Walter Powers, Broadcast Partners
Nostalgia, Standards, EZ
Earning his B.S. degree from the University of Tulsa in 1974, Walt served as Program Director of campus station KWGS-FM.
Walt was also President of the Alpha Sigma chapter of the national broadcast fraternity Alpha Epsilon Rho.
While attending college, Walt began his career in commercial broadcasting at Tulsa's KRAV-FM, where he was first introduced to the Bonneville Easy Listening format.
In the mid-70's, Walter joined Bonneville Broadcast Consultants in New Jersey, eventually rising to VP/Operations for Bonneville.
During his 18 years at Bonneville, Walter pioneered and developed stringent programming and technical quality control systems (1977) and 24-hour music program delivery via satellite (1981).
In 1993, Walter joined Broadcast Programming in Seattle, and soon thereafter was appointed VP/Programming. Walt helped clients transition from tape to digital delivery of music programming, while managing a staff of the most talented and resourceful programmers in the radio industry.
During this time, Walter continued to program and consult Easy Listening and Adult Standards radio stations.
In 1999, Jones Radio Networks appointed Walter as their Director of Client Services, specializing in helping clients merge satellite and local programming using state of the art technical platforms from Google, Broadcast Electronics and RCS, among others.
Walter denies the rumor that he wrote the big Billy Swan hit "I Can Help" although those of us who know Walt think he had something to do with it.