VICTOR STREDICKE | MAY 1971 – ALL THINGS CONSIDERED debuted on National Public Radio…Stan Naccarato, owner of Stanley’s Shoes, in Tacoma and station manager at KLAY FM, hearing that the Tacoma baseball club was for sale, formed a group of 20 investors, headed by restauranteur Jim Zarelli…….Bob Piatt, former KIRO-AM announcer, becomes the new morning announcer at KTNT-AM Tacoma… Al Cummings hosts the morning show on KISW. It’s music with a lot of talk. Cummings tries to relate to the teens listening to the rock station…Former basketball star, Spencer Haywood, hosts a jazz show on KISW each Sunday afternoon…Program Director Buzz Barr gets rid of the clutter, [personality chatter], on “More Music” KING AM…Tom Murphy leaves KJR for KRLA Los Angeles. He joins friends Dick Saint, formerly with KISN Portland, and Don Burns, ex- KOL announcer…Scotty Brink replaces Murphy at KJR, coming from WLS Chicago…Tom Read, the man who put KTWR [KTAC FM] on the air, and helped establish KLAY FM, becomes operation manager at KDNC AM & FM Spokane…Engineers at KIRO TV 7 have been working on an intercom system between director and cameramen. It sometimes picks up the signal of KJR…KTNT FM simulcasts with KTNT AM from 7 a.m until 7 p.m., at which time it switches to a country music format…
No generation gap here
September 22, 2025 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
I was 63 when the barista in this RadioInk.com article was born, yet she and I are bored with and turned off by radio for the same reasons – it’s impersonal, it’s not local (no credit given for the seven second liner saying “Wow, traffic on Aurora was a mess this morning, AM I RIGHT?”), it’s predictably boring with its thirty-song playlist and its eight commercials in a row with their disclaimers played at five times normal speed.
That barista has no idea what radio could be and once was. But a lot of us who frequent this forum remember and were part of radio, when we loved to get up and go to work, walk in to the studio, plant it in the sagging swivel chair, open the mike and talk to our people, and pick up the phone and listen to ’em too. Maybe we’d do our best show ever, or maybe our worst show ever, but they put up with us because they came to know us and they kinda liked our company.
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Good article
September 22, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
My point exactly. With very few exceptions, such as small town local radio, much of what is on the air is a waste of time. Time spent waiting for personality that never arrives, between stacks of commercial spots and the same playlist. ALMOST LIVE had a skit about THE MOUNTAIN. “Hey, I found a radio station that plays THE EAGLES!!” Imagine that. All the Classic Rock stations were playing the Eagles. Now, The MOUNTAIN proclaims this is a reason to listen. Sorry, no.
What we experienced while working in radio, will never be duplicated.
Spencer Hayward
September 22, 2025 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Fascinating factoid about Spencer – while in rehab, he got hooked on Susan Haywood movies.
Not responsible for TIMES typos
September 22, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Took me a minute to figure out why you juxtaposed those names. I corrected the typo in the article. Good catch. Good laugh. Thanks, Dick!