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When the truth comes out, the townspeople must reconcile betrayal, corruption and the secrets of an American hero. Kraft later said:.
The first big event to be broadcast by our company was the Dempsey-Carpenter fight on July 2, This was accomplished with a small watt radio telephone transmitter, and we were more than surprised and pleased to receive reports that the broadcasting of this event was received from points as far away as Anacortes. Soon, Kraft was contacted by the owner of a local music store.
He offered to give him all the records he could use, in exchange for mentioning his store on the air. This was his first inkling of radio's future power as an advertising medium.
In , the station moved to 18 th Ave NE. In , the Federal Radio Commission finally authorized more broadcasting spectrum, and many stations received their own frequency assignments. KJR "broke into kilocycles" and moved to its own frequency, kc. On March 3 of that year, the station moved to kc. With more broadcasting hours and a better signal, Kraft made a deal with The Post-Intelligencer to sponsor live music four or five nights a week for several hours.
Meyers and his Orchestra "live from the Butler Hotel". Lectures and other readings helped fill out the broadcast schedule, which was still far short of an all-day affair. In May of , Kraft was quoted in quoted in local newspapers that he was looking for a more favorable location for the KJR transmitter on the north end of the city.
We are not satisfied with the results obtained in our downtown location. New studios were installed on the fifth and sixth floors of the Home Savings and Loan Building at Westlake Avenue building in June of Three shifts of operators under the supervision of Chief Engineer John N.
Cope kept the new transmitter running, along with another three shifts at the studio. The job of the studio operators was to connect the proper program source to be fed to the transmitter Studios "A" or "B", or remote sites such as the Olympic Hotel , and continuously adjust the volume to maintain a continuous audio level for the listeners.
In , he tied all four stations together with leased telephone lines to create what was likely the first radio network on the West Coast. Financially overextended and more interested in building stations than operating them, Kraft sold his interests in all four radio stations in the Spring of , to Adolph Frederik Linden, who was the co-owner with Mr. Kraft finally sold KXA, his last station, in Homer Pope, who started working at KJR as a technician in and stayed there until , recalled the Linden period in a interview with the author:.
We had a piece orchestra — they played a couple of hours a day. We had trios, classical, as well as pop, and a lot of people, like Vik Meyers. He traveled around the northwest, and would go to Spokane and to Portland. Then we had another whole crew in San Francisco, a concert orchestra. It was on three days a week. Herman Kenin with his Orchestra was on every night.
And a lot of people spent a heck of a lot of money. We had very little advertising on the air. We did auditions for Jantzen in Portland, and they said they were signed to start the next summer, and there were several others that supposedly had signed. On November 11, , KJR changed frequencies and raised its power again — this time to kc with 5, Watts.
The latest Western Electric studio equipment was installed, and equalized telephone lines were used to feed high quality audio to the transmitter. The new network was called the American Broadcasting Company — the first of several radio networks to carry that name, and no relationship to the present ABC network. Also, on certain nights, Columbia would reverse the phone lines and relay the Seattle programs to the Eastern half of the U. The burgeoning network now had eight stations. The payroll grew to nearly people between the Westlake Square studios and Liggett Building offices.
With the high expenses and modest income, some people questioned the source ofthe ABC Network's revenue. In , it finally became apparent where the free-flowing money was coming from.
It was discovered that Linden and Campbell had been regularly borrowing money from their own Puget Sound Savings and Loan to keep the station afloat, and to finance their lavish Camlin Hotel project. The bankruptcy was more predicated by criminal charges than anything else. JS: So the money was being borrowed from the bank to finance the radio operation? JS: That financed the hotel as well?
BB: Yes More than 50 top musicians were brought in from all around the country, including directors Meredith Willson and Alfred Hertz. Live concerts were broadcast three nights a week for several weeks. The concerts were a local sensation and a broadcast success — but they were also the final undoing for the overextended network. Homer Pope recalled:.
These guys were all union musicians, and they had to get paid. On August 15, , control of the stations was transferred to Ralph A. Horr, a court-appointed receiver. On August 20, the news reached Washington D. On August 26, Columbia announced that it would begin feeding what would later be called the "Columbia Northwest Unit" on September 1. Back at KJR, things were quickly falling apart.
The network program lines were gone, and the staff and musicians quickly left when their paychecks stopped. A local music store repossessed a truckload of grand pianos. A few loyal employees did what they could to keep the station on the air with no resources. And that stopped the network. Another fellow and I kept it on the air, plus a couple of fellows out at the transmitter, and that lasted from 3 or 4 days.
Then an attorney came in and took it over. Scrambling for a solution to the financial dilemmas, Adolph Linden was able to negotiate a sale of the radio stations and the ABC network to Twentieth Century Fox. On October 15, , he loaded his family into their Lincoln sedan and they headed for New York to ink the deal, as Homer Pope explained:. It was a big windfall for him — he was going to be able to cash in, pay off his debt, get himself out of trouble and the whole shebang, and so he took off with his wife and kids and drove across the country — he took a long leisure trip across the states to get back to New York to take care of this deal and solve all of the problems.
But in the meantime, the stock market crashed, and they backed out. And so the vacation that he took in between was his demise, financially, because they were prepared to go, but when the stock market crashed they decided not to. The Lindens stayed in New York and tried their hands unsuccessfully in a restaurant business, but in an arrest warranty arrived from Seattle.
Both men were quickly convicted and sentenced to fifteen years at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. Campbell tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a second story window of his home, but only broke his leg. He served seven years at Walla Walla and later was employed as a credit manager until his death in Linden was paroled in and started a small record company in Seattle, Linden Records, where he enjoyed another successful career releasing the music of a number of local jazz musicians.
Adolph Linden died broke in He did it wrong. Instead of starting in New York, he started in Seattle. He could sit and talk about being against the wall. On October 1, receiver-in-bankruptcy Ralph A. Homer Pope recalled that Ralph Horr also had other motives:.
So Fuller started talking on the air about what a great guy he -- he wanted to run for Congress, and so he spent a lot of time on the air. He later did go to Congress, for one session. He also set up a real advertising department, and some money was generated to keep the stations operating.
Under Hi Pierce, the stations experienced a short rebirth and broadcast some popular, quality programming. But in a strange repeat of history, Home Savings and Loan also went bankrupt, and Pierce also went to jail for misappropriation of funds. Ralph Horr was later successful in his bid for a seat in Congress. This was at the depths of the depression and the cost to lease a second set of program lines on the West Coast was very high.
So on April 1, On occasions, the four disenfranchised local stations would occasionally carry a few Orange Network programs, but only when local programs preempted their broadcast on the usual stations. According to Homer Pope, NBC also had a plan for getting the operating expenses of the four stations off its books:. This was during the depression — things were rough. The ownership of all three stations was officially transferred to the affiliates over the next few years.
Shortly afterwards, Olmsted joined forces with Alfred M. Hubbard, a young radio engineer. Together they formed the American Radio Telephone Company, and Hubbard set to work building a 1, Watt transmitter which was installed in a spare bedroom of the Olmsted home. However, prohibition agents were suspicious that Mrs.
Roy C. Whitney, were assigned the difficult task of shutting down the Olmsted operation. Hubbard, became a secret informant for the agency. The Federal Grand Jury returned a two-count indictment against Roy Olmstead and 89 other defendants on January 19, for violation of the National Prohibition Act and conspiracy. It was the biggest liquor violations trial in the country's history under the Eighteenth Amendment. Fisher and the American Radiophone Corporation leased the station for a year with an option to purchase.
Fisher moved the transmitter to 29 th Avenue West and Drahvus Street on Magnolia Bluff, where he installed a new building and an antenna suspended between two 10 ft.
Studios were located in the New Washington Hotel in downtown Seattle. KTCL went on the air April 29, , broadcasting five hours a day, sharing time on meters kc with several with other small Seattle radio stations.
The station broadcast each day in the early afternoon and again in the evening with programs such as the Western Giant Orchestra directed by Warren Anderson during the week, the Sentinel Program on Saturday nights, and theervices of the First Church of Christ Scientist on Sunday nights.
Fisher operated KTCL on a modest budget, and was always underfinanced and short of cash. He hired a salesman and secretary, and did his own announcing.
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