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.
Dick Ellingson • August 22, 2020
Anybody remember Super Circus? Mary Hartline (her real name!), who kept pubescent boys and their dads glued to their TV screens in the early fifties, has gone to The Great Big Top.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mary-hartline-star-of-early-kids-tv-show-super-circus-dies-at-92
Interesting note: her fourth husband was Woolworth Donahue, grandson of Frank W. Woolworth. Was she the first million dollar baby from the five and ten cent store?
Bing Crosby sings “I Found a Million Dollar Baby” in 1931, when Mary Hartline was four years old.
https://youtu.be/xbPeLevi-uQ
Steven Smith • August 21, 2020
Dick…I have heard some of the shows since then….no longer a kid. And many of them are good. But I just though that mixing Gene Autry themes and the like with rock oldies was probably not going to be too effective.
Dick Ellingson • August 22, 2020
I agree completely, Steve. I wonder how the ratings reacted, if at all. By the way, I remember KSND as K-Sound, as in both “noise” and “Puget”, I suppose.
I also was unaware that Danny Holiday once went as Dan.
Edgar Bennett • August 22, 2020
I once listened to Jim Frenche,s “powder river” while walking through the woods on my walkman. I felt I was actually at the scene. A surreal moment. You really did have to use your imagination
Steven Smith • August 21, 2020
I agree. I liked oldies…but I was not old enough to remember old radio show intros…maybe Lone Ranger and Superman.
Dick Ellingson • August 21, 2020
Steve,
You missed out. Have you ever checked out any of the OTR stations online?
Kirk Wilde • August 21, 2020
Cheezy. Must’ve been late in the KSND story, after I left.