In the past 10 days, Seattle broadcasters have had two opportunities to cover significant news during the early afternoon period normally filled with talk shows, soaps and tabloid TV.
I wrote a week or so ago for Crosscut.com about radio (and TV) breaking news coverage of Boeing's announcement that it would locate a new factory someplace other than the Seattle area. It was HUGE news around here, where Boeing's been a major economic, civic and cultural factor for decades.
Then, yesterday (Friday, November 6, 2009), a massive memorial service was held for a Seattle Police Officer who was murdered on Halloween. While not breaking news, it was a major community event that all four local TV news departments and both commercial radio news stations preempted regular programming in order to air. I wrote today for Crosscut.com about differences in style and extent of radio and TV coverage.
Here's hoping for more UNINTERRUPTED talk shows, soaps and tabloid TV shows in the weeks, months and years ahead.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Is Radio Still Good For Anything?
Radio is in decline at the moment. There’s no use pretending otherwise. As a business, bloated boom year revenues are down because the audience is moving on to other appliances for their audio entertainment and edification, and the advertising isn’t worth what it was even just a few years ago. And there’s not allegedly much hope for the up and coming generation to embrace radio, if this viral phenomenon authored by a 15-year old Morgan Stanley intern is any indication.
But really, radio has been begging for (and ultimately getting) attention from each new generation for the past 60 years or so. Unlike the pre-TV days, families don’t sit down together and listen to the radio, and they never will again. But that’s okay, since radio is the ideal 21st century companion to keep an individual informed and entertained while getting things done, while driving, or for listening unobtrusively in the dark while the rest of the household sleeps. Kids may not get this now, but they will in the future.
That’s why I believe there are several areas where radio remains--and will always remain--the superior means of delivering quality audio content, such as:
Live Coverage of REAL Breaking News. A well-run local news or news and talk station (with network affiliation) can bring listeners a near-perfect balance of The Truly Big National or International Story as well as the distinctive local angle and the shared local experience via intelligent and charismatic on-air talent.
Timely Topical Therapeutic Talk. What I mean by this is a call-in program with a charismatic host who can create conversations that are worth eavesdropping on for their news value and community-building value. One national example: the many hours of late night and overnight talk presented by NPR in the days following 9/11. With Scott Simon as host, a range of callers shared their thoughts, feelings, where-they-were-when stories and other reactions. No conclusions were reached as far as I can remember, but for those of us left sleepless in those dark days and nights, it was comforting to feel a part of the larger community. Locally, news and talk station KOMO switches to something they call “Neighbor to Neighbor/Driver to Driver Coverage” when conditions warrant, with regular radio news anchors fielding listener calls and giving brief news updates. I’ve spent many a snowy or windy night captivated by amateur descriptions of weather-related hassles on the roads or in the neighborhoods of the Pacific Northwest.
Live Coverage of Debates, Speeches, Political Conventions and Hearings. More often than not, visuals presented by TV of these sorts of public affairs events add nothing to the program (and otherwise just distract from the verbal content). Sure, there’s that old saw that, for radio listeners, Nixon beat Kennedy in the first 1960 presidential debate—but I’m willing to take my chances. Now, where’d I put my LazyShave?
Live Baseball. Baseball on TV (and in person, for that matter) is far inferior to baseball on the radio—the visuals are repetitive and add little to the enjoyment, and I don’t want to sit and look at anything for three-plus hours. With a talented aural broadcaster such as Hall of Famer Dave Niehaus, even the dullest game (and I’ve lived through a number of those courtesy of the Seattle Mariners, circa 1977-1994 and of late) comes alive as a shared experience on radio. Especially magical here on the West Coast are when extra innings result in games at SAFECO Field being the last Major League match-up still going, when it’s long after midnight in the east. Extra credit awarded to those dial twisters who can find a minor league contest emanating from the hinterlands.
Classical Music. I don’t own much in the way of classical music recordings, but I often like to have classical playing in the background when I need to focus on a writing project or other intellectual (?) pursuit. I count myself lucky to live in Seattle, home of legendary classical music station KING FM, who are also pioneers of online classical programming via king.org and who have a number of decent commercial-free HD classical channels that I can take advantage of when I don’t want distracting headlines, traffic and weather reports.
Jazz. Again, I don’t own a lot of jazz recording, but I sure love to hear a nice mix of classic and contemporary jazz at least a few times a week. Tacoma NPR affiliate KPLU offers jazz and blues on terrestrial FM, plus the pioneering commercial free Jazz 24 online (as well as via HD here in Western Washington).
Live “Curated” Programs. Sure, I could plug in my 30GB iPod and put together a pretty cool playlist of songs from just about any genre, and I often do. However, the frustrated ethnomusicologist in me also likes to hear the stories behind the songs, quirky anecdotes about the composer/performer, and how particular numbers fit into the larger context of the style, era or genre. Prime examples of Live “Curated” Programs include Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW’s Swing Years and Beyond with Amanda Wilde (Saturdays from 7:00 pm to 12:00 midnight Pacific) and Tacoma NPR affiliate KPLU’s All Blues with John Kessler (Saturdays and Sundays from 6:00 pm to 12:00 midnight Pacific), both available streaming live online.
Live Personalities. Like any medium, local or national radio featuring charismatic, intelligent and engaging on-air talent is hard to beat. However, with the 24/7 news cycle and worldwide events happening in faraway time zones, it is essential that the personalities be live—so that they can report and react as stories (inane and important) are moving on the wires or posting on the web. A good example of this nationally is Phil Hendrie; I’m sure you could name at least a few local examples where you live.
Live Performance. So much performance is sanitized for our protection these days by pre-taping and post-production, it’s easy to forget that a staple of radio’s first few decades was the live “pick-up” or remote broadcast of dance orchestras from hotel ballrooms in every big city in the country. A few brave souls carry on the tradition of regular live broadcasts of performances, notably Prairie Home Companion and the Metropolitan Opera and the wonderful annual New Year’s Eve broadcast of Toast of the Nation.
Can you think of anything else that radio is still good for?
But really, radio has been begging for (and ultimately getting) attention from each new generation for the past 60 years or so. Unlike the pre-TV days, families don’t sit down together and listen to the radio, and they never will again. But that’s okay, since radio is the ideal 21st century companion to keep an individual informed and entertained while getting things done, while driving, or for listening unobtrusively in the dark while the rest of the household sleeps. Kids may not get this now, but they will in the future.
That’s why I believe there are several areas where radio remains--and will always remain--the superior means of delivering quality audio content, such as:
Live Coverage of REAL Breaking News. A well-run local news or news and talk station (with network affiliation) can bring listeners a near-perfect balance of The Truly Big National or International Story as well as the distinctive local angle and the shared local experience via intelligent and charismatic on-air talent.
Timely Topical Therapeutic Talk. What I mean by this is a call-in program with a charismatic host who can create conversations that are worth eavesdropping on for their news value and community-building value. One national example: the many hours of late night and overnight talk presented by NPR in the days following 9/11. With Scott Simon as host, a range of callers shared their thoughts, feelings, where-they-were-when stories and other reactions. No conclusions were reached as far as I can remember, but for those of us left sleepless in those dark days and nights, it was comforting to feel a part of the larger community. Locally, news and talk station KOMO switches to something they call “Neighbor to Neighbor/Driver to Driver Coverage” when conditions warrant, with regular radio news anchors fielding listener calls and giving brief news updates. I’ve spent many a snowy or windy night captivated by amateur descriptions of weather-related hassles on the roads or in the neighborhoods of the Pacific Northwest.
Live Coverage of Debates, Speeches, Political Conventions and Hearings. More often than not, visuals presented by TV of these sorts of public affairs events add nothing to the program (and otherwise just distract from the verbal content). Sure, there’s that old saw that, for radio listeners, Nixon beat Kennedy in the first 1960 presidential debate—but I’m willing to take my chances. Now, where’d I put my LazyShave?
Live Baseball. Baseball on TV (and in person, for that matter) is far inferior to baseball on the radio—the visuals are repetitive and add little to the enjoyment, and I don’t want to sit and look at anything for three-plus hours. With a talented aural broadcaster such as Hall of Famer Dave Niehaus, even the dullest game (and I’ve lived through a number of those courtesy of the Seattle Mariners, circa 1977-1994 and of late) comes alive as a shared experience on radio. Especially magical here on the West Coast are when extra innings result in games at SAFECO Field being the last Major League match-up still going, when it’s long after midnight in the east. Extra credit awarded to those dial twisters who can find a minor league contest emanating from the hinterlands.
Classical Music. I don’t own much in the way of classical music recordings, but I often like to have classical playing in the background when I need to focus on a writing project or other intellectual (?) pursuit. I count myself lucky to live in Seattle, home of legendary classical music station KING FM, who are also pioneers of online classical programming via king.org and who have a number of decent commercial-free HD classical channels that I can take advantage of when I don’t want distracting headlines, traffic and weather reports.
Jazz. Again, I don’t own a lot of jazz recording, but I sure love to hear a nice mix of classic and contemporary jazz at least a few times a week. Tacoma NPR affiliate KPLU offers jazz and blues on terrestrial FM, plus the pioneering commercial free Jazz 24 online (as well as via HD here in Western Washington).
Live “Curated” Programs. Sure, I could plug in my 30GB iPod and put together a pretty cool playlist of songs from just about any genre, and I often do. However, the frustrated ethnomusicologist in me also likes to hear the stories behind the songs, quirky anecdotes about the composer/performer, and how particular numbers fit into the larger context of the style, era or genre. Prime examples of Live “Curated” Programs include Seattle NPR affiliate KUOW’s Swing Years and Beyond with Amanda Wilde (Saturdays from 7:00 pm to 12:00 midnight Pacific) and Tacoma NPR affiliate KPLU’s All Blues with John Kessler (Saturdays and Sundays from 6:00 pm to 12:00 midnight Pacific), both available streaming live online.
Live Personalities. Like any medium, local or national radio featuring charismatic, intelligent and engaging on-air talent is hard to beat. However, with the 24/7 news cycle and worldwide events happening in faraway time zones, it is essential that the personalities be live—so that they can report and react as stories (inane and important) are moving on the wires or posting on the web. A good example of this nationally is Phil Hendrie; I’m sure you could name at least a few local examples where you live.
Live Performance. So much performance is sanitized for our protection these days by pre-taping and post-production, it’s easy to forget that a staple of radio’s first few decades was the live “pick-up” or remote broadcast of dance orchestras from hotel ballrooms in every big city in the country. A few brave souls carry on the tradition of regular live broadcasts of performances, notably Prairie Home Companion and the Metropolitan Opera and the wonderful annual New Year’s Eve broadcast of Toast of the Nation.
Can you think of anything else that radio is still good for?
Monday, July 6, 2009
Seattle's KOMO Radio Goes Old School . . . REALLY Old School
EDITOR'S NOTE: SEE JULY 7, 2009 UPDATE BELOW FROM RYAN HARRIS OF KOMO
Seattle radio station KOMO Newsradio AM 1000 went old school—really old school—for the better part of 24 hours just before the Fourth of July holiday. After going off the air just after midnight the morning of Friday, July 3 following an electrical fire in Fisher Plaza (the building that houses their studios), KOMO-AM came back on just after 2:00 am from an improvised studio located beneath the KOMO TV transmitter atop Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill.
It made for interesting microdrama, and absolutely fascinating local radio. I’d randomly tuned to KOMO a little before midnight while driving to drop off some DVDs that were due at my neighborhood video store at the Witching Hour. As I mindlessly scanned through the presets on my car radio, I stopped on 1000 AM, where KOMO Radio news anchor Art Sanders was on and sounding a little distressed, as he spoke via cellphone (that had been ingeniously patched into the board before Sanders and news editor Ryan Harris were, along with everyone else on KOMO’s TV side, evacuated from the building). As I drove, I heard Sanders and Harris explain why they were broadcasting from outside the KOMO building, and also give extemporaneous updates on other national and international stories they were following. Every few minutes, Sanders and Harris made references to being on “battery power” that might run out at any moment. For a radio nut like myself, it was compelling. I rushed home and began recording the KOMO signal with a Zoom H-4 Recorder, and ended up doing so for the next day or so.
At about 20 minutes past midnight, the batteries on Sanders’ cell phone apparently gave out, and KOMO was reduced to static. Click here to listen to the last 18 minutes or so before KOMO signed off. When broadcasting resumed around 2:13 am, news anchor Gary Burleigh had taken over, and brought listeners (if there were any listeners—I personally heard the recording many hours later) up to date. By this time, KOMO engineers had rigged a simple studio in the circa 1953 TV transmitter building at North Galer Street and Warren Avenue North, near the old Queen Anne High School (about a mile from Fisher Plaza). Joining Burleigh were editor Ryan Harris (still on duty) and traffic reporter Deanna Joy. Click here to listen to the first 18 minutes or so after KOMO signed back on.
While the simple studio was apparently equipped with a few microphones and the ability to patch in at least one phone call, there were no facilities for playing recordings. Thus, KOMO was commercial-free! Better yet, KOMO was also sounder-free—no signature effects, music, jingles, or anything accompanied the anchors as they went about reading the news or giving the weather forecast (I was personally happiest to be free of the thumping techno beat of the 90-Second Sports Ticker). The sound, tone and feel of KOMO was about as old-school (I’d peg it as circa late 1940s) as a commercial radio station could get in 2009.
KOMO’s impromptu remote operations continued for most of the day on Friday, July 3. With no means for playback (or perhaps with no way to access the material), a scheduled best-of broadcast of the midday talk show The Commentators was replaced with anchors Charlie Harger and Nancy Barrick providing commercial-free news as well as some long-form radio specials from ABC (perhaps coming in “live” from ABC via a network feed) as well as hourly news and special reports from ABC News (Sarah Palin's resignation). Traffic reports, ordinarily done live in-studio or perhaps via ISDN line from the Seattle office of Metro Traffic in the Columbia Tower, came in from KOMO traffic reporter Sara Johnson via telephone (camping out at Metro Traffic). By early afternoon, just when it seemed they couldn’t get any more old-school than this, KOMO went further back into radio’s past by occasionally thanking the sponsors whose commercial spots one would ordinarily hear during a regular broadcast. It was a flashback to KOMO’s Totem Broadcasters era of the 1920s, when, rather than individual commercial spots, large portions of the broadcasting day were “owned” by one of six members of a consortium of local businesses (including KOMO's founder Fisher Mills). For details about Totem Broadcasters, track down a copy of KOMO radio reporter and TV anchor Bill Brubaker’s excellent Masters Thesis on Seattle radio prior to 1927 (I'll plan on devoting a future posting to Brubaker's pioneering work documenting early radio history).
Because the drama unfolded late at night (and because the commercial- and sounder-free broadcasting took place during a day that was a holiday for many people), KOMO's audience was probably smaller than it would have been on a typical weekday. Depending on your perspective, this is a good thing, since few listeners were inconvenienced. I think it's a shame more people didn't hear the broadcast and missed out on really terrific local radio. Further, apart from providing some low-level drama and a fascinating format for awhile, KOMO’s travails were a priceless exercise in emergency preparedness. I’d venture to say that while KOMO (and other Fisher radio stations that left the air) suffered in the short term—by leaving the air for a few hours and by giving up more than a full day worth of advertising revenue—the lessons learned by scrambling to get back on the air after a minor catastrophe will someday pay off for KOMO and KOMO listeners, far beyond what anyone can imagine.
UPDATE FOR TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009: KOMO editor Ryan Harris sent in the note below, including a link to a complete recording from before the KOMO Radio studio was evacuated to when they went off the air around 12:15 am on the morning of Friday, July 3. Thanks to Ryan for adding to the historical record!
First-hand account courtesy of Ryan Harris of KOMO News Radio . . .
Feliks - thanks for saying such nice things about us and thank you for having the presence of mind to record us when our own recording equipment was down. What happened after 2:00 AM would have been lost and heard only by someone on some distant planet otherwise.
The power went out around 11:15 Thursday night, but the generator kicked in right away. I can only assume that was the vault fire. That allowed Dan Lewis to run downstairs to the newsroom to anchor the second segment of KOMO-4 News from there, and then another from back upstairs before it went out again. Again, I can only assume that was when the sprinklers doused the generator and its safety features shut it down. However, KOMO Radio's board and computer system are on uninterrupted battery back-ups, so we never went off. Meanwhile, security tried to evacuate us once, but Art and I refused to go until it was absolutely necessary. We knew it was going to happen, but it bought us the time to stay on the air and discuss the plan to get us on by phone. I was there one Saturday morning very early when we had a small fire - and I was furious at myself because I thought of patching in a cell call AFTER we were already shut out of the building and off the air. I wasn't going to make that mistake twice.
[Editor's Note: Click here for a complete recording of the “remote” broadcast that took place from outside the building, courtesy of KOMO.]
Thankfully, we had a TV vehicle with a radio to let us know we were still on the air and everyone from Dan, Steve Pool, Luke Duecy, Battalion Chief Teffre, GM Jim Clayton and a cast of many to join us and help us stay on the air. We stopped just before 12:30 Thursday morning because we got permission from the boss to sign off until we were ready to resume.
When Gary Burleigh, Deanna Joy and I were able to meet at 'Fort KOMO, Queen Anne', all I had was that same cell phone (gotta give props to my T-Mobile G1) for Internet access until they got me a laptop with cellular Internet an hour later. It only allowed me to surf 2 windows, so that in tandem with the G1 helped us gather some information and keep some semblance of news reporting going. I have to confess, my first stock numbers were wrong - but it was on the only site I could get to give me any numbers under the circumstances. At least I had baseball scores and Wimbledon!
It was an amazing morning I'll never forget - a story I'll probably tell my grandkids. Most of the credit really belongs to Chief Engineer John Barrett and his staff - especially Gabe and Lou, who rode the 'bamboo bike' and kept us on the air. Thanks also to all of the loyal KOMO listeners who stuck with us.
Ryan Harris
KOMO News Radio
Seattle radio station KOMO Newsradio AM 1000 went old school—really old school—for the better part of 24 hours just before the Fourth of July holiday. After going off the air just after midnight the morning of Friday, July 3 following an electrical fire in Fisher Plaza (the building that houses their studios), KOMO-AM came back on just after 2:00 am from an improvised studio located beneath the KOMO TV transmitter atop Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill.
It made for interesting microdrama, and absolutely fascinating local radio. I’d randomly tuned to KOMO a little before midnight while driving to drop off some DVDs that were due at my neighborhood video store at the Witching Hour. As I mindlessly scanned through the presets on my car radio, I stopped on 1000 AM, where KOMO Radio news anchor Art Sanders was on and sounding a little distressed, as he spoke via cellphone (that had been ingeniously patched into the board before Sanders and news editor Ryan Harris were, along with everyone else on KOMO’s TV side, evacuated from the building). As I drove, I heard Sanders and Harris explain why they were broadcasting from outside the KOMO building, and also give extemporaneous updates on other national and international stories they were following. Every few minutes, Sanders and Harris made references to being on “battery power” that might run out at any moment. For a radio nut like myself, it was compelling. I rushed home and began recording the KOMO signal with a Zoom H-4 Recorder, and ended up doing so for the next day or so.
At about 20 minutes past midnight, the batteries on Sanders’ cell phone apparently gave out, and KOMO was reduced to static. Click here to listen to the last 18 minutes or so before KOMO signed off. When broadcasting resumed around 2:13 am, news anchor Gary Burleigh had taken over, and brought listeners (if there were any listeners—I personally heard the recording many hours later) up to date. By this time, KOMO engineers had rigged a simple studio in the circa 1953 TV transmitter building at North Galer Street and Warren Avenue North, near the old Queen Anne High School (about a mile from Fisher Plaza). Joining Burleigh were editor Ryan Harris (still on duty) and traffic reporter Deanna Joy. Click here to listen to the first 18 minutes or so after KOMO signed back on.
While the simple studio was apparently equipped with a few microphones and the ability to patch in at least one phone call, there were no facilities for playing recordings. Thus, KOMO was commercial-free! Better yet, KOMO was also sounder-free—no signature effects, music, jingles, or anything accompanied the anchors as they went about reading the news or giving the weather forecast (I was personally happiest to be free of the thumping techno beat of the 90-Second Sports Ticker). The sound, tone and feel of KOMO was about as old-school (I’d peg it as circa late 1940s) as a commercial radio station could get in 2009.
KOMO’s impromptu remote operations continued for most of the day on Friday, July 3. With no means for playback (or perhaps with no way to access the material), a scheduled best-of broadcast of the midday talk show The Commentators was replaced with anchors Charlie Harger and Nancy Barrick providing commercial-free news as well as some long-form radio specials from ABC (perhaps coming in “live” from ABC via a network feed) as well as hourly news and special reports from ABC News (Sarah Palin's resignation). Traffic reports, ordinarily done live in-studio or perhaps via ISDN line from the Seattle office of Metro Traffic in the Columbia Tower, came in from KOMO traffic reporter Sara Johnson via telephone (camping out at Metro Traffic). By early afternoon, just when it seemed they couldn’t get any more old-school than this, KOMO went further back into radio’s past by occasionally thanking the sponsors whose commercial spots one would ordinarily hear during a regular broadcast. It was a flashback to KOMO’s Totem Broadcasters era of the 1920s, when, rather than individual commercial spots, large portions of the broadcasting day were “owned” by one of six members of a consortium of local businesses (including KOMO's founder Fisher Mills). For details about Totem Broadcasters, track down a copy of KOMO radio reporter and TV anchor Bill Brubaker’s excellent Masters Thesis on Seattle radio prior to 1927 (I'll plan on devoting a future posting to Brubaker's pioneering work documenting early radio history).
Because the drama unfolded late at night (and because the commercial- and sounder-free broadcasting took place during a day that was a holiday for many people), KOMO's audience was probably smaller than it would have been on a typical weekday. Depending on your perspective, this is a good thing, since few listeners were inconvenienced. I think it's a shame more people didn't hear the broadcast and missed out on really terrific local radio. Further, apart from providing some low-level drama and a fascinating format for awhile, KOMO’s travails were a priceless exercise in emergency preparedness. I’d venture to say that while KOMO (and other Fisher radio stations that left the air) suffered in the short term—by leaving the air for a few hours and by giving up more than a full day worth of advertising revenue—the lessons learned by scrambling to get back on the air after a minor catastrophe will someday pay off for KOMO and KOMO listeners, far beyond what anyone can imagine.
UPDATE FOR TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009: KOMO editor Ryan Harris sent in the note below, including a link to a complete recording from before the KOMO Radio studio was evacuated to when they went off the air around 12:15 am on the morning of Friday, July 3. Thanks to Ryan for adding to the historical record!
First-hand account courtesy of Ryan Harris of KOMO News Radio . . .
Feliks - thanks for saying such nice things about us and thank you for having the presence of mind to record us when our own recording equipment was down. What happened after 2:00 AM would have been lost and heard only by someone on some distant planet otherwise.
The power went out around 11:15 Thursday night, but the generator kicked in right away. I can only assume that was the vault fire. That allowed Dan Lewis to run downstairs to the newsroom to anchor the second segment of KOMO-4 News from there, and then another from back upstairs before it went out again. Again, I can only assume that was when the sprinklers doused the generator and its safety features shut it down. However, KOMO Radio's board and computer system are on uninterrupted battery back-ups, so we never went off. Meanwhile, security tried to evacuate us once, but Art and I refused to go until it was absolutely necessary. We knew it was going to happen, but it bought us the time to stay on the air and discuss the plan to get us on by phone. I was there one Saturday morning very early when we had a small fire - and I was furious at myself because I thought of patching in a cell call AFTER we were already shut out of the building and off the air. I wasn't going to make that mistake twice.
[Editor's Note: Click here for a complete recording of the “remote” broadcast that took place from outside the building, courtesy of KOMO.]
Thankfully, we had a TV vehicle with a radio to let us know we were still on the air and everyone from Dan, Steve Pool, Luke Duecy, Battalion Chief Teffre, GM Jim Clayton and a cast of many to join us and help us stay on the air. We stopped just before 12:30 Thursday morning because we got permission from the boss to sign off until we were ready to resume.
When Gary Burleigh, Deanna Joy and I were able to meet at 'Fort KOMO, Queen Anne', all I had was that same cell phone (gotta give props to my T-Mobile G1) for Internet access until they got me a laptop with cellular Internet an hour later. It only allowed me to surf 2 windows, so that in tandem with the G1 helped us gather some information and keep some semblance of news reporting going. I have to confess, my first stock numbers were wrong - but it was on the only site I could get to give me any numbers under the circumstances. At least I had baseball scores and Wimbledon!
It was an amazing morning I'll never forget - a story I'll probably tell my grandkids. Most of the credit really belongs to Chief Engineer John Barrett and his staff - especially Gabe and Lou, who rode the 'bamboo bike' and kept us on the air. Thanks also to all of the loyal KOMO listeners who stuck with us.
Ryan Harris
KOMO News Radio
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