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Happy 80th Birthday to KVI 570!

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ronrob

On November 24 1926, radio station KVI began broadcasting, with just 50 watts at 1280 on the dial. The studio was in Tacoma. Their slogan was "The Puget Sound Station." There were a couple of moves around the AM dial until they settled at 570 in 1932.

And speaking of anniversaries .. tomorrow (Nov. 25) KING-TV will be 58. The calls were KRSC-TV for the first 8 months, until the station was sold to Dorothy Bullitt.
 
ronrob said:
And speaking of anniversaries .. tomorrow (Nov. 25) KING-TV will be 58. The calls were KRSC-TV for the first 8 months, until the station was sold to Dorothy Bullitt.
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Broadcasting from the luxurious mouse trap next to Andy's Diner ... facility became KAYO and now a transmission shop.

KJR's 85th would have been this year (Sept. I believe...) starting from Vincent Kraft's house in Ravenna ... and KOMO's coming up next month in December. They started in the tower of the Flour mill on Harbor is.
 
Don't forget KRKO in Everett. (From the website) "On August 17, 1922 when it was finally officially licensed by the United States Department of Commerce (The Federal Communications Commission wasn't created until 1934), the Leese Brother’s experimental radio station received its first call-sign: KFBL."

More on the station history here: http://northsound1380.com/stationinfo/stationhistory/
 
Actually, KJR was previously experimental station 7XC, when it began from Vincent Kraft's home in 1918. When the call sign KJR was issued in 1921, it had moved to the Smith Tower, and was transmitting using a long wire antenna for a short period of time. Technically, KJR was Seattles first broadcast radio station.
 
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