Re: [IRCA] Vashon TX Sites + Trivia

[Mike McKenna <way2twohot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pat and the group:  Just a tad bit of trivia -- about the AM sites and stations on Vashon Island.    KJR - 950 started out on 1000 Khz.   Fishers Blend (Flour Mill Company) -- now known as Fisher Broadcasting owned both KJR on 1000 and KOMO on 950.  They sold of KJR after moving KOMO over to 1000 -- and KJR over to 950 from 1000.   Now -- after over 50 years later -- they are now both located on the same Island.   Fishers Blend was forced to sell off KJR by the Federal Anti-trust laws and FCC rules.   Fisher Broadcasting now owns KVI -- which is just "down the block and around the corner".    To bad that Fishers Blend could not have kept BOTH -- KOMO and KJR.  And if you have ever worked at KOMO -- you would know that most of the "oldtimers" still had a dis-like for "FM".   KOMO "turned in" one of the very first FM station permits -- because "no one would ever listen to FM".  For about 40 years or more -- Vashon was home to the big 3 -- 50 KW AM stations, KIRO 710, KOMO
 1000, and KPTK (KING AM) 1090 and KVI on 570 -- first licensed to Tacoma.   KVI has a .25 wave 450 foot tower.  A 5/8ths wave tower for 1360 is about 453 feet.  Could 1360 be the NEXT to relocate to Vashon ???    The two new comers to Vashon:  770 KTTH started out as a 250 watter as KXA -- one of the real oldtimers and KGNW was a 500 watt Daytimer back in 1975 when it first went "on the air" as KQIN - Burien.   The wife of the owner and builder of KQIN -- liked to knit and weeve "Dog hair" into winter sweaters and blankets.    You can't find that bit of trivia in most radio books.   LOL LOL  Mike
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