Johnston, Dick (Richard Woodwell), 1931-2017
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1931 - 2017
Biography
Richard Woodwell "Dick" Johnston was the second owner of the first FM radio station in the tri-county region, 97.5 FM KRCW, which first signed on the air September 1, 1957. He bought the station from Cameron Warren on January 1, 1963 for the agreed upon price of $50,000, with $15,000 down. In May 1965, Johnston sold the station to News-Press Publishing Company, owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press and AM station KTMS, for $51,000. KRCW's call sign changed to KTMS-FM in July to match that of its new sister station.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Dick Johnston Interview, 1992-04-08
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Mountain Drive Oral History Collection contains thirty oral histories of people who experienced the early days of Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara's bohemian community. The collection originated as an advanced oral history course conducted during the summer of 1986. The success of the group project, and the feeing that it had only scratched the surface of a rich subject, caused the effort to be continued for six years. One of the envisioned outputs of the project was a publication on the...
Dates:
1992-04-08