This was a historic meeting in that we were there in the same room celebrating 1928 KIDO’s sign-on just like they were 60 years earlier in November of 1948 when KIDO was only 20 years old. Pete Furno was there for both events and spoke on Friday, as did 4 other KIDO Pioneers.

They also all spoke about their “boss,” an extraordinary WOMAN – who just happened to start the first commercial Radio station in Boise, the first FM station in Idaho, and for all practical purposes the first REAL TV station (not counting the approximately two months Channel 6 KFXD-TV was on the air, but mostly only with a test pattern).

Georgia Marie Newport of Parma became Georgia Phillips in 1927, and then Georgia M. Davidson in 1946 after her husband “Kiddo” Phillips died in 1942. He was only 42 by the way, and she had two young daughters.

The courage this woman must have had was unbelievable, and then she put it all on the line to start Channel 7, and then to move it Deer Point and then continue to keep it on the air.

To do so, she sold KIDO radio in 1959 to Bill Boeing, son of the founder of the Aircraft Company in Seattle. On the website, you can here 83-year-old Jack Link (no relation to the Beef Jerky Company) speak of his assocation with KIDO. He worked for Georgia when Channel 7 signed on, when to KING Radio fr a few years, then got hired by Bill Boeing to come back to Boise and run KIDO when they bought it from Georgia in 1959. Almost 50 years later, he still works for Bill Boeing and I talked with him Thursday from Seattle. click here! http://www.historyofidahobroadcasting.org

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