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   August 2, 2025


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  1. Nature calls

    Jason Remington • November 12, 2025

    No music when I tuned in. Just bird sounds and running water. Is the station operated by a urologist? Bitcaster operates from Japan. The operation is Voice of the Planet. Some poetry now. More running water. I’m out!

  2. It took a toll

    Jason Remington • November 7, 2025

    Tolls on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge have been collected since the original bridge (Galloping Gertie) opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, but toll collection resumed on the replacement bridge when it opened on October 14, 1950, and has continued uninterrupted since then to fund construction and maintenance. This year marks 85 years from the initial start of tolling.

  3. Blues, the state of local radio

    Jason • October 31, 2025

    The FCC has long criticized rimshotting because it violates the core public-interest obligation under 47 U.S.C. § 307(b) to serve the “needs and interests” of the community to which the license is assigned. Tacoma has just one local station, KNKX, but it super-serves Seattle. I long for the days when the Tacoma News Tribune operated KTNT AM-FM-TV, KMO played Country music and KTAC played the Top 40 pop tunes. Radio today is generally unlistenable. There is little local talent and practically ZERO personality.
    Beertender, pour me another, please!

  4. June Lockhart R.I.P.

    Jason Remington • October 25, 2025

    June Lockhart, an actress who debuted at 8 with the Metropolitan Opera, won a Tony Award at 22 for her Broadway performance as a winsome ingénue and had a long career on television, notably starring as warmhearted matriarchs opposite a collie in “Lassie” and a robot on “Lost in Space,” died Oct. 23 at her home in Santa Monica. She was 100 years old.

  5. A few radio notes from 2010

    Jason Remington • October 23, 2025

    03/29/10 – TV journalist and former news anchor Margaret Larson returns to KING-TV
    Seattle to host a new daytime show, New Day Northwest.

    03/28/10 – KLSY-FM 107.9 South Bend, recently acquired from South Bend Broadcating
    by Jodesha Broadcasting, Inc., will launch April 1 as 107-9 The Quake with a
    Classic Rock format.

    03/26/10 – Former KITI AM 1420 Centralia morning host Roger Dale Pederson died
    Thursday, March 25 at age 63 due to complications from cancer. He worked at KOL and
    KMPS Seattle in the 1970s.

  6. Radio-TV Notes October 2019

    Jason Remington • October 23, 2025

    October 31, 2019 – Long-time baseball player and broadcaster Ron Fairly died Wednesday in
    Indian Wells, CA at age 81. He spent 14 seasons with the Seattle Mariners as an analyst and occasional play-by-play voice before retiring from full-time duties in 2006.

    October 19, 2019 – Tracey Leong is a new morning anchor at KIRO 7 Seattle. She was a
    reporter for a short time at KTTV Los Angeles and previously was a weekend morning
    anchor/ reporter at WJZ-TV Baltimore.

    October 15, 2019 – Matthew Smith is joining KIRO-TV Seattle at the end of the month. He’s been a reporter at WXYZ-TV Detroit since 2016.

    October 14, 2019 – Former Seattle broadcaster Lisa Adams has been named PD of the newly
    launched Adult Contemporary format Magic 97.9 KQFC-FM Boise, ID. She will also
    handle mornings. Adams was most recently Program Director for KNUC-FM 98.9 Seattle.

    October 9, 2019 – “The Morning Wolfpack with Matt McAllister” on The Wolf KKWF-FM 100.7
    Seattle wins Major Market CMA Personality of the Year.

    October 8, 2019 – KOMO-TV Seattle news anchor Mary Nam speaks for the first time about her
    very personal fight with breast cancer. She underwent mastectomy surgery and it was
    a resounding success. Doctors say she will not need chemotherapy or radiation
    treatment.

    The Salem Media Group trade of KKOL 1300 AM Seattle for Intelli, LLC’s
    KPAM 860 AM in Portland has now officially closed.

    October 5, 2019 – After nearly ten years in Pittsburgh, Vinnie Richichi, aka New York
    Vinnie returns to Seattle, with his “Drivetime” car-culture show Saturdays on KKNW
    AM 1150.

    October 3, 2019 – KIRO-TV Seattle news anchor John Knicely has announced his departure to
    pursue interests outside of TV news. He’s been with KIRO since October 2012.

    October 2, 2019 – KKOL AM 1300 Seattle has been off air since the weekend. The signals of
    co-combined KLFE AM 1590 & KNTS AM 1680 are both operating at normal power.

    October 1, 2019 – Q13 KCPQ-TV Seattle begins broadcasting The Star-Spangled Banner at 3:58
    a.m. every morning as part of a broader initiative to bring the National Anthem back
    to airwaves across America. It is one of 197 Nexstar TV stations that will have
    daily National Anthem broadcasts.

    Former KAFE-FM 104.1 Bellingham PD Scott Roddy has been named OM/PD for
    Country The Wolf KWJJ-FM 99.5 and Hot AC The Buzz KRSK-FM 105.1 Portland. He was PD
    at KAFE from 2013-16.

    1. The K-Tel Collection

      Jason Remington • November 19, 2025

      I guess the theme would continue with:
      “(If Loving You Is Wrong) We Can Say It’s A Polyamourous Relationship.”
      “The Chair, Or The Swing, Your Choice.”
      “Torn Between Two Live-In Lovers”
      “Young Love, Or Minor Attraction?”
      “You’re So Good When You’re Bad. Do It To Me One More Time (Medley).”
      “Breathe, This Won’t Hurt.”

  9. Dick Clark calms teen rage

    Jason Remington • October 21, 2025

    HOLLYWOOD, July 30. 1962 (Rick Du Brow)
    **(U.P.I.)—**Some weeks ago, it was suggested by this viewer that it would be difficult to find a more tasteless television show than Dick Clark’s daily dance program. This, of course, was gentle understatement. But since then, I have been informed that if Clark’s program were not for it, the nation might well be deluged by a wave of juvenile delinquency between the hours of 4 and 4:50 p.m. each day when the show is aired. Scores of Clark fans have written in—and whose repetition of phrases and geographical groupings might make a more cynical person suspect that well-oiled clubs admirers work. THE PHRASING that found its way into most of the letters was to the effect that teen-agers for Clark, roaming the streets, wondering what to do, fighting, stealing, doing heaven knows what, apparently oblivious to the demands of parents and all between 4 and 4:50 p.m. This is food for thought. On the one hand, it is a matter of patriotism, not commercialism, to keep Clark on the air. If he is ever canned, it may mean national emergency. Certainly the number of police officers will have to be increased to watch those teen-agers— except on week-ends, when Clark is off and things seem to have held together somehow. On the other hand, perhaps Clark could be persuaded to extend his program to three or five or six hours a day, because obviously this would cut down proportionately on juvenile delinquency. Dick Clark might even go 24 hours a day and thereby eliminate delinquency completely. Some of the letters were intelligent and forthright; I quote verbatim one young lady from Walnut Creek, Calif.: “Don’t Cal. no he (Clark) is the great teen age idle of are time? . . . I rilly dig him and them kids what dances. He has did gret things for us kids agin . . . what have you did.” Another teen-ager, from Coroopolis, Pa., signed off: “Sincerely, Angry.” The greatest single objection came concerning the opinion that Clark “offers his viewers a steady diet of animalistic, guttural, moronic, almost always forgettable and at times bordering on the suggestive.” Finally, the letters charged, almost without exception, that I must be an old fogey.

    1. Because they're young

      Jason Remington • November 3, 2025

      Back in the days when the kids knew how to write in cursive.

  10. July 30, 1962 Fashion Beat

    Jason Remington • October 21, 2025

    PEOPLE OF FASHION – United Press International – Princess Lee Radziwill, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy’s sister, said in Paris today she was “tired, just tired,” of all this Givenchy business.”The “Givenchy business” stemmed from Hubert de Givenchy’s refusal to allow Princess Radziwill to attend one of his couturier house’s customer shows next week. Givenchy said he considered the princess a member of the working press. She has been writing about fashions for an American magazine, but this work would have been finished by tomorrow. Her visit would have been as a potential buyer, she said. This was not good enough for Givenchy. The princess could see his collections with the rest of the press next month, he said, and not before.
    “Yes, it’s true I said I won’t darken his door again,” the princess said. “But I’m tired of the whole thing now, just tired. I think he (Givenchy) has got enough publicity.” The princess is considered one of the world’s best-dressed women. She shopped at Givenchy for six years, but recently turned to a new designer, the youthful Yves Saint Laurent.

    1. I have other plans

      Jason Remington • October 22, 2025

      Givenchy: You are not invited, media rat!
      Radziwell: I didn’t want to go to your dress-up party anyway.
      Givenchy: Burn! I guess I rattled your cage. (tee hee)
      Radziwell: You campy twink!
      Givenchy: I know you are, so what am I?
      Radziwell: I’m rubber, you’re glue. Bounces off me and sticks to you.

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