Vincent Kraft was Seattle’s first
broadcaster. In 1919 he created a local sensation by playing
phonograph records over his amateur station 7XC. On July 2,
1920, he broadcast the results of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight for the
local audience. Kraft’s little station soon became KJR, and
he later built additional stations in Portland, Spokane and San
Francisco, and tied them together to create the Northwest's first radio
network. He sold those stations in 1928 but operated KXA in
Seattle and two stations in Alaska through the 1930s.