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KNDD (107.7 FM), also known as "107.7 The End", is an alternative rock radio station in Seattle, Washington. It is operated by Entercom Communications. Its studios are located in the Metropolitan Park West tower between Downtown and South Lake Union in Seattle. The station broadcasts on 107.7 MHz with an ERP of 68,000 watts and transmits from a tower near Issaquah, Washington on Tiger Mountain. KNDD broadcasts in HD.〔http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=11 HD Radio Guide for Seattle-Tacoma〕 ==History== The station began its life in 1962 as non-commercial KRAB, founded by Lorenzo Milam and eventually owned by the Jack Straw Memorial Foundation. KRAB broadcast an eclectic mix of Pacifica radio features, world music, jazz, and much more. But the station was also dangerously close to insolvency. Its management realized the station could be sold to a commercial broadcaster and an endowment created, allowing the Foundation to broadcast in the non-commercial part of the radio dial, which exists between 88.1 MHz and 91.9 MHz. The owners of KRAB originally applied to share time with KNHC, owned by the Seattle Public Schools. However, this action was seen by the school district as a hostile take-over bid. Ultimately, the owners got a license for 90.7 MHz in Everett, Washington. KRAB's legacy remains on the air at KSER. The first commercial station signed on in 1985. It was known as KMGI, also known as "Magic 108 FM". The station was a gold-based Adult Contemporary station and had limited success for four years. But, under the ownership of Noble Broadcast Group, the station refocused as a Hot AC station beginning in 1990 and called itself "I-107.7." KMGI brought together the morning team of Kelly and Alpha, who remained with the station throughout its days as I-107-7. All forms of AC tried on the station resulted in low ratings. For a few weeks in August 1991, 107.7 stunted with TV theme songs with different voices stating "The End is coming" during its commercial breaks and randomly between themes. On August 23, 1991, at 3 PM, the station changed its name and call letters to "107.7 The End" (KNDD). The End's first songs were "It's The End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M., followed by "Sex (I'm A...)" by Berlin. The station referred to its music as "The Cutting Edge of Rock." This positioning statement borrowed directly from its San Diego/Tijuana sister station XETRA-FM. It was the Seattle market's 4th attempt at a modern alternative format, dating back to KZAM AM 1540 in the late 1970s. Other stations in the format at one time or another included KJET-AM 1590 and KYYX-FM 96.5, which both trace their histories to the 1980s. Within six weeks of The End's first broadcast, three albums by local artists — ''Ten'' by Pearl Jam, ''Nevermind'' by Nirvana and ''Badmotorfinger'' by Soundgarden — were released. These albums helped come to define the sound known as grunge, and the station quickly became one of the major stations in alternative rock radio. KNDD was also the first commercial station to play the band Weezer, when in June 1994, the station played "Undone (The Sweater Song)". In 1998, MTV's ''The Real World'' was taped in Seattle and required the season's cast to work at KNDD as "modulators". For many years, the station's morning show was titled "The Morning End", and was hosted by Andy Savage. Savage was let go in 2003 due to the expiration of his contract with the station. After a period of music-based shows, Adam Carolla would become the station's morning show host in 2006. On December 18, 2003, the station moved to a classic alternative rock direction. CBS Radio followed suit 29 hours later by flipping KYPT ("96.5 The Point") to KRQI ("96-5 K-Rock") to provide competition. This proved to be a stunt, and shortly after KRQI's sign-on, the station moved back to alternative rock, although it dumped most hard rock bands (KRQI later dumped the format and flipped to adult hits in 2005 as KJAQ). This marked one of the first times when KNDD wasn't Seattle's only alternative rock station. But, KNDD returned to not being Seattle's only alternative rock station in 2011, when Sandusky's KLCK-FM (Click 98.9) changed formats from adult album alternative/modern AC to alternative. KNDD once again became the market's only alternative rock station with the flip of KLCK-FM from alternative rock to hot adult contemporary in March 2012. In May 2006, long time program director Phil Manning announced that he was leaving the station. Scott Geiger, also known as Lazlo, of sister station KRBZ in Kansas City, was named the new program director on June 1, 2006. In November 2006, he began hosting afternoons with a simulcast of his KRBZ show, which was co-hosted by his wife, Afentra Bandokoudis, and Slimfast under "The Church of Lazlo" moniker. In June 2008, KNDD announced that Mike Kaplan would be replacing Geiger as program director. Kaplan had previously served as operations manager for two of Entercom's stations in New Orleans. KNDD also announced that Geiger, known on air as Lazlo, would continue to host his afternoon show "The Church of Lazlo".〔http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/42071/mike-kaplan-moving-to-kndd-pd-post?ref=search->〕〔http://www.eskimo.com/~nanook/radio/2008/08/22/kndd-enercom-kaplan/〕On July 17, 2008, Lazlo, Afentra, and Slimfast announced that they would depart KNDD. On August 25, 2008, both "Afentra's Big Fat Morning Buzz" and "The Church of Lazlo" returned live to Kansas City on KRBZ.〔http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/43111/lazlo-exiting-kndd-to-return-to-kc?ref=search〕 In February 2009, the syndicated Adam Carolla Show was cancelled, leaving KNDD without a morning show. After an on-air search for a new morning host that featured well known DJs and local musicians, Whitney "Red" Knoerlein was named host of a freshly resurrected version of The Morning End.〔http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/60328/kndd-fills-mornings-with-red?ref=search〕 In April 2013, Program Director Mike Kaplan, who became PD at KYSR in Los Angeles, was replaced by Garett Michaels. 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「KNDD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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