Jim Runyon

Jim Runyon (1931 – April 13, 1973) was an American radio announcer, disc jockey, and sometime actor from the late 1950s to 1973.He was in plays at Cain Park in the early 70's

Jim Runyon was loved by his radio audience and was known for playing the many love songs of the late 60's and early 70's in his evening time slot. There was many a teenaged girl listening to him every night, and falling asleep to his signature sign-off song, " Good Night My Love" and his signature closing: " from a Runyon named Jim."

Runyon was born in West Virginia and grew up in Williamson, where his father owned a furniture store. He had an early interest in radio and started out as a janitor at a radio station in Welch, West Virginia. When the station's regular announcer did not arrive for work one Saturday morning, Runyon convinced the station manager to let him go on the air. This worked out to be a regular air shift for him until it was learned that he was only thirteen years old. The state's Child Welfare Department intervened, and Runyon had to leave the airwaves until his fourteenth birthday.

Runyon worked at several radio stations in West Virginia before serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was initially a correspondent but became a Marine recruiter assigned to the Miami, Florida area. While in Miami as a recruiter, Runyon also became part of a Marine unit there doing radio and television public service announcements. The unit included Ed McMahon, later of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Following his discharge in 1951, he went to work at WLW in Cincinnati. From 1954 to 1961, Runyon worked in Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, prior to his joining station KYW in Cleveland, Ohio.

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