Posted on 11/18/2010 9:53:42 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
My love for radio started when I first heard old time radio shows like Suspense, Jack Benny, The Shadow, Escape, Gunsmoke and The Whistler. I was enthralled by the ability of these shows to create a complete picture within your imagination. From these, I expanded to other old-time radio shows, plays, and then when I was older, washing cars for my dad's office, I'd listen to financial and news shows. Then there was the fateful day when someone told me I should listen to this new guy named Rush Limbaugh.
I like David’s show in the afternoons.
And in AM no less. You want good oldies, go to 104.5 FM. No commercials.
“I became “Grasshopper”, the sidekick of Peter Weissbach.”
I remember those days. I first found KVI while stationed at Ft. Lewis. I would listen to Peter and “grasshopper” in the evenings in my barracks room. I quit listening to kvi when they replaced Rush with the insufferable “Doctor” Laura and forced the shotgun marriage of Ken Schram and John Carlson.
I’ve been a computer streamer or ktth listener ever since depending on where I am.
I used to listen to all of them Kirby, Peter Weissbach and John Carlson. What’s going to happen to Brian Suits?....going to KKTH? I enjoyed listening to these local conservatives who called Patty Murray a “Whack job”....
I listen on the internet also. I moved from Seattle to L.A. for work after getting laid off from Boeing. Also remember when Peter would say: “Ah soo Grasshoppah”.
Back in the day, I used to listen to Mike Seigel on “newstalk KING 1090”. The show was all liberal and he was the least liberal of the bunch. It was also the only talk radio in Seattle.
Then I noticed that Mike was starting to sound pretty darned conservative...and then he was gone.
So, I turned to my favorite oldies station - KVI - and was shocked and elated to hear Mike there. And it seems like it was only a few months later that they were announcing they had nabbed a major personality - Rush Limbaugh - who I had never heard of. Naturally, it skyrocketed from there.
I noticed a couple of months ago that the station started interspersing entire songs (all oldies) during some breaks and thought it was odd. Then, a couple weeks ago, I tuned in while they were playing the song. And it was followed by...another song! Then I heard the bump announcement along the lines of “Seattle’s oldies station”.
Time warp, I guess.
Looks like KTTH beat them out. I’ll miss Laura Ingraham though.
On a related note, I just came across this: http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2010/10/old-seattle-radio-saturday-mike-siegel-at-kvi.html
Hard to believe that Fisher is going to make more money playing Big Bopper songs that only senile old fogies want to listen to. Conservative talk owns AM. KVI’s decline started when they lost Rush to KTTH. KVI lost its best conservative hosts probably because Fisher Broadcasting has a liberal bias and was happy to destroy KVI after they bought it.
It will become a Spanish station within 6 months.
Anyone else old enough to remember Bob Hardwick and Jack Morton at KVI?
Ah soo, Grasshoppah!....We have a winner!....Mexican peasant music 24/7!....
"Radio....Radio....WHAT DOES HE SAY?....Radio....Radio....."
“Wish I was in Tijuana...eating barbecued Iguana...”
Yes and do you remember Hardwick’s “Dirty Blues Club?” Oh what great music it was!
Funny, I have had the identical evolution of radio listening.
Recently, I talked a friend out of a vintage radio for my Airstream trailer. I’m accessorizing the interior with 40’s, 50’s and nautical memorabilia.... just because it feels good. He gave me a working radio that was manufactured in 1948, the year of my birth... and it works..... heck, it works better than I do. ;>)
If you need it, here’s another place to stream Rush.
WA ping
I grew up in the Seattle area in the 60s and 70s. The only thing I remember on KVI was the Mariners when they first started. I guess the station played music at that time but I couldn’t tell you what kind. Nothing I listened to. By the time they went to talk I was gone.
Thanks. Unable to ping until Saturday, when I reconnect with sufficient browsing capability (unless I discover it on this phone before then).
Or how about Hardwick’s ‘Ray Oyler’ fan club in ‘69 or his pal’s ‘The Super Commuter’? Great radio then! Those days, and much before those days, are gone now.
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