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In 1959, the Josey family, which by then had grown to four children, moved to Austin, where Bill began a series of career changes that led to work in radio ad sales and, in 1965, to the position of station manager of Austin’s KAZZ-FM, where Bill Jr., then an undergraduate at The University of Texas, was employed as a deejay. In ’66, Bill Sr. encouraged son Jack, then 13, to become the youngest working deejay in Texas radio, beginning Jack’s long career as a prominent Central Texas radio personality and entrepreneur.
Bill Sr. enjoyed producing and hosting live remote broadcasts of jazz, pop, and rock groups on KAZZ-FM from 1965 to 1967, and from the resulting connections Bill made with the musical acts and their managers, he and Bill Jr. had access to dozens of local bands to record when they formed Sonobeat Recording Company and Sonobeat Records in mid-1967.