Arch Andrews worked Denver radio news and programming in the early 1960s, then became the voice of Colorado’s outdoors on TV and radio for decades.
Career
A Minneapolis native and Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War, Andrews worked at stations in North and South Dakota, Iowa and Omaha before arriving in Denver in 1959. From 1959 to 1965 he worked at KICN (710 AM, today’s KNUS), at KTLN as program director, host and newsman, and at KGMC (1150 AM, later KWBZ) as news director.
As public affairs director for the Colorado Division of Wildlife, he hosted Wildlife Reports on KBTV/KUSA 9News for 17 years, billed as the longest-running program on Denver television. He also voiced the Colorado Outdoors Report, which went out to more than 60 radio stations, and narrated nearly 20 nature films. He died in 2016 at 87, and was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame in 2018.
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1959: Arch Andrews arrives in Denver radio
1959 — Arch Andrews came to Denver and spent the next six years at KICN, KTLN (program director, host and newsman) and KGMC (news director), before becoming the familiar voice of Colorado Division of Wildlife reports.
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