John Porterfield: worked at WCEN (1150, Mount Pleasant) as a transmitter engineer while finishing college in the late '40s. John helped to put WMTE (1340, Manistee) on the air in 1951. He re-joined WCEN in 1952 and helped move the studios from downtown to the new studio building at the transmitter site on Bluegrass Road. He also worked on-air at the station. John left WCEN to work as an engineer at WKNX-TV (then on channel 57) in Saginaw, which had gone on the air in April 1953. Later, he helped put WIOS (1480, Tawas) on the air in the fall of 1958. John joined WKYO (1360, Caro) and did engineering and on-air work for a number of years, hosting a morning farm show and talk show. He also helped build the studios for WMIC in Sandusky, MI. After a number of years in Texas, John retired to the Mount Pleasant area. He passed away in April 2007.

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