There is a sucker born every minute.
Baker returned to the United States in 1937, and served only one day for the charge of practicing medicine without a license. Baker made attempts to run for political office, but failed. He was undeterred, and moved to Alabama where he set up another hospital and continued to rake in millions of dollars over the years, continuing to promise a cancer cure. In January 1940, Baker was found guilty of mail fraud, which he claimed was a conspiracy against him. Baker served a little over three years at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Baker died in 1958.
The call letters KTNT were eventually used by the Tacoma News Tribune for their radio and television stations.
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CBUT, Channel 8, Vancouver was a great source of mirth for those of us pre-adolescents who found amusement every time the Station ID flashed on screen for “C-Butt”, as we called it. We never could have foreseen Netflix!
In Bellingham getting a good signal was a real pain. Channel 12 on Orcas came in well, as did channel 2 and 6 from Canada, th get any Seattle stations we had another high antenna on a motorized rotar. So it could be turned from inside. In the end we got King and Komo fair. Never could get Kiro out my house as a kid. Channel 8 sort of came in, forget where it what it was.
That’s right Jason! Seattle operated the first television channel in the Pacific Northwest, but Tacoma a much smaller urban area originated the next two stations—KTNT (11) and KMO (13). In those times Seattle viewers wanted choices and only special antennas in 1953 were able to acquire the distant signals from Seattle to Tacoma.
I think that KTNT was the second major TV station in the Seattle area? As a child in the 50’s it was always so exciting when you watched the installation of a roof top tv antenna on a neighbor’s home. First we had KRSC Channel 5 (later King TV) in Seattle. That was 1948. Five years later we had Channel 11, KTNT in Tacoma. It was so exciting in 1953 to have a second television station. The new Tacoma channel required a special roof antenna. In the Seattle Madison Park home where I lived our antenna to receive a reasonable picture from Tacoma required an antenna that was so high, we were informed if it was any higher it would require a light to protect it from air traffic!
I think Channel 13 required a special antenna when their tower was located in Tacoma.
That is very interesting. I never knew of the station’s sketchy beginnings. My friend Les Cole had worked there when it was owned by the newspaper. And I knew Bill O’Mara when he was doing news in 1972. Sometimes I hitched a ride with him when in Seattle.