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82-642: Alvis Edgar " Buck " Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos , which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound , named in honor of Bakersfield, California , Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music". While

164-485: A "Buck Owens signature Telecaster," and after his death paid tribute to him. In 2003, Paisley blended creative styles with this guitar and his own Paisley Telecaster, creating what became known as the Buck-O-Caster. Initially, only two were made; one for Paisley himself and the other presented to Owens during a New Year's celebration that Paisley attended in 2004. Following the death of Rich, Owens' latter trademark became

246-527: A 2007 authorized biography Buck , historian Kathryn Burke gives a positive account of Owens. In Buck Owens: The Biography (2010) investigative journalist Eileen Sisk offers a critical account of Owens and the shortcomings in his private life. The Buckaroos Don Rich , Doyle Holly , Tom Brumley and Willie Cantu were the original members of the Buckaroos during the 1960s. The 1970s version included Don Rich, Jerry Wiggins, Jerry Brightman , Doyle Curtsinger, and Jim Shaw. Various sidemen throughout

328-418: A Capitol recording artist in the early 1970s and appeared with his father numerous times on Hee Haw ), Johnny, and Michael Owens. Owens successfully recovered from oral cancer in the early 1990s, but had additional health problems near the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, including pneumonia and a minor stroke in 2004. These health problems had forced him to curtail his regular weekly performances with

410-614: A Tiger By the Tail " and "Act Naturally". Long before Owens became the famous co-host of Hee Haw , his band became known for their signature Bakersfield sound, later emulated by artists such as Merle Haggard , Dwight Yoakam , and Brad Paisley . Buck inspired indie country songwriter and friend Terry Fraley, whose band "The Nudie Cowboys" possessed a similar sound. This sound was originally made possible with two trademark silver-sparkle Fender Telecaster guitars, often played simultaneously by Owens and longtime lead guitarist Don Rich. Fender had made

492-515: A country music's version of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , went on to run in various incarnations for 231 episodes over 24 seasons. Creedence Clearwater Revival mentioned Owens by name in their 1970 single " Lookin' Out My Back Door ". Also between 1968 and 1970, Owens made guest appearances on top TV variety programs, including The Dean Martin Show , The Ed Sullivan Show , The Jackie Gleason Show and seven times on The Jimmy Dean Show . In

574-822: A fictional representation of the station with a news department for the Seattle-set iZombie (which aired from 2015 to 2019), though not with "CW 11" branding, but retaining the station's callsign font, and a completely different image from that of the real KSTW. The station's signal is multiplexed : KSTW shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 36 to VHF channel 11. KSTW no longer has any over-the-air translators. KSTW's last remaining translator, analog translator K62FS (channel 62) in Port Townsend ,

656-409: A gold plaque with the name of the recipient. Some of these guitars cost $ 1000 and up. Owens was married four times, three ending in divorce and one in annulment. He married country singer Bonnie Campbell Owens in 1948. The couple had two sons, one of whom was Buddy Alan, and separated in 1951, and later divorced. In 1956 Owens married Phyllis Buford with whom he had a third son. In the 1970s he had

738-666: A music teacher at Centralia College . While there, he tutored on the side but continued playing local venues. In December 1960, however, he left to rejoin Owens in Bakersfield. "Above and Beyond" hit No. 3. On April 2, 1960, Owens performed the song on ABC-TV 's Ozark Jubilee . In early 1963, the Johnny Russell song " Act Naturally " was pitched to Owens, who initially didn't like it. His guitarist and longtime collaborator Don Rich, however, enjoyed it and convinced Owens to record it with

820-457: A number of off-network sitcoms, and initially only programmed two half-hour newscasts, at 6 and 11 p.m. Although it carried an 11 p.m. newscast throughout its run with the network, daytime newscasts aired in various timeslots during KSTW's third tenure with CBS, eventually settling at 6 a.m., 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. KSTW used the same vertically parallelogrammed "11" logo and on-air branding as its Dallas sister station KTVT during this time. The station

902-569: A number one song Owens and the Buckaroos finally had another No. 1 hit, " Made in Japan ", in 1972. The band had been without pedal steel since late in 1969 when Maness departed. In April he added pedal steel guitarist, Jerry Brightman , and Owens returned to his grassroots sound of fiddle, steel, and electric guitars, releasing a string of singles including "Arms Full of Empty", "Ain't it Amazing Gracie" and "Ain't Gonna Have Ole Buck (to Kick Around no More)". Owens' original version of "Streets of Bakersfield"

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984-428: A red, white and blue acoustic guitar, along with a 1974 Pontiac convertible "Nudiemobile", adorned with pistols and silver dollars. A similar car, created by Nudie Cohn for Elvis Presley and later won by Owens in a bet, is now enshrined behind the bar at Owens' Crystal Palace Nightclub in Bakersfield. Owens would hand out replicas of his trademark acoustic guitar to friends, acquaintances, and fans. Each would contain

1066-486: A relationship with Hee Haw "Honey" Lisa Todd and appeared with her as "Buck Owens and his gal Lisa" on the TV game show Tattletales . In 1977 he wed Buckaroos fiddle player Jana Jae Greif . Within a few days he filed for annulment, then changed his mind; the couple continued the on-and-off marriage for a year before divorcing. In 1979 he married Jennifer Smith. Owens had three sons: Buddy Alan (who charted several hits as

1148-434: A shock to KSTW employees. The two Seattle stations retained their respective syndicated programming, but exchanged network affiliations once again, with KSTW becoming a UPN affiliate, and KIRO returning to CBS. The deal was finalized on June 2, 1997. KSTW began to air UPN programming on June 30, 1997, along with sitcoms, movies, cartoons, a few first-run syndicated shows, and the return of the 10 p.m. newscast it had prior to

1230-720: Is an independent television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington , United States, serving the Seattle area. Owned by the CBS News and Stations group, the station maintains studios on East Madison Street in Seattle's Cherry Hill neighborhood, and its transmitter is located on Capitol Hill east of downtown. As the first station to sign on in Tacoma (and second in the Seattle metropolitan area overall), KSTW initially signed on in March 1953 as KTNT-TV,

1312-562: The Late Show with David Letterman to midnight) in preparation for its return to the 10 p.m. timeslot, but those plans were retracted and the 11 p.m. newscast remained unchanged with no change to the Late Show start time. The late evening newscast reverted to the 10 p.m. timeslot after the switch to UPN on June 30. KSTW's news department was shut down on December 4, 1998, as a result of cost-cutting measures mandated by then-parent company Viacom;

1394-572: The Academy of Country Music in eight consecutive years, winning the award four times, 1965–1968. The Buckaroos were also nominated as "Instrumental Group of the Year" in the Country Music Awards for five consecutive years, 1967–1971, winning the honor in 1967 and 1968. In 1970, Doyle Holly received "Bass Player of the Year" award from the Academy of Country Music as a member of the Buckaroos. He left

1476-643: The Dust Bowl and Great Depression . While attending school in Arizona, Owens found that while he disliked formal schoolwork, he could often satisfy class requirements by singing or performing in school plays. As a result, he began to take part in such activities whenever he could. A self-taught musician and singer, Owens became proficient on guitar, mandolin, horns, and drums. When he obtained his first electric steel guitar, he taught himself to play it after his father adapted an old radio into an amplifier. Owens quit school in

1558-549: The MISL Tacoma Stars from 1984 to 1986. From 1954 to 1974, KTNT's local children's programs featured a personable host named "Brakeman Bill" McLain. From 1988 to 1994, the station carried Ranger Charlie's Kids Club , the last children's show in the region to be filmed before a live audience. The show featured a forest ranger accompanied by a puppet raccoon named Rosco; the show won an Emmy Award . Looney Tunes and Woody Woodpecker cartoons were incorporated into

1640-644: The Native Americans in the Northwest. In 2013, KSTW debuted a public affairs program on Sunday mornings called The Impact , produced by Washington state's public affairs channel TVW . All of these programs have since gone off the air. Local newscasts returned to KSTW after 17 years on July 18, 2022, with the debut of Seattle Now News at 10:00 on CW 11 . The newscast was produced through CBS News and Stations , and ended on August 31, 2023. The callsign and channel number for KSTW were co-opted by The CW to create

1722-737: The Nightmare! banner in the early 1960s on Saturday nights, airing around 10:30 p.m. before sign-off. Due to new newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership restrictions enacted by the FCC in the early 1970s, the Tacoma News Tribune ' s ownership of the KTNT stations were under threat of potential FCC divestiture. As a result, KTNT-TV was sold to the WKY Television System , forerunner of Gaylord Broadcasting (now Ryman Hospitality Properties ), in 1974;

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1804-492: The 10 p.m. newscast moved back to 11 p.m., and newscasts were added in various other timeslots: besides the 11 p.m. news, it initially only ran one other half-hour newscast, at 6 p.m. On July 31, 1995, the station debuted an hour-long 6 a.m. newscast; in early August, the 6 p.m. newscast was dropped due to low ratings in favor of an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast (the CBS Evening News , which originally aired at 5:30, then moved to

1886-459: The 1970s. From 1976 to 1979, John Lippman worked at KSTW, building a news department. During the late 1980s, KSTW branded on-air as "KSTWashington" and, as it did in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the traditional fare of cartoons , off-network sitcoms , westerns , old movies , and a local 10 p.m. newscast. It was also the over-the-air home of the Seattle Mariners and SuperSonics. Although it

1968-560: The 1980s he was no longer recording, instead devoting his time to overseeing his business empire from Bakersfield. He left Hee Haw in 1986. Country artist Dwight Yoakam was largely influenced by Owens' style of music and teamed up with him for a duet of " Streets of Bakersfield " in 1988. It was Owens' first No. 1 single in 16 years. In an interview, Yoakam described the first time he met with Owens: We sat there that day in 1987 and talked about my music to that point, my short career, and what I'd been doing and how he'd been watching me. I

2050-488: The 1990s, Owens was co-owner of the country music network Real Country , of which, the Owens-owned station KCWW was the flagship station. In 1998, Owens sold KCWW to ABC / Disney for $ 8,850,000 and sold KNIX-FM to Clear Channel Communications , but he maintained ownership of KUZZ until his death. Owens established Buck Owens Enterprises and produced records by several artists. He recorded for Warner Bros. Records , but by

2132-544: The 4.2 subchannel of KOMO-TV , then to KUNS-TV on January 1, 2024. The station was the on-air home for the NBA 's Seattle SuperSonics in the early 1970s, and again from the early 1990s until 1999 . It also aired Seattle Mariners games for most of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The station also carried TVS ' World Football League telecasts in 1974. The station also carried the NASL Seattle Sounders from 1974 to 1981 and

2214-531: The 6 p.m. timeslot Seattle stations have traditionally scheduled the network newscasts). Both newscasts were removed on March 11, 1996, in favor of newscasts at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. emphasizing health and consumer features. During this time, KSTW was among the first stations to use the 11 at 11 branding on its 11 p.m. newscast (as did Gaylord's station in Dallas–Fort Worth, KTVT, using a modified 11 on 11 branding on its 10 p.m. newscast); this format included

2296-525: The Beautiful , had already been shown on KSTW starting in the fall of 1994, which was already occurring with KTVT.) The WB ultimately signed with KTZZ-TV (channel 22, now KZJO ) weeks before its eventual January 1995 launch. With the CBS affiliation, KSTW was dropped from cable systems in areas of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, due to the presence of Spokane 's KREM-TV . Even as a CBS affiliate, KSTW still ran

2378-563: The Buckaroos at his Crystal Palace. Owens died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack at his ranch just north of Bakersfield on March 25, 2006, only hours after performing at his club. He was 76 years old. Owens was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996. He was ranked No. 12 in CMT 's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music in 2003. In addition, CMT also ranked the Buckaroos No. 2 in

2460-455: The Buckaroos originally featured a fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental. The band's signature style was based on simple story lines, infectious choruses, a twangy electric guitar, an insistent rhythm supplied by a prominent drum track, and high, two-part vocal harmonies featuring Owens and his guitarist Don Rich . From 1969 to 1986, Owens co-hosted

2542-563: The Buckaroos, sang with them on Hee Haw and recorded one Buck Owens record "Let Jesse Rob the Train" with the group. Drummer/singer Rick Taylor replaced Jerry Wiggins in 1978, when he left the band to manage his wife, Susan Raye. Rick performed his first appearance at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas "winging it" as there was no time for rehearsals before the sold-out performances. Rick had seen Buck and

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2624-445: The Buckaroos. Laid down on February 12, 1963, it was released on March 11 and entered the charts of April 13. By June 15 the single began its first of four non-consecutive weeks at the No. 1 position, Owens' first top hit. The Beatles recorded a cover of it in 1965 with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Starr later recorded a duet of it with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album Carnegie Hall Concert

2706-642: The CBS switch. The station canceled the 10 p.m. newscast in December 1998. Viacom acquired CBS (its former parent) in 2000, bringing CBS and KSTW under common ownership, and making KSTW and the aforementioned KTVT sister stations once again. The cartoons on KSTW had disappeared (as a result of UPN ending the Disney's One Too block in August 2003), and more first-run syndicated talk and reality shows moved to KSTW. In July 2001, KSTW moved their studios from Tacoma to Renton; despite

2788-607: The Fragaria Access Road. Parts of the old transmitting equipment were loaned to Portland, Oregon 's KGW-TV , due to the damage from the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 . In February 1958, KIRO-TV (channel 7) took to the air as the Seattle–Tacoma market's exclusive CBS affiliate. After being informed by CBS that its affiliation would be discontinued, KTNT-TV filed an antitrust lawsuit against CBS and KIRO-TV, on claims

2870-595: The Romo Buffet. In the late 1940s, Owens became a truck driver, a job which took him through the San Joaquin Valley of California, where he first experienced and was impressed by the town of Bakersfield. He and his first wife eventually settled there in 1951. Soon, Owens was frequently traveling to Hollywood for session recording jobs at Capitol Records , playing backup for Tennessee Ernie Ford , Wanda Jackson , Tommy Collins , Tommy Duncan , and many others. Using

2952-427: The Year 1981 for the single, "Love In The Meantime". Nightstreets featured female vocalist, Joyce Hawthorne, met Rick while recording as a background singer with the Buckaroos in the 1970s. Nightstreets toured with George Jones and Tammy Wynette from 1981 through 1982. Rick retired from the music industry in 1986. Known for their signature red, white and blue colored guitars and fiddles, the Buckaroos in 1966 became only

3034-481: The Year award from the Academy of Country Music the year before and served as co-lead vocalist (along with Don Rich) of the Buckaroos. Holly went on to record two solo records in the early 1970s, both were top 20 hits. Owens and Rich were the only members left of the original band, and in the 1970s they struggled to top the country music charts. However, the popularity of Hee Haw was allowing them to enjoy large crowds at indoor arenas. After three years of not having

3116-471: The area's CBS affiliate under the ownership of the Tacoma News Tribune . The station lost the affiliation when Seattle-licensed KIRO-TV signed on in 1958; both stations shared the affiliation for two years after their owners agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit over the switch. The station became KSTW in 1974 when it was acquired by a forerunner of Gaylord Broadcasting ; it subsequently became one of

3198-473: The company's San Francisco duopoly of KPIX and KBCW . On October 3, 2022, Nexstar Media Group acquired majority ownership of The CW. Under the agreement, CBS was given the right to pull its affiliations from KSTW and its seven other CW stations. On May 5, 2023, CBS announced that it would exercise that right and KSTW would cease airing The CW's programming at the end of August and become an independent station. The CW affiliation in Seattle went first to

3280-456: The country music charts in 1969, "Tall Dark Stranger" and "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass". In 1969, they recorded a live album, Live in London , where they premiered their rock song "A Happening In London Town" and their version of Chuck Berry 's song " Johnny B. Goode ". During this time Hee Haw , starring Owens and the Buckaroos, was at its height of popularity. The series, originally envisioned as

3362-489: The country. Many of those records (still in the shrinkwrap) were stored by Owens for decades. He often gave them away as gifts and sold them at his nightclub for a premium price some 35 years later. In August 1999, Owens brought back together the remaining members of his original Buckaroo Band to help him celebrate his 70th birthday at his Crystal Palace in Bakersfield. Owens, Doyle Holly , Tom Brumley , and Wille Cantu performed old hits from their heyday including " I've Got

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3444-465: The early 1970s, Owens and the Buckaroos enjoyed a string of hit duets with his protege Susan Raye , who subsequently became a popular solo artist with Owens as her producer. In 1971, the Buckaroos' bass guitarist Doyle Holly left the band to pursue a solo career. Holly was known for his booming deep voice on solo ballads. His departure was a setback to the band, as Doyle had received the Bass Player of

3526-542: The finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music." His unique steel guitar sound was known as "The Brumley Touch", and he was recognized by the Academy of Country Music as the top steel guitarist. He was inducted into both the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame and the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame . Brumley died in 2009. Don Rich died in a motorcycle accident in 1974. At

3608-540: The group the next year to pursue a solo career, in which he released two Top 20 hit albums. He is honored in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and received a block in the walkway of stars at the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980. Holly died in 2007. Tom Brumley left the Buckaroos in 1969 to join Ricky Nelson 's band, where he was a member for over a decade. His performance on "Together Again" has been considered "one of

3690-480: The label. His albums had been out of print for nearly 15 years when he released a retrospective box set in 1990. Encouraged by brisk sales, Owens struck a distribution deal with Sundazed Records of New York, which specializes in reissuing obscure recordings. The bulk of his Capitol catalog was reissued on CD in 1995, 1997 and in 2005. Sometime in the 1970s, Owens had also purchased the remaining copies of his original LP albums from Capitol's distribution warehouses across

3772-575: The late 1960s, the station also occasionally carried NBC prime time programs preempted by Seattle SuperSonics games on KING-TV (channel 5). For one month, in May 1967, the station was also an affiliate of the United Network (also known as the Overmyer Network ), a short-lived attempt to create a fourth commercial television network nationally. During the decade, KTNT also presented horror movies under

3854-519: The move came after the company canceled newscasts on its UPN stations in Tampa–St. Petersburg and Boston . News returned to the station in March 2003, as it began to carry a 10 p.m. newscast produced by KIRO-TV under a news share agreement. The newscast was dropped on December 19, 2003, but returned on June 28, 2004, before being canceled again, this time permanently, in June 2005; from then on until July 2022,

3936-409: The move, KSTW remains licensed to Tacoma to this day. On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and KSTW parent CBS Corporation (which split from Viacom the previous month; the two would remerge in December 2019) announced they would shut down The WB and UPN, and launch The CW Television Network , which would largely feature programming from both networks; KSTW was announced as the Seattle station for

4018-454: The network had a pre-existing agreement to affiliate with KIRO-TV when and if it ever went on the air. CBS agreed to settle the suit in 1960 by taking on both KIRO-TV and KTNT-TV as primary affiliates. This arrangement lasted until September 1962, when channel 7 became the sole CBS station for western Washington. Channel 11 was left to once again become an independent station, the second in the market after KTVW (channel 13, now KCPQ ). During

4100-607: The network's 20 Greatest Bands in 2005. He was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame . The stretch of US Highway 82 in Sherman, Texas, is named the Buck Owens Freeway in his honor. In November 2013, Buck Owens's posthumous autobiography Buck 'Em! The Autobiography of Buck Owens by Buck Owens with Randy Poe was released. The book has a foreword by Brad Paisley and a preface by Dwight Yoakam. In

4182-481: The network's programming until 2023, when CBS withdrew its eight affiliates from the network after selling its ownership stake to Nexstar Media Group . KSTW is available on cable television to Canadian customers in southwestern British Columbia on numerous cable providers such as Shaw Cable and TELUS Optik TV in Vancouver , Victoria , Nanaimo , Kamloops , Penticton and Kelowna . The construction permit for

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4264-534: The new WB Television Network , at that time projected to launch late in the summer of 1994. However, delays in the network's launch led to Gaylord suing to void the affiliation agreements in July 1994, which was followed a month later by a breach of contract countersuit by The WB. In the meantime, CBS found itself without an affiliate in Dallas–Fort Worth when its longtime affiliate there, KDFW , switched to Fox (it

4346-407: The new network; the station rebranded as "CW 11" on August 11, ahead of the network's launch on September 18, 2006. Tribune Company -owned WB station KTWB-TV (later KMYQ, now KZJO) became an affiliate of MyNetworkTV . In November 2006, after cost-cutting measures were put in place by CBS, it was announced that KSTW would become a "hosting station", with master control located at the facilities of

4428-718: The new ownership changed the station's call letters to KSTW (standing for Seattle–Tacoma, Washington) on March 1. With the new ownership and call letters came a new slogan, "Good Lookin' 11", as well as a new logo—a stylized "circle 11" with the circle modified to accommodate the "11". Later in the decade, KSTW became a regional superstation . At its height, it was available on nearly every cable system in Washington, as well as parts of Oregon , northern Idaho , and much of British Columbia . The station also carried many daytime CBS programs preempted by KIRO-TV (including game shows such as The Joker's Wild and The Price Is Right ) during

4510-526: The news department at KSTW and make it more competitive with the other stations in the market. However, rival KIRO-TV had been put up for sale just weeks before KSTW, as the Belo Corporation 's merger with the Providence Journal Company gave it ownership of KING-TV (Belo could not hold on to both KING-TV and KIRO per FCC ownership rules at the time). Paramount Stations Group , meanwhile,

4592-405: The next day, and work progressed rapidly. The original studios and transmitter house were located at South 11th Street and South Grant Avenue. The station tested with a 30,000- watt signal and received reports of reception from up to 150 miles (240 km) away. The station began broadcasting March 1, 1953, in Tacoma as KTNT-TV, named after its founder, the Tacoma News Tribune . At the time, it

4674-402: The ninth grade in order to help work on his father's farm and pursue a music career. In 1945, he co-hosted a radio show called Buck and Britt. Co-host Theryl Ray Britten and Owens also played at local bars, where owners usually allowed them and a third member of their band to pass the hat during a show and keep 10% of the take. They eventually became the resident musicians at a Phoenix bar called

4756-459: The original Buckaroos live in Omaha when he was 13 years old and dreamed of performing with Buck on Hee Haw. At age 19 he made his way to Nashville and 5 years later, he was performing in a rock cover group at a Nashville night club when Buck himself came to watch him at the urging of Hee Haw music director, Charlie McCoy, and Hee Haw staff band players, Leon Rhodes , and Tommy Williams. Buck hired Rick on

4838-416: The popular CBS television variety show Hee Haw with Roy Clark (syndicated beginning in 1971). According to Owens' son Buddy Alan , the accidental 1974 death of Don Rich, his closest friend, devastated him for years and impacted his creative efforts until he mounted a comeback in the late 1980s. Owens is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame . Owens

4920-852: The pseudonym "Corky Jones" to prevent the recording of a rock 'n' roll tune from hurting his aspiring Country Music career, Owens recorded a rockabilly record called " Hot Dog " for the Pep label . Some time in the 1950s he lived with his second wife and children in Fife, Washington , where he sang with the Dusty Rhodes band. In 1958 Owens met Don Rich in Steve's Gay 90s Restaurant in South Tacoma, Washington . Owens had observed one of Rich's shows and immediately approached him about collaborating, after which Rich began playing fiddle with Owens at local venues. They were featured on

5002-450: The real joy and love, the real lightning and thunder is gone forever." Owens would never fully recover from the tragedy, either emotionally or professionally. Before the 1960s ended, Owens and manager Jack McFadden began to concentrate on Owens' financial future. He bought several radio stations, including KNIX (AM) (later KCWW) and KNIX-FM in Phoenix and KUZZ-FM in Bakersfield. During

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5084-745: The second country music band to appear at Carnegie Hall in New York City . The recording of this performance, released as Carnegie Hall Concert , is considered one of the greatest live country music albums. They also recorded and released live albums from appearances in London , Norway , Australia , New Zealand , and Las Vegas . The Buckaroos also appeared on the Buck Owens Show. The Buckaroos recorded eight albums from 1967 to 1970, all of which were top sellers. They also earned numerous awards, including Grammys . They were nominated as "Band Of The Year" by

5166-448: The show. KTNT/KSTW has offered local newscasts throughout most of its history. Its news department began when the station signed on in 1953 as a CBS affiliate. In 1976, KSTW moved its 11 p.m. newscast to a prime time slot at 10 p.m. In May 1990, the station debuted an 11:30 a.m. newscast, which was ended on July 23, 1991, due to low ratings. After KSTW rejoined CBS in March 1995, the station made extensive changes to its news schedule:

5248-770: The spot and invited him to the Hee Haw set the next day where his dream became a reality. Rick's first taping was the Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Show taped at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tn in October 1978. He was with the Buckaroos until leaving in 1981, following the band's nomination and win as "Touring Band of the Year" at the ACM Awards, to join the Epic Records vocal group Nightstreets, voted Billboard Magazine's Vocal Group of

5330-526: The station was issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 10, 1952. Chief Engineer Max Bice immediately ordered equipment through General Electric , and the equipment was delivered within 45 days. The antenna was in Milan , Italy and it was shipped by rail car to Tacoma. The transmitter arrived in Tacoma from Syracuse, New York , on February 9, 1953. It was installed on

5412-495: The strongest independent stations in the country over two decades, reaching regional superstation status with widespread carriage on cable television systems in Washington and neighboring states/provinces. KSTW rejoined CBS in 1995 during a nationwide affiliation shuffle ; two years later, the station became a UPN affiliate via a three-way deal involving it and KIRO-TV, which led it to join The CW when UPN shut down in 2006, carrying

5494-569: The time Rich was the only original member still with the Buckaroos and the band was struggling to find their way back at the top of the Country Music Charts. His death marked the end of the Buckaroos reign as the top Country Music band. Jerry Brightman left in 1975 and migrated into the business side with his involvement with WWVA Jamboree and Jamboree in the Hills . KSTW KSTW (channel 11), branded on-air as Seattle 11 ,

5576-413: The time slot was filled with syndicated programming. After dropping traditional newscasts, KSTW aired two specially focused news programs on Sunday mornings: the business-focused program, South Sound Business Report (produced by Business Examiner and also broadcast by Tacoma PBS member station KBTC-TV ), as well as Northwest Indian News (produced by local cable channel KANU TV-99), which focuses on

5658-420: The top stories and a weather forecast in an 11-minute first segment, with the next segment serving as an in-depth "Northwest News Extra" report. After being sold to Paramount Stations Group, the station's 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. newscasts were immediately cut. Initial plans for June 9, 1997, included expanding the 11 p.m. newscast (the only newscast to have remained largely unchanged from March 1995) to an hour (pushing

5740-432: The weekly BAR-K Jamboree on KTNT-TV 11 . In 1959, Owens' career took off when his song "Second Fiddle" hit No. 24 on the Billboard country chart. Soon after, " Under Your Spell Again " made it to No. 4 on the charts and Capitol Records wanted Owens to return to Bakersfield, California. Following their success, Owens tried unsuccessfully to convince Rich to accompany him to Bakersfield. Instead, Rich opted to go to become

5822-411: The years included JayDee Maness , Wayne "Moose" Stone, Jay McDonald, Ken Presley, and very early on, Merle Haggard . Haggard, who worked a short time with Owens in 1962, suggested the group's name. Fiddle player Jana Jae became the group's first female member after being invited onstage with Buck Owens to play " Orange Blossom Special ". Vocalist Victoria Hallman (a.k.a. Jesse Rose McQueen) toured with

5904-493: Was a primary CBS affiliate and sister station to KTNT radio (AM 1400, now KITZ , and FM 97.3, now KIRO-FM ). During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network . On February 21, 1954, KTNT received permission from the FCC to increase the transmitter's power to 316,000 watts, and to move the transmitter to a new 1,000-foot (300 m) tower near View Park, Washington just south of Harper on

5986-448: Was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens as a top country band. It achieved crossover success on to the pop charts, reinforced by R&B singer Ray Charles releasing cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits that year: " Crying Time " and " Together Again ". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured Japan, a then-rare occurrence for a country act. The subsequent live album, Buck Owens and His Buckaroos in Japan ,

6068-530: Was an early example of a country band recording outside the United States. Owens and the Buckaroos performed at the White House for President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, which was later released as a live album. Between 1968 and 1969, pedal steel guitar player Tom Brumley and drummer Willie Cantu left the band, replaced by JayDee Maness and Jerry Wiggins. Owens and the Buckaroos had two songs reach No. 1 on

6150-631: Was born on a farm in Sherman, Texas , United States, to Alvis Edgar Owens Sr. and Maicie Azel (née Ellington) Owens. In the biography About Buck ., Rich Kienzle writes: "'Buck' was a donkey on the Owens farm." "When Alvis Jr. was three or four years old, he walked into the house and announced that his name also was "Buck." That was fine with the family, and the boy's name became "Buck" from then on." He attended public school for grades 1–3 in Garland, Texas . Owens' family moved to Mesa, Arizona , in 1937 during

6232-550: Was in the process of selling off the non- UPN stations it had inherited from Viacom , including KMOV in St. Louis —Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries launched UPN in January 1995, the same month The WB went on the air. As a result, on February 20, 1997, a three-way station trade was arranged, in which Paramount/Viacom would swap KMOV to Belo for KIRO-TV, which would then be dealt to Cox in exchange for KSTW and $ 70 million—a deal that came as

6314-496: Was later purchased outright by that network). CBS approached Gaylord for an affiliation with KTVT. Gaylord agreed, on condition that KSTW be included as part of the deal. CBS agreed, partly because at the time, KSTW was the only non- Big Three station in Seattle with a fully functioning news department. As a result, CBS returned to channel 11 on March 13, 1995, in what was to have been a ten-year affiliation agreement. (Some CBS shows that were preempted by KIRO, such as The Bold and

6396-778: Was one of the strongest independent stations in the country, it passed on the Fox affiliation when that network launched in 1986; that affiliation was picked up by KCPQ. This was mainly because most of the smaller markets in KSTW's cable footprint had enough stations to provide a local Fox affiliate, making the prospect of KSTW as a multi-market Fox affiliate unattractive to Gaylord. In 1993, Gaylord agreed to affiliate KSTW, and its sister stations KTVT in Fort Worth , WVTV in Milwaukee and KHTV in Houston , with

6478-447: Was permanently shut down on December 29, 2011. The FCC required that all television transmitters occupying channels 52 to 69 to vacate those channels by December 31 , 2011. KSTW had already applied to change the broadcast channel and to broadcast in digital so as to use channel 51; however, on August 21, 2011, the FCC issued a freeze on processing applications to use channel 51; that channel would eventually be removed for TV use as part of

6560-417: Was put up for sale in October 1996, with Gaylord stating in its earnings report that "its financial results have not met expectations." On January 20, 1997, Gaylord announced that KSTW would be purchased by Cox Broadcasting , a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises , for $ 160 million. The deal was finalized on May 30, 1997 (Gaylord held on to KTVT until 1999, when it was sold to CBS outright). Cox had plans to expand

6642-419: Was really flattered and thrilled to know that this legend had been keeping an eye on me. Owens also collaborated with Cledus T. Judd on the song "The First Redneck On The Internet" in 1998, in which Owens also appears in the music video. The 1990s saw a flood of reissues of Owens' Capitol recordings on compact disc, the publishing rights to which Owens had bought back in 1974 as part of his final contract with

6724-544: Was released in 1972. On July 17, 1974, Owens's best friend, the Buckaroos' guitarist Don Rich , was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a guard rail on Highway 1 in Morro Bay , where he was to have joined his family for vacation. Owens was devastated. "He was like a brother, a son and a best friend," he said in the late 1990s. "Something I never said before, maybe I couldn't, but I think my music life ended when he died. Oh yeah, I carried on and I existed, but

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