Dave vonKleist has spent his career in the broadcast industry as a professional TV/radio announcer and as a professional vocalist for commercials. He was staff announcer at various radio stations and hosted the Dave Riddell show, a three-hour afternoon drive time talk show at WATR AM-1320, Waterbury, Connecticut. Mr. vonKleist is an accomplished musician, vocalist, songwriter and performer of over thirty years. Other accomplishments are writing, directing and editing the comedy television show Spotlight Tonight . Voted Best Show and Best Directed show in the Laurel Cable Awards, 1984.
He and his wife Joyce Riley vonKleist presently co-host The Power Hour , a radio talk show, and devote most of their time to obtaining assistance for sick Gulf War veterans through the American Gulf War Veterans Association in Versailles, Missouri.