For those disgruntled with today's commercial radio, here's typically outspoken Bob Hardwick talking to his loyal KVI listeners about the…
The Don W. Burden/Star Stations story is a mix of good and bad. On one hand, Burden’ s disregard for…
A recent glance at late-1950s hit music recalls one of the biggest -- but almost forgotten -- recording stars of…
This is my second offering of Bob Baron's outstanding broadcasting skills . . . It's two days before the November,…
Robert Baron had one of the largest old record collections imaginable. Under the well-known moniker "Mad Man Moskowitz," he was…
It's true that the mid and late 1960s were about more than Vietnam. But the impacts of Vietnam were widespread,…
The Pacific Northwest saw a fairly major rock radio change in 1966. It nearly went unnoticed by many Puget Sounders.…
One of the most familiar and influential voices during Puget Sound's formative radio years was Buzz Barr. He parlayed an…
Seattle area radio listeners weren’t alone in witnessing a rock radio war through the 1960s and ‘70s. Less than three…
One of the hallmarks of Seattle's history was the Century 21 Exposition, commonly known as the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.…
His name became a household word in 1960s Seattle radio. His "That's the Way the Ball Bounces" feature was a…
Through much of the 1970s KTAC-AM gave Tacoma something it probably never had before: a station that strongly competed with…
Larry Lujack was 73 in when he died at home in New Mexico (to esophageal cancer). He'd been retired from…
But what happened in late 1956 was a last minute surprise which saw McCaw Broadcasting put the KLOQ call letters…
There are oodles of stories around about Pat O'Day, the vaunted godfather of Northwest Top 40 radio. The most accurate…