system wouldnt let me into the nine yards of extensions for a one link to the information.

You then get 3 pages of mostly KTNT pics and caption stories. The first page has hits on thier "New transmitter facility " in or by Port Orchard, Wa, with a 1000 foot tower operational on 1-19-1955.

It goes like this. Studios @ 948 So Grant..that doesnt seem the right address , but that is the address they give..seems it should be more like 10 something,maybe they had a business office in another house on the street ( my grandparents lived at 816 so Grant so you can see what a Microwave oven that neighborhood mustah been !) ...well anyway...March of 1953 authorized power was 30KW from 11th and Grant Transmitter site, July 1953 FCC authorized 125 kW, most powerful TV tranmitter in Washington St at that time. Then in 1954 a C.P. to build a new 316 KW transmitter site with 1000 foot tower at View Park , Wa (Port Orchard area ). They turned it on from that site Jan 19, 1955 and it was then billed as the most powerful TV transmitter in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

A Special Thanks to pdxradio poster Kq4 - Joel Miller for hooking me up with former TV Booth Announcer, Larry Caramella. Spent three hours at Larry's home documenting his entire broadcast career. I was there primarily to get Larry's memories of being a Rock & Roll DJ, afternoons on KXL in the mid 1950's. For a guy of 82 years of age, he is in remarkable shape and better yet still has a sharp mind. Larry worked at 4 different Portland TV stations.

Larry's broadcasting career began in Medford in 1948 at KYJC where he hosted the evening program "Platter Party". In 1950 Larry moved to KMO Tacoma and did "The Larry Caramella Show". Then in 1952 he decided to move to Portland to be closer to his parents. He looked for work at KGW & KEX but nothing was available.

KXL hired him on the spot after he read for them. At the time KXL was still at the Orpheum building doing block programming so Larry became a Staff Announcer. In 1953 when KXL went R&R, Larry did afternoons on a program called "Tune Shop".

In December 1956 he was persuaded by a friend in Seattle working at KING-TV to join a new TV station in Portland. At KGW-TV Larry became a Booth Announcer. Larry's voice was the first thing heard on channel 8 when it signed on the air!

Larry stayed at KGW-TV for a year and a half until he was persuaded to return to radio on Oregon Journal owned KPOJ. The station was changing in a R&R direction. Larry said the P.D. really didn't know what he was doing since he had come up in the ranks from the newspaper division. Larry quite but was under contract, so he couldn't work full time on air for another Portland station for two years.

That's when Larry began free lance radio jobs at KUIK, KWJJ, KGW and as a Booth Announcer for the short lived KHTV channel 27 in 1959. Then he landed a job as a Studio Engineer at KPTV. From there his contract with KPOJ was finally up.

Larry saw full time work as a Booth Announcer once again, as KATU was being built. Channel 2 hired him as one of their first announcers. Larry was scheduled to be the first afternoon announcer, when the announcer for the inaugural came down with a case of laryngitis. Larry then became most likely the first Booth Announcer in Oregon to be heard on two TV stations at there inceptions. He stayed with KATU for 24 years and retired on his 60th birthday.

I didn't realize KYJC was an old set of calls.

Yes, KYJC began operation on October 10, 1947 and was owned The Mail Tribune newspaper. The calls stood for: Your Jackson County station.

I worked there and didnt know that ! I always wondered what that call stood for. I assumed it was the initials of some long gone owner.

I was thinking KYJC was on 1230 as a Top 40 but had different call letters before that. Apparently, it's either an historical call or I'm mistaken. It's been a long time.

I've gone though all the posts above and have compiled a list of what we have gathered. I've tried to keep them in order, with the earliest first. If you think a name is out of order, let me know.

PORTLAND TELEVISION BOOTH ANNOUNCERS

KATU - Larry Caramella, Lex Boyd, Chuck Bernard, Kaari Halvorson, Dick Novak.
KOIN - George "Bud" Beachwood, Gordon Scott, Eddie Butherus.

KGW - Larry Caramella, Jim Moffitt, E.C. Herald, Gordon Miller.

KOPB

KPTV - Gene Brendler, Frank Bonnema, Don Coss, "Rambin" Rod Anders, Graham Archer.

KHTV - Larry Caramella.

KYJC was a top 40 in 1979-80 when I worked there, and on 1230. They changed call signs some time after 1986,this after they moved to 610 khz and upped thier power on some kind of a 5 or 6 tower horrendous array and after a major fight with Infinity ( KFRC SFO ) and Dean Mitchell (KONA Tri-Cities ), Hammett and Edison Broadcast Engineers and the FCC. It was a 5 year 'Thrillah in Manila ".....