Spokane Radio: Patchin, Lukens Sign-Off At KXLX

In a surprise move, the long-running Patchin and Lukens sports talk radio show signed off at KXLX 700 ESPN for the final time Friday night.

The show originated in 1986 when KXLY-TV sports veterans Dennis Patchin, Rick Lukens and Bud Nameck, joined by local broadcaster Chuck DeBruin, began Sports Tonight. Over the years the cast has changed, but Patchin was a fixture, spokesman.com reports.

Patchin, who started at KXLY in 1984, moved from TV to radio full time in 2009 and has been a sports-talk fixture on weekday afternoons since. In different stretches, Julie Scott, now a University of Idaho media instructor, Keith Osso, KXLY’s current sports director, and Lukens, a Spokane radio and TV fixture since 1983, joined Patchin on the show.

I was told today by the KXLY Broadcast Group that my services were no longer needed after 36+ years. I'd like to thank the company for the opportunity they gave me in Feburary of ‘84. Thanks to the listeners too. It was a good run. pic.twitter.com/Lfrix04j8z

— Dennis Patchin (@dpsportsgeg) April 4, 2020

Patchin and Lukens was the last locally produced sports-talk radio show in Spokane.