KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - A longtime Alaska radio general manager will sign off for the last time this week.
Kent Colby’s last day as the Ketchikan Radio Center’s general manager will be Saturday, the Ketchikan Daily News reported (https://bit.ly/2o3lGMH). He said he and his wife Nicole, who works with him at the station, are leaving to focus on their growing side businesses in management consulting and project management. They plan to stay in the Ketchikan area.
Colby, 72, has been a leader at the station since the 1990s. He has been in the radio business long enough to remember moving from vinyl records to tapes to CDs to digital files.
“I’ve been in radio since Christ was a kid. I broadcast the birth,” said Colby on Tuesday.
Ketchikan Public Utilities Telecommunication Sales and Marketing Manager Michelle O’Brien will be taking over after Colby leaves, although Colby plans to be involved with the station for about a month.
O’Brien has plans to rebrand the stations, start unique promotions and have more hyperlocal content.
“I don’t want to say it’s going to be an overhaul in the sense that Kent has done a bad job - because that’s not the case at all - but there’s some things that radio needs in this market that have not been able to be achieved in the past, and we plan on implementing those almost immediately,” O’Brien said.
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Information from: Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily News, https://www.ketchikandailynews.com
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