True to form, the little engine that could, KLYC, did a great job covering local political races.

Great signal, too.

I listened a tad to KPAM & KXL, and they both did fine jobs, as well.

But for such a small station as KLYC to not only do a professional job, but to grab a sizeable sponsor for a political coverage broadcast like West Coast Bank to help underwrite it...now that's both neat and also good radio.

Congrats to Eve, Stella and Larry.

Herb

LOL! I listened to Kxl. Did you read today's News Register? They wrote that Larry, Stella, and Eve are doing election coverage on Klyc 750AM!! LOL!
http://www.newsregister.com

Hey! It mentions Lars on 1260!

I have fond memories of election coverage on KCYX when I was there. Pretty much everybody got involved. Even my girlfriend at the time and her sister came in to help with coverage. It was a great example of Deane's (and the station's) commitment to local service.

I remember covering one particular election in May of 1990. I was at the Yamhill County courthouse with the Marti giving the latest returns. Ben. Guiterrez was anchoring at the studio. We we on until about 2am. We did the morning show that morning starting at 5am as usual.

What made it particularly memorable was that at 2pm Mike Symons took the station (KCYX) dark, because Larry Bohnsack had just bought it in the bankruptcy auction.

Work all night and all day for the good of the station (and community)...and get fired that afternoon! That's radio.

Noise. That's a classic.

I guess I can claim to have the longest continuous run of covering Yamhill County elections. After working a the News-Register, I inherited the gig as the official News Election Service county reporter sometime in the early 70's. In those days it was a co-op managed by the Associated Press and paid for by the then three TV networks and two wire services. As UPI went away, CNN came in and then Fox. The co-op became Voter News Service when it also started doing exit polls, before going away completely...Now it has reverted to a service of The Associated Press, and I work the evening for them. They want to make sure the results are verified by an on-scene reporter, rather than relying on county websites.

Yamhill County went through the punch ballots, chads and all, and until this election, the connect the arrows with ballot readers that would jam. Last night, it was a new technology that allowed ballots to be scanned, but there were still quite a few of them that had to be verified by hand.

I remember those days when KMCM/KCYX/KLYC would set up their Marti with three element beam inside a cramped press room. The antenna had green tennis balls on the tips of the elements for safety so people wouldn't run in to it. Besides the press people from the N-R, the Statesman, Oregonian and sometimes a Linfield kid or two gathering info for local TV, all of the candidates and school superintendants would come through the press room to find out how they were doing or how their school district's budget election or levy was going and whether or not they were going to have to have an emergency school board meeting to rework things for another election.

The worst time was when the county commissioners decided that no county phones would be provided in the room, and with cel phones still in the future, there was a mad rush of private lines installed for the evening. I was able to borrow phone service from the League of Women Voters, who KATU had contracted to report results from certain bellweather precincts their election coverage consultant asked for so they could predict the outcome early. ABC did the same thing on a national basis, and would some time have people there, too....as would CBS or NBC, they all liked the precinct that covered the town of Lafayette...they apparently had a good record of predicting over the past years.

Ahh the good old days....

This time, I was pretty much there by myself...the polls are gone with the "mail-in" ballots and County Clerk Jan Coleman kept the website up to date.

We finally got done at 5 am this morning with the final unofficial count reported to the AP computer center in Spokane.

Time to get some sleep....gotta get rested-up for November!

Yup Glenn (Noise), I remember that. Barely, really. Wonderfully strange to have what I thought was kick-butt election coverage, going home exhausted at noon, and then getting a phone call a hour later to come back to pack up my office, never to return. Radio, indeed!