How long after the IPO, before Facebook dies?
Facebook this week started testing a system that lets users pay to promote their posts. Out of all the various different features the social networking giant has trialed on its website, this idea is by far the worst one yet. It sounds like an April Fools’ joke, but it isn’t.
“We’re constantly testing new features across the site,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “This particular test is simply to gauge people’s interest in this method of sharing with their friends.”
…Paid post promotion already exists on Facebook. It’s called advertising. That’s what Facebook Pages are for, not Facebook profiles. [ZDNET]
****Just when I think I will take myself off the Facebook site, I find a couple reasons to stay. First of all, you really can’t access the good sites without being a member.
So, here are a couple good radio-related Facebook sites you might want to check out:
A tribute site: dedicated to KJR SEATTLE CHANNEL 95 at https://www.facebook.com/groups/152584557405/
How many Seattle jocks spent an early part of their career at KRLC Lewiston/Clarkston? Check the new tribute site at https://www.facebook.com/groups/327748653965581/
I am concerned by the “creative” changes being made to Facebook. It is becoming more complicated than necessary to communicate by Facebook, IMHO.
KING FM family not really camera shy
Victor Stredicke
July 21, 1974
The business side of the KING FM, dragging heels for a year or so, but at long last, the promised staff photo has been mailed to fans. 
in last year’s spring contest, one of the lesser (or greater) prizes was to have been the photo. But none was at hand. Stan Barnes, business manager, finally rounded up his air staff and tossed assorted musical props at them. He was tired of fielding the question of “when am I going to get my prize?”
“Many of our listeners wanted to know what we look like,” Sedge Thomson, announcer, said.
“Actually, there is no other apocryphal reason for posing as we did.”
Radio listeners who have been wondering what ever happened to the NBC radio network may be surprised to learn that five Emphasis features are heard weekdays on KING FM.
Some of the times are flexible, and repeat segments are at the option of the announcer on duty, but usually one will hear Jean Shepherd shortly after 6:30 a.m. (and sometimes around 7:45 a.m.); Gene Shalit at 8:45 a.m.; Edwin Newman at 3 p.m., John Chancellor at 5 p.m., and David Brinkley at 7 p.m.
Jim Wilke, KING FM, program director, said the station picks up whatever NBC programs seem interesting and fit within the classic-eclectic format.
This should be the last week of Mutual’s weeknight drama feature, Zero Hour. Dial twisters may recall the series first began as a syndicated venture, with weeklong continuing episodes on KVI. Mutual picked up the series and some repeats were heard on KIRO AM. Then, in a revamped format, the program began offering a single star with varying, self-contained stories each night. The change was for the better.
It’s too bad the programs were scheduled at 10 p.m. nightly, requiring divided attention with the CBS radio mysteries on KIXI-AM.
KYXI AM and FM Portland, is now an affiliate of the NBC radio network. The former affiliate was KGW AM.
Transcripts elicit response
Victor Stredicke
May 8, 1974
The President said a full reading of the document was the best way to appreciate the role he had played in discussions about Watergate.
And National Public Radio took him up on it.
“A reading” is oral, NPR advanced, so they drafted personnel from eight-member stations to read the transcripts last weekend.
Two 13-hour broadcasts were there Saturday and Sunday on KRAB. The same broadcast, cut into two and three-hour chunks are being repeated Mondays through Thursdays at 7 PM on KUOW.
Hal Lee, station manager of KRAB, said he was pleased with listener response.
“We kept no logs, but calls seemed to run 2 to 1 in favor of the coverage,” Lee said.
“That might have changed if we hadn’t been able to present our most popular Saturday program of bluegrass music at 9 PM,” he said.
One listeners sense in a two dollar check with “let’s hear it for Watergate,” scrawled across the bottom.
James Barrett, public relations director for the network, was in town yesterday. He said dispassionate readers were purposely selected.
“We don’t know what inflections were used that tapes might have captured but that the transcripts lacked,” Barrett said. “Readers were purposely nondramatic.”
Based on the President’s description of the transcripts, NPR had planned to read until 1 AM each day.
“We either read faster than the President talked or there were a lot of cumulative deletions,” Barrett noted quizzically. “We finished by 9 PM each night.”
NPR concluded the readings with the reporting of Pres. Nixon announcing the departure of his aides, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
Barrett affirms that NPR would supply affiliates folk coverage of whatever House hearings or impeachment proceedings were open to the press.
KUOW’s delayed coverage tonight includes reading the March 27, 1973 transcript in which “national security” was discussed by Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Ron Ziegler and the President.
KJRB Staff Meeting [reunion] in June
The meeting will be at Maggie’s Bluff Restaurant – Seattle – June 2nd @ 2pm
KJRB Reunion. Written by John Maynard, Voiced by Vic Orlando and slapped together by Ric Hansen – created at http://animoto.com
KUOW2 Will No Longer Be Broadcast On KXOT 91.7 FM After Friday, June 29
KUOW2 service will continue to be broadcast on KUOW HD–2 and streamed on KUOW2.org.
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio (PSPR) has operated KXOT since July 2006 on behalf of the station’s licensee, Public Radio Capital Tacoma – I LLC (PRC). PRC purchased the station (KBTC–FM) from Bates Technical College in 2005. The call sign was changed to KXOT.
The PRC–PSPR operating agreement was driven by the shared belief that a new program service in the South Puget Sound area could attract a significant new audience while preserving the frequency for public radio.
However, after six years of broadcasting KUOW2 programming, the KXOT audience is small. At 0.2 percent share, it is only slightly larger than when Bates Technical College students were programming the station 10 years ago. Research shows that most KXOT listeners are also KUOW listeners, meaning the station has attracted very few new listeners. New listeners are required to sustain the operation of KXOT.
PSPR explored options for financing the acquisition of the KXOT license, valued around $7 million. A capital campaign feasibility study was conducted to determine whether major gifts and grants could be raised for the purchase. The study report advised against such a campaign.
PSPR offered to re–negotiate the operating agreement to achieve terms more favorable to PSPR, including extending the agreement to 2013. Unfortunately, PRC was unable to restructure its KXOT debt service without an unacceptable increase in PSPR’s capital investment.
KXOT History
2005: PRC obtained a bank loan to finance its purchase of KXOT.
2006: PSPR entered into a five–year agreement with PRC to operate KXOT, with an option to purchase the station. PSPR began airing KUOW2 programming in July 2006.
2009: PSPR notified PRC that it would not exercise its option to purchase KXOT.
2011: The PSPR–PRC operating agreement ended in July 2011. PSPR agreed to operate KXOT on a month–by–month basis while PRC sought a new operator.
2012: The PRC loan went into default. In April, PRC’s bank informed PSPR that it intended to take over the operation of the station. PSPR will cease to operate KXOT after June 29.
[KUOW website]
What a shame to have wasted the frequency these past few years, rebroadcasting secondary programming from KUOW — stripping the station of its local identity with Tacoma and Tacoma’s educational & community organizations.
So, what becomes of 91.7 FM? Maybe it could truly become a public radio station for Tacoma. Local volunteer-public access radio. ??? Nahhh! That won’t happen.
Another rock music series
July 19, 1974
Victor Stredicke
Still another network-like rock ‘n roll show premieres on KISW, at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Sunday Stereo Special will offer a 90 min. audio profile of a pop music record artist every other weekend.
Jim Ladd, Los Angeles radio personality, pieces together the interviews, conversations and musical segments. Topic for the first program, Three Dog Night and their friends.
The series is produced by Alto Communications, in association with ABC FM spot sales.
Lee Michaels, KISW, program director, said the series incorporates occasional tunes by performers other than the guest artist for the night.
KJR separates coverage of the hydroplane race at Pasco Sunday, with Rick Hansen, Gary Shannon and Pat O’Day on the scene. KIRO will broadcast the final heat at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, but otherwise KIRO and KJR will offer capsule reports after each heat.
The trip is no junket for KJR jocks, however. They will be practicing for their expected all-day coverage of the Gold Cup race in Seattle, August 4.
KIRO and KTW also plan live coverage of the Seattle race.
The NBC radio broadcast of the major-league All-Star baseball game, getting NBC-TV coverage also, will be heard at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday on KBES AM and FM.
Don Wade talks funny
That was the phrase on the billboards around town when KTAC promoted the on-air talent back in the mid 1970s. Don Wade had just moved to KTAC after being fired from KOL, along with two other staffers. This was for “cost reduction” reasons, according to management, although Wade said he would have taken a pay cut to stay in Seattle. No doubt, he took a pay cut at KTAC Tacoma. KTAC was gearing up to take on KJR & KOL – as you can see from this Vic Stredicke clipping from February 1970:
Charlie Tuna??? That was Chuck Ellsworth, working 6-9pm . I was one of the many listeners that called in to sing the Charlie Tuna jingle, which he recorded for use on the air. Tacoma’s Charlie Tuna show had a low budget.
Phil Roger writes:
I didn’t know Don worked at KOL. Just noticed his name as the morning guy on the ’73 radio logs. I always associate him on 85 KTAC. He was a great morning show host in my book with all the characters he created. Do you remember the name of the sheriff? Shouldn’t be surprised he ended up at WLS.
Phil
That was Sheriff C. W. Turnipseed…(I remember the sound effect when the sheriff spit into the old spittoon – Yuk!)
Wade came to Puget Sound and KOL in 1972…
Wade left WIBG after reuffling a few feathers…
And in 1973….
From there, Don Wade takes a pay cut to go to KTAC—
[Click to enlarge]
Don Wade left KTAC in 1979 –
Comedy from England
Victor Stredicke
July 27 1974
A funny little radio show that took 10 years to get here is heard weekly at 10:30 PM Wednesdays on KUOW.
The official title is “I’m sorry I’ll read that again” and is subtitled “a radio custard pie.”
10 years ago. Six young Cambridge University students develop the review called “Cambridge Circus.” After touring England, New Zealand, and hitting Broadway, the participants continued their zany efforts on the BBC radio network.
The series is presented, now, to member stations of National Public Radio. The half-hour program is not unlike the Goon Show, but easier for a Yank to understand.
Humor is manic, satiric and outright corny, with a fondness for an arch horror story now and then.
The International Radio Club of America, a hobby group pursuing the fine art of long-distance dial twisting, will hold a convention this weekend at the Sheraton Renton Inn. Members of this group do not transmit or broadcast. They just listen to stations on the a.m. broadcast band, 552 to 1600 kHz.
Seattle club members include Bruce Portzer, Phil Bytheway and Mike Worst, who serve as information sources for the convention, which begins Friday. This is the first time the I. R. C. A. has held a convention in the Puget Sound area.
Effective yesterday, KIXI-AM is the solo outlet for the CBS Mystery Theater series. KIXI FM no longer rebroadcasts the episodes.
Under KIRO AM’s new format, the station at last clears Jack Anderson’s news and commentary program from Mutual Broadcasting System. The five-minute program airs at 8:23 each weekday morning.
Yeah? We drank from a mud puddle when there wasn’t a garden hose handy….
[Found on Facebook - Thanks to Michael Hayne]
You can view HISTORY for each radio station by going to the AM & FM section of the blog, and then click on the frequency for the HISTORY of that particular radio station.
Recent Comments
{ Seeing as how they couldn't make money at it-- and then had to separate programming between the AM & FM... it's funny how time and... } – May 13, 1:06 AM
{ Was FM Stereo that costly (and that monitored by the FCC) back then? Sheesh! I always thought it was just another piece of standard equipment... } – May 12, 7:43 PM- { It's funny, but I've NEVER associated Ed Hume with KIRO-TV. To me, he was always on KING-TV. } – May 05, 1:36 AM
- { Wasn't John Sherman also the longtime voice of the Crista stations (KGDN/KBIQ/KLYN)? } – May 02, 10:03 PM
- { Let me complete this.... KTBI, KTAC and KGDN are still in the Northwest at Tom Read's American Christian Network KLSY and KJET are rocking the... } – May 02, 8:33 PM
- { Channel 13 may have been my favorite. Channel 11 had the better choice of programming, but with Channel 13, you never knew what was going... } – Apr 28, 9:51 PM
- { KURB - Little Rock, AR (Cumulus "Mix" B98.5FM) KETO - not in use as far as I know KTNT - FM 102.5 - Eufaula, OK... } – Apr 28, 8:55 PM
- { I remember learning to play guitar to this song } – Apr 19, 8:16 PM
{ I guess in a way, Bill Schonely was right. San Francisco(the Oakland Seals and then the San Jose Sharks), Los Angeles(with the Kings and then... } – Apr 16, 4:04 PM- { Norm Gregory brought this Red Robinson article to my attention. By the way, Norm has been posting DAILY for well over 300 days now at... } – Mar 18, 4:04 PM
This site is best viewed on an Apple Macbook with Comcast broadband Internet connection.
/0.png)
/1.png)
/2.png)
/3.png)
/4.png)
/5.png)
/6.png)
/7.png)