The game that went on despite a pandemic
On March 7th, the Seattle Sounders played a home game. 33,000 people squeezed into CenturyLink Field – where days before, a concessions worker had tested positive for COVID-19. Why did the game go forward, and who made the final call?
Record host Bill Radke spoke to Ken Armstrong - a ProPublica reporter who collaborated with the Seattle Times on their investigation.
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Bill Radke
Host
Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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Sarah Leibovitz
Supervising Producer, Soundside
Sarah joined KUOW in 2019 as senior producer on The Record. She is now Supervising KUOW’s new noon time show, Soundside. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
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