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Anyone Know What Happened To Seattle Times Radio Columnist Victor Stredicke?

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If you're any kind of a Seattle and Northwest radio fan, I can remember every Sunday grabbing that great Seattle Times TV section and flipping to the 2nd to last page in that gem of a newspaper section and read Victor Stredicke's column each and every week. I remember him still doing his column into the mid-80's even after the Seattle Times TV section changed and became the little magazine type insert in the Sunday Times/PI.

I'm just curious if Victor is still around and where he can be found. I'd love to contact him and chat with him about my father---Jack Hemingway and other great Seattle personalities as well as about the radio stations themselves. Victor wrote one great column.

Appreciate any information that anyone may have...


Thanks!

JJHemingway...Your Spokane Radio Pal.....
 
Property tax records for King County show a Victor Stredicke owning a property [EDIT] I couldn't find a phone listing for him.


[Privacy issue]
 
I'll PM you with an email addy for him (if I can still find it!)
I also have a graphic to send you with a pic of your dad @ KVI ... a fun brochure.
 
JJ, you are bringing back both great and painful memories for me. I also looked forward to Vic's columns with great anticipation. (I believe he also wrote occasional daily columns in the 60's and 70's). I kept a scrapbook as a kid of the articles that interested me, and at one point had hundreds of 'em. The painful part is a number of years ago in a short-sided attempt at downsizing my "stuff", I threw them all out. I could kick myself today.
 
Stredicke nowadays dabbles in educating cartoonists rather than reporting on disk jockeys.

I still listen, however. But I live in Fife, so effective radiated powers are much different for some stations than when I was a Seattle resident. Example: Can't get KUOW, favorite station now is KXOT.

E-mail address is [email protected]
 
stredickev said:
Stredicke nowadays dabbles in educating cartoonists rather than reporting on disk jockeys.

I still listen, however. But I live in Fife, so effective radiated powers are much different for some stations than when I was a Seattle resident. Example: Can't get KUOW, favorite station now is KXOT.

E-mail address is [email protected]
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Right on! We miss you Vic!
 
stredickev said:
Stredicke nowadays dabbles in educating cartoonists rather than reporting on disk jockeys.

I still listen, however. But I live in Fife, so effective radiated powers are much different for some stations than when I was a Seattle resident. Example: Can't get KUOW, favorite station now is KXOT.

E-mail address is [email protected]
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Can't Fife get KUOW-AM?

Well, if you get your hands on an HD radio, at least KUOW is feed #2 on KXOT.
 
Vic is still around... at least as of about a year ago. He contacted the show I was last working for to let us know of a bad internet post regarding the 'star of the show'.

Though I didn't get to talk to him personally, it was just plain ol good to know that he is still around as I haven't heard about him in awhile.

Hopefully he'll get the word that he is still in our hearts and on our minds.

-DJ Alan
 
DJ Alan said:
Vic is still around... at least as of about a year ago. He contacted the show I was last working for to let us know of a bad internet post regarding the 'star of the show'.

Though I didn't get to talk to him personally, it was just plain ol good to know that he is still around as I haven't heard about him in awhile.

Hopefully he'll get the word that he is still in our hearts and on our minds.

-DJ Alan
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Yes, I'm pretty sure he checked in three posts up!
 
What some of you may not know is newspapers sometimes have the equivalent of a radio consultant. More often than not an expert will speak at a newspaper convention and newspaper editors will take home the advice, administering it from top down.

One expert told The Seattle Times that it would be better if reporters aimed stories for the more literate reader. Thus the lead in in story should be written in iambic pentameter. I tried it once, in a short profile I did on Burl Barer laboring away at KYAC (way before KJR). It worked with Burl. Burl told me he memorized the lead.

The tag lines at the bottom of most news stories were introduced at most newspapers because it was felt a reader picking up a newspaper only occasionally could not tell from a byline whether he worked for the newspaper or not.

At another time, experts reported that newspaper readers read the newspaper for news only. So The Times eliminated almost all of the "hobby" columns, such as horse columnist, labor columnist, dog columnist, folksy columnists. Many of these features were written by beat reporters who had special knowledge in the area or wanted to fill their time at the computer with things that interested themselves.The radio column was one such feature to be eliminated. But it turned out there was nothing to fill the page in the TV section so it survived.

Because The PI also covered radio for a while, the Times radio column in the Times appeared as many as three times a week to be newsworthy, with Sunday being the secure date. When The big Sunday paper took over the role of being supplement for both Times and PI readers, the PI's focus on listing every movie on TV squeezed out the Sunday radio column.

The current Times TV section is produced out-of-state, from a formula established by Tribune Media Services which allows a Seattle editor to choose from two picture options on the cover, and place one of several feature stories supplied by TMS (identified in the byline as ZXap2it.

I wrote the radio column for 25 years (minus a punishment year) . After I retired, the column continued under Chuck Taylor for probably six months or so.
 
Would you write a monthly column here for us please? Just anything, wild speculation, sarcasm, hell even make believe news!

KIRO FM is the hottest thing in 15 years of Seattle so you KNOW the well is dry!
 
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