"Bob Dobbs" wrote in message
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Mark Zenier wrote:
In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:
50 KW KIRO in Seattle moved to FM entirely.

They're still simulcast. In fact the 710 kHz audio leads the 95.7 MHz
audio by ten or more seconds (probably the IBOC delay).

The local market was gangbanged by the oldies format, anyway. 95.7 (KBSG)
was in there with KJR-FM, KRXY (Shelton), KISM (Bellingham), The Eagle
in Tacoma. And four to six more (that I can't get well enough to bother
with down in my hole) if you count soft pop and heavy metal that keep on
playing older stuff, too.

I remember living in Seattle in the late 60s
when there was a KOL that was quite popular,
wasn't run by robots from out of town.
Of course there was KRAB up at the top of the dial
that was totally independent.


I used to work at KBOO in Portland, which started out life as a satellite of
KRAB.

KOL was, in 1970-71, my favorite station. I used to listen to them
religiously when I lived in the boonies on the N. Oregon coast, below
Seaside. Their daytime signal was only fair, but the nighttime signal may as
well have been local.

"Bob Dobbs" wrote in message
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I think there was an FM station in Bellingham that we used to get the
same way, was a nice DX target for the telescoping whip on my Sony
portable.
We lived on Capital Hill just south of Volunteer Park so had an elevated
location contrasting to many of the urban canyons where our friends
lived and could only get local stations.


That reminds me.. the year after, when I had moved to Astoria, about 1/4 the
way up the hill, I could hear a lot of Seattle radio, both AM and FM. Best
of the lot (to me) was KFKF 92.something, IIRC in Bellevue.