Allen Auxier, KDLL Station Manager

Email: allen@kdllradio.org

Allen has been working in Public Broadcasting for over 25 years. Most of his previous employment has been in Public Television—as the Producer/Director of Instructional Television for Kuskokwim Community College and as Chief Switcher and Program Director for KYUK-TV in Bethel—but he was also a radio volunteer for most of that time. Most of his duties at KDLL involve finding the money to keep the station on the air (underwriting, special events, membership and pull-tab operations), training new radio volunteers, and running the office on a daily basis.

Allen has produced and directed radio, television, and stage productions (he and his wife Mari were part owners of Spirit Theatre in Tacoma, Washington), sailed a 42 foot “ketch” from California to Hawaii (where he and Mari first met), ridden a horse and pulled pack- mules through the Rocky Mountains (using only equipment that was available prior to 1840), worked as a cowboy, teacher, bartender, ditch digger, carpenter, fry cook and a great variety of other jobs. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University (Class of 1970) and a Viet Nam veteran (U.S. Army Infantry 1970-72).

Shaylon Cochran, KDLL Reporter
email: news@KDLLradio.org

KDLL News Reporter/Evening News Host, Shaylon Cochran, arrived in Alaska in November of 2011. Originally from Iowa, where he studied Journalism at Iowa State University, Shaylon joins the news team after serving as News Director at KNIA in Pella, Iowa. Tune in each weekday at 5:19 pm for the KDLL Evening News.

Do you have an idea for a news story for the Central Kenai Peninsula? Tell Shaylon: news@kdllradio.org or 283-8414.