When Larry King passed away in 2021, he was lauded for his decades of hosting a popular TV talk show on CNN. But true “Larry Lovers” remember him first as a radio guy hosting a late night phone-in program starting in the late 1970s.
When Larry King passed away in 2021, he was lauded for hosting a popular TV talk show on CNN for decades. But true “Larry Lovers” remember him first as a radio guy hosting a late night phone-in program starting in the late 1970s.
KIRO Radio was the first Seattle station to carry the Larry King Show, beginning right about the time the program first came on air from Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1978. In April 1980, the show moved from KIRO to KVI, which had recently adopted the news-talk format. A radio broadcast from the Space Needle was nothing new; multiple stations in Seattle had originated programs from the landmark tower over the years since the 1962 World’s Fair, including KING Radio, whose Frosty Fowler had beenThe local event was organized and produced by the staff of KVI. Beginning at 9 p.m.
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