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Jim Baine Forces Dimmitt To Take Leave; Jaynie Dillon Up All Night

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July 1983

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Victor Stredicke

Victor Stredicke is a longtime figure in Seattle-area media, best known as the former radio-TV editor for The Seattle Times. He wrote a dedicated column covering local and regional radio broadcasting, including station changes, programming, personalities, controversies, and industry news. This legacy is the driving force behind QZVX (qzvx.com). In 2023, Victor Stredicke was honored at the Radio Conference Call meet-up for his longtime contributions as a newspaper radio-TV columnist, with appreciation from readers and people he had covered.

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  • If Jerry Dimmitt thought vacation meant vacation with pay, he would have been wrong. How cold was Baine to make him take a leave, which is akin to being laid off? Either way, Baine was out no money.

  • From the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) we reclaim some of our Lost Comments:

    Mike Cherry says:
    August 30, 2018 7:49 pm
    Jason’s comments about Jim Baine are bang on. I’ve worked for a couple of radio station owners over the decades that have treated me like ‘product’ instead of a person. Owners like this often get their deserved payback eventually. This KAMT host sounds like he really needed a break – possibly due to stress overload, a personal crisis or mental health issue. What goes around comes around…

  • I know we are not supposed to make snarky comments, but Bains is one of the bad guys. Herb Smiles used to attack him on the air at KAYE, Puyallup. I guess when JFK got shot, KMO was the only station that went on with their normal programing as if nothing happened. I hear from others that Bains was a real bonehead.

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