Kido: Boise's First Radio Station

by Art Gregory

The origins of KIDO date back to 1920 and the experimental radio station 7YA at Boise High School. In 1922, chemistry teacher Harry Redeker was granted a limited-commercial license and the call letters KFAU. Redeker left the school in 1927, and in 1928, the Boise Independent School District sold KFAU to Frank L. Hill and C.G. Phillips, who changed the station's call letters to KIDO. Over the next 30 years, "Kiddo" Phillips and his wife, Georgia, achieved...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073859511X
• ISBN13: 9780738595115
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"