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PDX Media Good Old Days
by Carl Click
Portland TV news veteran Carl Click interviews colleagues and friends from radio, TV, and print, reliving the stories, struggles and issues of Portland media over the last four decades.
Episodes
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Rick Emerson
It started when a co-worker said some “radio guy” didn’t believe Carl Click was my real name— he believed it was made up for effect. That lead to a call-in from me, and a fun relationship with The Rick Emerson Show on the Portland airwaves. The guy’s mind went a mile-a-minute with knowledge of…
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Rhonda Shelby
Rhonda Shelby has been at KATU for more than 25 years. She started on the management track-- as community relations director, but her bosses quickly realized her natural ability as a communicator. They taught her weather. She studied. She learned. Jim Bosely took her under his wing, and one of…
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Mark Mason
Portland (and anywhere else) ARE YOU READY?!!!! ...for Mark Mason. He's been on the air at KEX and KPAM combined for more than 28 years. twelve of those with our dear friend, Dave Anderson. Mark has also been the voice of the Moda Center for Trailblazers fans for 25 season. Hear how he tried to…
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Tony Martinez & Dan Clark
Tony Martinez is never without his youthful enthusiasm. It’s hard to believe he’s been on the air in Portland radio—Z Morning Zoo, and TV—Good Day Oregon, for 35+ years. In this conversation with Morning Zoo producer Dan Clark we re-live the good old days of the crazy radio team of the mid 1980s...
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Jeff Gianola
Jeff has been a mainstay in Portland TV news for almost 40 years.. starting at KATU about the same time I started at KGW in 1983.. he's still a trusted news veteran at KOIN. He has ben at the forefront of some critical issues for the Rose City-- homelessness, government reform, and his…
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Brenda Braxton & Dave Salesky
Other than KGW sports director Scott Lynn, who mentored me, trained me and got me hired out of college-- Brenda Braxton and Dave Salesky are the most influential colleagues of my 31 years in TV news. After a series of anchor team combinations, we kind of fell together and became the top rated...
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Bruce Sussman
I could talk to Bruce Sussman forever. He’s full of positivity, energy and enthusiasm—all the time, and never in an annoying way. You just can’t have a bad day if part of it includes “The Sussdog.” For many years he was the weekend weather presence for KGW—filing in for Zaffino and Salesky on the...
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Pat Boyle
Talk about a Portland news icon-- Pat Boyle. 44 years as a radio news reporter at KEX, KPAM, and KXL. She thrived in the great days of Portland radio, where news was a mainstay on all the major stations. She worked with (and held her own with) legends-- Barney Keep, Jim Howe, Bob Miller. She...
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Joe Donlon
Joe Donlon is one of the eight, male main news anchors in the history of KGW-TV (Richard Ross, John North, Ralph Wenge, Bill Lagatutta, Pete Schulberg, Steve Abrams, Jim Benneman-- only one of them was jerk, and I never met Ross, or North. I have no idea who the current main, male anchor is at…
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Ken Boddie
Ken Boddie has ben a stellar journalist at KOIN-TV for 36 years. He’s the longest-running on-air, TV-news reporter in Portland. Before Ken, it was Tracy Barry (2018), then me (2014), and I took over from Mike Donahue (2012), just something I kept track of. Ken and I crossed paths many times in…
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Anna Canzano
Anna Canzano grew up in Portland, and we’re all lucky she had a two-decade career as an investigative journalist at KATU, because she could have started her reporting career in Midland Texas. Who knows where that would have lead. Advice for her first on-air assignment at KATU-- “Don’t embarrass...
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Tim Daly
Tim Daly was only with us at KGW for five years, but he had a huge impact. He was a terrific news reporter, and a creative feature reporter ( Leaf Blower, Karaoke, "How to Cook a Turkey"). We talk extensively about his series of stories from Viet Nam and how he covered the emerging gang influence...
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Bill Boaz
Bill Boaz was KATU’s number two sports guy in the late 70’s and early 80’s. If you saw him on the air, you’d never forget his big booming sports voice. Interesting Boaz notes: Talk about “good old days,” Bill went to the great Jimmy Jones for career advice; Ted Koppel told Bill “You’re an idiot;”...
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Brian Robertson
I worked with dozens of great news photographers over my 31 years. Brian Robertson is one of those for sure. He shot news at KGW for 30 years. He covered the San Francisco earthquake, the aftermath of 9-11 at the World Trade Center, the NBA Finals, the Rajneeshees, and he traveled to Kosovo…
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Mike Rich
Mike Rich was a great radio newsman in Portland, first at KGW-AM, and then at KINK-FM he and Les Sarnoff were the top-rated morning drive radio team. Little did we know, cause he kept it to himself, that Mike was cranking away at his keyboard crafting movie screenplays. In 1998 his script for...
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Stephanie Stricklen
Nobody I worked with in TV news had more energy than Stephanie Stricklen. She was a juggernaut of positivity. She was unstoppable, and was up for anything. How else did she get Kobe Bryant to a) race her, and b) give her dribbling lessons—AT THE OLYMPICS! Steph was a stellar reporter and fill-in...
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John Erickson
John Erickson is a radio news legend in Portland. He and his radio cohort were the voice of adult contemporary radio for a couple decades. He carried some guy named Craig Walker. Seriously, that duo made it sound easy on the airwaves of KGW-AM and K-103 FM. Learn how John started in radio. It...
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Natali Marmion
Natali Marmion was my fifth and final TV wife. That’s what co-anchors call each other, because that work relationship is much like a marriage. You work so closely all day long, five days a week. You pick each other up. You share so much about your personal and work lives. When it works, it makes...
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Carl Click
The nerve of this guy! A guest on his own podcast?! To that I say, “Get your own podcast.” Seriously, when I first started these wonderful conversations with great friends about their time in Portland media, Sharon Lacey commented-- I bet you have some good stories of your own, I’d like to hear...
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Milt Ritter
News and documentary photographer Milt Ritter is a legend in Portland. You may never have seen him, but you’ve seen his work. He crafted video stories for more than 40 years—at KATU, KGW and OPB. Many of the best reporters and photographers in Portland learned by watching him. I did. He’s also…
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KC Cowan
KC Cowan arrived at KGW a year or so before I did—early 80s. She has one of the stories that I love-- started as a news writer for the newscasts while reporting on the weekends, then worked hard and became so valuable she was a full-time on-air reporter in no time. She did it all—anchor, report,...
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Larry Shoop
Larry Shoop is a multi-talented journalist. In his news career he was a great news and feature field reporter. He anchored newscasts in all day parts, and he filled in for weather and sports. He and I jokingly referred to him as the utility infielder of KGW’s news department. He was a great…
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Jack McGowan
We have Paul Simon to thank for Jack McGowan’s great legacy in Portland. And we’re not talking about one of his lyrics, but a face-to-face, serendipitous conversation on the streets of Manhattan. The McGowan legacy includes Kink radio, Mt. Hood Jazz Festival, Zoo Concerts, Mayor Bud Clark’s...
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Cheryl Hansen
Cheryl Hansen traveled the world for PM Magazine at KGW, and shared it all with us. Oh, the places she’s been and the people she found. She knows a secret about Survivor host Jeff Propst. She interviewed Bruce Jenner and O.J. Simpson before things changed for them. Someone told her not to bother...
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Scott Lynn
This is a longer than normal podcast because Scott Lynn and I have so much history. I owe my career to him. He got me started KGW and taught me the business. As is usual, how Scott moved from job to job in the industry is fascinating- who he knew, and timing. Scott had incredible “job timing.”...
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Paul Linnman
He had a whale of a career, didn’t he. Like many of my guests, Paul Linnman got his foot in the door of Portland television with hard work on the ground floor. In Paul’s case, he was a student at PSU, sports editor at the campus newspaper, while editing film at KATU at night. It was there, in the...
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Julie Emry
I always thought Julie Emry was the better half of “Jeff & Julie.” (Apologies to Mr. Gianola). She’s a Hood River & Lake Oswego kid who became a major force in Portland TV news over the course of three decades. She’s rightfully proud of her stories covering adoptions from Romania, which she...
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Teresa Richardson
The “What ever happen to… ?” I’ve been asked the most over the years is about Teresa Richardson. The Oregon native got to KGW just a few months after me, starting as a weekend weather forecaster, we shared the “News8 at Sunrise” desk together with Nancy Francis, and TR went on to host KGW’s PM...
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Ray Summers
Ray Summers is a classic. He was our Charles Kuralt. He had such a distinctive writing style and voice-- Oh, that voice. There's a small enough difference in our age that I was able to admire his work when I was in high school. When I was in college and produced stories I tried to write and sound...
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Reagan Ramsey
“Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable.” That’s the mandate the legendary owner of King broadcasting, Mrs. Bullitt, gave Reagan Ramsey when he was news director at KGW in the 80s. He was my former boss, whom I did not understand as a 23 year old sports reporter. He just scared me back...
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Margie Boule
‘The best bitch is Margie Boule!” How’s that for a tease?! Now you must listen to the podcast to learn why Margie shared that announcement with me (wait for it). Margie and Jim Bosley were the ground-breaking hosts of KATU’s AM Northwest, starting in 1977. Here Margie recounts an awkward start…
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Steve Arena
Steve Arena and I had similar paths to Portland TV. We were both interns who, through hard work and good fortune, landed on-air jobs in a top 25 market right out of college. Steve was at KATU for 25+ years. most of them as sports director in the "Good Old Days" of local sports coverage.. He…
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Walden Kirsch
Walden Kirsch was a KGW news reporter for 17 years. We both started there in 1983, within 9 months of each other. He never fit the mold of your classic TV news reporter, but he was brilliant, principled, and brought the most interesting stories to our newscast. In this conversation we re-live…
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Bill Lagattuta
Bill was only in Portland, as a main anchor at KGW, for a few years, but he had a big impact. Stories of newsroom pranks are legendary, especially with his co-anchor, friend, and sometimes foil Kathy Smith. (Listen to Kathy's podcast to get her side of the story) Among the stories here, how Bill...
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Helen Raptis
Helen Raptis started like many of us. Got her foot in the door & said "I'll do anything." And she has-- receptionist, actress, artist, news, features, sports, & for the last two decades host of AM Northwest. I hosted with her for a couple years. What a blast. Re-live the Denis Leary/raspberry jam...
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Lew Frederick
Lew Frederick grew up in Atlanta in the 60's, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a part of his neighborhood, so he was part of the civil rights movement in our country from an early age. No surprise, then that issues of equality have been important to him through out his career as a radio and TV...
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Jim LIttle
Jim Little was the lead meteorologist at three different news stations in Portland over more than 20 years. He got his start in the science in the USAF, so he knew his stuff, but it was "who" he knew that helped get him his start in the business, and again later as he got a job in his home town…
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Mike Donahue
The man stayed at one station in the same market for four decades. He was Portland's Walter Cronkite. I didn't know Mike served in the army, and it was as the Vietnam War was ripping apart our country. And he did a little sneaky surveillance duty while working at the Pentagon. Learn about Mike's...
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Kathy Smith
On a high school field trip, Carl Click came to the KGW TV studio and watched Kathy Smith anchor a newscast. Four years later they were working in the same newsroom together. Kathy was the main anchor. Carl was a sports reporter. Listen to them relive the good old days. With very little…
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Craig Walker
Carl Click talks with long-time Portland icon Craig Walker. Craig turned the family radio business into a life and career in Portland media. He was the beloved morning drive host of two major radio stations, the face of a nightly TV magazine show, and the voice of Meier & Frank marketing. Learn...
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Portland TV news veteran Carl Click interviews colleagues and friends from radio, TV, and print, reliving the stories, struggles and issues of Portland media over the last four decades.
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Portland TV news veteran Carl Click interviews colleagues and friends from radio, TV, and print, reliving the stories, struggles and issues of Portland media over the last four decades.
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