Sirius XM vs. the World
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz |January 26, 2012 [Motley Fool] Sirius XM Radio knows that the dashboard is getting competitive. It’s no longer about overcoming the threat of commercial-saddled terrestrial radio or the limitations of what’s in a driver’s portable media player or CD case. If there’s one theme that became apparent during both the CES [...]
Music of Your Life returns to Seattle
1540 KXPA/Bellevue will carry “MOYL” overnights, beginning February 1st. KXPA is one of many stations to add this format to a portion of the broadcast day. Those stations are the Multicultural properties of Arthur Liu, in Boston, Miami, San Francisco and here in Puget Sound. There is still some life in Music of Your Life. [...]
Americans Listen to Radio 14.6B Hours Each Month
**What a difference seventy or so many years make. With all the new technology vying for the radio/music pie, radio listening, on average, is way down. Compare this to the “Golden Days” of radio [1930s/1940s] before television really came on the scene. Compared to the 1960s, when radio DJs ruled the air – entertaining and [...]
Steve Sorenson @ KTBI/Tacoma 1947
Announcer Steve Sorenson at mic, poses for publicity photo at 810 KTBI, which became 850 KTAC/Tacoma. KTBI was located on Center Street & Pine, across the street from what is now the Tacoma-Pierce County Humane Society, on the lot eventually used by Teleprompter Cable TV. KTBI, owned by the Tacoma Times newspaper, vied for license [...]
Dr. Zingrrr on KTVW 13
Zany Robert O. Smith, in various costume and character, during his late-night creature-feature on KTVW 13 Tacoma. As Dr. Zingrrr, host of the program, Robert O. let loose with all the weirdness allowable on live, local televison. Here is a collection of segments, total running time approx. 15 minutes. Featured in this compilation is a [...]
KZOK: Gary Crow with Pat O’Day
The Godfather of Seattle Radio – Yeah, I think the title fits Pat O’Day. Gray Crow interviewed Pat – in-studio at KZOK. These clips are from those interviews http://kzok.radio.com/?s=o%27day http://kzok.radio.com/2011/01/13/pat-oday-visits-crow-part-2/ http://kzok.radio.com/2010/11/04/pat-oday-talks-with-crow-about-jimi-hendrix/ http://kzok.radio.com/2010/11/05/what-did-ray-charles-say-to-jfk/ http://kzok.radio.com/2010/11/05/Pat-o-day-on-kzok-part-ii/
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Steve Blackburn, Tam Henry and Buck Wade added to KMPS ....Eric McKay added to KING-AM and KOMO-AM ....Don Simon, Bill Norton, and Paul Wallace added to KIXI-FM ....Diane McKenzie added to KUBE & KJR
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