Radio Wayback Machine August 2013

(Victor Stredicke) August 28, 2013 – Piolin, the loud spanish speaking personality who vanished from the schedule on KMIA, 1210, will be affiliating with a new program supplier, with his own investment, and may be offering his syndicated program once again.

Art Bell, who years ago used to probe conspiracies, ghosts and Chupacabra on the program that became “Coast to Coast AM,” will be returning (on Sirius X-M pay radio service), and will once again be broadcasting from his high-country home studio in Parrumph, Nevada.

Kirby Wilbur, former KVI talker, has taken a job with Young America”s Foundation, conservative group focusing on youths, which operates Reagan Ranch in California, and promises to teach high school and college students the skills that would help them “become the next Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Ann Coulter:”

A modified KIRO weekday schedule this month involving the Luke Burbank and John Curley Shows may be the definitive acknowledgement that Burbank is gone. Burbank has been spending much time away from KIRO, working on public-radio activities in Portland Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois.

Residents on both sides of the border at Point Roberts are voicing concerns about a plan to erect five large radio broadcast antennas in the U.S. peninsula.

Whatcom County is considering an application from BBC Broadcasting Inc. to construct the 150-foot steel towers at an undeveloped lot on McKenzie Way, just west of Tyee Drive in Point Roberts, WA. It’s in close proximity to the border with Tsawwassen. The towers would transmit South Asian radio station KRPI, AM 1550, which broadcasts from studios in Richmond, B.C. …

Arthur Reber, a member of the Point Roberts Community Advisory Committee, which organized a public meeting for concerned residents this week, told the Optimist there was little notification. He said many in the community only found out recently about the application.

“The mood of Point Roberts is, shall we say, the tar is boiling in the back and the folks with the feathers are plucking chickens to get ready for it. Others are building guillotines,” he said.

August 25th– The End 107.7 celebrates 22 years of rocking the Northwest this weekend.
Elisa Jaffe got marrried Saturday.
And Vin Scully returns to the L.A. Dodgers broadcast booth for the 65th year this season…