Oldest South Sound Radio Stations

Licensed August 16, 1921, KJR is certainly the oldest radio station in Washington state.

South Sound residents got their own station on March 30, 1922 as KGY began broadcasting. Those original call letters were used by the station until the Kerry family sold the station in 2014 to Sacred Heart Radio.

Tacoma’s KMO took to the airwaves on March 30. The station dropped those great call letters in 1984, for KAMT. The station later went with the call letters KKMO.

KTW Seattle started programming on April 22. The station is now KKDZ.

Finally, another station for Seattle on May 23, KDZE, which later became KOL. The station became KMPS in 1975, and was acquired by Salem in 1997, changing call letters to KKOL [not quite KOL].