The KXLY-AM (Spokane) tower was built in 1937 and has helped spread the radio signal for the station ever since.
The 469-foot tower near the south complex soccer fields and across from Target has become costly to maintain.
The station built a smaller tower nearby and stopped using the old tower last month.(KXLY)
Voice of The Inland Empire: KXLY RADIO 92 (920 KHz)
John Ross/JR - Seattle • March 22, 2026
I was at KXLY in 1971/1972 when Johnny Holiday was the PD, Wayne McNulty, GM, before hitching up with KUUU 1590-AM in Seattle. Did mid-days, 10AM to 2PM on Radio 92, and then over to the TV side afterward and hosted the ‘Dialing For Dollars’ movie matinee, interviews and news, as well as weekend anchor news/weather when it was CBS and Ron Bair was the TV News Director. This was before teleprompters, so it was UPI teletype rip and read, prepping lead-ins for CBS News clip inserts on those old 3″ video-tape machines (or were they 4″?). Pay wasn’t that great on the radio side, and the TV side was Unionized, so I tried to organize the radio side, with total support from the other jocks, but it wasn’t well received by Holiday or McNulty. Soon, it was “bye-bye” KXLY and into the all-night oldies show at KUUU, replacing R.C. Bannon, and eventually 7 to Midnight. Fired on a Friday, hired on a Monday. That’s radio!
First CBS, now KXLY's legacy tower...
Steve Sibulsky • March 21, 2026
I once visited that transmitter building with the legendary Chief Engineer T. O. Jorgenson. Had to be 1975 or 76…