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KHIT Morning Zoo Crew 1985

I was there towards the end when Bob still owned it, then transitioned to Gannett for a split second. Fun place, fun people, good memories.

Don't forget about Jeff Chase....killer night show for the era. Also Spring Allen- the fill-in gal & solid weekender.
 
Old Yeller said:
I was there towards the end when Bob still owned it, then transitioned to Gannett for a split second. Fun place, fun people, good memories.

Don't forget about Jeff Chase....killer night show for the era. Also Spring Allen- the fill-in gal & solid weekender.
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..."and The Chase Is On!"

I remember him doing nights on KRKO before KHIT. Whatever happened to him?

Spring Allen, what a voice!
 
Chase got out of radio not too long after the Gannett takeover....kind of. Went into the sales side of things, had an ad agency and I believe he is now running his own insurance franchise & doing well.

On another note, KRKO had the knack of turning out some good air talent from that era: Chase, Chet Buchanon, Shelly Hart, Jeff West, Jim Rondeau (and I'm sure many others). It was when there was a true "farm system" in our business. I would be great if things returned that way to give a good training ground.
 
You've got Jeff Chase's story down, Old Yeller.

Another great story from the KHIT days was when Steve Weed got to town he guaranteed that KHIT would be a 10 share within two books. He even got a customized license plate:

10 SHARE

At the end of the summer book when the ratings came in at a 1.9, the legend goes that Kent Phillips and Casey Keating went into the garage at the station and put a round piece of black tape on Weed's license:

1.0 SHARE
 
melcham said:
You've got Jeff Chase's story down, Old Yeller.

Another great story from the KHIT days was when Steve Weed got to town he guaranteed that KHIT would be a 10 share within two books. He even got a customized license plate:

10 SHARE

At the end of the summer book when the ratings came in at a 1.9, the legend goes that Kent Phillips and Casey Keating went into the garage at the station and put a round piece of black tape on Weed's license:

1.0 SHARE
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LOL!

Now I'll admit this much. When I talk about KHIT, I don't necessarily mean the Gannett "Power 106.9" days (December 1986 - September 1987) when they had Howard Hoffman and Carolyn Tappan in the mornings. The signal had gone to Capitol Hill later that phase and they pitched up their music a whopping 3.0% on some songs and tried to REALLY go against KNHC. Somehow, the big jocks from out of state didn't jive so well, but pitching up the music that hard probably did them worse.

You can't blame them. Any FM station back then with call letters like KHIT had potential. But I they think they took it to an extreme then. They (strangely) also added a lot of AC like "Little Jeannie" Elton John, which puzzled me. But I was with them from the beginning and I'll say, I had gotten a bit weary of them when on Labor Day 1987, around 8:10 AM. KNUA woke me out of the MASSIVE hangover I had that morning with "Roofgarden" Al Jarreau and "Music For A New Age"......

I actually thought it was a dream, so I laid back down, thinking it was all just the Jose Cuervo wearing off. Then the deep-ass voicer "This is 106.9, K-N-U-A. Music For A New Age...in Seattle" came back, then segueing into a Kitaro or something tune and I jumped off my couch and screamed a LOUD "WTF??!!"..............
 
Larry!

Had I known back then that you were such a big fan of the station, I would have tried harder to sound decent on the air! LOL.

Actually I have nothing but fond memories of those days. With some of the constraints we had, it felt like we had one arm and one leg tied behind our backs, then told to go win the race. It wasn't quite as easy to laugh about it back then as it is now.

Talking about Jeff Chase, I remember an event that he and I - and Bill The Beerman - hosted at the Seattle Center football stadium. It involved a number of local high schools and was sponsored by Frito-Lay. It was the Crunchy Chips Olympics...or some such thing. The kids would compete in various events featuring delicious Frito-Lay products. And I recall that the last event was sort of an obstacle course, where at the end, the kids had to sing their school fight song into our microphones. However, the last thing they had to do prior to singing, was eat a handful of chips. You should have seen how gross the mics were after that. We were picking out little disgusting bits of chips from the wire screens for days! LOL. But there is one other memory from that day that makes me smile: Bill - who was a big-time collector of baseball caps - really liked the black KHIT caps we had. So I gladly gave him mine. R.I.P. Bill.

KHIT 107. The wacky stories just keep on coming!
 
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