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Remembering the night Larry King broadcast live from the Space Needle (Getty Images) When Larry King passed away over the weekend, he was lauded for his decades of hosting a popular TV talk show on CNN. But true “Larry Lovers” remember him first as a radio guy hosting a late night phone-in program starting in the late 1970s. That radio program – Mutual Broadcasting’s Larry King Show – once did a live national broadcast from the Space Needle in Seattle. KIRO Radio was the first Seattle station to carry the Larry King Show, beginning right about the time the program first came on air from Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1978. In April 1980, the show moved from KIRO to KVI, which had recently adopted the news-talk format.