View Post ShopTalk Former KHQ GM J. Birney Blair Dies By Merrill Knox on Jun. 17, 2014 - 1:02 PM J. Birney Blair, a longtime president and general manager of KHQ in Spokane, died Saturday, The Spokesman Review reports. He was 92. Blair started working at KHQ as a radio reporter. In 1952, when the station transitioned to telev ...