I was employed as Production Manager for KNXT, at the suggestion of Bob Quinlan, in January, l954. The station was then on Vine Street, Jim Aubrey was the General Manager, Ed Bunker the sales manager, and Don Hine (to whom I reported) was the Program Director.

In November, 1954 I was one of a group named to relocate to Milwaukee to create the first CBS-Owned UHF, Channel 19, WXIX-TV. Ed Bunker was named General Manager, By Colvig the Promotion Director, Ted Shaker and Art Schoenfuss, from New York, Sales Manager and Technical Director, respectively, and I was named Program Director. The station went on the air in February, 1955. It was that summer I had the opportunity to audition and hire Jerry Dunphy from Wichita Falls as our anchorman. In October, 1957, I was asked to visit St. Louis a number of times, to participate in AFM, IBEW, and AFTRA negotiations with the NBC and ABC stations, and to provide assistance to Gene Wilkey, then General Manager of KMOX Radio who was to become General Manager of KMOX-TV, Channel 4, once the purchase of the station was approved by the FCC. We (i.e. my wife and our three sons) moved to St. Louis in December, 1957. The Company had decided its efforts in Milwaukee were to be phased out, resulting in Ed Bunker being relocated to Washington, D.C., Ted Shaker and Art Schoenfuss returned to New York, as did By Colvig as a salesman. We were each replaced and that team, as far as I know, remained there until the station was sold.

In the meantime, Charles McAbee was named Sales Manager, and the three of us devoted January through March (most enjoyably) planning, organizing, and staffing KMOX-TV which went on the air in April, 1957.

In January, 1960 Bob Wood, the newly named General Manager of KNXT, having prevailed upon Gene Wilkey in St. Louis, requested I relocate to Los Angeles, replacing the retiring Don Hine as Program Manager for KNXT. My family, in the meantime, had increased with the birth of our daughter the previous September. At KNXT my first assignment was to recommend someone to serve as our anchorman. Once I had convinced Bob Wood to do so I was allowed to bring Jerry Dunphy (who was by that time an announcer at WBBM-TV in Chicago) to Los Angeles. The results of that move are well known.

In the fall of 1967 Gene Wilkey in St. Louis decided to retire. Bob Wood, who by that time had been moved to New York as President of the CBS--Owned Stations Division named me Vice-President and General Manager of KMOX-TV. Once again, and most happily, we relocated to St. Louis.

In 1970 I was asked by Ralph Daniels, who by then was President of the Division, to relocate to WBBM-TV, Channel 2, to replace Ed Kenefick the retiring Vice President and General Manager. This was accomplished at Easter and, because both my wife and myself had been raised in that area, with most all of our extended families still living there, it represented many enjoyable advantages.

In the spring of 1973 I was relocated to Los Angeles and named Vice-President, Productions, for the CBS-Owned stations. Among other projects this resulted in the development of "Dinah", which became a replacement for the previous CBS Early Show, airing on our stations and offered in syndication by 20th Century Fox Films, beginning in 1975.

I resigned from CBS in 1976 having been asked to join Sea World as Corporate Information Services Director of the theme parks then in San Diego, Cleveland, and Orlando. This was not a difficult decision as we had always intended to one day live in San Diego. In the spring of 1982 the San Diego Civic Light Opera Association ("Starlight") asked me to become Executive Producer and General Manager of its series of musical productions in Balboa Park, a position I accepted and held through 1988, at which point I did, in fact, retire.

We had lived in Solana Beach through my wife's passing in 1994, and in 1996 I relocated to a condominium in Carlsbad a mile or so from the ocean. From here it is easy to visit my extended families in Seattle, Chicago, New York, and Palm Desert, which I do as often as my continuing love of golf and volunteer services at Scripps Hospital and the San Diego Braille Institute allow. My address is 2593 Regent Road, Carlsbad, CA 92008; my telephone number is (760) 730-9554, and my E-Mail address is drewdad@att.net . Oh, yes, I have four children, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.