#KEKA RADIO LICENSE#
Hanseth applied for a license to open a new broadcast station in Eureka, going on the air on May 12, 1933, as KIEM 1210 AM radio after constructing a more suitable radio station inside the Vance Hotel. in 1927 at the Vance Hotel on 525 Second St. Pumping coverage from five to 100 watts was the short-lived KFWH 1180 AM radio, opened by F. The first radio station in Eureka, with five watts of power, was started by Pete Radelich in 1925, using call letters KFVU 1430 AM. The first radio license in Humboldt County was granted to T.W. “He was very competitive.”Īllen Jones went on to become vice president and general manager for KVIQ-TV in 1972.Ī variety of news clippings, personal interviews and the industry’s historic listing organization, Broadcast Pro-File, painted a picture of early television and radio history on the North Coast.īroadcasters in Humboldt County had to be competitive from the very beginning just to survive. “That’s when Smullin started locking his garbage cans,” Mike Jones laughed. Mike Jones explained that when his father was a salesman for KVIQ-TV, Channel 6, in the 1960s, he would “sneak and go through KIEM-TV (Channel 3) garbage cans to look for scraps of news leads, trying to determine who was on television that day and trying to get their copy.” That was the first day Mike Jones met Smullin, the local radio and television empire-builder and broadcasting icon. Smullin was walking by, stopped at their table and addressed the elder Jones with the provocative question. It was an odd and stilted moment in 1974 as Mike Jones sat eating lunch with his father, Allen Jones, at the Ingomar Club in Eureka.
”So, are you still going through garbage cans?”