Jon McDaniel Departs C89.5 Seattle After 32 Years As Program Director

[Colorado Media Newsroom]

From Radio Insight:

After 32 years as Program Director at Nathan Hale High School Dance “C89.5” KNHC Seattle, today is Jon McDaniel’s last day at the station.
McDaniel took over the programming reins of the station in May 1990 after previously being one of the station’s student DJ’s in the mid 80s. He would oversee the station’s transition to Dance in the 1990s as it carved out a unique niche in the radio industry but for high school stations as well.
KNHC will pay tribute to McDaniel’s career at 2pm on Friday as part of a two-hour special hosted by Operations Manager Drew Bailey and DJ/instructor Harmony Soleil spotlighting his contributions to the station and the dance music community.
In a message on the station’s newsletter, McDaniel wrote:
This has been the best experience in my life, being Program Director at C895 for over 30 years.

When I got here, we weren’t allowed to mention gay or lesbian anything on the station but I knew we had an audience in those communities because I was one of them! So, in 1988 or so, when it came time to design a new C895 bumper sticker, I actually snuck an upside down pink triangle into our logo as a “we see you” to those communities. And people who didn’t know what the triangle meant were none the wiser.

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