Puget Sound Radio

Patterson was only 16 years old when she debuted in the role of Wrangler Jane on “F-Troop,” but she’d been acting since the age of 5.

IT WAS AUG. 23rd ...when singers Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, "The Happiness Boys", first appeared on New York's WEAF radio, sponsored by Happiness Candy stores.,, When the BBC's experimental TV service featured the first televised boxing match between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, almost 15 years before the TV era began ... When Seattle radio station KKND "The End" FM 107.7 was born, billing its music as "The Cutting Edge of Rock." The format helped give birth to Seattle's famed Grunge movement... ..and when Richard Hatch was revealed as the winning castaway on the first season of CBS' "Survivor." ALL the milestones for Aug. 23rd INSIDE!

Jack was with KVI 570 Seattle in its heyday Jack shares this story inside...

IT WAS AUG. 22nd ... when the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began its first experimental TV broadcasting from London... When "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy" became a three-times-a-week 30-minute feature on ABC radio, after 14 years as a daily quarter-hour strip... When Toronto's CBLT-TV Channel 9 did its first test broadcast, covering the opening of the 73rd Canadian National Exhibition... ..and when Vancouver radio station CKLG dropped it's Middle-Of-The-Road programming and switched to a Top 40 format in direct competition with C-FUN. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE.

IT WAS AUG. 21st ... that gave us career broadcasters Ken Carpenter, Chris Schenkel, Jack Buck, Harry Smith, and actor Billy Idelsen of the Vic & Sade radio show ... When The Four Preps and the Lionel Hampton Orch. were the musical guests on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show... When NBC News fired their Canadian-born TV reporter Arthur Kent (pictured), nicknamed 'the scud stud' for his reporting during the first Iraq war, after he refused an assignment to war-torn Croatia... ..and when the CRTC approved the sale of Victoria's CKDA and CFMS-FM Victoria, CKDA to the owners of The Q 100.3, CFMS to become 'The Ocean' under Rogers ownership. ALL the milestones for the date INSIDE!

We were saddened to hear of her passing, apparently earlier today.

Robert Thielke created and played in the outrageous late-night Vern Fonk commercials for the last 20 years.