Short biography of C. Dwight Tindle

Dwight was the founder and principal owner of KDKB AM & FM, one of the pioneer contemporary FM radio stations in the United States. KDKB was unlike other commercial stations: the format was free-form and spontaneously determined, characterized by an underlying thread of continuity. Dwight created an atmosphere where such an improvisational approach could thrive, staffed the station with highly creative personnel and promoted this avant-garde image to the community. He conceptualized and implemented many of the station's best-known promotions and pulled a regular shift on-the-air. He also developed KDKB’s high impact public affairs programming, which led to the station's receipt of the Peabody Award (1976), broadcasting’s highest honor. KDKB remained Phoenix’s #1 radio station (ratings and revenues) throughout the decade of the 70’s and into the 1980’s.

After profitably selling KDKB and four additional small market stations which he acquired and built into the Natural Broadcasting System, Dwight became president of an advertising company that produced hundreds of musical advertisements for clients nationwide. In this role, he structured the marketing plan, marketing materials, demonstrations and sales literature used to penetrate the top 50 markets in the United States. Dwight was also associated with the Center for Advanced Film Studies of the American Film Institute at this time as a Producer-Fellow. He produced six films for the Institute and served as associate producer of the film Violet, which was awarded an Oscar for best live action short subject.

More recently, Dwight has been involved in music licensing. He designed, developed, researched and produced a fifteen-volume retail compilation project for America's leading independent label, and produced and developed a Christmas compilation project for Clear Channel's KEZ radio in Phoenix. He served as a music consultant to the Guthy-Renker Corporation, handling all master use and synchronization licensing, negotiation with music publishers and creative research for the placement of music within GRC’s television infomercials.

In 1998, Dwight hosted a free-form radio program, “Radio Free Phoenix.” He sold advertising time for the show, wrote all the advertising copy, created the program's format and conducted celebrity interviews. The program generated a 71% increase in audience share for its time slot and was named “Best Radio Show” by New Times Magazine's “Best Of Phoenix – 1998.”

Since 2003, Dwight has served as vice president in charge of business development for Integrated Solution Professionals International, LLC, in Anchorage, Alaska. ISP International is a telecommunications firm operating globally.

Dwight has experienced the pressures of the chief executive officer and mastered the power of marketing. He rapidly turned around a near-bankrupt radio station, launching it to number one in the ratings. He built a successful nationwide advertising company and structured and completed a fifteen-volume compilation project for a major national client. He is a subject of biographical record in Who's Who In America, Millennium Edition 2000.