Puget Sound Radio

Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Franken, who said he would quit in the coming weeks, said: “All women deserve to be heard and their experiences taken seriously.”

Dec. 7th gave us radio’s king of horror writing Arch Oboler, Mary Tyler Moore’s TV newsman Ted Knight, music men Tom Waits and Harry Chapin, and actors Rod Cameron and Ellen Burstyn. Radio brought us the news of Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbour; KCTS signed on on Seattle channel 9 bringing Public Television to the Northwest; CHPQ AM1370 in Parksville signed on; some 35 years later KSQM 91.5 Sequim Wash. signed on; Instant Replay was used for the first time on CBS-TV’s telecast of the Army-Navy football game; the Christmas special ‘Frosty the Snowman’ (pictured) debuted on CBS-TV; and Harry Reasoner joined Howard K. Smith to co-anchor ABC-TV’s Evening News. ALL the milestones for Dec. 7th INSIDE.

“I’ve been broadcasting THE OSGOOD FILE since 1967,” said CHARLES OSGOOD, who recently was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy.

“He was about doing what he loved and about doing it well,” said former co-worker Connie Thompson. “But he was also about loving life and joy.”