Puget Sound Radio

A number of Seattle broadcasters past and present made moves this week, not all of them positive. And Bell hired four female streaming anchors.

Producer behind Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull staged numerous tribute albums and was pivotal in the career of Jeff Buckley.

Sue Thompson (whom I have never heard of or heard her music) was playing the guitar at age 7

IT WAS APRIL 8th … when the original radio voice of ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Ontario-born Earl Graser, was killed in an auto accident at age 32 … When country singer Jimmy Dean began a morning show on CBS in what would be a futile effort to defeat NBC’s Today Show … When UK singer Petula Clark starred in her own NBC-TV prime time special, with guest Harry Belafonte (pictured) … and when the last original episode of ‘All in the Family’ aired on CBS-TV. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

In its 11 seasons, Modern Family became the last broadcast sitcom to rack up both huge ratings and top awards, winning the outstanding comedy series Emmy for five consecutive years.

Prine, who for five decades wrote rich, plain-spoken songs that chronicled the struggles and stories of everyday working people and changed the face of modern American roots music, died Tuesday at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

It’s clear that with hot spots in such Major League cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston, baseball or commerce in general is not going to happen in those places any time soon.