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The CBS Bob & Ray radio show ran on KIRO 710/100.7 (the stations were simulcasting at the time.) Check the 1959 Tacoma News Tribune radio schedule
KIRO also ran the Pat Buttram radio show each day.

Mutual was owned and operated as a cooperative (a system similar to that of today’s National Public Radio), setting the network apart from its corporate-owned competitors. Mutual’s member stations shared their own original programming, transmission and promotion expenses, and advertising revenues. From December 30, 1936, when it debuted in the West, the Mutual Broadcasting System had affiliates from coast to coast. Its business structure would change after General Tire assumed majority ownership in 1952 through a series of regional and individual station acquisitions. Once General Tire sold the network in 1957 to Armand Hammer, Mutual’s ownership was largely disconnected from the stations it served, leading to a more conventional, top-down model of program production and distribution. Armand Hammer was an American business manager and owner, most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran from 1957 until his death. With the growth of television, much of the programming and advertising revenue had been lost by the radio networks.
Mutual was purchased by Scranton Corp. and Hal Roach Studios in September 1958. By March 1959, the Don Lee network, formed by the west coast stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, went out of business. Most of those stations chose to switch affiliation to ABC, leaving the now struggling Mutual Broadcasting System with fewer stations. Mutual was sold by Scranton Corp. and Hal Roach Studios to a company headed by Malcolm E. Smith. Smith’s business interests were primarily mail-ordered sales of music recordings and a pocket-sized adding machine imported from Germany. Mutual was acquired for the cost of the debt owed. The only creditor regularly receiving payment from Mutual at the time of the sale was AT&T, in order to keep the broadcast lines open. Slowly, Mutual was given new life for a few years, with growth in the number of affiliate stations. The Mutual Broadcasting System was bought and sold several times up to it’s end in 1999 under ownership of radio production company and syndicator, Westwood One. [Source: Broadcasting Magazine & Wikipedia]

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