Where's Jeff Clark? I see on the KZEL website that Emma has taken over middays and Aaron Porter is doing evenings.

Jeff posted earlier this month he was let go on April Fools Day.

Too good, I guess. That and his ENORMOUS salary that was sinking the whole cluster.......

Sorry to hear that about JC...

Actually being fired on April Fools day is pretty weird, even for radio.

I've been canned more than a few times in this biz and the worst case for me was when this guy handed me my last paycheck and said goodbye with my son standing right next to me... couldn't even wait for a private moment... damn that was cold.

Hey JC, JC you're alright by me....Superstar! Some of my best radio memories were made with Jeff when we did the morning show at KINK in the early 80's.I was fresh from KVAN and he tolerated my nonstop jabber. I know he'll probably go after another job in radio but remember my friend, you don't have to take a bullet just because you have passion for something!

He's a first class guy....

Cume's loss, and so much for their mission statement which includes the mention that they hire the best and brightest talent available. Maybe they should add, ...."only to fire them later because an 8 dollar an hour savings is worth much more than any listener satisfaction."

Damn, I didn't know this. Sorry to hear it JC. Anyone who lets you go doesn't "get" real radio.

"and now for your listening and dancing pleasure"always the best, Jeff Clark.............

...sigh...you all know how I feel...

And now for your dining, dancing and downloading pleasure, Jeff Clarke playing an hour of Weird/Cool Jazz on 101.1 FM from December 29th, 1989. 101.1 was doing a stunt called "People's Radio Week" where 64 guest DJs were invited to do what ever they wanted for one hour each, leading up to the launch of KUFO.

This was recorded in glorious mono from my vantage point in Eugene. It's unscoped in two files at 192Kbps:
http://www.divshare.com/download/4926375-586
http://www.divshare.com/download/4926420-5b0

You never know what might come back to haunt you, but there's no disputing this aircheck contains some great music.

I listened to quite a few of the stunts. Some were pretty interesting like Roger Hart cleaning out his closet and coming up with all sorts of Paul Revere & the Raiders remembrances. I think Z100 did an hour somewhere in there.

I only heard the tail end of Roger Hart. That's one I really would have liked to get on tape.

This is not the first nor the last bone head move that KZEL has made. Once the flagship station, now just stuck in in status quo
land doing the same o'l stuff. Former talent from KZEL now on other stations are better off and continually growing. It is all about revenue anymore, listener predicated radio is a thing of the past.
If KZEL was interested in the people who listen then it would show it more and you would see it more. Giveaways and Remotes are few and far between, contests are a thing of the past, The audience is so small that they cant even fill a limo with people without stuffing their own staff into it to make it look like they filled it with contest winners (I was there, and watch the whole debacle unfold). Jeff is better of for the experience, but he is also better off moving on to bigger and way better things than KZEL could ever provide. Roger called it in the above post!
They Do Not Hire The Best Talent....Well they do,.. sometimes, but then they let them go.

From the way-back machine at Rockin' In Quad, KQIV's Larry Scott wrote: "Jeff Clarke was the creative force at KQ4 and the rest of us just fell in behind." How very true.

Click the link and hear some of Jeff's gems: "Listen To Either End," "Brute Flunkmeyer" and "Hi-Fi Ha Ha" to name a few. And, there are many more ID's, air checks and spots by the KQ4 gang.

I've never been to Eugene, but I remember when I first heard KZEL (Tigard Fred Meyer parking lot, scanning the dial while waiting for family to get done in the music store in the same shopping complex). I also remember the first time I heard Santana and Rob Thomas' "Smooth" - Debbie Starr front announced it on KZEL! I was living in Yamhill Co. at the time where their main 96.1 signal came in loud and clear.

With an outside antenna, KZEL is a pretty easy catch from Hillsboro... There was a short time that I could even get it in HD (before a translator on 95.9 turned on). Those were the good old days, KZEL in HD AND Jeff Clarke on the air mid-day!

Miss him!

Thank you for the kind words.

Newflyer,

You've never been to Eugene?