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

Jim Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most
remembered roles… the voice of Mr. Magoo,  Joan Davis’s husband on  
TV’s I married Joan, and Thurston Howell, lll on the CBS-TV hit sitcom 
Gilligan’s Island (1964 – 1967). Jim died on July 3, 1989. He was 76. 

Jim Backus with Joan Davis

Jim Backus as Thurston Howell, lll in Gilligan’s Island

   
                          Don McNeill

The Breakfast Club was a long-run morning variety show on NBC Blue Network/ABC radio originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill (shown above).The radio program ran from June 23, 1933 through December 27, 1968. McNeill’s 35½-year run
as host remains the longest tenure for an emcee of a network entertainment program, surpassing Johnny Carson (29½ years) on The Tonight Show and Bob Barker (34⅔ years) on The Price is Right. For one year, beginning on February 22, 1954, the show
was simulcast on ABC radio and television, ending on February 25, 1955. 

Picture of Don McNeill (right) taken during a simulcast of The Breakfast Club