Birt Fisher leased the license of KFQX after its owner, Roy Olmstead, went to prison for violation of the prohibition act.  He changed the call letters to KTCL and operated it from 1925-26.  (KCTL later became KXA.)  When he lost the lease of the station, he convinced O.D. Fisher of the Fisher Flouring Mills Co. to start a new station, KOMO, in 1927, and then managed the station from 1927 to 1945.  He became the owner of KJR when the FCC duopoly ruling forced Fishers Blend Station Inc. to sell KJR.    Fisher managed KJR for only a year before selling out to Marshall Field Enterprises in 1947.  Afterwards, he retired to his ranch in Ellensburg, where he lived until his death in 1961. 

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