Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)

Comedian Red Skelton is best remembered for his national radio and TV
performances between 1937 and 1971 and as host of the NBC/CBS
television program The Red Skelton Show (1951-1971). Red Skelton 
also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos. He also
pursued a career as an artist. After the death of his father, Skelton
started work at the age of seven as a newspaper salesman. His first
audition was at age 10 for a role in a medicine show.

Ross Simpson

Ricky Lee Skaggs is 60 today

Norman Corwin Directing Columbia Workshop from the control booth

Columbia Workshop was an educational radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946-47. It was a
sustaining program that served as a symbol to prove to the public, as well as the
Federal Communications Commission, that CBS was concerned with educating
and serving the public.

Orson Welles

KOIN, originally aired as KQP on November 9, 1925. The call letters were 
later changed to KOIN on April 12, 1926. It became an affiliate of CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System, on September 1, 1929. During the golden 
years of radio, KOIN was one of Portland’s major stations, with many local 
programs and its own studio orchestra.

  

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Pictured is DJ Mike Korgan (aka Ken Chase) during the pre-KISN days in
the late 1950s.