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CNN has recently experimented with a more casual, podcast-inspired aesthetic on some of its evening…
January 10, 1925 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Dah-Dah dit-dit dah-dah!" Get that? It's regular radio code…
Lloyd Wallgren who had for years tried to buy KRKO or have the station license…
KFBL, LEESE BROS. TO TAKE PLACE IN BIG STATION GROUP October 22, 1926 (Everett Herald)…
KGB Tacoma debut KMO Tacoma debut KVI Tacoma debut KTBI Tacoma debut KIRO Radio (1941)…
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Which would I choose? Living and working during the golden years of radio or now when we see such technological progress? That is a tough question.
No, it's not a tough question.
Just for the fact that the world was a better place back then, I would choose to have lived then.
That's the right answer. Me too.
The author of this, Ted Knightlinger, was my father. He wrote it when I was 20, predicting at the end of the piece that "The next 50 years will be better than ever." Well, after spending my career in broadcast news (anchor/correspondent CBS News/Radio, NY; news director KIRO radio, etc.) it seems that perhaps 40 of those years were remarkable. But, since the internet's ascendency, with much of the enthusiasm and optimism of radio's early years, the business model of journalism has, if not collapsed, changed drastically. I'm grateful that I was able to be a small part of it during the better times. Steve Knight