Sunday Listening: 91.7 KYFQ Tacoma

7:00 PM News and Good News SRN
7:30 PM Unshackled! Pacific Garden Mission
8:00 PM News and Good News SRN
8:30 PM Streams in the Desert BBN Announcers
SRN News at the top of the hour, followed by Christian music. You just picture the bespectacled, elderly woman at the organ. Other selections are vocals. These are the old stand-bys, not the new-age stuff. This is the old-time presentation of gospel music and sermons.
In tonight’s episode of UNSHACKLED, Mom leaves Dad for Mr. Stanley, an alcoholic she met at work. He promises to leave his wife. He is drunk all the time. The daughters stop going to church, take up partying, alcohol, marijuana, and take chances like hitch-hiking. Unshackled! is a radio drama series produced by Pacific Garden Mission, in Chicago, Illinois, that first aired on September 23, 1950.

Twisting the dial

KONP 1450-101.7/Port Angeles 8:00-9:00 When Radio Was – old-time radio dramas hosted by Greg Bell. (ABC News @ 9PM)

91.7 KYFQ — Christian hymns (Bible Broadcasting Network) TACOMA — Operated by Tacoma Public Schools at Tacoma from Voc-Tech from 1949-1969; Bates Voc-Tech 1969-1986: KTOY was a great launching pad for many radio people. Many are still in the business locally and across the USA. KTOY programmed Top 40 [with R&B on weekends]. Instructors included Lee Perkins, Chuck Ellsworth, Al McMillan, Darren Lamb, Ken Keigley & Bill Luckhurst; KTPS FM Variety 1986-1992, KBTC FM Variety 1992-2004; 2004- 91.7 KXOT (Variety) NPR – Public Radio Capital licensed to KEXP; May 2006 KUOW licensed the station to broadcast secondary programming of its affiliation with the BBC and NPR. PRC had been seeking an operator for KXOT for a few years. From 2006 until July 2012 KXOT was operated by the University Of Washington as KUOW2, a secondary service of their 94.9 KUOW-FM Seattle. After a period off-the-air, KXOT was simulcasting the audio of cable public affairs network TVW, a local equivalent of C-SPAN since the start of 2013. KXOT was sold to Bible Broadcasting Network for $2.4 million in February 2015 and given KYFQ call letters. BBN Network broadcasts began in August 2015. Bible Broadcasting Network sister station is KWFJ/Roy, WA.
KTOY Personalities: Sam Lawson, Chris Lindstrom, Fred Elliot, Randy Goedker, Brent Stier, Lynn Benson, Dewey Boynton, David Sawyer, Slim/Leslie Nielsen, Dennis LaMarche, Rick Nordlund, Mario Briones, Martin Moreno, Jim Bach, Pat O’Day/Paul Berg, Chuck Ellsworth/Lee Perkins/Russ Stringham/Al McMillan-instructors, Ken Keigley & Bill Luckhurst -Chief Engineers 60/70s — other alumni of KTOY? Contact us!