Ty Rosenow

Ty Rosenow (born July 30, 1974) worked in the broadcasting field mainly in the Puget Sound area for 14 years. He has continued on into other media interests such as web sites and book writing.

Radio

Ty Rosenow's radio history goes on before he went on the air at KGHP-FM in Gig Harbor, Washington. He grew up with friends and classmates who's parents worked at the transmitter sites of KIRO-AM, KVI-AM, KING-AM, and KOMO-AM on Vashon Island! "The first time I walked in the transmitter room of KIRO-AM in 1984, I knew that I was going into radio broadcasting."
Later, in 1985, one of his friends built his own low power radio station. The radio station had a one mile radius. "We had fun putting a few radio shows together throughout the years."

Ty moved from Vashon Island to Gig Harbor in 1986 and interest of radio just about diminished, until "Good Morning Vietnam" movie with Robin Williams inspired him again in 1987. From 1986 to 1990, Ty Rosenow had his main interest in Comedy and Acting.

On May 25, 1990, Ty went on the air on KGHP-FM, his high school radio station. "It was the only class/program that kept me in school." Ty was known as Ty Roseynose to prevent mix up of Ty Flynt of Charlie and Ty, a long time on-air talent broadcasting in the Puget Sound area at the time.

On June 13, 1993, Ty broadcast his first radio play he wrote called "Ty Roseynose - A Documentary". He was going to leave raadio broadcasting, and go study to become a history teacher. In the end of the play, he Ty Roseynose becomes missing. This becomes a significant play that predicted eighty percent of his future. Yes, he came out with a few albums, but one was a flop. He came out with a pilot for a TV show, but it never flew. Yes, he has worked at several different radio stations, but never made a movie (at least not yet).

In June 1994, Ty went back to volunteering with KGHP-FM again, only this time as Bob Jones...or at least for the summer! "Iwas bored going to McDonald's (my job) to Tacoma Community College to study useless information for my major and then home. There was too much routine. I had to do something different."

Ty went to work for his first paid radio gig and the Country Gold Network as an on-air host for a month in January 1995. He quit after a month since they wouldn't pay him.

On February 1, 1995, Ty was hired as a Board Op/ Producer with KIRO-AM, which eventually extended to The Buzz (KQBZ 100.7 FM - Now The Wolf - and KNWX (was also called KING 1090 and KINF 1090).

In the summer of 1995, after the second General Manager left due to a Nervous Breakdown (and yes, she promised to make recommendation to hire Ty for the management position), the search was on for the position. Ty Rosenow applied for the position. He had wait first, for the job posting (by Federal Law, a government agency must post a job opening). The job was never posted until one week before the interview after much complaint from various volunteers of the radio station. Ty was hoping that he could get the job, since he had plans to update the station into the twenty-first century (KGHP is currently still in the 1970's. The latest piece of technology is the MiniDisc with poor production qualities. The Production rooms are poorly put together). Leland Smith, has little to no experience in radio broadcasting, and solely a newspaper writer, gets the job. "Most people who write for newspapers do not belong in radio, because they have no personalities and don't know what they are doing."

Ty went on the air with KBTC-FM that September. That was where he met Camel and Steve Murphy. "It was like we were the Three Musketeers. We would share each of our bits and come out with hilarious skits." They shared each others production work for their shows, and yes even shared the same locker. "There was a time when I had to look at the logo on the wall to remind me where I was.

At the end of October of 1995, Leland Smith of KGHP suspended Ty after much tension. As a cover up, Leland Smith claimed that Ty said the word "Penis". This was not true. Ty talking about how great a "pianist" Elton John was. Ty was primarily suspended due to that Leland Smith wanted him do various unlawful projects, including breaking copyright laws and air rights, which Ty naturally refused. There was also a claim that Ty stole music, which Ty Rosenow paid for with his own money.

In October 2000, Ty came back as a co-host of the radio station to help out Kraze. Kraze and Ty had done several radio shows off and on during the high school years and were friends for long periods of time. "I didn't want to come back, but Kraze said that I didn't have to be in contact with Leland Smith. That was a God Send. Leland Smith is an asshole." Even though, Leland Smith was teaching useless things to the high school students, Mike Ford was the Assistant Manager. Ty knew Mike Ford as the former Program Director for KBSG. Those who worked under Mike Ford at KBSG, hated him. Obviously, so did the management, which fired him. " The Other Show with Kraze and Ty" became an instant success with 80's music, despite Mike Ford's suggestions that could have destroyed the show. There are currently plans to get Ty off the air again and Ty has been pretty quiet about everything since day one, but Kraze is defending Ty in hopes of the show will make it. Kraze and Ty are looking for another radio station to broadcast from because of it's limitations (can't discuss politics, can't discuss religion, can't discuss sex). Ty has left KGHP-FM with Kraze on November 28, 2000 with no gripes.

Between 2001-2003, Ty begun working with the BJ Shea Experience off and on until the show until the a new morning show was being put on the air called, "The Ron & Don Morning Show" as a "That Guy Ty" (coined by BJ Shea) at the sports desk. By the time May 2003 rolled around, Ty ended up going with the Ron & Don team to WKLQ-FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a brief five months where he performed radio stunts, reported sports, and audio edits of the shows for the weekends.

After leaving WKLQ-FM due to personal reasons, Ty moved to Ocean Shores, Washington to help develop KOSW-LP 91.3 FM, where he donated over 3,000 songs, and programmed the radio station for the all-volunteer radio station.

Internet

In 1996, Ty had some interests in the internet and created internet web sites. His current sites are FreeGameSpot.net (an online gaming site), Elitesearcher.com (an academic search engine), and DormUSA.com (a networking site for college students).

Books

Ty Rosenow had written a fictional autobiography of his alter ego, "Ty Roseynose - A Documentary" in 2005. He had never claimed that the book was about his life in the radio business, however it is registered as a biography in Books In Print. He does have another book that is rumored to be released sometime in February. "Ty's Book of Rubbish: Volume 20" is a said twenty book deal that is comprised of Ty's short stories.

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