John Davis

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After being a marketing manager and program director at several radio stations in the Seattle and Spokane Washington areas, John Davis moved to Anchorage in 1967 as a morning-drive announcer on KFQD and KHAR, and was hired as General Manager of KSRM on February 1, 1968. He has set the programming tone of our stations for more than 35 years.   He and three partners formed KSRM, Inc. in 1972 and purchased KSRM-AM. The corporation built new studios and offices at Mile 6.5 K-Beach Road. In 1976 they put KWHQ-FM on the air as the first FM on the Peninsula. John Davis purchased the corporation in 1982 and then added KSLD-AM and KKIS-FM to the group in 1994.   In addition to doing morning drive on KSRM for over 25 years, John Davis created two of the stations most popular shows, Sound Off in 1970 and Tradio in 1969, and brought Paul Harvey News “live” to the Peninsula in 1975, the first to do so in Alaska. He was the first broadcaster in the state to install 1) Random Access Automation (1971), and 2) Digital Computerized Automation and Recording (1991), both which were later used widely by Alaskan broadcasters.  …

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