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John Peake to Seattle-OM FOR CLEAR CHANNEL

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by Bob Hamilton 02/19/2011
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Veteran program director, John Peake will take over as the Operations Manager of Clear Channel's seven station cluster in Seattle.  He will also serve as PD of KJR-FM. Most recently, John has been the show manager for the Johnjay & Rich morning show in Phoenix. Previously, John was PD at stations like KRBE in Houston, KRQ in Tucson, Mix107.5 in Denver, WAPI in Birmingham and more...
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KVI WILL DROP TALK...GO TO ROCK OLDIES

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by Bob Hamilton 11/02/2010
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Fisher communications announced today that after 15 years as a conservative talk radio station, they'll drop the format and go rock oldies...The program director of the station, Travis Box said the station will flip next week and play music from the 60's and 70's. Well known Seattle personality, Tom Hutyler will be joined by Marina Rockinger to do mornings...Mark Christopher will do afternoon and Rick Hansen, who was on KJR-AM in the 70s will ho...
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SEATTLE'S KOMO-AM GOES LIVE ON FM AS WELL

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by Bob Hamilton 05/15/2009
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For the first time in its history, big time all news Fischer radio station, KOMO-AM can now be heard on FM.  They take over KFMY-FM's 97.7 signal at 97.7 for a 24/7 simulcast.  The station says that will mean KOMO can be heard from Vancouver B.C. to Vancouver, Washington. They made the change this morning. KFMY is owned by South Sound Broadcasting, based in Olympia.  Complete details of their deal with KOMO were not immediately available but it ...
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CBS SWAPS FIVE MID SIZED STATIONS TO TWO MAJOR MARKET

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by Bob Hamilton 04/01/2009
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TRADE IS MADE WITH CLEAR CHANNELCBS RADIO today announced it has completed its deal with Clear Channel Communications, Inc. to swap five mid-size market radio stations for two large market stations, moving forward in its strategy of divesting mid-size market stations to focus on large markets.

In the trade, Clear Channel has obtained CBS RADIO's KBKS-FM (Seattle), WQSR-FM (Baltimore), KXJM-FM and KLTH-FM (Portland, Ore.), and KQJK-FM (Sacramento,...

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Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper goes Internet Only

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by Bob Hamilton 03/16/2009
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This is the announcement on the Seattle PI website:

The last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will be published 
Tuesday. The Hearst Corp. announced that the P-I will become the nation's 
largest daily newspaper to shift entirely online.

For many decades radio has had to compete with newspapers for that local advertising dollar...the smaller the market the more the newspaper competition.  The Seattle PI is only one of many newspapers ...
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