Don Kennedy

Don Kennedy began his radio career in 1943 with a half-watt homemade radio station in the basement of his mother and father's home in his native Beaver, Pennsylvania. His first paying position was in 1947 as an announcer at WPIC in Sharon, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Youngstown, Ohio. While in college, he announced news, sports scores and did music programs at WBVP in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. After military service as a radio studio manager in a psychological warfare unit during the Korean War, he anchored the eleven o'clock news at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia eventually being assigned as a children's show host at that station, a program amassing the largest audience of any such local program in the nation. In 1960 he established WKLS-FM in Atlanta, serving as President and GM. He also set up and served as President of Georgia Network and Florida Network, two of the pioneer state news networks in the nation. In 1976 his company returned Atlanta's channel 36, WATL-TV to the air. He is t