KSBN (AM)

[3] The station broadcasts at 1230 kHz with a power of 1,000 watts day and night, from a transmitter tower located on top of the Delaney Building in Downtown Spokane.

In the summer of 1921 physics teacher Arthur L. Smith had seen the need to train young students in radio, an infant technology that would soon be widely used commercially.

He noted that, among other things, he was responsible for reading the news, playing records, announcing school athletic events, and proms.

Hunt also related they would read the news verbatim from the Spokesman-Review and the Spokane Chronicle, but they gave no credit to the original sources.

[7] Hunt's account noted that the station's studio was originally located in crowded quarters on an upper floor in the south end of the high school building.

Later we got a variable speed job, but we didn't have LP (long play, not liquid petroleum) records so we never used it in my time.

Someone loaned Mr. A. L. Smith a mechanical song bird from Europe - a wind up dealy in a big brass cage.

"[7] KFIO was financed by the local school board, which eventually reduced its support to a level that no longer permitted the station to remain operating.