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Seattle Radio Histories

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To condense this all down into one board rather than just spreading it across, I need your help in finding out station's histories I haven't covered yet. The reason for this is to update some of these Wikipedia pages, which some are God-awful in terms of history. I need your help with the following stations:
On AM: 770, 820, 1150, 1250, 1300, 1360, The Z-Twins, 1460, and 1680. On FM: 92.5, 98.9, 103.7, and 106.9. Thanks a bunch!
 
Boy am I glad I did KNBQ and KJR-FM when I did, I swear there was more about 95.7's history in KIXI than was in the article for KJR-FM! As for the others, they all seem fine except for 103.7 and 97.7. The ones I don't like are those like WNCV, which was all about sales, call sign changes, and construction permits, nothing about previous formats.
 
Well, there are a few holes, such as KZAM, KJZZ, and KLSY (on 1540). 92.5's early history seems a bit sketchy. Also, when did Sandusky ever enter the Seattle market?
 
Not sure. I'm also not sure why KZAM was never murged into KLSY, but the KZAM Defunct article should help you out there. Seems that most am stations have only parts of their histories documented, I don't know anything about KKDZ before 1964 when it started simulcasting on 102.5, now KZOK. The only reason I know that is because it's in both articles, but if you looked at KZOK-FM then looked at something else, you wouldn't know that it was co-owned with 1250 at one time. It should say something like KZOK-AM now KKDZ, or provide the direct link. As for 103.7, it's been awful since I started looking up stations on there in 08, haven't looked at them lately. Maybe KBKS should be tagged with a lack of citations, I don't see any references. It says they backed off their rock lean earlier this year, but I haven't noticed a change, except I hear there's a new We The Kings song out and KBKS hasn't played it. Anyone have any references for KBKS history?
 
bobdavcav said:
Not sure. I'm also not sure why KZAM was never murged into KLSY, but the KZAM Defunct article should help you out there. Seems that most am stations have only parts of their histories documented, I don't know anything about KKDZ before 1964 when it started simulcasting on 102.5, now KZOK. The only reason I know that is because it's in both articles, but if you looked at KZOK-FM then looked at something else, you wouldn't know that it was co-owned with 1250 at one time. It should say something like KZOK-AM now KKDZ, or provide the direct link. As for 103.7, it's been awful since I started looking up stations on there in 08, haven't looked at them lately. Maybe KBKS should be tagged with a lack of citations, I don't see any references. It says they backed off their rock lean earlier this year, but I haven't noticed a change, except I hear there's a new We The Kings song out and KBKS hasn't played it. Anyone have any references for KBKS history?
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I was the one that updated the KBKS article. I would use yes.com as a reference, but it wouldn't capture a screenshot of their playlist without going to a dead link the following week. For citation wise, I used archived Seattle Times articles for when they flipped to Rhythmic AC and then CHR.
 
Hmm that sure is a problem, and I don't think there are playlists that go back more than a week. You could probably just look at the playlist. Are you sure there just isn't much alternative rock crossing over to CHR at the moment? Would KISN be classified as an alternative rock-leaning CHR? When I listened to it today, they played a song I hadn't heard since Click was pretty much a mainstream alternative.
 
bobdavcav said:
Seems that most am stations have only parts of their histories documented, I don't know anything about KKDZ before 1964 when it started simulcasting on 102.5, now KZOK. The only reason I know that is because it's in both articles, but if you looked at KZOK-FM then looked at something else, you wouldn't know that it was co-owned with 1250 at one time. It should say something like KZOK-AM now KKDZ, or provide the direct link.
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Just a little correction about KZOK-AM. Those call letters were technically never on AM 1250, though that was the home of KZOK's sister station in the mid-70s when it was KTW-AM. A family friend by the name of Sally Hill did a talk show on KTW, and I got a tour of the place in 1974. I met the not-quite-famous-yet Wayne Cody during a commercial break from his sports talk show there. That tour also became my first introduction to the station down the hall, KZOK, still in its first year in existence. Good times for this 13-year-old.

But KZOK-AM was later officially the call sign of 1590 for a short number of years in the late 70s, post-KUUU, simulcasting most hours of the day but not 24/7, and then again in the late 80's with a separate metal-based format.

For a classic and informative 1975 article about the whole 1250/1590 deal -- KTW and KUUU -- you must read this.... http://www.seatacradio.com/blog/?p=15481
 
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