Timothy
G Adams
After
Timothy left KQV he went to WEEP and worked for Ed Salamon. He then went
to WJJD in Chicago for a short time. He spent some time in Pensacola,
then returned to his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Worked
for (W)klq, EZ 105.7, and WMUS on the lakeshore. He has been out
of the business altogether for about 4 years. Timothy now owns assisted
living and adult foster care homes. |
Larry
Aiken
Larry sold his concert
promotions business in Evansville, Indiana to Jam Productions of Chicago
and remains a consultant to Jam. |
Dex
Allen
Dex sold his Commonwealth
Communications stations in October, 2003 to Arlington Capitol Partners. |
Dennis Benson
Dennis is living in Michigan
and is writing books and hosting his own syndicated radio program. His
show "Passages" is now heard on over 700 radio stations across the country. |
Steve Berger
Steve became General
Manager of 13Q after leaving KQV and WDVE. Steve eventually became President
of Nationwide Communications. After selling the company he retired to his
home in Jamesport, NY. |
Keeve Berman
Keeve is now retired
and living in Pembroke Pines, Florida. He says his car still sports a Steelers
license plate on the front. |
Dick Blanchard
Dick worked in many places
around the country, including Atlanta, Tampa, Orlando, Albany, Manchester
and his last stint was Big Ways Radio in Charlotte N.C. He left radio in
1973 and went into the car business. He was sales manager at a car dealership
in Boca Raton, Florida when he passed away due to cancer on August 6, 1986. |
Alan
Boal
Alan is now retired from
radio and living in Pittsburgh. He is still active with AFTRA and remains
on the local board of directors. |
John Borders
John was KQV's program
Director from December 1967 until September 1968. John started his career
at KBEC in 1956. John recently sold his company, Sunburst Media. |
Chuck
Brinkman
Chuck left KQV in October
1972 for WTAE in Pittsburgh. Chuck remained there until 1979 when he went
to program KOGO in San Diego. Chuck returned to Pittsburgh as Program Director
at WMYG-FM. Chuck left Pittsburgh to take the Program Director's job and
Afternoon Drive Personality at KLUV in Dallas. Chuck left KLUV on December
28, 2005. Chuck is now working as afternoon man at Dallas adult standards
station,
770 KAAM. Chuck is on
the air from 2 - 6 pm, central time. KAAM streams the audio on the internet.
Click
here for the station's website. Chuck still has family in the Pittsburgh
area. |
Bill
Bruun
Bill is now doing mornings
at WDRR, Dream 98.5 in Fort Myers, Florida. |
Jim Carnegie
Jim, for 20 years and
counting, is the President/CEO & Publisher of two daily national/ international
media business E-newspaper publications and monthly magazines which concentrates
on the news, business, of radio and television. Radio Business Report
and Television Business Report. Among the executives in all phases
of media and finance that depend on the information daily the publications
on known by their call letters: RBR and TVBR. Headquartered
in Alexandria, VA, Jim prefers the sunshine of Tampa, FL.
RBR Free trial is
http://www.rbr.com/signup.html
TVBR Free trial is http://www.rbr.com/TVsignup.html
|
Todd
Chase
Todd is now working at
WAY
Radio in Jacksonville, Florida. His company, The Neeck Trust, has invested
in three radio stations in Alabama. He's also doing spots via the internet
for the stations. |
Porky Chedwick
Porky remains a Pittsburgh
Radio legend. |
Jeff
Christie
Jeff Christie is now
known as Rush Limbaugh and can be heard on more than 600 stations on the
EIB Radio Network. |
Larry Clark
Larry
was at KQV twice in the 70's. He spent some time at WZYQ in Frederick.
Ed Salamon reports that Larry was at WEEP in 1975 and was PD there for
a time. He later spent time at WMZQ in Washington D.C. He later left radio
and ran a dry cleaning business in San Francisco. On December 9th, 2006
Larry passed away at the age of 62. Complete
details and obituary are here. |
Alton
Crouch
Al is alive and well
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After retiring a few years ago, he is now working
as General Manager of TV/ Media Relations for Bethany World Prayer Center
a church in Baton Rouge. |
Henry
DaBecco
After leaving KQV, Henry
went on to WRYT (WTAE), and later became a booth announcer at Henry WTAE-TV
4. Henry suffered a stroke and spent the rest of his time in an assisted
living center in Pittsburgh. Henry DaBecco passed away from cancer on March
30, 2005 at the age of 79. |
Jay
Davis
Jay passed away in Pittsburgh
in 1992. |
Bob
DeCarlo
Bob is now living in
Panama City, Florida. Bob and his wife now own 3 McDonalds Restaurants.
Bob most recently was the morning host and program director at WPBC-FM,
B 95.1 in Panama City, Florida. |
Allen Dennis
Allen spent a number
of years in Nashville, Tennessee at WSM-AM. In January 2003, Allen was
let go in a major station shakeup. |
Chuck Dougherty
Chucky from Kentucky
was one of the first hires at KQV when the top 40 format was put in place
in 1958. Chuck hosted mornings and was Program Director. Chuck was at KQV
from 1958-1960. Chuck came to KQV from WQAM in Miami. After Pittsburgh
Chuck went to WKWK in Wheeling. Chuck's career included stops at WIP, WNEW,
WPEN, WGST and WLW. Chuck left radio in 1980 and owned a number of Tuxedo
shops for the next 15 years. He is now retired and living outside Cincinnati. |
Dick
Drury
Dick joined KQV in January
1960 for afternoons. Dick replaced Chuck Dougherty as KQV's Program Director.
In July, 1961 Dick left KQV for WIL St.Louis. Dick also spent time at KGB
in San Diego among others. Dick has passed away. |
Carl Eckles
Carl is now living in
Malvern, Ohio and is retired. Carl says "I own investment property in suburban
Cleveland but am no longer active on a day to day basis. Lots of hobbies
and two grandchildren keep my wife and me busy. We live on a private lake
Southeast of Canton, Ohio and love to watch the seasons change." |
Roy Elwell
Roy spent many years
working in Los Angeles after leaving KQV. He is now retired and living
in Santa Monica, California. |
Joe
Fenn
Joe is originally from
Akron, Ohio. He came to Pittsburgh in the fall of 1971. After 3 years on
the WDVE side, he moved over to KQV in 1974. Joe remains in Pittsburgh
at KQV and is the afternoon news anchor. Joe can also be heard weekends
at 3WS in Pittsburgh. |
Kevin Fennessy
Kevin is now President
and General Manager at WAAT in Scranton, Pa. and WFBS in Berwick, Pa. http://www.1280radiosmiles.com |
Franklin
B Forbes
Franklin spent many years
in Harrisburgh radio using the name Bob Alexander. He did mornings at WKBO
and WHP. Today he is out of radio and lives in Harrisburg and works as
a Parole Officer Supervisor (Parole Officer III) with the Dauphin County
Adult Probation and Parole Department. He is the Dauphin County Work Release
Job Coordinator. Bob finds employment for men who are in the prison
and transfer them from the jail to the work release center. |
Jim
Gearhart
Jim is now morning host
at WKXW, New Jersey 101 in Trenton NJ. Jim's career included WFIL in Philadelphia
and WNBC in New York. |
Gary
Gears
Gary passed away February
15, 1991 in Chicago. Gary had a very successful career in Chicago at WLS
and WCFL as well as CHUM in Toronto. |
John
Gibbs
John Gibbs passed away
on March 25, 2003. More on the life of John Gibbs can be found on the John
Gibbs page. |
Walt
Golden
Walt is still a member
of KQV's news team. |
Bill
Green
Bill owns an advertising
agency in Pittsburgh, William J. Green and Associates. Bill also serves
as a political analyst for WPXI-TV. |
Mel Hall
Mel returned to San Diego
in 1966 after his last radio job, PD at KRLA and established Cinira Corp.,
a film production company and broadcast creative service for radio and
original music. Mel retired in 2000. |
Bob
Harper
Bob sold Keystone Focus
Research, a research and consulting company to Paragon Media Strategies
in February 2007. Bob joined Paragon as a Senior VP and serves as
a lead researcher and consultant for Paragon's radio station clients, including
his former Keystone client stations. |
Bobby Harper
Although Bobby only spent
a short time at KQV, he spent a long career in Atlanta. He was Hugh Wilson's
inspiration for the character of Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinatti. Bobby
Harper passed away on July 21, 2003 at the age of 64 from lung cancer. |
George
Hart
George passed away in
March of 1993. |
Captain
Bob Harvey
Bob is now retired and
living in Pittsburgh. |
Lynn
Hinds
Lynn is the author of
Broadcasting the Local News: The Early Years of KDKA, and The Cold War
As Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945-1950. Lynn retired in the May of 2005.
Lynn was a Professor of Communication at Drury University in Springfield,
Mo. before his retirement. |
Sam
Holman
Sam passed away in Las
Vegas in 1986. Sam also worked at WLS in Chicago and WABC New York. He
was also part of the original airstaff at 13Q. |
Peter Jackson
(Dick Grimes)
Dick passed away October
29, 1998 after surgery for a hernia. Dick worked at KQV, WEEP, 13Q
and WIXZ. I worked with Dick at WRUA in the 80's. |
Dave
James
Dave has retired after
many years at KDKA Radio. He continues to live in the Pittsburgh area. |
Lou Janis
After leaving KQV and
WMCK, Lou gave up work on the air and continued with "DJ" work at dances
around town. He joined a management consulting company, learned the
business and started his own firm, and had a successful 30-year career.
About 5 years ago, Lou and his wife moved to Florida. After a year or two
of "retirement", Lou's gone back to consulting. Lou and his partners
have started a new company, ProVantage Consulting Group, specializing in
small to medium sized companies. |
Claudia Jarvis
While Claudia Jarvis
was not one of the personalities we grew up listening to, if you called
the KQV switchboard in the early 1970's, Claudia's voice was the voice
that greated KQV listeners and clients every day on the phone. Claudia
was always bright and pleasant. She also worked at 13Q and KDKA after KQV.
Claudia has since passed away, but will always be remembered by those who
knew her. |
Bill Jennings
After leaving KQV, in
1971, Bill became somewhat disenchanted with broadcasting. In a 'complete
change of direction' the twenty-year broadcast veteran, and alum of the
Boston Conservancy, chose to become a journeyman carpenter. Residing in
Pittsburgh, he continued in that vocation until he retired shortly before
his death in early 2003 of cancer. |
Al
Julius
Al passed away on June
28, 2002 from lung cancer at the age of 73. Al spent many years at
KDKA after returning to Pittsburgh. |
Marsha
Kniceley
(Casey
Forbes)
After
leaving KQV, Marsha spent some time at Joey Reynolds' old haunts, 11- 7
radio in Lakewood NJ (WHLW). She also spent some time in New York at WNBC.
Her career included Motor Sports Network in NJ. Marsha now lives in Fairmont,
WV and works for the Division of Motor Vehicles. She is also a part-time
pastor. |
Don
Kobiela
Don is now one of the
premier voiceover specialists in the country. You've heard Don as the signature
voice of MTV, NOVA, the Sci Fi Channel, Wall St. Journal, and Prego Sauce
among others. |
Bob
Kopler
Bob is the morning news
anchor at KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh. Bob also worked at WTAE Radio after
leaving KQV. |
Tom Lee
Tom went on to WTAE (as
Tom Lyons) and WPNT-FM and WEDO in Pittsburgh. He went to the west
coast to KOGO in San Diego. Tom also worked at KCEE in Tuscon, KEZL in
Sand Diego and KSPA in Escondido before retiring in 1996. Tom is now living
in Grove City, Pa. |
Elaine
Leaphart
Elaine is still a member
of KQV's news team. She is now Elaine Effort. |
Anderson
Little
Anderson passed away
on June 4, 2006 at his Pittsburgh home. In addition to KQV Anderson, also
worked at WAMO-FM, WAMO-AM and WQED-TV. In 1972, WDUQ-FM at Duquesne University
hired him to work with students and develop a community affairs voice.Anderson
Little was most recently known for producing "The Anderson Little Report,"
which aired on WDUQ each Sunday. Anderson Little was 66 years old. |
Steve
Lohle
Steve passed away on
June 20, 2008 of an apparent heart attack. Steve joined KQV in 1974 and
remained their throughout the KQV All News Format until his death. |
Hank
Mann
Is now former Channel
11 newsman Hank Baughman and is now at WSHH in Pittsburgh. |
Perry Marshall
Perry went to KDKA after
leaving KQV. Perry is now retired and living in Mt. Lebanon. |
Tom Martin
Tom left KQV just as
it was being sold to Taft, to become a member of the founding staff, as
morning anchor, of AP-Radio (now AP Network News) in Washington. (1974-81)
He then left for the afternoon drive anchor slot on RKO II Radio
Network News in New York. In 1990. When The Gulf War (I) broke out, ABC
recruited Tom for a temporary war-coverage network. Tom then became a "utility
anchor," rotating among ABC's various networks as needed. At the same time,
he was afternoon drive news anchor at WABC-NY as well as Paul Harvey's
vacation stand-in. In 1995 Tom returned to his home state of Kentucky and
an opportunity to develop a format concept on local radio (WVLK). Now Tom
is serving as Press Secretary for Kentucky's Lieutenant Governor, Steve
Henry, and is contemplating returning to college to work for a Masters
in Journalism. |
Jolly
Jim McLaughlin
Jim founded the advertising
agency McLaughlin, DelVecchio & Casey in New Haven Connecticut in 1972.
He is now retired. |
Mike McCormick
Mike's resume includes
WLS, WIFE, WDGY, KOIL, and KAUM and others. Mike is now living in Texas
and is in the computer business and also does radio consulting. |
Johnny
McKinney
Johnny finished his radio
career in Phoenix. Johnny passed away a couple of years ago in Scottsdale
, Arizona. |
Rex
Miller
Rex left KQV in 1968.
He has had a number of horror stories and books published over the years.
His bibliography includes 1 novel, "Saint Louis Blues", A series of books,
Slob, Frenzy, Profane Men, Stone Shadow, Iceman, Slice, Chaingang, Butcher,
and Savant. Rex spent his last few years living in a nursing home near
St. Louis following a stroke. Rex Miller died June 6, 2004 following a
heart attack. |
Bobby Mitchell
Aka Ron Hughes is employed
by the Department of Transportation /FAA at the Farmingdale Flight Standards
District Office in NY State. |
Johnny Mitchell
A number of people have
used the name Johnny Mitchell over the years (including KQV's Kris Stevens).
KQV's Johnny Mitchell worked in Salt Lake City and Denver before coming
to KQV. It is not known where Johnny went to after Pittsburgh. |
Emperor
Hal Murray
Hal passed away in September
1988 in Florida. Hal was 67. |
John O'Malley
John left KQV for AP
Radio in Washington, D.C. From there, 3 years at an ABC affiliate
television station in Toledo. John returned to Pittsburgh as morning newscaster
and news director of WEEP - WDSY. He has since changed careers and is with
the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in Circulation. |
"Weird Beard" Charley
Peterson
Charley lives in Pittsburgh
and is retired. He does some part time photography. After KQV, Charley
was program director at KDKA and WWSW as well. He also served ABC as program
director at WXYZ in Houston. |
Mel Phillips
Mel had been working
in the Programming Dept. at WCBS-FM until August of 2004. Mel has started
a blog, Mel
Phillips Remembers. |
Jim
Quinn
After leaving KQV, Jim
spent many years in Buffalo. Since his return to Pittsburgh, Jim also worked
at 13Q, WTAE and B-94 and WRRK. In January of 2004, Jim moved his show
to WPGB-FM. He is also syndicated on WHLO in Akron Oh, KYCR in Minneapolis
Mn, WYTS in Columbus Oh, WHJJ in Providence RI, WKJK in Louisville Ky,
WTKI and WDPI in Huntsville Al, WXZO, WEAV and WTSJ in Burlington Vt. among
others. The show can also be heard on XM satellite radio Channel 165. |
Joey
Reynolds
Joey is the overnight
host on WOR-AM in New York and can be heard on the WOR Radio network on
stations through-out America and on the internet. |
Big
Steve Rizen
Steve
spent a short time at WJAS after leaving KQV and also did the Channel 11
game show "Give It A Whirl". Steve reportedly spent some time at WINZ in
Miami in 1970. He is now living in Houston, Texas. Steve says "For the
last eight years I have been teaching algebra, geometry, trig, and calculus,
high-end physics and chemistry here in Houston schools. It turns
out I'm rather gud att it. (But I doughn't spel all tht gud.)
I'm best in physics because it uses all that other stuff." |
Rod
Roddy
Rod passed away on October
27, 2003 at the age of 66. Rod had suffered from colon and breast cancer.
Rod had been the is the announcer for CBS-TV's 'The Price Is Right' for
17 years. Rod also worked at legendary KOMA in Omaha and KLIF in Dallas.
Rod was the announcer on ABC-TV's Soap in the 80s. |
John
Rook
John's career after Pittsburgh
includes some of the finest stations in America. John programmed WLS and
WCFL. He also consulted WABC, KTLK, KIMN, WHYI, KROY, KRBE, WGCL, KFI and
KQBC among others. John sold his radio stations in the Northwest in 1998.
He lives in Idaho. John is now writing a book called "Passing Thru." |
Mark Schaefer
Mark remained with KQV
after the format change. He is now retired and lives in Allison Park. |
"Daddy"
Dave Scott
Dave passed away in Pittsburgh
in December of 1996. |
Greg Scott
Greg passed away in the
late 1980s. |
Don
Shafer
Don was KQV production
man in the mid 60's. He also was program director at WTAE radio. He is
still on the air at KSL-Salt Lake City. |
Rick
Shaw
Rick passed away June
22, 1998. Rick had been in San Francisco since leaving KQV in 1974.
He had been the mid-day host at KIOI. Rick was 53. |
Ed Sherlock
Ed is the general manager
of 1230 WCRO in Johnstown, Pa. The station is a Music Of your Life affiliate
and carries Pitt Football and Basketball, NASCAR and Johnstown High School
Sports. Ed sold his interest in WBXQ-FM in Cresson Pa and WBRX-FM in Patton,
Pa. in 2004. |
Carolyn Smith
Carolyn went on to ABC
News and was director of Polling and headed ABC News's election coverage
for a number of years. She is now retired and living in Florida. |
Billy Soule
Billy was one of the
last voices heard on KQV when the station switched from music to news.
Along with George Hart, Billy worked the final music shift. Billy
worked at WAKC in Akron. After WAKC was sold to PAX-TV in 1996, Billy resigned
his position and began his own entertainment media consulting firm, The
Billy Soule Company. He worked on many projects for local organizations
and businesses and was a special consultant to the City of Akron.
In 2003, he coordinated local voter campaign initiatives and was a campaign
coordinator during the reelection of Akron's incumbent mayor. In
February of 2004, Billy was named Assistant to the Mayor for Community
Relations. Billy and his wife Brenda reside in Akron, Ohio. They
are the parents of three grown children and are proud grandparents of seven. |
Gerry Spinn
Gerry was KQV's Program
Director in 1962 and 1963. In December, 1965, he was the first Program
Director at WIXY 1260 in Cleveland. Gerry passed away in November 2002
at the age of 69. |
Kris
Stevens
Kris owns Kris Stevens
Enterprises and lives in Calabasas California. He provides voice work for
many radio stations around the country. He also is one of the voices for
the Fox Television Network. |
Jon
Summers
Jon's radio career after
KQV includes WEAM, 10 years at WKBW, a return to Pittsburgh to WTAE and
WPNT in the 80's, as well as a return to Buffalo at WBEN, WBUF and WECK.
Jon is now working at WKBW-TV, Channel 7 (also starring in AM Buffalo)
in Buffalo, New York. |
Lee Vogel
Lee left KQV and finished
his career in Miami. Lee died from lung cancer in 1970 or 1971. |
Harry
West
Harry is now semi-retired
and living in Plains, Pa. (Wilkes Barre - Scranton area). |
Bill Western
Bill has spent much of
his career in Denver since leaving KQV. He currently is doing morning drive
on the Jones Satellite net's Classic Country. He is also chief broadcast
engineer for the AARP, Washington, DC. |
Wendy
Williams
Wendy is living and working
in State College Pa. After spending 15 years as the morning drive
host at WRSC, he retired in 1971 to the real estate business. He does free-
lance work and has been the announcer for the Pa. PBS show "The Pennsylvania
Game". While in Pittsburgh, Wendy was one of the original programmers of
KQV-FM. |
Bob
Wilson
Bob is retired and splits
time between Pittsburgh and Florida. |
Fred
Winston
Fred spent his career
after
KQV in Chicago. Fred was heard on WLS as well as WCFL, WMAQ, WFYR, and
WPNT among others. Fred is currently living Chicago. Fred is currently
doing afternoons at oldies WJMK in Chicago. |
Bob
Wood
Bob was program director
at KQQL-FM, KOOL 108 in Minneapolis until the end of 2004. He is now living
in Austin Texas and is an internet consultant with Internet
Marketing Advisors. Bob has started a blog, The
Bob Blog. |
World
Famous
Gerald Jeffrey Kristafer
Jr is program director and hosts The Morning Edition with Jerry Kristafer
at News/Talk 960 WELI in New Haven Connecticut. |
Byron
Zint
'BZ' is now retired and
living in Evansville, Indiana. He stayed in Radio until 1973 and continued
to do voice work for a number of years. |
