I note the position is classified as "Sales"....so I think the goal is to have someone with on-air credit available to do remotes, etc. without burning out the two-1/2 people who are still minding the store in other capacities.
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I note the position is classified as "Sales"....so I think the goal is to have someone with on-air credit available to do remotes, etc. without burning out the two-1/2 people who are still minding the store in other capacities.
KVI started moving toward talk and drivetime news back in the late 70's-early 80's, then had a brief and failed revival to oldies, then right-wing talk. They've been mostly right-wing talk for easily the last 20 years.
But here's a little call letter trivia for you: Before Golden West purchased (what became) KVI-FM, what was the station' call letters? Bonus 'moldy' question: Where were the studios for 101.5FM located prior to the call letters changing?
KETO-FM
Immediately at time of transfer they were in Sherwood Inn @ 45th/I-5.
Before that, on 4th Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Ding Ding Ding Ding..Winner! And as a bonus-bonus question; prior being on 4th Ave., where were the KETO studios?
KVI-AM had a short-lived oldies format around 2010-11. Mark Christopher was one of the DJs. Ratings were a disaster and they went back to conservative talk.
Here’s one. KVI occupied two separate floors at different times at The old Tower Building at 7th and Olive. What floors were they?
2. What was the hangout restaurant/bar on the first floor?
2. What was the hangout restaurant/bar on the first floor?
Can do that one ... but will let someone else have a shot. Was trying to recall if you & ever actually WENT to that bar or not? I know Big Jim used it as a place to find "marks" in his trivia scam that he would pull on bar customers!
Bonus points on your first question if anyone actually remembers KVI far enough back to recall the tree that was in the lobby and "grew through" the lobby window/door.
To be fair, after the talk (Mariners flagship, etc.) format when the station went oldies the first time was VERY successful (roughly 1984-1990+). They led "the wave" of stations going to oldies/classic rock ... KJR followed, KZOK went more mainstream for awhile, etc. Then KNBQ became KBSG, oldies moved to FM where the music audience really was, and all bets were off for everyone. KVI limped by until about 1991, when Rush came on board and then from that to all talk. At the time Rush became part of the mix, only morning drive (Dick Curtis, Heidi May) was live -- and rest of the music was from ABC's Satellite Music Network.
You might remember that 97.3 used to be called 'K-Best' before it was just 'Oldies 97.3 KBSG' and then 'B97.3'. Same format, skewing towards late '50s and early '60s, later going up into the '60s and '70s before the 2008 flip to news/talk. This was just after the flip from KNBQ.
We've got an oldies anomaly on the radio in Yakima. KTCR 980 / 106.9 'Kruz'n'. They play 1960s music mixed with some '50s and early '70s. Just like the old KBSG!! Last time I listened, they played 'Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show' by Neil Diamond which I hadn't heard on the radio in ages. I'm betting the last station that played that song in Seattle was the forever-loved KMCQ 'All Songs of the '60s and '70s' format.
We've got an oldies anomaly on the radio in Yakima. KTCR 980 / 106.9 'Kruz'n'. They play 1960s music mixed with some '50s and early '70s. Just like the old KBSG!! Last time I listened, they played 'Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show' by Neil Diamond which I hadn't heard on the radio in ages. I'm betting the last station that played that song in Seattle was the forever-loved KMCQ 'All Songs of the '60s and '70s' format.
Ding Ding Ding, correct! But you're a ringer Steve.
Don’t recall the tree. As for the downstairs restaurant/bar, don’t remember anyone inviting me down there for a cocktail other than the late Mike Webb.
The thing is; I helped move KVI to it's second home in the (gawd awful) Tower Building. We had to run cables from antennas on the roof down the elevator shaft. I also moved KPLZ into the (gawd awful) Tower building from down the street (Plaza), combining them with KVI. Remember vividly having to move/reuse most of the original equipment including microphones, audio consoles, and most of the studio furniture. I got into a couple arguments with the GM (S.W.) that there was no way we could reuse the original cabling. He was pissed that we insisted on buying new cable runs to pre-wire as much as we could, because we had to move KPLZ in one weekend.
I'll let someone else chime in with an answer, because it wouldn't be fair. The restaurant/bar was a well known evening hangout for some Seattle radio legendary names and management types. Pat O'Day was just one.
Here's another piece of follow-up trivia: How many years was the Tower Building voted the 'ugliest building in downtown Seattle'?
I must have missed that Dick Curtis passed away last December.
Dick Curtis | Obituary | Seattle Times
I remember my father having KVI on in the car in the 90s and listening to Dick Curtis' newscasts and commenting "he sounds like he's been doing radio since forever." My father, who remembered him from the old KJR days replied "that's because he has!"
Time to answer the questions posted Saturday about the old Tower Building. KVI occupied most of the 8th floor beginning I believe circa 1960 later joined by KETO FM which later became KVI FM then KPLZ. KPLZ and KVI moved to the 2nd floor in 1989. The restaurant downstairs was a longtime location for El Groucho before it eventually was reincarnated in Belltown.
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Close on the timeline. KVI-FM/KPLZ, moved into the Tower Building when KVI moved to the 2nd floor, post lease negotiations for another ten year lease. Prior to that, KPLZ was located in the Plaza 600 Building three blocks away.
Kelly, I worked at KPLZ on the 8th floor from’85 to the move to 2.
I guess that's right, we moved it from the Plaza 600 building to the (gawd awful) Tower Building 8th floor, then down to the 2nd floor. Had to move it twice. Some of those memory cells from those days have (thankfully) left my brain.
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6+ doesn't mean a thing.
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