Happy 60th, KANU! Part One - Encore

this is day i knew him aren't guns for you hear the best in music and music out of that on september fifteen nineteen fifty two k and you flip the sweats and went on the air for the very first time i'm kate mcintyre and today on tv are presenting we celebrate sixty years of broadcasting at the university of kansas this week and next we'll trace the history of taking out new and kansas public radio revisit many of our programs past and present and hear from some of the people who have helped bring pay and utilize over the years today the early years of k a n u fm radio was invented in the early nineteen thirties but for a variety of reasons it didn't really become popular until the nineteen sixties in fact it with fm radios lack of success that helped get a new off the ground in a nineteen forties john in sydney harrison of the harris newspaper chain started a commercial fm radio station in hutchinson kansas but it was ahead of its time in the nineteen forties most people listened to am

radio relatively few people even owned an fm radio receiver and their station could attract enough advertisers to keep in business they harris family shut down k i empty and in nineteen forty nine they donated all their fm radio equipment to the william allen white school of journalism at the university of kansas that same year you applied for an afghan construction permit the federal communications commission approved the call letters k n u for kansas university and granted k n u the frequency of ninety one point five the first order of business was directing a tower that task fell to fred montgomery the university's acting director of radio and television in this nineteen fifty nine interview montgomery recalled just how difficult it was trying to get the tower belts million on no master the mike but he called me in is an emergency version now do bill the tower over on the west and had an of

course it involves a lot of engineering research and i never did workers aren't mile island was the read six thousand pages technical stuff about how my houses can be so close to a car and then of course we are and they had a an aerial photograph and we found that that place for ways to iraq or niqab as jordan right place to build the tower and so we move the virus six hundred feet in the air on the fcc year one know when you are station laws because it seems it that makes one second degree of difference that the tower was nearly up tom yellin served as director of the units bureau course a while are putting it up it was the guy wires on all four sides in various ways and lo and behold some money and

pitched the guy wires the one side the guy wires through the tower which was nearly all way up and then it just keel over towards the south it would be the first of many calamities and technical problems to plague cayenne you over the years the tower would go back up of course but it delayed cayenne use debut until nineteen fifty two meanwhile the university of kansas needed to find someone to actually run the station in june nineteen fifty one jam for diem lott offered the job to our edwin brown brown was already an experienced broadcaster who had previously worked at the university of kansas asked hey is director of public relations gestures among law was a person that i had gone into see every day when i was director public relations so i knew him quite well and i think he trusted me and i certainly was very fond of him

and sell almost everything that i asked for in order to make the station succeed i was able to get through his generosity i'm an intelligence and he realized that the station would be a good public relations tool for the university as well as being an educational tool with the station's first director hired and the tower and transmitter in place the next order of business was finding a home for k a n e il the university of kansas decided to has its new fm station inside an existing building on campus a small one story structure located next to hulk auditorium unlike other campus buildings which were mostly made out of native stone this one was made out of mud or more precisely mud bricks to use civil engineering professor rc make noun had developed the unusual rammed earth building concept during world war two

when raw materials were in short supply around campus the building came to be known simply as the mud hut at brown said about turning them out had into broadcasting studios and several years after doing so at brown interview john the noun the son of our scenic noun who had built the structure in nineteen forty two i wonder if you would tell us now about pays special function of your father with relation to invade facilities which we now enjoy we were poor very inexpensive construction material by combining sort of the just the dirt that won't find anywhere with the proper amount of cement and it ended experiment you found a good way of doing this good enough in fact that they build a building in which you are now housed out of those blocs is only regret was that they were rather difficult to prepare sufficiently well to be dependable so that

it was meant he could make it but it took longer to make it one of the good job i hope that there will continue to enjoy the building which incidentally can vouch for weekly with the round earth plot understand they were made of mud from the locker rooms about why we can vouch for the fact that they're willing to stand up very well in fact it you know it had the power to lower gear and then the building skills that really the mud hurt still stands today it continued to how scary and you enter we moved to our present location on the north end of campus in two thousand three but it was from the mud hut that cayenne you first went on the air at one forty five monday afternoon september fifteen nineteen fifty two bill ballou with katie any use first control room supervisor the first day of broadcasting on the station k and you'll always been my memory a hectic but pleasant day for all

everything knew especially to me so many switches to be in the right position recordings over the place and the time so short between records and programs and to me the first day the control room seem like grand central station everyone wanted to help an old and they didn't come to know as much as they wanted to at first katie and you was only on the air for a few hours each day about eighty percent of the programming was devoted to music mostly classical music and jazz again our edwin brown can use first director we were out essentially a classical music station and there we also had news iowa i said i think an educational station ought to be not only a classical music station but it ought to have other kinds of music and soul when we had our dinner music program it was popular and classical and then we had an actual jazz programming

program specifically for only for jazz and we had students who understood jazz who came in and became the ones that put that all members of the elite series i forgot it was in the late afternoon i just felt that if you're running a station for university you ought to have programming that represents a taste of the students as well as the classical music which is not necessarily the first choice of most students one person who understood jazz was the right music librarian maine because i like wasn't very much and to some people as they may recognize me is of course the rider jazz cocktail and sometimes voiceover know my love jazz favorite hey it's really because he knew so much about music especially jazz and afro hike in

fact he was an operatic tenor who had studied music at the university of kansas wright served as the stations music director posted its own programs like jack cocktail and later the jazz scene during a broadcast in nineteen fifty nine when the station wasn't always seven years old and writes made a rather prophetic statement law think i can be sure the list will be adding jazz and caitlin you for many years to come right prediction would hold true jazz continues to be a staple of heyday of news music programming today as music librarian and dance music house did write were both behind the scenes and on the air eventually he even became the station director thanks to peace or lesser so he always goes soft barnard for me mom and she is the one that i finally understood everything back at western university i should be back there so they asked me to come back i came back to direct the

station's this as nineteen nineteen seventy for the grand sum total of eleven thousand five hundred dollars and it's up and so i like i had a little graves of the six thousand and sixty eight so that's when i took over the director of gm was in nineteen seventy we're already for you would go to the store to borrow more cleaned up or vertigo a lot of leverage for the vital for my own enjoyment for the next two hours here and hopefully within the next two hours as we bring you the first part of our program today britain's medal maybe about fifty minutes on the occasion of the show the theme and i'm ready to roam jazz cocktail one of the defining characteristics of katie a new in its early years was that

most music shows whether they were jazz or classical had specific program titles again play and use fur station director and browne i never was called mostly mozart and so nineteen so the program was mozart that is satellite mozart it was a motor on that program go for baroque every program on the air as the main voice behind many of cayenne use early programs with glenn price originally hired by ed brown to write the scripts used on the air pricey became take and use chief announcer we did love our musical just live as i said but we also take them and we later worked them into half hour programs called music from our history now more than the music being created here and performed your other poems draw some like to build things that probably something that by a claim session musician when something music from our goal is to my mind forever music

from mount laurel a k u alma mater song as clayton university memorial <unk> invite you to a program of tape recorded music from now we're far above the golden valley on the mount olive campus at the university of kansas hundreds of musical events are happening throughout the year concert recital by visiting artist and performances like a huge dunes and faculty members this program during some of the highlights of the musical calendar to music another of cayenne use early especially programs was a series called folk songs with charles old father a professor of law at the university of kansas who was also an amateur musician they're part of a mess around these folk songs for your station in common enemy or intellectual about the most they can do it so

those low movie folk songs with charles old father was a series of half hour programs on payday and you get featured folk music and the folk lore behind it this particular program was so popular with listeners that the entire series was repeated on k n u at least three times during the nineteen fifties roy lowes it is the person behind much of cape news early programming was mildred scene and the station's first program director in nineteen fifty nine quai and hugh honored semen for twenty five years of broadcasting at the university of kansas

seven years aka and yale and the previous eighteen years at k f k u the university's am station at that time kate and you contacted bill ballou one of the first actors on board who sent this recorded message summarizing mildred siemens philosophy of radio and recalling his own specially program and cayenne you the same and i congratulate you on twenty five years of excellent taste in programming planning and direction i will never forget your shame music played well and with proper taste is worth listening to be a classical popular jazz or country music and then to prove that you met what you said my half hour program of country music ramos call it i find it really i don't think you had any country music funk in your sense are left so just for old time's sake lesson

many actually in use specially programs for those early years when i mean you know one that remained operate as my hobby dr timothy k n u was only on the air for days when doctors leave her house in his first program on september nineteenth nineteen fifty two k a n you would continue to broadcast countless my hobby for the next fifty nine years continuing the program even after dr sievers death in march two thousand eleven making it not only the longest running program in haiti a new history of one of the longest continuously running programs in the history of radio period in this rare recording from the k n u r ties dr seaver recreated his original program ad that aired for the first time in nineteen fifty two that any opera lovers this is

the first in a series of programs featuring the greatest singers have recorded for the phonograph records you're going to hear are selected for my personal collection of nine thousand this summer crime and only yesterday and others watched and intensive that this phonograph turn of the century our program's show remorse very nature including director sievers love of opera and dated back to when he was just thirteen years old growing up in los angeles mr wallace are going occasionally with the above a opera star but sister didn't really liked it very much and so one as scotty came and asked her to go to a mark drove why she said she had another engagement but to watch it it will jump so he took me to a performance of common and so scott he sat next to me and explained everything that was going on as it was going on and on i enjoyed the performance very much

i was overwhelmed i think i think i got an idea that that bing crosby was the greatest singer in the world by the length so the next week at the shrine auditorium that it il trovatore and does so we went through the same procedure for instance katie couldn't go why you know why should i told him again so that's what happened and he told me i was as it were for catastrophic were converted overnight next day i went down to richardson's busy shopping mall santas and bought my first recording and environmental assessments in the early years of cayenne you most shows including upper it's my hobby were done live so friday evenings from nineteen fifty two until about nineteen sixty you could find actors seaver at the microphone at the k n u studios was annoyed when one of my sons and i was on the air one of our dear friends vessels it is that

my wife will and took her to the hospital she arrived in the avengers as <unk> mr black <unk> saver on the audience at the radio station afraid of us thought that was a thousand or two inappropriate will and i was right in the middle of all kinds of crisis and you have to do it this way because it's almost all seventy eight records for a while then he'd have to have to start somewhere else in the record and the flipside well sort of all over another time i was on the air actually a and a side arm and then the program might've cost music i can see finance or lend prize and a fire broke out next order that happened more than once to the side of a building whether some chemical stuff going on and when there's a

fire over there so there is some danger that we might have a problem moving into our part of the building we were beginning to smell smoke so the fire marshal are submitting answers you've got to you've got to get out of the building well were on the air so it or put on our head on paolo symphony and so i didn't say a word to the audience i just a lead around and we abandon the building when out in the parking lot hoping you know that they get back before the record out and i did when price was on hand for another tense broadcast aka i knew this one involving a nineteen fifty nine organ recital by retired university of kansas professor guy christensen at that concert when price was supervising a young student announcer by the name of horton curtis you might know him better as newsman bill curtis if i was doing a remote broadcast he was my first and going price was with lee we were local authorities in a marvelous little room off to the side that had been specially built where we were at the pier down through an opening

to the stage and on this particular says and then there were there was an orchid recital and so there was a nice audience and because he was quite well known and we have those big impact of microphone i'm preparing my them several months with the orchestra recital a variety of broadcasts around the campus and when kagan you didn't they were or a wonderful experience for broadcast because again you have to watch the event that line and they get there on time an awful long time so anyway i introduce the professor at mcgill his performance known mortgage giants

off the wall i can remember exactly how long we were in the piece wasn't that long maybe five minutes we hear i wrote rather discordant note an accommodation and the glam i was right over my shoulder we both looked down at the stage and the professor had fallen into the keys and bill and i looked at each other and the engineer looked up i was standing behind their bills seated at the microphone in and we thought what's what's happening you know what mike was also just talked about and very shortly on almost momentarily so young man who understood later were students of his best up there till the organ bench and they lifted and carried him behind stayed behind a curtain and what can we do so while it's a bill he looked me and then i said you want to get the region won't happen and he says something like why don't you well i was supposed to one more experience you know it was

my ultimate responsibility so i sat down on public quickly arrested something like professor of simpson has collapse of the organ we're not sure how serious it is it's possible cause you will be continuing so be sure we will probably serve about the studio for an interview recorded music lesson there for people like there in order to somebody or when they would put on the optimal tone of either something so there are some objects to most of the on air problems that can you were other more technical nature the second hint transmitter was unreliable and temperamental it was very much sort of say you would buy a transmitter like a rod davis with katie and use first transmitter engineer ali was the finest thing you to evade taxes you address that was very stable huge especially going into jazz when it starting up and code why you have to keep working at it in tune in putting up properly and

build the real bee's so it was like it didn't take care of itself but now the translators are just absolutely stable analysts say where you going and nobody worries about anything several years ago dr davis revisited the k n u transmitter with kansas public radio news director did we go up ear quite a bit closer to the us market so we can walk to our transmitter that there were very stable now for those people who don't know what a transmitter engineer does or at least did back in the early fifties describe your typical day out here in this noisy like what'd you do all day tending the transmitter and our at our view it right they the meter reading down that tactic has a lot to get involved with the love of poetry or possibly deal with that whether you're basically out here all alone for i guess what eight hours of the audience yes at least at our about that somebody must understand after

we get our collective we came on it too and wealth the world now and you're taking readings every half hour i guess sometimes things got out a why you knew you had to go into action and dr hetz oh yes yes we're off the air you're really in trouble the studio on a one lawyer what's going on out there in the nineteen fifties were pioneering days and fm radio especially for radio engineers at one point haiti and you signal apparently was bleeding onto a kansas city television stations think now and it was raw davis' job to fix it again here he speaks with chase safer in a nutshell you had to i guess jerry rig or create basically a filter to filter out some of what kay and he was pulling out because of you didn't and interfered with jalapeno that below around jump up and fall down graded news i'm reflecting and the ability and

we followed a trap that i put in the transmission line it sucked up bali second harmonica and i will follow through and have any test equipment do they know what we were doing and you know before all i could look as a television set when your well it's better and i literally cut all in the transmission line and put the strap into like to say we were pioneering pre her away it goes pretty much a little bit if it was a mission to kansas city newsman wendell and shoots worked aka a new twice first as a stain announcer and later and the nays around the press player broke down i would say an average of once a month limit the offer our might be offered a worthy off or two or three days of just keeping that thing going was a real challenge tom doyle came to work aka and you as a student production assistant and worked its way up to director of engineering

parts were not available for it the tubes were very very expensive and getting more expensive because there weren't enough transmitters to support the manufacturing of those tubes the transmitter had been manned whenever we were on the air was not able to be remote controlled bomb the studio was just falling apart i mean we had ancient equipment well transmitters of neon the olden days or solid state and kansas public radio's current director of engineering is steve kincaid we still have tubes and transmitters dame but only other circuits are all solid state senators more reliable the final section of the of the transmitter today might be a tuber and people may not even know it was a tooth may not even know him talk about but they're those little radio to that you still have in tvs and radios it's the same kind of thing but it's much bigger doesn't look like them and that's the final power amplifier and some of our transmitters but the rest of the

transmitters of all isn't all solid state units that makes it much more reliable because those parts don't wear out generally speaking i mean they do wear out that takes longer and i remember one time this movie a funny thing again one of kamen use first chief announcers glenn price wars tune announces on this chemical and dan joye embarrassment at maybe listing done if you're out there somewhere love you love you i was back in my ear and my desk working on the engine so that he came dashing back again he says the jesters call were off their house is okay and i'll be right up so he went back to studio and i went in open the door and he was sitting at the desk you just open them it was saying we regret to announce that our transmitters off the air and i know he was so embarrassed that is i would be of interest to the beginning of last may but that was one thing we were off the year those early years aka and you were full of memorable moments both on the air and behind the same for glenn prize this was especially the

case once director and brown hired the station's first secretary an office manager esther salon mr i have a copy of this was back in the hallway and whittling down the hallway was a us from layoffs measure of security and water inundated with violent and glen larson we've way or his office and i'd watch him but as kate and you celebrate our sixtieth anniversary glenn price and asked her salon mr pryce are not far behind they'll celebrate their sixtieth anniversary in january two thousand and thirteen each weekday at this time thousands of boys and girls throughout campus listen to their classroom radios to their programs about art music rhythms and games fly an important part of play a news broadcast day in the

nineteen fifties was that jay hauck school of the air it was a revolutionary idea in educational programming to provide certain types of specialized classroom instruction to schools that may not have the resources for a music art or physical education teacher it was the brainchild of tay ai news first program director mildred scene and she had started the jack school of the air on the university of kansas am station jfk you know all the idea was to try to provide helps to the teachers in the classrooms or perhaps least in some smaller schools because of limited budget teacher would not so readily have available to her art by radio for example and not just budget to buy by lack of training or experience on the individual teachers a lot of teachers feel limited in their ability to teach students art they say this is a specialized area and what about the non artist i can do it very well and so

here comes person like models worked with a whole practically a lifetime of experience in art and in teaching art and so this comes into the classroom and expert instruction the teachers happy to turn the radio on for half hour each each week and diverse din some professional instruction same thing in somewhat different ways perhaps with the other scooter programs and specialized instruction that many teachers felt they could not themselves provided the school may not have the budget to provide that was a help art by radio was one of the most popular programs on the j hawk school of the year it was started by maud ellsworth in nineteen forty one on k f k u as one of the first jane hart jr classrooms the original title of the j hawk school of the year art by radiohead an eighteen year run teaching tens of thousands of students on the radio this recording of art by radio is from about nineteen fifty three oregon you make today tried but the feeling in fact that if i were going to marry goes

down i might go up a top candidate right even if when i thought american counterpart canopy with brown why would i do that because that is the key color and people may have that fight that happy feeling that you get on the family you could make a feel about the word by using the great colors how could have not the only way of making people understand your picture either you did many good things last year that meant that the touch you wanted to understand so we're going to be late again and after the very first podcast today i'm going to go out of their consent and you get our saw during the famine your article arguing the naked eye and the way you want it again we're going to play for you a chopin waltz students were invited to send in their are were created while listening to our by

radio lot ellsworth created a traveling exhibit of some other pieces and senate to various schools across the state samples were also printed in the j hawk school of the air emanuel a handbook sent to hundreds of teachers in this archived recording from nineteen seventy two k and use geary shivers reads a letter from odd ellsworth that was printed in the handbook for the nineteen fifty four fifty five school year they're friends many personal life to draw and paint because they never do because they've never been shown how to draw and to paint in art by radio we learn something more every year about these delightful an exciting occupations each autumn we may begin right where we left off last may to mix newcomers learn how to handle the brush with greater ease and to find out better ways of arranging what we want to say paige painting and drawing our ways of ways of speaking without words are happy we are and we have the opportunity of learning to talk through pictures know that we're ready for another years work another years good time since early

models for another popular j max cola the air program was playtime hosted by university of kansas women's physical education teacher dan i'm renee montagne no problem well again that was joy stapleton professor of women's physical education at the university of kansas from about nineteen fifty three another k u professor tapped for the j howard school of the year was

dr edward taylor snakes taylor was a noted her patella just whose program adventures and strange slams was a thrilling series on natural history and geography much of it based on his own research done in the philippines in the first half of the nineteen hundreds you'd probably islands of the philippines at the time when they were beginning to feel the impact of american government and american folk and in fact that with pride puerto rico after nearly three hundred new that we've managed to bring with them they had killed a certain proof that among them and they were killed with the name they had been given the electorate that quote got mandolin you look even leaving their how the juvenile record or how long the mall really only have three again a month to what happened on the back of small

them away you will be vindicated and the usual small going to me and they watch the young american who had come on what part of an individual if it is not afraid of a point that night when the evil spirits of the poorest in the gutted felt good about unions an upgraded the circuit that abound in the fall the bottom of the naked quite unlike go take the brunt of any entity and make them live together and play the phillies game of baseball they looked when you deprive the great god meant nothing in health and that is the great man with small lead the way the elderly and effective and on the moment in the mall

meeting the people are covered because among other common folk have the privileges and the people and animals of the country and the economy moving north l e and wept thinking out the people that civilization as we know it and at last with episode titles like at night with an army of leeches and lost in the forest of the flying fox's professor taylor's program was full of stories of headhunters poisonous reptiles and spiders exposing camp schoolchildren to world's far and wide was one of the ideas behind the jihad school of the air which would expand to include foreign languages again in this archived audio gary shivers reads from a nineteen fifty four letter printed in and jay hauck school of the air teachers guide as we begin the thirteenth year of broadcasting jay hauck school of the year we welcome any new classroom listeners from the middle and western part of the state has been made possible through the cooperation of several arkansans commercial radio stations began programming five of

the gentile school of the year series nineteen fifty three and are continuing this public service for the benefit of you and your students during the current school year for some time has been a growing movement in the united states to begin the teaching of foreign languages in the elementary grades this movement is based on the theory that language is open challenging new horizons to children in this global world and earned much better before the period of puberty even afterwards thus the giant school of the era's pleased to offer two new series of programs come sing with me which was in german and for the upper elementary grades and let's visit me me which was in french in which i cannot pronounce in french for the war elementary grades were the best wishes for happy classroom listening since early mildred semen another program on the j hawk school of the air in the early days of k a n u was time for a story in this archived audition recording announcer glenn price explains the idea behind a program and gives a brief sample in hopes the teachers would choose to use time for a story in their own classroom is a lot less

money in the lamplight i ended up in the human body up in the nativity one of the time portal a few moments of your time but not that one will be trying to do on the program each friday to office who will get our youth a teacher in front of it a little bit delayed with the political available for young people a court that leapt on the vaudeville and live and work with them and that they can help you in whatever way we can the political leadership on to appoint a cooler than going through with their collective voice another look like the winner of the night like we woke up

the division fourteen about books that year that recommended by defendant now but that and were willing to let them wouldn't know at that point i thought i thought of all the work i thought apple in the fall molly comfortable thing for a very quiet except that you will not believe that there would be a month a little poem lovely what they can do to help the equivalent of one of the most intimate and with another couple in an apple only you know and they would have felt the ground

the little boy wearing it with pride of the light that the people of the apple and rather than political conflict and auckland with that you know now that i think about it they think you thirteen the founder with the whip cried out and while the author of the mall about the quarter that wouldn't go through legitimate but it only five point both far less sample from the jay hauck school of the air comes from bill hughes play and use very first chief announcer in the side dish and recording from about nineteen fifty two hughes tells teachers about a new educational program on k n u that children's news reporter don't you think you may or may not know all the children you reported one of the pioneering children's programs in a new field and this year we hope to begin working

towards showing the children in the upper elementary grades how to decide for themselves what it back and what his opinion what is true and what a fall for a number of children and grownups that matter i'm led to believe that anything made the imprint for here on the radio is true about that theory that dealt with private health story of an ever changing world in words with the field in the upper elementary grades than fully understand and the children's news reporter will attempt to relate the world of news of the world of the students in your classroom each program will be a review of the news of the preceding week we have a number of plans for the family to pay him john let me add this one innovation all this jacqueline jones a bar that without a great deal of actual newspaper experience will work with me on this added feature putting in october we hope to develop the final five minutes the children news reporter

program renewed which affects alot by the students and very difficult which uses very it'll be muted about your school and you avoid him go would likely to begin thinking about a student would make a good reporter for your school news and in the first week in october of like him or her to the job in the teacher's manuals let me play that we'd like to hear from your flight of know what you think of the program helped lower and making this little portion of the program an activity which are a part and bank and that by some estimations between twenty five and thirty six thousand cans a school children participated in the j hawk school of the air still by the early nineteen sixties the university of kansas decided to phase out the popular series but that's not to say the educational programming was eleven at it on k a n u the university of the air tickets place offering lectures and

symposiums here the familiar sound of the university of kansas whistle which has summoned generations of students to their classes on mount korean is calling you to the university of the air this evening we present the first programme in a new series entitled symposium on evolution that was the one hundred anniversary of the publication of the origin of species duquesne university presents an international simple air mass listen again next thursday evening at eight o'clock when a familiar sound on the university of kansas was so we'll call you to hear another symposium on evolution on the university of the air you can eat ok and you might

not be the first place in tune to when you want to hear sports radio today but that wasn't always the case in fact from nineteen fifty two until nineteen eighty four k n u was the flagship station i think a huge sports network for thirty two years sports fans to tune into k a n u and its affiliate stations to hear live play by play action a basketball football baseball games like katie relays and other sporting events the station's first sport's director and the first voice of the team sports network with merle harman do the work in new york no

quarter to the uk a new nineteen fifty two was the first year that drew kansas a day for its own farming of fuel suspicion simply can't merle harman had been broadcasting minor league baseball games for the topeka owls when he was hired to be k good news first sports director part of that job was building the sports not work that meant hitting the road traveling to radio stations across the state and convincing them to carry k u ballgames and these were the nineteen fifty three whole the entire city kansas call every radio station and i think we came back earlier point six patients are not work and i remember just ninety five degrees or even though we're conditioned car and one other thing i mean that the ritual of those days as i recall or three dollars a day for a hotel room so i think certainly for food of the truth that i normally don't i can hear her

condition at all in your vote rowe harmon spend about two years says sports director at hay and you before moving on to kansas city where he called baseball games for the kansas city athletics from their apartments career continue to skyrocket he spent the next thirty five years broadcasting major league baseball games and working for nbc and abc tv sports networks i mean credit kate and you for launching his career as a network sportscaster your work raw harman was the first k n u sportscaster to move on to the national networks but he wouldn't be the last in fact the next four men to head the case sports network would all end up spending time in the national spotlight after laura harman came bill grigsby monte more time had drake and gary bender

oh well you know we talk about syracuse bing at a factory for sports announcers churches university layoffs faculty of like ok that worked money are many other university or issues and said five guys to regulate and the nfl or wolves bill graves be a native of wells north kansas was the second sportscaster to lead the q sports network before taking over from her arm and crispy had called minor league baseball games in joplin missouri and even worked as a ringside announcer for professional wrestling matches in kansas city he became the voice of a q sports network in nineteen fifty five about yeah the first game ever played and elena feel after nineteen fifty fives like a theoretical example the only other day that game i gave every dog on the air and also video at really it provided

me with an egg roll on those days i got thirty five hours again where were the larger shanghai they're evaluating where to go to fill water i became on their mileage and hotel and levee that an amount of money they do about it grigsby put in four years that the key use sports network and called one of the most memorable games in the history of college basketball i was fortunate in doing the final four nineteen fifty seven and nationally added a heat for the cold and i think rowan have gone nowhere near that might really account of their game the remains of the final four into a nationally recognized event our guide a big charge of roy saying that but it was a you know the three overtime game and i'm hoping that out it's

been abused favorite memories happen on the court while working for the sports network he developed a friendship with k u legendary basketball coach paleo diet my own dr allen i thought the world i'm irish bank in great basketball coach and that i was smoking of epidemiology like you'd against might balk at the dock period on the arab revolution to a good deal of attention but i did listen to him and foley opened allenby allowed her doctor was riding in the back of alan be allowed in the cadillac and unravel a squeaker because of the daily volume again dr inouye i'm really into right next to him and i went on it he knew what a calamity that would be a pipeline people he appointed only really thought in that the baggy because have done enough about the cardboard box bill grigsby left the queue sports network in nineteen fifty nine to call games for the kansas city athletics and

eventually worked as a broadcaster for the kansas city chiefs monte more was the next person to call games on k n u m serve as the voice of the cave sports network he also left cayenne you to call games for the kansas city athletics and when the athletics moved west to oakland in nineteen sixty eight he moved with them remaining the oakland a's radio voice in the nineteen seventies and then becoming their voice on television the fourth man to take over the reins of the case sports network was legendary broadcaster and baldwin native headrick likes to write a lot of wide open and probably down bad day you might have a southern california ten years before him use force director our ad when brown well in nineteen fifty seven i was a graduate student up here and i want to get allocated network there was my ultimate dream so

what i did was i auditioned on a thing called the jr cooperate it was a fifteen minute program so they asked me get an interview the interview i got was with forest forget paolo i took the tape machine or they're asking two questions a half an hour later i was done i gave a dead brown he left dc you got a nice voice but i can't deal with a cuban interview not because dr alan did all the talking as if that's right so i began here nineteen fifty seven came back in nineteen sixty as the what they call them directly to your network for a time hedrick also served as k in use news director and surprisingly enough he even worked an airshaft as a classical announcer well i needed the money and i had to work i think it was from about seven to midnight every saturday night i was trying to save for coffee offered some of those guys i got like ok beethoven's as i played piano years and so i did that shape than it paid a dollar and i would just tell you

i hated that you i was not worth the darn but i needed that money like the sportscasters that came before him aka knew it wasn't long before time hedrick was off to bigger things over his career he's called games for professional football and baseball three super bowls and nine cotton balls he also taught a k u m baker university and wrote a book on how to break into the world of sports casting one young man who time hedrick would help break into the business with kevin harlan harlem and headrick when he was just a high school senior hedrick convinced him to come to the university of kansas where he promised harlan a chance to work for the quays sports network although harlem now does most of his work in tv sports calling nfl games on cbs he credits his radio dave aka and you lending his career my first lovers are your truest form of broadcasting all voice gets all inflection

it's all you know using your emotions in your words in the way you process at that tempo and the speed with which you call a game that really enhances it for the lesser you can shape the way the game was being processed listener television you're really awkward but clement televisions from belmore new test you've got the analyst and commenting and what you can see the graphics that they put up on the screen and to max out what you are watching them in the play by play guy really kind of hard to tie it all together it's a lonely without a law that works in and perhaps got a great deal of creativity but in radio you know the failure of imagination is such a powerful tool where you always every in and draw these incredible images in a listener's mind symbolically monday night football that the turnover seventy stations worldwide

and we got a super bowl we have over seven other stations might think about those early days it you were working at and you and how all that experience shaped your character i am right now at a taught me so much and i i think now broadcasters are frustrated the television these young gives them a chance to develop their voices blend back then it wasn't as much stevie it was far more radio the size and so you know i think thats what was a huge advantage for me to develop my voice and in the skills required to do affect the radio play by play tv is great and that they're there something that can be said about their craft but to me the purest form of broadcasting is radio broadcasting because if they called upon everything that work for commuters like there's a before words pacing inflection pauses silence it doesn't all america great challenge it's a wonderful

challenge sportscaster passed doors of chadian you with gary bender who went on the podiums for cbs abc turner for thirty two years k n u with the flagship station of the q sports network that relationship ended in nineteen eighty four when the rights to broadcast team games were sold to another network of caves for its network a j hawk school of the air k and you had seen many changes over our sixty years of broadcasting i'm kate mcintyre join me next week as we continue our still abrasion of our sixtieth anniversary at our present is a production of kansas public radio at the university of kansas