With another Veterans Day, we note that several KCCK staffers are veterans of military service. KCCK Morning Man, Talking Pictures co-host and Got-a-Minute’s Mark Yother was in the Air Force for three years. He was editor of the base newspaper at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado, then worked in radio and television with the …
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My Most Memorable Concert Experience-Dennis
My friend Chad Canfield, host and producer of the excellent podcast,The Canman Show, recently asked fans of the show on Facebook to tell him about their most memorable concert experience. Read those postings here. Chad’s request seems to have been inspired by taking his daughters to see Miley Cyrus in Des Moines, but let’s not …
I Got Your らどうぞ Right Here – Dennis
So, a post I made several weeks ago has been the subject of dozens of comments, way more then usual for any conversations about KCCK. All in Japanese. All nonsense in both Japanese and English. The original posting dealt with the installation of our new 106.9 translator, which improves our signal coverage in Iowa City, …
Jerry Lewis and Bill Bell – George
The annual Labor Day Jerry Lewis telethon reminded me of a story the late mega-KCCK personality Bill Bell told me. Before coming to Iowa, Bill had run a recording studio in Los Angeles and rubbed elbows with Hollywood stars. He told a story of Jerry Lewis coming to his studio to record some public service …
My Brush With Hayden – Dennis
With Fry Fest coming up Labor Day Weekend, I’m remembering how I learned first-hand what a caring person the Coach is, in addition to being an outstanding leader. It was 1980, Coach Fry’s second year as Iowa’s coach. These were the days before there was one Hawkeye radio network. Instead, there were several stations that …
New Sunday Night Lineup – Dennis
We’re excited to debut a new Sunday lineup on Sept. 6, that we think you’ll like. We’re expanding one show and bringing another back by popular request. Our new Sunday night lineup begins with the smooth sound of Cafe Jazz at 6pm. Then at 8, a show we have had dozens of requests to bring …
Jazz Under the Stars Videos
Anne Kinney of Illusions Fine Portraiture has created some neat video montages from photos she took at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars concerts, including music from the groups she photographed. Click here to see the video or the Fred Woodard Trio.Click here for the video of the Al Naylor Quartet.
KCCK.org All Clean! – Dennis
KCCK fans who use Firefox or Safari as their web browser have noticed something very disturbing over the last few days. Whenever they surfed to our site, they received a warning screen saying that Google had rated kcck.org as an attack site that would download malicious software to their computer. Well, I’m happy to report …