At 6/4/2008 07:36 AM, David Breneman wrote:
>KOMO had been the flagship station of a network called
>the American Broadcasting Company in the late 20s and into
>the early 30s that served the west coast. Ironically, they
>are now an ABC affiliate.
The originating station for Adolph Linden's Seattle-based ABC network
was KJR, not KOMO. It was not limited to the west coast -- it reached
as far east as Chicago and Minneapolis. The network collapsed in
1929. This is all documented in David Richardson's history of early
Seattle Broadcasting, "Puget Sounds."
The confusion between KJR and KOMO is natural, because they were
later co-owned and operated out of the same studios. At that time,
one was NBC Red and the other NBC Blue.
John Ross
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