Police corruption, anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, and Black Power were just some of Seattle’s public conflicts in the early 1970s. Also, there was the “Boeing Bust” when
jobless people fled the city and region. That’s when the most respected individual broadcast “newscaster” around was Bryan Johnson, who died recently and who used KOMO-AM’s 50,000 watts to tell everyone every weekday morning what they wanted and needed to know.
In radio, “morning drive” was, for some, prime time, and Bryan dominated it. For several years he was my boss who championed my return to full-time work as his station’s first female to write and deliver news broadcasts…