Coast/Grays Harbor Radio Question

[butlin]

Hey all, quick question....do any of you who are familiar with the coastal radio scene (Bill W; any Jodesha or GH Radio employee past or present especially) remember a soft rock station that was around in Aberdeen & Hoquiam at 107.1??  This would've been like '95-'96-ish if I remember it right.  And no, I wasn't confusing it with bleed through from Warm 106.9....I'm pretty sure it was positioned as "Grays Harbor's 107.1" or "Soft Rock 107.1" something like that.

Don't ask me why but it's one of those things that randomly popped into my head not long ago, and curiosity was killing me!  Anyways, anybody know what station I'm referring to?

Thanks!

[Bill Wolfenbarger]

Nope.  No fullpower station ever; no LPFMs in existence yet; 107.1 translator for a Christian station, no local identity obviously since it is a translator.

[butlin]

Okay....I may have very well been mistaken...hell it was in the mid 90's and I was pretty young back then.

Thanks for getting back to me Bill.

[Bill Wolfenbarger]

Sure it wasn't my "Sunny 102.1"?  2 confused with 7 ?

Just a random thought

[butlin]

No I've always remembered Sunny pretty vividly, too well known to mistake that one.  I more than likely may have gotten a translator mixed up in my mind with something else.  I could just swear I remember 107.1, but who knows...hell even as of today my efforts at keeping track of all the different LP's and translators on the coast from memory fail me without looking them up.

Speaking of Sunny, it was initially on 97.7 in Raymond before going to 102.1, right?

[crainbebo]

No I've always remembered Sunny pretty vividly, too well known to mistake that one.  I more than likely may have gotten a translator mixed up in my mind with something else.  I could just swear I remember 107.1, but who knows...hell even as of today my efforts at keeping track of all the different LP's and translators on the coast from memory fail me without looking them up.

Speaking of Sunny, it was initially on 97.7 in Raymond before going to 102.1, right?

There was KAST 99.7 in Astoria that reaches the coast well. Now Hot AC. Sunny is a great, even though it's a satellite-20-hours-of-the-day station. The playlist is great and the Dial Global personalities are good. Rare soft rock songs and the new hits can be heard on KSWW. It played Maroon 5's "Payphone" long before local KRWM. They also play "Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison (does any AC play that anymore?)

-crainbebo

[semoochie]

I got the feeling from reading this board that all of them do!  I know that Portland's KKCW still does.  It's the only 60s song on their playlist. 

[Bill Wolfenbarger]

butlin...

Another thought.  Grays Harbor Christian Broadcasting operates a couple of translators.  One  of them is on 107.1.  At one time they rebroadcast KPDQ Portland, a Salem station.  Could that have been what you heard?

Since you brought it up:
The original KSWW was 97.7 in Raymond.  I bought KSWW in '97.  In '98 a friend of mine bought and launched the 102.1 Construction Permit in Grays Harbor, and simulcast with KSWW.  Over several months we were "FM 97.7 and the New 102.1", then morphing into "Sunny 102.1".  In late '99 we moved studios to Aberdeen. Call letter swaps made KSWW 102.1, KFMY 97.7.  We purchased 102.1 and KBKW, and sold 97.7.  Today 97.7 is leased by Fisher as KOMO-FM.