KIRO 7: An eyewitness to broadcasting changes in the PNW

2011–KVI format switch; KVOS sale; Auburn AM flips to Spanish; Shellie Hart out at KUBE; Bonaduce to KZOK

JP Patches alternate theme music

Bob Newman, Chris Wedes and Stan Boreson

Channel 7 sets new daytime lineup [1959]

David Richardson – How The Brakeman Bill Show Started

The clown that “made” KIRO 7

When after school tv was worth watching

Al Cummings Does The Hustle, KJR Fires Norm Gregory, SRO Picks Up Another Station

That villainous character, Chris Wedes

How Chris Wedes became J.P. Patches

2012: Chris Wedes Obit

JP PATCHES, Patches Pals Will Never Forget

1982: Off-The-Air, But J.P. Patches Still Clowning Around

1983: TV Kid Shows Remembered

Bright Future Predicted For Mayor of City Dump

1978: Where Have All The Patches Pals Gone?

Chris Wedes Partners To Buy KEED/Springfield, Or.

Newspaper Article Traumatizes Patches Pals

Frosty Fowler Interview with Chris Wedes (J.P. Patches)