Some of the cheesiest radio ever heard... or as Charlie Brown said in 1976: "A day without KJR sunshine is like... NIGHT!"
From the brilliant, and tireless Jason Remington at SeaTacRadio.com, we get this:
Charlie Brown created VoxPro Digital Audio Editor and then retired from radio
Seattle PI’s Bill Virgin wrote:
So he went out and helped develop an alternative — a digital editor known as VoxPro.
That invention in turn formed the basis of a Bainbridge Island company, Audion Laboratories, owned by Brown, his wife, Kimberly, and company president Tyrone Noble.
Brown is a familiar name to Seattle radio listeners. He was co-host with Ty Flint of a long-running morning show in the 1980s and 1990s on KUBE-FM and KJR-FM. Brown retired in 1997.
Audion, he says, was started in the early 1990s but not with the intent of providing a second career. “I wanted something to edit (with), and if it grew, that was fine,” he says. The software was developed by a partner from Portland, since bought out, while Brown provided input on its design.
VoxPro lets broadcasters quickly edit phone calls or other audio clips. Aside from the software, the company also sells a small control panel for manipulating audio files. VoxPro originally was based on the Apple Macintosh, but last August Audion came out with a PC-based version.
Brown believes Audion is well positioned to take advantage of the trend toward digital technology in radio, for online productions and in business communications.
Radio and business are “two totally different worlds. Each has its own pressures and stresses.” Brown’s radio career included stops in Bellingham, Spokane, Dallas and Seattle. Asked if he has any temptation to get behind a microphone, he says, “No. I did that for 35 years.”
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