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Jim French

Hardwick zips back to KVI

October 1974 – Robert L Scott is the new MD at KYAC. Former music director Robert Nesbitt continues as a…

3 months ago

The KING – KIRO radio news tussle

January 26, 1986 – Up against KIRO, KING-AM looks like a midget. The two stations with more or less competitive…

5 months ago

Radio/TV Notes: January 1964

JANUARY 1964 – A feud may be in the offing. Early in December, Ed Sullivan announced he would introduce to…

5 months ago

880 KIXI, Summer winds down with great music and baseball

Listening to the Oldies on KIXI 880 ... and now local baseball action at Cheney Stadium with the Tacoma Rainiers.…

5 months ago

Don Duncan/Seattle Times: PIONEERS IN BROADCASTING

August 22, 1990 Back in the early 1950s, when the hydroplane Quicksilver flipped over and sank in Lake Washington during…

6 months ago

Collectors? KING 1090 rare find

Hi Jason - It has been a while since I've written. This time it's not Smitty's Old Records, it's Radio…

6 months ago

Chris Bennett weathers financial downturn, KMCQ silenced by heavy snows

Items from the Seattle P-I radio columnist Bill Virgin-- January 15, 2009 -Chris Bennett's newspapers and radio stations are scrambling…

7 months ago

Hardwick estate files lawsuit; 1994 media review

December 1994- Chuck Taylor/Seattle Times (excerpts) Sheilah Hardwick (widow of Robert E. Lee Hardwick), their son and Hardwick's estate vs.…

8 months ago

Naked Radio, Classical KISW Sneaks Progressive Rock Into Playlist, Stereo KOL FM Powers Up, & KRKO Celebrates 50th Anniversary

July 10, 1970 – Paxton Mills, newest disc jockey in town, needed all the Texas cool he could muster when,…

9 months ago
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