Broadcast icon and former KGW radio afternoon DJ Red Robinson (far right) is shown
with unidentified record promoters in the KGW studio. Red was with KGW from 1959   
to about 1961. He helped with the birth of Rock and Roll in Canada before coming
to Portland. Red Robinson is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 
Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. He retired from full-time radio in 2001, but still
does a Sunday rock show on Vancouver, Canada’s radio 1049funfm called Red
Rock Diner from 8am to 2pm (Pacific time).  

Lars Larson began his career in broadcasting at the age of 16 at, what is now,
KMBD radio in his hometown of Tillamook, Oregon. He currently hosts a national syndicated conservative talk show along with a local show week days on his flagship station, Portland’s radio 750 – KXL. Lars has hosted the local show since 1997. 

Lars Larson behind the KXL microphone

Calvin Coolidge (right), the 30th President taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft ( in robe standing left). The presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the first time.

Calvin Coolidge delivering his inauguration speech  

 
Howard Hesseman is best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever
on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978 – 1982) and schoolteacher
Charlie Moore on Head of the Class (ABC 1986 – 1991). Hesseman was
born in Lebanon, Oregon and attended the university of Oregon.

Howard as Johnny Fever