KGA's history in QSLs

Compiled and edited by Bill Harms - updated 3 July 2005

QSL received by John T Tweedie in 1933 from his listening post in Oakhurst, New Jersey. This QSL pictures KGA's transmitter site at Lidgerwood Street and Rowan Avenue, and KGA's studio in the then Sun Life Assurance Building at 1023 West Riverside Avenue. (CPRV)

Carroll Weyrich of Baltimore, Maryland earned this QSL in 1933. (CPRV)

QSL from 1936 received by Peter Clarius in Staten Island, New York. (CPRV)

QSL received by Richard Daneker of Lansdale, Pennsylvania in 1938. (CPRV)

Norm Maguire of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania heard KGA in 1939 and received this QSL card. (CPRV)

QSL received by Eugene Allen in 1944 in Berkeley, California. (CPRV)

Robert Knox of Newton, New Jersey received this QSL in 1947. (CPRV)

QSL from 1974 received by Bill Harms in Provo, Utah.

NOTE: The images annotated with CPRV means they came from the Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications (CPRV) Collection, Courtesy of the Library of American Broadcasting, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Other images not so designated are directly from the collector unless otherwise noted.

KGA Links

KGA Main Page
The Beginnings - Vincent Kraft of Northwest Radio officially inagurates KGA
Lidgerwood Transmitter Site
The Ghost of Lidgerwood
KGA Studio at the Old National Bank
Studios at the Sun Life Assurance Building
KGA Timeline
KGA's History in QSLs
Historical clips

LINKS TO INDIVIDUAL
STATION HISTORIES

Emil Olson's station - Said to be the first station in Spokane to broadcast music
KFZ - Licensed by Doerr-Mitchell Company - The first licensed commercial broadcast station in Spokane
KOE - Licensed by the Spokane Chronicle Newspaper
KFDC/KFPY/KXLY - Humble beginnings to major market force
KHQ - 1922 to present
KFIO/KLYK/KSPO etc - Claims to be the oldest operating station in Spokane
KGA - Started in 1927
KREM - Started broadcasting in the late 1940's in Downtown Spokane. Become part of Dorothy Bullitt's King Broadcasting.
KNEW/KJRB - became Spokane's number one top 40 station in the 1960's.
KVNI - The Voice of North Idaho
KZUN Opportunity - "The Voice of Spokane Valley" from 1955 to 1985.
KCFA and KMBI - now owned and operated by the Moody Bible Institute.
KUDY etc
KPEG/KEZE/KCKO - Started out as an all-female station with the all announcers named Peg. Made a splash as a country station in the 1960's.
KLFF Mead - The short history of "Clef Radio"
KDNC/KXXR/KSVY - Started out on the Moran Prairie and ended up in the Spokane Valley.
KTWD - Spokane's first commercial FM only station and first FM Stereo station. Established in 1966 by Terry Denbrook.
KPBX - Started in George Cole's basement in the early 1970's. Now a major public radio station.

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KGA's history in QSLs

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