A recent photo of KVCK Radio:

KVCK Radio started up in 1957. I remember when Kenny Karge worked the “Platter Parade” program at 4 PM.  Kenny had a bicycle horn and he would squeeze it on the air and say “Karge at large”.  I remember Dick Applegren working at the station while I was growing up. Does anyone remember “Hovey-Stone Chevrolet time”?  I started working there in 1963, as soon as I got my 3^rd class license, and gradually moved to full-time employment for Pete Coffey.  Here's a 1969 picture of the staff that I took:

Dennis Johnson, Pete Coffey, Benny (Butzlaff) Bee, Clare Hekkel and Bob Behr

Dennis is in Idaho.  Pete and Bob have passed away.  Benny is in Kalispell and Clare is in Billings at last report.

Here's a KVCK Radio photo taken in 1978. From left to right, employee Randy Dibble, Rex Allen, Jr., Me (badly needing a haircut), and employee Bobby Barlow.

In 1977 and 1978 KVCK was instrumental in bringing many country singers to Wolf Point and Poplar. Among them, Rex Allen, Jr., Bill Anderson, Leroy Van Dyke, Susan Raye, Cal Smith, Tommy Overstreet and David Houston. The concerts were either held at the Wolf Point Elks Club, or the Legion Club in Poplar. All of the concerts were sellouts. Not bad for a small town radio station!

Rex Allen, Jr., Me and Announcer Mark Anderson:

Susan Raye in 1978 at the Legion Club:

The Late David Houston appeared at the Elks Club in Wolf Point:

Cal Smith appeared at the Legion Club in Poplar:

Tommy Overstreet was at the Legion:

Leroy Van Dyke, "The Auctioneer" at the Elks:

One of the best concerts: Bill Anderson and the Po' Boys at the Elks:  (Thank God I've thrown out that white "leisure suit")