KSWB (AM)
KSWB (840 AM, "Radio Clatsop") is an American radio station licensed to serve Seaside, Oregon, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1968, is currently owned and operated by John Chapman while the broadcast license is held by KSWB Productions, LLC. Programming KSWB broadcasts a classic hits music format. In addition to its usual music programming this station also airs hourly newscasts from the Associated Press. History Launch on 930 This station began broadcasting on July 12, 1968, as a daytime-only station with 1,000 watts of power on a frequency of 930 kHz. The Seaside Broadcasting Corporation, with Gerald B. "Jerry" Dennon as president, held the license for the station which was assigned the KSWB call sign by the Federal Communications Commission. Dennon, founder of Jerden Records, co-owned Seaside Broadcasting and KSWB with American folk group The Brothers Four. KSWB licensee Seaside Broadcasting Corporation was acquired by new owners on June 20, 197 ...
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Seaside, Oregon
Seaside is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The name Seaside is derived from ''Seaside House'', a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay. The city's population was 6,457 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History The Clatsop were a historic Native American tribe that had a village named ''Ne-co-tat'' (in their Chinook language) in this area. Indigenous peoples had long inhabited the coastal area. About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the Lewis and Clark Expedition built a salt-making cairn at the site later developed as Seaside. The city was not municipal incorporation, incorporated until February 17, 1899, when coastal resort areas were being settled. It is about by car northwest of Portland, Oregon, a major population center. In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the Franc ...
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