Reposted (link to graphic updated)
Victor Stredicke
Victor Stredicke is a longtime figure in Seattle-area media, best known as the former radio-TV editor for The Seattle Times. He wrote a dedicated column covering local and regional radio broadcasting, including station changes, programming, personalities, controversies, and industry news. This legacy is the driving force behind QZVX (qzvx.com). In 2023, Victor Stredicke was honored at the Radio Conference Call meet-up for his longtime contributions as a newspaper radio-TV columnist, with appreciation from readers and people he had covered.
Jason Remington • June 2, 2021
From the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) we reclaim some of our Lost Comments:
mikec says:
August 5, 2018 9:31 pm
Under KIRO 710 listing, it reads “music-conversation mid-days” – I’m surprised KIRO was airing any music at all by 1977. I would have though it was all talk & network features outside of drive-time news blocks
Steven Smith says:
August 7, 2018 7:30 am
Kiro had Jim French in the morning playing music for several years in the 70s, but 1977 does seem late. I was at Kbfw, an SRO station, during most of the Kuuu and Kzok years. When they had Kzok take over Kuuu, the Kuuu PD and operations guy….Duff Johnson…..was sent to Bellingham to be the GM for about a year.
mikec says:
August 7, 2018 2:55 pm
Jim French was definitely gone from KIRO by ’77 I checked back through some the skeds we have posted here but couldn’t find any program listings for that year. The closest I could find was a ’74 sked & on it, Jim French is hosting mid-days at KVI. On that sked, it certainly appears that KIRO still included plenty of music in it’s variety of programs. Going by the summarized station descriptions, it still appears to me that sometime in the mid-70’s, KIRO dropped music except for overnights.