September 1968 – Dan Coughlin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
If you owned both a television set and investments, you might be a J. Elroy McCaw right now. For the past seven years this Seattle businessman and stock market investor has been a pioneer in the potentially profitable, if sometimes frustrating, business of owning and operating television stations. THE STORY may be apocryphal but it’s being spread around Channel 13 here that he last October made the station his business from a TV “white elephant” into a viable station in the country to devote so much time to the market. The only station in the country to do so, it is perhaps isn’t so startling when you consider the recent growth in the number of people who count the stock market as their number one hobby, and that fact doubtless contributed to the station in the first place. THE STATION claims to have some 20,000 viewers at any one time, many of them businessmen who keep one eye on their office desks to watch the “Big Board” projections from time to time on the television monitor. It’s a bit of a responsive group, too, Mr. Below likes to point out. Whenever he announces a new investment or a stock pick, he says, the station went dark for a few minutes. If he were to announce that he had sold a stock, or salvage at least something. The station gets 68 calls within a few minutes. Some of the callers, doubtless, felt they had somehow come into money. If the viewer feels he should buy or sell or at least something, he can place a telephone order at a desk set up in the studio and may or may not exactly enthuse all of those back in television. Below says, without pretense, “the idea’s catching on.” When the new Seattle-First National Bank finally decided to go into television, the bank’s trust department will have a set on his desk to keep quick track of the market’s up and downs. EXCEPT for the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, the picture follows action on the big board by 15 minutes but doesn’t bother to be bothered by the delays. The time delay isn’t enough to give many investors, even the quick traders, many heartaches. They’re almost as up-to-date as an insider on the floor. For his part, Mr. Below handles many a handicap shared by persons in either the print media or broadcast brokerage or investment field. He’s a pretty good man, because of a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling prohibiting him from owning stock in a company.“ A voice inflection could, probably, cause a price runup,” he says. Below sees the idea of a market-oriented station spreading throughout the country in the future.
(March 18, 1962) Harry Holland will take over the 7 p.m. to midnight show on Radio KVI starting Monday. The new station manager plans a nighttime show partially directed to college students in Western Washington. He will report on all collegiate sports activities, interview campus correspondents at colleges and junior colleges. MOST RECENTLY Holland was manager of KXLY in Spokane. He also worked at stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Omaha, New Orleans and San Antonio. A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, he ended up as a member of the Armed Forces Radio in China. He has served in the Marines during the Korean War. A former band singer, he has recorded several records. Seattle-Tacoma radio announcer turned tv talk show host in the 1960s. KTVW 13 tv host: Stairway to the Stars talent show (1964) host and his own late night tv program (1967). In 1968, Holland became the newsman for KTVW’s 7-hour daily stock market coverage, which was hosted by Merrill Mael.
Terrestrial radio has become a real shit show. This week, iHeart Media has begun another round of layoffs. Few radio stations have LOCAL deejays in major dayparts. Reasons to listen to local radio? Your input is welcome. Because I can’t think of reasons to listen any longer. Sorry, I’m out!
Harry Holland - Seattle/Tacoma radio & tv
Jason Remington • June 25, 2026
September 1968 – Dan Coughlin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
If you owned both a television set and investments, you might be a J. Elroy McCaw right now. For the past seven years this Seattle businessman and stock market investor has been a pioneer in the potentially profitable, if sometimes frustrating, business of owning and operating television stations. THE STORY may be apocryphal but it’s being spread around Channel 13 here that he last October made the station his business from a TV “white elephant” into a viable station in the country to devote so much time to the market. The only station in the country to do so, it is perhaps isn’t so startling when you consider the recent growth in the number of people who count the stock market as their number one hobby, and that fact doubtless contributed to the station in the first place. THE STATION claims to have some 20,000 viewers at any one time, many of them businessmen who keep one eye on their office desks to watch the “Big Board” projections from time to time on the television monitor. It’s a bit of a responsive group, too, Mr. Below likes to point out. Whenever he announces a new investment or a stock pick, he says, the station went dark for a few minutes. If he were to announce that he had sold a stock, or salvage at least something. The station gets 68 calls within a few minutes. Some of the callers, doubtless, felt they had somehow come into money. If the viewer feels he should buy or sell or at least something, he can place a telephone order at a desk set up in the studio and may or may not exactly enthuse all of those back in television. Below says, without pretense, “the idea’s catching on.” When the new Seattle-First National Bank finally decided to go into television, the bank’s trust department will have a set on his desk to keep quick track of the market’s up and downs. EXCEPT for the rules of the New York Stock Exchange, the picture follows action on the big board by 15 minutes but doesn’t bother to be bothered by the delays. The time delay isn’t enough to give many investors, even the quick traders, many heartaches. They’re almost as up-to-date as an insider on the floor. For his part, Mr. Below handles many a handicap shared by persons in either the print media or broadcast brokerage or investment field. He’s a pretty good man, because of a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling prohibiting him from owning stock in a company.“ A voice inflection could, probably, cause a price runup,” he says. Below sees the idea of a market-oriented station spreading throughout the country in the future.
(March 18, 1962) Harry Holland will take over the 7 p.m. to midnight show on Radio KVI starting Monday. The new station manager plans a nighttime show partially directed to college students in Western Washington. He will report on all collegiate sports activities, interview campus correspondents at colleges and junior colleges. MOST RECENTLY Holland was manager of KXLY in Spokane. He also worked at stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Omaha, New Orleans and San Antonio. A Marine Corps veteran of World War II, he ended up as a member of the Armed Forces Radio in China. He has served in the Marines during the Korean War. A former band singer, he has recorded several records. Seattle-Tacoma radio announcer turned tv talk show host in the 1960s. KTVW 13 tv host: Stairway to the Stars talent show (1964) host and his own late night tv program (1967). In 1968, Holland became the newsman for KTVW’s 7-hour daily stock market coverage, which was hosted by Merrill Mael.
Turn Out The Lights
Jason Remington • June 25, 2026
Terrestrial radio has become a real shit show. This week, iHeart Media has begun another round of layoffs. Few radio stations have LOCAL deejays in major dayparts. Reasons to listen to local radio? Your input is welcome. Because I can’t think of reasons to listen any longer. Sorry, I’m out!