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KCOW 70 Stories: Cruisin’ The Butte With Skip

January 18, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

In 1979, to celebrate KCOW’s 30th anniversary, interviews were conducted with several figures from the station’s past.  One of these past employees, Skip Stephenson, had made it big by ’79 as one of the hosts of NBC’s “Real People”, an early reality show that featured human interest stories.

The interviewer asked Skip to share a memory of Alliance, and Skip remembered a very familiar tale to anyone who grew up in Alliance:

https://www.panhandlepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/skipbutte.mp3

We will be airing the full 9-minute interview with Skip Stephenson, who passed away in 1992, Monday morning January 21 on KCOW as part of our first in a monthly series of “flashback days”.  The January Flashback Day is sponsored by G and L Auto Detailing in Alliance.

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KCOW 70 From The Vault: John Cover Remembers WWII Bus Service

January 16, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

Today’s audio clip from the vault was produced for our 65th anniversary in in 2014 by former News Director Kevin Horn, and features a 1993 interview with John Cover discussing a bus line that served Alliance’s Army Air Base.

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KCOW 70 Photo of the Week: Jim Shull

January 14, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

This week’s photo features Jim Shull, who served as News Director for KCOW from 1990 to 1995.  Before our completely new studios were built in 2013, the newsroom was connected to the main KCOW on-air studio by a large window.

This photo gives us a look at pre-digital radio technology; in the upper left corner is a rack of “carts”, magnetic tape cartridges that slightly resemble 8-track tapes.  Each cart contained audio such as commercials, jingles, and program features.  Behind Jim is a “3-deck” playback machine that allowed multiple carts to be used back-to-back.

Carts (along with cassettes and reel-to-reel tape) were used at KCOW into the early 2000s.  Digital workstations replaced them all.

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KCOW 70 Stories: Hot Mic!

January 11, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

Earlier this week we welcomed Tim Garwood and Gretchen Garwood to our Alliance studios for a conversation about former KCOW General Manager Mike Garwood.  That conversation will air in its entirety on KCOW later this year as part of our monthly series of 70th anniversary interviews.  But at the very end of the conversation, Gretchen shared a memory of KCOW’s earliest days.

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KCOW 70 From The Vault: Rediscover Alliance (1982)

January 9, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

This week’s clip from our 70th anniversary vault dates from 1982.  One of KCOW’s most important roles has been as cheerleader for the community; we enjoy sharing the good news of Alliance and Box Butte County, and encouraging support of local businesses.  This public service message was part of a larger campaign that aired throughout 1982 and popped up from time to time in the years since.

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Since 1982, Alliance has seen its share of change; the Slagle Public Library was succeeded by the Alliance Learning Center, which houses Alliance’s public library, WNCC classrooms, meeting space and more.  The Knight Museum received a major expansion, and the Sallows Conservatory is now home to the Sallows Military Museum.

A rebirth of Alliance’s sunken gardens and pillars is the goal of Pillars for the Park, a local fundraising effort.  City officials have taken the first steps in getting the project designed and budgeted.

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KCOW 70 Photo Of The Week: Remembering the 50th Celebration

January 7, 2019 by Jason Wentworth Leave a Comment

In preparing to celebrate KCOW’s 70th anniversary, we’ve done some looking back to previous milestones in the station’s history.  In 1999, the station marked 50 years on the air with a variety of events and activities.  The KCOW staff served as Grand Marshals of the 1999 Box Butte County Fair parade; commemorative 50th anniversary mugs bearing the “K-Cow” mascot were awarded to listeners; and the station held a big party for listeners with the Dean Bushnell big band at Heartland Aviation.

Our KCOW 70th photo of the week features an article about the station’s 50th from the Hemingford Ledger, including a photo of the staff taken by Hemingford’s own Lyle Fodnes.

In the years since this photo was taken, the KCOW family has said goodbye to Doug Abbott (died 2004), Mike Garwood (2007), John Jones (2016) and Dennis Klinker (2018).  Of the group in the photo, Mike Glesinger, Jason Wentworth and Helen Iossi remain on staff.  The 20 years since KCOW’s 50th anniversary have brought technological advancements, new studios, an FM translator at 92.5 FM and streaming audio.  But the goal is as it was in 1999 when Mike Garwood told the Ledger, “The salvation of the small market is going to be community service.”

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KCOW celebrates 70 years as “Voice of Box Butte County”

January 7, 2019 by Kalin Krohe Leave a Comment

AM 1400 / FM 92.5 KCOW is celebrating 70 years of broadcast service to Box Butte County throughout 2019, and we’ll be sharing 70th anniversary content weekly here on Panhandle Post.

Photo by Great Plains James

KCOW, which signed on February 15, 1949, was created by the Sandhills Broadcasting Corporation, a small group of panhandle businessmen.  In 1966 the station was sold to KLOE, Inc. which later became Eagle Communications.

In the weeks to come we’ll be sharing historical photos, the complete story of KCOW’s birth, rare audio and more.  KCOW, like all of our Eagle radio stations in Alliance and Chadron, owes its success to the support of our loyal listeners and advertisers.

Everyone is invited to join the online and on-air celebration of KCOW’s 70th anniversary!

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