[1922 - Radio Broadcast magazine]
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Category Archives: Entertainment
KH20 850 to air
2011/06/03 – 7:36 pm
From studios atop Tacoma’s Seafirst Building, and with a transmitter located on 10 acres along River Road, former KTAC staff members Steve West and Dave Walker say they’ll dip a toe into the airwaves with KHOO – KH2O – within the next several days. This, after paying a cool half-million to the previous owners.
[CR Roberts - Tacoma News Tribune 1996]
KTAC sues KOMO
2011/06/03 – 7:26 pm
1987 [Vic Stredicke/Seattle Times] The Tacoma Stars indoor soccer broadcasts transfer to KOMO, 1000 kHz after a couple of broadcast seasons on KTAC.
“The successful South Sound sports franchise is ready to go regional,” said Michael Bettelli, KOMO program director. Indoor soccer, it seems, is ideally suited to radio because the action is fast and virtually non-stop.
and from the Seattle Times, later…
The Tacoma Stars Major Indoor Soccer League club and Seattle radio station KOMO were sued in Pierce County Superior Court by Tacoma radio station KTAC, which charges the Stars with breach of good faith and fair dealing in regard to broadcast rights for the 1987-88 season. Also, KOMO Radio was sued for interferring with a contract relationship.
JP Patches’ car accident
2011/06/03 – 6:55 pm
In 1966, the Seattle P-I revealed to Puget Sound area children, the identity of the beloved TV clown, JP Patches. When the actor was injured in a car crash, the paper ran an article, as did the Tacoma News Tribune, and his real name became public.
story at SEATTLE P-I
1973 Tacoma radio listings
2011/06/02 – 9:42 pm
6:00 am
570 KVI Hardwick
710 KIRO Jim Gearhart
850 KTAC Dudley
1000 KOMO Larry Nelson
1090 KING Don Hemingway
1360 KMO Ed Dollar
1400 KTNT Bruce Vanderhoof
10:00 am
570 KVI Greg Aust
710 KIRO Ross McGowan
850 KTAC Don Patrick
1000 KOMO Del Olney
1090 KING Mike Brody
1360 KMO John Hayden
1400 KTNT Dick Weeks – Personal Choice
12:00 Noon
1400 KTNT Glenn Brooke
1:00 pm
570 KVI Jim French
2:00 pm
710 KIRO Mark Wayne
850 KTAC Bruce Cannon
1090 KING Bill Gardner
3:00 pm
1000 KOMO Don Cannon
1360 KMO Jay Alan
4:00 pm
570 KVI Dick Cross
5:45 pm
570 KVI Bob Robertson – Sports
6:00 pm
570 KVI Dick Cross
710 KIRO Bill Yeend
850 KTAC Bobby McAlester
1090 KING Gary Mitchell
1400 KTNT John Todd
7:00 pm
570 KVI Tracy Steel
1000 KOMO Bill McDonnell
8:15 pm
1400 KTNT Tacoma Twins Baseball
10:00 pm
570 KVI Theater of the Mind (Old Time Radio Programs)
850 KTAC Donovan
1090 KING Dan Foley
1360 KMO John Trimble
11:00 pm
570 KVI Tracy Steel
1400 KTNT John Todd
12:00 Midnight
570 KVI Don Fuhrmann
710 KIRO Grant Nielsen
1000 KOMO Lloyd Allen
1400 KTNT Sign Off
2:00 am
850 KTAC Paul Chambers
1090 KING Jim Martin
[Tacoma News Tribune]
*** Oddly enough, the Tacoma News Tribune did not list the lineup for KJR or KOL during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The paper stopped running radio listings at some time in the 1980s.
Charles Herring KING 5 TV News
2011/05/31 – 5:10 pm
Seattle’s first news anchor [September 1951] – Charles Herring, interviewed on NWCN Cable News, September 2001, by Cam Johnson. Charles Herring left KING 5 in 1967, he and his wife purchased radio station KAPY/Port Angeles, which they operated until 1978. Herring died in January 2006 after a long battle with cancer.
*** In 1973, I drove up to Port Angeles to apply for a position at KAPY. I was a day late, the job had been snatched by someone else. Mr. Herring listened to my aircheck, asked me to put together a three-minute newscast and audition anyway. He then called the owner of KONP/Port Angeles and recommended me for any position that station might have available. I was hired that day by KONP, staying there a year before moving on.