KOMO-AM
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| Radio station | |
| Program type | All news |
| reception | Medium wave 1000 kHz (50 kW) VHF 97.7 MHz (KOMO-FM) & web radio |
| Reception area | Seattle , Washington USA |
| Start of transmission | 1924 |
| Broadcaster | Sinclair Broadcasting Group |
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KOMO is a commercial radio station for the Seattle Metropolitan Area in Seattle , Washington . The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group and broadcasts an "all-news" format. The station is a partner of ABC News Radio . Since KOMO broadcasts its program in addition to its medium wave station via the VHF station KOMO-FM, the station advertises with the slogan KOMO News 1000 AM and 97.7 FM.
KOMO is a clear channel station and sends its 50 kW strong signal unidirectionally during the day and directionally at night to avoid interference from transmitters on the same frequency from Chicago and Mexico City . At night, the signal reaches the entire western United States and Canada at 1000 kHz .
The KOMO program format consists almost exclusively of messages. The morning show "First Light" is taken over by Westwood One .
history
In 1924, KFQX, the American Radio and Telephone Company's station, went on the air. The company was owned by Roy Olmsted and Alfred M. Hubbard. The former police officer Olmsted (1886–1966) ran an “import / export alcohol trade”, bought alcohol in Canada and delivered it to Mexico - according to the official account. In truth, however, he was Seattle's largest black marketeer in Prohibition . Due to the large sales, Olmsted could afford to set up a radio station. Alfred M. Hubbard was a radio technician hired by Olmsted, with whom he installed a 1 kW transmitter in his private rooms. Olmsted's wife worked as a radio announcer and told “bedtime stories” for children in the evenings; in reality, however, she was sending coded messages to her husband's alcohol smugglers.
Finally, the authorities were able to win over Hubbard as an informant with the promise of a later agent activity. This ultimately led to the arrest of Olmsted, his wife and fifteen other of their guests, as well as the shutdown of KFQX on November 17, 1924.
The station was taken over by other operators and also changed the callsign to KOMO. From 1948, the station broadcast from a newly built transmitter with 50 kW on Vashon Island . In 1953 the television station KOMO-TV went on air on Channel 4. KOMO-TV was initially a partner of the NBC Television Network. Both KOMO-TV and the radio station switched to ABC Network in 1958.
KOMO broadcast a program with conservative talk shows until 1964 and then changed its format to a MOR music program ("Middle of the Road"). In the 1990s the program changed to a news talk format and in 2002 KOMO finally became an "all-news" station. The editorial resources of KOMO-TV were also used and long news formats were introduced. The VHF station KOMO-FM went on the air in 2009 and has been transmitting the same program on VHF 97.7 MHz ever since. In the same year, KOMO became a media partner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team .
Individual evidence
- ↑ KOMO - News Radio 1000 AM - Talk. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
- ^ WestwoodOne's First Light Celebrates 25 Years. Retrieved September 11, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ a b c d e The Radio Historian. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Faded Signals - Birt Fisher, whose lease on Seattle radio station ... Retrieved September 11, 2017 .