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KZAM Gets Classy Call Letters, Bruce Cannon/KAMT, Sean Lynch & Beau Roberts/KNBQ

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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.

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  • Loved KZAM (FM) Bellevue back in the day (70's). Great DJ's especially the ladies that did an excellent job.
    Oops...dating myself...

    • Speaking of ladies in broadcasting, Leslie Nielson, the Slim One, was in my class at broadcast school (LH Bates-Tacoma). She went on to KNBQ Tacoma, WLS Chicago, 610 KFRC San Francisco, and later KKHR. https://youtu.be/1ZvBlCjehtg

      About Leslie, Victor Stredicke had written in our BROADCASTER page,
      Leslie Nielson - Slim did not divulge a more formal name on KPLZ 101.5, in 1979. The Tacoma native previously had worked at KNBQ 97.3 Tacoma, KLAY FM Tacoma and KODL The Dalles, Or.

      A "Star 101" website reports Slim is retired and living in Arizona. (VOS2013)

      • Also in that class at Bates Voc-Tech, Sam Lawson, presenter of great air checks here at Puget Sound Media.

    • Been bugging me since I posted this. Leilani McCoy was one of the DJ's I was trying to remember. First station I remember that did albums in the late evenings.

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