1946, 1956 – Skagit County stations planned

View Comments

• John is correct -- Before KAGT (later KLKI), Bill Berry was an account executive at KING-TV.
  And brought with him to Anacortes, pioneer sportscaster and former KING colleague Bill O'Mara, who did play-by-play broadcasts on the station till he was 90.

• I used to listen on my bedroom radio every Sunday afternoon to KBRC in the early- and mid-fifties when I was in junior high. It came in just like a local at our house on East 90th St. off Roosevelt Way in North Seattle. The elevation was just over 500 feet, the second highest hill in Seattle.

  Its legal on-the-hour I. D. was "KBRC near Mount Vernon". I always wondered if any other station had an I. D. like that.

  • By the way, Dick, I have often wondered why that hill we grew up on doesn’t have an official name. Where our house was on 94th, it is one of the steepest streets in Seattle.

  • Dick, I grew up just a few blocks from your location in north Seattle., in what is now described as the Maple Leaf neighborhood. In 1963, when I was 7, we moved into a brand new house at 1528 NE 94th St. So I am very familiar with that North Roosevelt business area. I attended Sacajawea Elementary school, which opened in 1959, then Jane Addams Junior High then Nathan Hale High, which opened in 1964. If we had lived just a few blocks west I likely would have attended Olympic View Elementary, John Marshall Junior High and Roosevelt High.

• I was editor of the Anacortes American newspaper from 1978 to 1985. I didn’t know that a Portland resident was the original owner of KAGT, but the station at some point was sold to Bill Berry, who owned the station when I lived there. I understand that Bill previously worked at KING-TV.