Tim and Willy will be joining ABC 15 Daybreak starting Monday. (5-7am)

Beginning Thursday, Valley talker Austin Hill will be hosting KIDO-AM Boise’s afternoons, 3 to 6pm. For the past couple of months, Hill has frequently filled-in on KTAR-FM for Darrell Ankarlo.

KSLX program director, Jim Owen, has a quote included on Radio-Info’s magazine edition of “Radio Done Right”. The magazine is set for the NAB in Philly this week.
Get the issue online here.

620 KTAR is featured on the Fybush.com Tower Site of the Week.

The tower site, which is located in an unusual spot for broadcast towers– a parking lot, is located along Thomas Rd.

See Fybush page here.

KTAR Radiothon raised over a whopping $850,000 for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital, in a span of 28 hours. Sports 620 KTAR and News/Talk 92.3 KTAR-FM combined in a single broadcast to meet one main goal. They used a presence online to connect, via live blogging, web cams, and Facebook and Twitter updates.

More here.

After five months of being off-the-air due to a traumatic brain injury, Darrell Ankarlo has remained on the on-air staff at 92.3 KTAR-FM, and made his long-awaited return this morning.

The show started at 9am with the voice of Valley legend Pat McMahon introducing what would be a well-produced, 55 minutes of the story of Ankarlo’s struggles and rehabilitation from the accident.

For more, including the audio of this, click here!

KTAR-FM’s Wednesday morning 9 am “special announcement” included a phone call from Darrell Ankarlo following the bottom of the hour newscast. The audio is available on the player below.

Bruce St. James, filling-in for Ankarlo, and Diane Brennan chatted with him to hear about his news and progress. He announced that he would return next week on Tuesday (9/15/09), after five months of absense from his show.

Ankarlo was badly injured in a car accident back in April. He suffered serious trauma to the brain and was allotted several months to recuperate. Ankarlo has been going through rehabilitation with the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s in Phoenix.

KTAR-FM has been using Austin Hill, Jim Sharpe, and Bruce St. James for fill-ins during Ankarlo’s absense. The KTAR website mentions Ankarlo will be on-air 9 to 11am Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Find the latest on Darrell Ankarlo
Ankarlo.net
Twitter.com/DarrellAnkarlo

Valley talker, Austin Hill (KFYI, KKNT, KTAR) has a second book set to come out May 1, 2010, titled The Virtues Of Capitalism: A Moral Case For Free Markets. His first book is called White House Confidential.

With the release of The Beatles: Rock Band game, and their digitally remastered collection, celebration is spread worldwide, and Phoenix radio celebrates.

KOOL-FM is celebrating with “Beatles Hours” at 9am, Noon, 4 and 5.

KSLX is in progress with the Top 200 Beatles songs, played after every couple of other classic rock. It is set to finish during Jim Owen’s Lunchtime Theme Park.

The Nearly Famous Barry Young show on KFYI goes for three hours, 7-10am, starting Tues. Sept. 8.