Chip Talk is a radio

Radio

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 show syndicated by the Associated Press

Associated Press

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 Radio Network. Launched in the early 1980s, it is the longest-running computer

Computer

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-related broadcast program on the air. It was written and hosted by Seattle radio personality Dave Ross

Dave Ross

Dave Ross is a talk show host on Seattle's KIRO-FM radio station, with whom he had been a news anchor from 1978 until his talk show started nine years later in 1987. He has sometimes broadcast his show while on assignment in other locations, including overseas, such as Baghdad, Iraq in April...

, who had produced the program since its inception, until mid 2004, when he took a leave of absence to run for the United States Congress

United States Congress

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. Kevin Ebi was substitute host during the campaign; Ross resumed his place as host following his unsuccessful campaign run. Chip Talk is produced at Seattle's KIRO (AM)

KIRO (AM)

KIRO is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Maury Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum...

radio.