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Tom Read

Stredicke, March 1970-KTNT: blues and baseball

March 8, 1970 - Blues lovers may want to tune in to KTNT AM Tacoma at 10:30 P.M.Saturdays to check…

5 months ago

Dick Weeks speaks on early years of Tacoma radio

QZVX continues to delve into the stories shared by the Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters. These are the final notes from the…

8 months ago

The KTBI story, and the beautiful Center Street facility

QZVX continues to delve into the stories shared by the Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters. This information comes from the 1987 banquet.…

8 months ago

Commentary from Northwest Pioneer Broadcasters 1991 convention newsletter

KBRD (originally KTBI) has begun simulcasting its Tacoma beautiful music FM station (originally KTWR) with KTAC. Combined studios have been…

9 months ago

NORTHWEST BROADCASTERS – 1991 Convention Newsletter

NEWS HEADLINES 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION BIG SUCCESS…..HOMER POPE INDUCTED INTO THE BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME…..CASSETTES OF 90 AND 91 CONVENTION…

9 months ago

K-Love. It’s like mold forming across the airwaves. Surely, radio has more to offer more than this; Will shock jocks make a comeback?

Tom Read picks up a nice chunk of change with the sale of 106.5 KSPO Dishman/Spokane from Read’s Liberty Broadcasting…

12 months ago

Time Passages: KTBI

Taken from Tom Read's American Christian Network, a little history of KTBI. The original site at 27th & Center Street…

1 year ago

A few of Tom Read’s radio ventures

Tom Read's first radio station was KTWR Tacoma. October 2005 - The Spokesman Review September 2005 - The Spokesman Review…

1 year ago

1958 – KTWR FM Tacoma goes on the air

February 15, 1958 June 1, 1958 KTWR 103.9 became KTAC FM in May 1964.

1 year ago

KTNT radio has the Blues

March 8, 1970 - Victor Stredicke (Seattle Times) --Blues lovers may want to tune in to KTNT AM Tacoma at…

2 years ago

1958 – Tom Read’s New FM Debut

Tacoma News Tribune_Sunday Jun 1, 1958Read was 21 years old when KTWR went on the air from the Peck Building…

3 years ago

Spokane’s 1st Radio Station Was….

Oct_11__1992

4 years ago

February 1959 Tacoma First: 2 FM Stereo Stations

KTWR Tacoma, Wash.—Granted license for fm station January 1958. -- station on-air July 1958; KTWR (FM) Tacoma, later months off-air…

4 years ago

The Peck Building – Tacoma

The early home of KLAY FM owned by Clay Huntington and KTWR FM owned by Tom Read - KLAY later…

4 years ago

Tacoma’s KTBI (KTAC) Call Letter History

The first religious radio station in Los Angeles was radio station KJS, located at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles…

8 years ago
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