[Bob] Hardwick who? A 25-year veteran at KVI (with less-than-memorable sojourns at KAYO and KTAC), Hardwick is ready to become a household name again. The nostalgia station, KIXI-AM, 880 kHz., will initiate a morning show with the one and only Robert E. Lee Hardwick as host. (He begins 5:30-10 a.m. Monday. It’s no sweat for Hardwick to start his work week on a holiday. He’s been able to sleep late since July 1984, when KVI changed its format.)
[Seattle Times]
[1985] A federal investigation of radio frequency radiation levels at the Seattle antenna site used by 10 FM stations is set to begin (May 6) with representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency and the FCC present to conduct the week-long study.
The 10 FM’s at the Cougar Mountain site are KUBE, KPLZ, KLSY, KZOK, KMPS-FM, KISW, KMGI (formerly KRAB), KESZ, KIXI-FM and KQKT (formerly KKMI). Three of the stations have antennas on a single tower, two share a second, and the other five use their own structures at the 12-acre facility, which houses 21 towers for FM, microwave and two-way radio communications.
The antenna farm was targeted for the joint EPA-FCC study following complaints by nearby residents of alleged excessive exposure to RF, or nonionizing, radiation resulting from the broadcasters’ towers.
[excerpted from Broadcasting Magazine]
***CORRECTION: Call letter error, KESZ should read KEZX. Call letters KESZ were not in use anywhere until 1988, replacing call letters KLSI/Phoenix.
1993 – Bonneville Seattle merged AM-FM-TV news department launches KIRO News Network
Using an inverted triangle connected by three lines (each one representing arm of the AM-FM-TV combination) as its identifying logo, the main thrust behind the merging of the radio and TV editorial staffs is to try to establish KIRO-TV as the “dominant news presence” in a market where NBC affiliate KING-TV and ABC affiliate KOMO-TV typically hold rating advantages over the CBS affiliate.
Investing more than $3 million in the launch and promotion of KIRO-TV’s “news without walls” concept, Bonneville is gambling that its approach will alter newsgathering efforts of radio and TV combinations around the country.
[Broadcasting Magazine]
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]
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.
Tony Miner will be the new program director at talk-news KVI-AM (570) starting Nov. 1. He is former news director of the old KING-AM and now is director of operations for Metro Networks, which provides most of the radio stations in town with traffic reports. Miner replaces Jim Casale, who left KVI in May to become a consultant.
Mike Garland is now news director for adult-contemporary KLSY-FM (92.5) and nostalgia-hits KIXI-AM (880). He’s a Seattleite, too, with a long list of call letters on his resume: KJR-FM, KJR-AM, KUBE-FM, KBRD-FM, KTAC-AM, KLAY-AM, KKMO-AM and KUPY-AM.
[Seattle Times - October 1996]
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
Clay Huntington, the sports and civic icon whose contributions ranged from wooing Triple-A baseball back to Tacoma in 1960 to the formation of the Tacoma Athletic Commission, died Wednesday at Allenmore Hospital.
He was 89.
Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/06/02/1689290/tacoma-sports-broadcasting-icon.html#ixzz1OBsAWWV3
The Clay Huntington Legacy
1180 KLAY Radio
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.
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