KIRO (710

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"Seattle Sports") is a

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, owned by

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–based

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. The station airs a

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and is an

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. The station's studios and offices are located on Eastlake Avenue in Seattle's Eastlake district. KIRO is a Class A

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. It broadcasts at the maximum power for commercial AM radio stations, 50,000

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s. By day, it uses a

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. But to protect the other Class A station on

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, WOR

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, and the previously allocated Class B station on 710, KSPN in Los Angeles, KIRO must use a

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at night, thereby protecting those two older stations. The

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is off Dockton Road SW on

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. KIRO is Washington State's primary entry point station in the

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History

650 KPCB (1927 to 1937)

The station began broadcasting on April 27, 1927, as KPCB on 650

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s. Its founder was Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company (hence the

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KPCB) and it was powered at 100 watts. Among its announcers was

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, later of television's Huntley-Brinkley Report. In 1935, Saul Haas's Queen City Broadcasting Company took over the station. Queen City increased the power to 500 watts. Haas, who was well connected in

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and the business community, wanted a simple, pronounceable, and recognizable call sign for his new station. He chose KIRO, which is usually pronounced like the capital of

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", not like the Illinois city. The call sign "KING," representing

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, the county in which Seattle is found, was not available at that time. The KING call letters were later used by a station on AM 1090 (now KPTR), and continue on both FM

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station

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(98.1) and

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(channel 5).

710 KIRO (1937 to 1960)

In 1937, KIRO was assigned the

frequency and was granted an increase in power to 1,000 watts. Soon after, KIRO acquired the Seattle

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affiliation rights from KOL. Known as "The Friendly Station," KIRO personalities broke from the formal announcing style that was commonplace during the early days of radio. KIRO carried CBS's dramas, comedies, news, sports,

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s and

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broadcasts during the "

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." On June 29, 1941, a new, 50,000-watt transmitter on

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became operational. From the 1930s through the 1950s, KIRO recorded countless hours of CBS programming for time-delayed rebroadcast to its

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listeners. These electrical transcriptions are, in many cases, the only recordings made of World War II-era news coverage over the CBS Network. The discs were donated to the

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in the early 1960s and are now held at the National Archives as the Milo Ryan Phonoarchive Collection. In 1948, the original KIRO-FM went on the air at 100.7 MHz. It initially

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its AM sister's programming but in the 1960s it became a

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outlet. In 1975, it changed its call letters to KSEA and today is

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. Preparing for a future television allocation, KIRO moved in 1952 from downtown studios to a larger building on Queen Anne Hill. This peak was already home to the KING-TV transmitter and would soon be the site for

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as well. Queen City Broadcasting was awarded Seattle's last remaining VHF TV license in 1958, and signed on as CBS affiliate

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on February 8. Aside from a short two-and-a-half year period from 1995 to 1997 when it served as a UPN station, KIRO-TV has served as Seattle's CBS television affiliate since.

1960 to 1980

Haas sold KIRO to

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Publishing Company, part of

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, in 1963. He earned a handsome return on his investment 28 years earlier. When the LDS Church reorganized its broadcasting properties as

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, Haas joined Bonneville's board. Bonneville executives Lloyd Cooney and Ken Hatch arrived in Seattle to lead KIRO-AM-FM-TV, in 1964. Like many network radio affiliates following the demise of full-time block programming, KIRO spent the 1960s playing

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in addition to long-form news and interview shows. Morning host Jim French spent several years broadcasting from the rotating restaurant atop the

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and was live on the air from that perch during a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in April 1965. Bonneville moved its Seattle radio and TV stations to the newly constructed "Broadcast House" at Third and Broad Streets in 1968. In 1973, KIRO ended a 35-year affiliation with CBS and switched to the

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. Around this time, KIRO also picked up

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's "Nitecap," a groundbreaking overnight telephone-talk show from

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KSL, a 50,000-watt "flamethrower" like KIRO. "Newsradio 71 KIRO" debuted in June 1974, with news and talk segments replacing most music programming. In September 1974, KIRO switched affiliations again from Mutual, becoming an

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affiliate, but switched back to CBS in November 1976.

1980 to 2008

In 1980, Lloyd Cooney left KIRO to run for the

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. Ken Hatch became President, CEO and Chairman, a position he held until 1995. Under Hatch's leadership, KIRO Inc. acquired KING AM, KING-FM, and Third Avenue Productions. KIRO, Inc. became one of the nation's premier regional broadcast groups, and was led by general manager Joe Abel during this period. KIRO was a

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radio station by the mid 1970s, playing music during the day, talk in the evenings, and more music intensive on weekends with exception of times when sporting events were broadcast. By 1980, the station played music during the day with talk heard night and overnights. The station added talk middays during the week in 1985. By then amounts of music during drive times were down to about 4 songs an hour and during the day, with weekends playing 12 songs an hour. In 1986, KIRO was reclassified as a news and talk station, adding more news programming and dropping music altogether. In 1993, Bonneville attempted to merge the staff of KIRO radio with that of then-sister station KIRO-TV in an attempt at synergy (the staffs merged in June 1992, with KIRO radio's general manager and news director Andy Ludlum at the helm). Dubbed the "KIRO News Network", this meant that KIRO-TV anchors and reporters would be heard on the radio, while KIRO radio personalities would be seen during KIRO-TV newscasts; during this period, KIRO's radio programming originated from a massive newsroom especially constructed for what was called "News Outside the Box", sharing space with their TV co-workers. Local independent station KTZZ (currently

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) simulcast KIRO radio in the mornings with cameras mounted in-studio showing the KIRO staffers on-screen during this time. The effort was a failure and was scrapped completely by September of that year. For 25 years, KIRO's morning news, anchored by Bill Yeend, consistently placed at or near the top of the Seattle

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ratings. Gregg Hersholt was the station's morning news anchor for the next 10 years until he left the station on May 28, 2010, ending his 26-year career there.

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now hosts Seattle's Morning News.

Sports broadcasts

Sports play-by-play has been a staple of the KIRO schedule throughout its history. Since the team's inception in 1976, KIRO has been the flagship radio station for the NFL

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. About that same time, it was also the flagship station for the

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of the

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. From 1985 to 2002, and again since 2009, the station airs

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games. From 1978 to 1987, KIRO was the flagship station of the

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. Additionally, KIRO has carried

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and

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college football for stints during the '80s and '90s. KIRO was also the radio home to popular sportscaster

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, who did live sideline reports during Seattle Seahawks football games, Washington Huskies college football play-by-play, NASL Seattle Sounders pro soccer play-by-play, and hosted a sports radio talk show weeknights that was the only one of its kind at the time in Seattle. In January 2020, KIRO announced it would serve as the flagship station for the

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of the

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; the wording of the press release made it ambiguous as to whether or not they would carry live games.

Dave Ross

Dave Ross joined KIRO as a reporter from

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station WSB in 1978 and took over as noon to 3 p.m. talk host in 1987. He moved to the 9 a.m. to noon time slot after the retirement of Jim French in 1992. Ross unsuccessfully ran for Washington's eighth Congressional district as a Democratic candidate in 2004. While Ross unofficially announced his candidacy in May, he did not leave his on-air position until just prior to the July filing deadline. In response to complaints from state Republican party officials, Ross claimed that he was contractually bound to continue working for KIRO until he formally filed to become a candidate. Ross returned to the air immediately following the November election. He was moved to the afternoon drive-time shift in February, 2005. Ross moved back to his 9am-noon shift in May 2006. Since January 2012, Ross has hosted Seattle's Morning News from 5-9 a.m. In addition to his KIRO work, Ross does a daily commentary on the CBS Radio Network and is also substituted for

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on CBS Radio's "Osgood File" segments. After selling KIRO-TV to the A.H. Belo Corp. in 1995, Bonneville's Seattle radio stations moved to facilities on Eastlake Avenue. KIRO (AM), KIRO-FM (now KKWF) and KNWX (now KTTH) were sold to

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, in 1997. Bonneville reacquired KIRO, KTTH, and KBSG (now KIRO-FM) from Entercom in 2007.

Talk on FM, sports on AM

On August 12, 2008, KIRO began simulcasting its programming on sister station KBSG-FM, which dropped its long-running

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format. This began the transition of KIRO Newsradio from AM to FM. To complete the transition, KIRO AM switched to a

format, as "710 ESPN Seattle," on April 1, 2009. It regained the rights to broadcast

games, beginning in the 2009 season. KIRO also simulcasts the Seattle Seahawks games with

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, and has extensive team-related programming throughout the year. KIRO-FM continues the news/talk format. In addition, 710 ESPN Seattle is the play-by-play home for the

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and

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broadcasts. Mike Salk was named Program Director of 710 ESPN Seattle on March 13, 2014, returning to the station after a stint in

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. Before leaving for Boston, Salk had been a co-host on the station. On March 7, 2022, KIRO rebranded as "Seattle Sports". The rebranding, which coincided with rival KJR moving its programming to FM station KUBE, was not accompanied by any programming changes.KIRO Rebrands As Seattle Sports
Radioinsight - March 7, 2022

Locations

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* Headquarters: ,

near the shore of

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Notes and references

External links

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