KBRD 920 is on the air, also at 101.1 FM Olympia

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• I just tuned in to KBRD in the middle of "Half as Much", #2 in '52 by Hank Williams, followed by the 1975 Don Williams #1 hit "'Til the Rivers All Run Dry", sung by Nana Mouskouri.

  • Nana covered a lot of tunes, yet never became a household name or hit the Beautiful Music 40 Countdown.

• the Northwest rock n roll presentation society people are the folks who donated 920 to KBRD, which is why i think this is whats the best and most likely option for a few factors. They currently operate KGHO LPFM... one of the NWRRPS folks used to own 920 when it was KGHO Oldies, same as the current lpfm

  Mainly cost and legality for NWRRPS... 920 probably would be too expensive from a powerb ill standpoint as a hobby,non profit station like KGHO.. but an established station like KBRD? Sure.... 250 watt daytime only electric bill vs 5kw

  Plus, they need something to feed translators, am doesnt have to be on for that at night.. and they can seed them in a few ways, more reliably and legally then the LPFM does, as i know theres been some question.

  They get a tax write off for the donation, etc and can somehow turn that into a tanginble or intangible benefit for KGHO

  • Alan Gottlieb and the second amendment foundation donated 920 AM, not NWRRP

    • Im sure the NWRRPS society/former KGTK owners were somehow involved in the donation, as NWRRPS owns the 101.1 translator that KBRD is on and the NWRRPS is the same people as when 920 was KGHO

      • Adrian DeBee is President and GM of Skip’s For The Music Foundation.
        Currently, both AM stations and the facilities of the Foundation carry the KBRD programming.

    • This from March: https://www.qzvx.com/2025/03/07/kgtk-donated-to-the-bird/

  • Sorry, i didnt make this clearer.. i think the NWRRPS is the best/most obvious choice to end up with 680.

• In the 1950s, Don Whiteman's KITN had the 920 frequency, and operated from a studio at 610 Columbia Street in downtown Olympia. KITN was the sister station to Whiteman's other station, KITI, in Centralia. 

  • My recollection is that KITN operated into the 1960s sometime. Checking the data on our AM radio page, I see that I am once again correct. (What do I win???)
    Previous call letters: 2-1-57/KITN-AM 1420; 6-1-60 changed frequency to 920-AM; KQEU call letters 02/17/1982; KCPL 07/31/1993; KGHO 05/24/1996; KAYO 04/13/1999; KGHO 12/23/1999; KGTK 03/30/2004; KBRD July 1, 2025.

• KUTI named for Engineer Jack Ondracek's first job at KUTI, Yakima, all those years ago.

  • I'm thinking Yakima's KUTI was a Wally Nelskog operation.

    • The writer is correct, to a point. Wally sold KUTI (980 AM) in 1957 to Harrison Roddick, a Chicago industrialist.
      A quick sidebar: Roddick didn't care much for the "Cutie" appellation, and not long after settling in to Yakima, taking control of the station, directed his on-air personalities to refer to the call letters as Kay-You-Tee-Eye.
      A couple fellow golfers at the local country club kidded him about the music, and Roddick promptly pulled the Bobettes, Del-Vikings and "some guy named Fats Domino" off the air. The music director, Paul Berg, as diplomatically as possible patiently explained the records he selected for air play were popular with the audience, but Roddick was having none of it. "You're fired."
      Paul (the future Pat O'Day) was hired shortly thereafter at cross-town rival KLOQ, to replace PD and afternoon DJ Frosty Fowler, who'd been hired by KING.

• KBRD is heard on 680 KUTI (new calls) as well (during daylight operational hours). That dial position is likely "on the market." Switch to 920 happened on July 1st.