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KJR (950 AM, "Sports Radio 950") is an all-sports radio station based in Seattle, Washington, owned by . Since the 2006-2007 season, ISP Sports was the media rights holder for Husky athletics until IMG College took over. KJR was the Washington IMG College Network's flagship station from 2002-2014. KJR lost the broadcast rights back to KOMO Newsradio AM 1000/FM 97.7. KJR carried some play-by-play from ESPN Radio, and some of the regular talk shows at night and during weekends. KJR is now the Puget Sound region's home of Fox Sports Radio and NBC Sports Radio. It was Seattle's only all-sports talk radio station until 710 KIRO affiliated itself with ESPN. The station's transmitter site is on Vashon Island, and operates from its studios in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood northwest of downtown. ==History== Although not Seattle's ''first'' broadcasting station, KJR is the oldest station in Seattle to be recognized by the Department of Commerce as a broadcasting station according to available records, and its call letters, assigned on March 14, 1922, replaced its previous amateur radio designation, 7XC.〔William Hanford Brubaker, ''A History of Radio Broadcasting in Seattle Up to the Establishment of the Radio Act of 1927'', (Seattle: M.A. thesis, University of Washington, 1968), pp. 37-40.〕〔David Richardson, ''Puget Sounds: A Nostalgic Review of Radio and TV in the Great Northwest'', (Seattle: Superior Publishers, 1981), p. 187.〕 The station's founder, Vincent Kraft, initially operated 7XC out of his home. At the time he received the KJR call letters, the station was operating in the Times Square Building in downtown Seattle. Kraft sold the station to businessman Adolph Linden in 1928.〔Brubaker, ''op. cit,'' pp. 38-9.〕 In 1948, KJR was a Marshall Field station and an affiliate of ABC. Beginning in the 1950s and lasting until 1982, KJR was a pioneer Top 40 radio station owned by entertainer Danny Kaye and Lester Smith, "Kaye/Smith Enterprises". In the 1960s, under the programming guidance of Pat O'Day, the station was top rated in Seattle and well known for introducing the Pacific Northwest to many recording stars such as Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts and the Ventures. Today, the call letters are used by KJR-FM, which broadcasts a format that includes many of the songs and shows (including original American Top 40 shows from the 1970s) from that era. Competitors against KJR's top 40 format at the time included KOL 1300, KING 1090, and KIRO 710. KJR would switch to soft adult contemporary in 1982, following in KING's footsteps. In 1988, the station shifted to oldies, playing the music that had made the station famous throughout the 1960s and 1970s. KJR's shift to sports programming was a gradual evolution starting in 1989, when the station added some sports-themed shows in mid-days and afternoons. The rest of the music programming would be phased out in September 1991. On November 4, 2011, at 7 AM, KJR began simulcasting on 102.9 FM, replacing country-formatted KNBQ. This ended on June 13, 2013, when KNBQ (now KYNW) reverted to an Adult top 40 format. During this time, Clear Channel did not transfer the KJR-FM calls from 95.7 to 102.9, instead co-branding the station as "Sports Radio 950 AM and 102.9 FM KJR". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KJR (AM)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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