Who are the radio personalities with the most years on air in the Utah market?
Dan Jessop is No. 1 in longevity, with 38 years at a microphone in northern Utah.
He's the current KBZN/KLO operations director and program director, but he still does on-air fill-in for both stations and has a regular Saturday-morning shift on "The Breeze," simply because he enjoys broadcasting.
Jessop's radio career stretches back to 1968, when he started at Ogden's KBZN. He also worked at KCPX, KUMT, KBLQ, KVOG, "Magic 107.5" and others during his long career. One of his early on-air nicknames was "Chad O. Stevens."
Here are more longtime Salt Lake-area rankings:
— 36 years: "Country Joe" Flint at "Country Legends," KKAT, FM-107.5. He worked at KSOP for more than 35 years before branching out.
— 36 years: Doug Wright of KSL, started in 1970 at KDYL. Today he's a backbone of
AM-1160/FM-102.7 and is also regularly heard in TV and radio commercials.
— 34 years: Mark Van Wagoner of KDYL started in October 1971 at KRSP and spent many years on KSL. He entered radio in Hawaii in 1969 and has been at AM-1060 since 2000.
— 34 years: Tom Barberi, now on KFMS, started on KALL in July 1971. He sat out one year when KALL changed formats in 2004, but he is now on FM-97.5.
— 34 years: Danny Kramer of KDYL started at KSL in 1972. His radio career began in Georgia in the 1960s.
— 34 years: Rod Arquette of KSL began his radio career in 1972. He's into off-air programming these days but still fills in on the air.
— 34 years: Steve Carlson, started in 1972 on KRSP. He now does mornings on KXRV, "The River," having moved there in 2005.
— 29 years: Kelly Monson of KBZN entered Utah radio in 1977. He's currently a morning co-host on "The Breeze."
— 27 years: Jon Carter of KRSP started at KLO in 1979. He began at KRSP in 1980 and eventually went to other stations before returning to FM-103.5 in April 1997.
— 27 years: Dan Bammes of KUER, started at KRSP in 1979 and worked at KSL and other stations. Even a serious illness didn't deter his passion for being a radio news anchor.
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