… This is a Runyon named Jim …
When ex-marine Jim Runyon left his midday gig at KYW in Cleveland, he joined programmer Ken Draper at WCFL in Chicago. Cleveland is where he met Dick Orkin, and you will recognize Runyon as the announcer for the classic Chickenman comedy series created by Orkin. Jim Runyon died at the age of 42 in 1973.
This aircheck demonstrates the somewhat schizophrenic evolution of this station to what eventually became WKYC. KYW was emphasizing personality and “selected” Top 40 hits (and at least one “easy listening” stiff, represented here by Vic Damone.)
Dave Hull, at that time at KRLA in Los Angeles, appears in a PSA as Chairman of the National Disc Jockey Committee supporting The Breath of Life month; and we are reminded that in 1965, it was still OK to buy your beverages in TIN cans: “stackable, packable and never-go-backable!”