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2023-07-03 Spokane Tv Reporter exits
2022-07-24 Sydnee Scofield Leaves KRDO 13 Colorado Springs; Next Gig TBA
2017-08-30 Businessmen Buy KTAC
2021-11-22 770 KTTH: Brandi Kruse Fills For Jason Rantz Today and Tuesday
2019-12-24 KRPA Oak Harbor returns to the air
2020-06-30 AM Radio Today: All Digital AM – DRM vs HD
2017-12-21 Pat Costello KOMO ND Retires
2022-11-25 770 KXA Audio/November 22, 1963 (Kennedy Assassination Bulletins)
2022-09-26 Kaye-Smith Fires Burl Barer, Roger Dale Explores History of Country Music Legend
2022-12-04 Josh Cozart, KVAL/KMTR Seems Rather Confused
2022-03-09 Composite Aircheck WLS 1977
2020-07-20 Those Cock-eyed Eyebrows
2021-11-30 KOMO 4 Reporter, Kara Kostanich, Gives Up Career For Family Time
2020-07-19 KETO Upsets Classical Fans
2017-03-06 Beautiful Music KBRD (1975)
2019-09-10 What’s Next For Alison Morrow?
2020-10-12 Mike Phillips Out; Gary Taylor New KJR PD
2022-02-18 A Tribute to Bill O’Mara
2021-11-29 Update: Media Crime Files: Detroit DJ Stabbed To Death
2018-07-14 Victor Stredicke Today
2022-04-13 April 1949 Earthquake Remembered
2020-08-04 July 2020 Arbitron Ratings Top 5
2020-09-05 Found Performance: “Bette Davis Eyes” by Kim Carnes
2022-05-24 Jonathan Choe Joins Discovery Institute
2018-11-22 “Spirit 105.3” flips to Christmas music
2020-07-18 Nostalgia, Cash Calls, and Appeals for Money
2020-06-14 Goodbye, Friend: Tim Shook
2020-05-08 KING-FM & NPR implementing cuts
2022-11-14 Matt Case Brings Good News To 95.3 KGY FM
2022-06-17 Mailbag: Radio Memorabilia & Swap Shop
2017-09-15 Katie Boer – New to Q13
2022-05-20 1986: KJR Rejuvenates The Pat O’Day Legend
2019-09-08 New study: Listeners think radio station contests are rigged
2017-07-20 KOL Progressive Rock Jocks Leave To Spend More Time With Family
2016-11-17 Ray “Hayhead” Ramsey
2020-10-13 Jim Valley Facing Medical Crisis
2019-06-14 Celebration of Life For Frosty Fowler Announcement
2019-07-10 FCC: KVOS-TV CP granted for Post-Transition channel change
2020-02-02 iHeart Stations: ‘Agents of their Own Demise’
2022-12-17 The Reporter Shuffle: Jose Martinez, Bailey Miller, Pattrik Perez
AM 1270 Longview FCC History Cards
Talk Of The Town: KBAM Longview
Those tense aircheck sessions
Radio offers variety
Two file for defunct Bellevue station
G Michael Donovan takes the helm at KTAC
Seattle Radio Profile // July 1949
Bill Small, former CBS Washington Bureau Chief Dies
Marian Seymour at KJR
Goodbye, Friend: Tim Shook
Burl Barer on KOL September 4, 1969
Steve Randall Bio
This reminds me of something KLFF did when I worked there. They’d sell some spots on the all-nighter and, without telling the client, they would bonus them ten to one during the day. Happy customer then spent a little more money.
It gave the impression of being sold-out, I suppose. And gave those customers a bonus.
Those guys made “a dollar a holler” sound like high finance!
KAYO was known as the place for trade-outs in Seattle. When I worked there, it was common knowledge that Jessica’s attic was filled with motorcycles and other big ticket items that she doled at as birthday and Christmas gifts.
I worked afternoon drive at KBAM as Lou Robbins. My buddy Dave Sawyer (Ryan) worked mornings. We were doing late-night recordings of a two-man show we wanted to peddle to larger markets. One Saturday night, after the station had signed off, we were in the middle of taping and station owner Arne Peterson walked in, staring at us through the window into the control room. Thinking fast, we told him we were practicing before pitching him a two-man morning show. All he asked was whether we thought it was humorous. We looked at each other and shook our heads YES. “Well, start this on Monday morning then. Great idea!” And he went off to his office. The following Monday, Ryan & Robbins premiered on KBAM, as Ryan & Ryan premiered on KAYO that same day.
We ran with this for the better part of a year, sending out an occasional tape to Eugene, Portland, Salem etc. We got an offer from KUGN/Eugene. As fortune would have it, I had just decided to accept an offer from AT&T in Tacoma. Smart move on my part. Dave went on to do voice -tracking for IGM/Bellingham. He also spent some time at KIXI Seattle.