In 1995, he formed his own independent production company and thereafter devoted himself full-time to producing and distributing programs both on terrestrial radio and the burgeoning platform of satellite radio. Starting in 1980 with KIRO-AM’s Mystery Playhouse, and later branching out into independent syndication with Jim French’s Imagination Theatre broadcast on over 120 stations in the United States and Canada, Jim and his troupe of stalwart players (including many Seattle Local members, in addition to numerous Hollywood celebrities), kept alive the nearly extinct art of the radio drama.Īlthough he showed an interest in radio from an early age and worked in the industry for several years prior to arriving in the Pacific Northwest, his local career started in 1952 at KING-AM, moving to KIRO in 1959, and later to KVI-AM, where he first started producing dramatic radio programs under the Imagination Theatre banner. On March 31, the offices of Jim French Productions/Imagination Theatre formally closed its doors, bringing to an end a nearly four-decade-long run of producing, writing, directing and airing original recorded radio dramas.
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