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Local Radio Comes to the Area, Even Gopher Valley!

While people with radio sets in Gopher Valley could pick up stations in Portland and Salem, they didn’t have a local station until 1949.  The Bladine brothers—Jack and Phil—who owned the News-Telephone newspaper (later the News-Register) in McMinnville recognized radio’s potential to broaden their empire. On Saturday June 18, 1949 at 11:00 am, McMinnville radio

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