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I couldn't stand Curley's arrogance, so no loss there. This is an incredibly fast change even for radio. I wonder if anyone has really thought this through? Were the ratings with Curley bad? That said, I enjoy both Dave Ross and Linda Thomas.
More Morning Line up Changes at KIRO FM? UPDATED again...
We hear through the grapevine that 97.3 KIRO FM will once again reshuffle it's morning team. It's true, as of air time. Curley gone... Linda Thomas and Dave Ross are doing the morning news block. Will Ross hand over the balance of the morning to Luke Burbank, flying solo the rest of the s...
I'd rather listen to Gregg than Bill Radke's yawning presentation on KIRO.
Breaking: Greg Hersholt to return to local radio
Gregg Hersholt, jetisoned by KIRO in 2010 after 26 years with the station, and most recently doing afternoons at KXL (Portland), has been named morning anchor at KOMO, replacing the recently retired Bill Yeend. This will supposedly also replace Mornings with Manda (weekdays 5a-9a) co-hosted by ...
Radke is difficult to listen to, especially when he thinks he's being funny. He's not. KIRO bought a lemon with him. I've noticed Tangney in the morning now too. It's painfully obvious that Radke is painful as a host. He can't pull a thought out of his @SS. They pair him up with Tangney who has an opinion on almost everything whether he knows something about it or not. I'd rather hear Tangney and Thomas ditch Radke.
KIROFM jocks join the "fart fetish groups;" KUOW pledge drive soars
KIROFM is no. 1 in the ratings, but can anyone take it seriously as a community forum? Or anything but a dumbed-down Page Six with sports and pets? We'd say no. Latest evidence to the contrary: air time spent nearly every day for a week on the Nancy Grace flatulance "issue." Did she fart loud...
The News Chick's show is not rehash, it's different than what is on during the week. Improvement over the week too because there's no Radke on her show. I don't get how this guy can fool so many people. He's a comedian but he's not funny, he's worked on a money show for NPR but he's ignorant when he talks about financial news, and his weekend show is a conversation with anyone around the station he could round up, including his producer who always derails the conversation and sounds awful. I like Luke Burbank, he actually has some brains, but Radke is a wannabe in every category. Not gonna be anything but boring and slow in my opinion.
KIROFM presents: refried weekends
Gone is the KOMO-fied wallpaper that was KIRO’s NW Weekends. Larry Rice is long gone, his replacement Josh Kerns gets to sleep in. They won’t be paying any live hosts on weekends starting Saturday. KIRO announced the changes Wednesday calling the new weekend fare: “Learn. Laugh. Relax.” We wo...
What you call satire is going to have to be proven in court. Lawyer up. This is libel.
Dori monson is "a creepy child molester!"
We're not surprised. And neither is Jennifer Hoff whose daughter Layla, 16, is one of "Dori's girls" at Shorecrest High School high where he coaches girls' basketball. Layla says "Mr. Monson is a creepy little man and I don't like the way he looks at me." (photo: KING5) Her mother told Blather...
Public radio, in general, has an arrogant and condescending tone. I haven't figured out if they train people to be that way with their emotionless, dry wit or if people who are emotionless are simply drawn to that kind of radio.
Shitstorm wafts over KUOW's cliff mass firing
In the beginning K UOW created "Cliff Mass, Media Weather Man," and in the end, pulled the plug on that which they created. (photo: Steve Scher, Facebook) Steve Scher giveth and Steve Scher taketh away. The Weekday (KUOW m-f, 9a-12p) producers and Scher hate waves, wave-makers, and those they co...
Jessica sounds fake to me. Linda sounds real. Real is sexier than fake any day.
Gottess jessicaman partners with the dori show
(photo: Fluffy the Snake, Dori the Monson, Jessica the Gottesman, Li'l Jake) We love this line from KIROFM's Jessica Gottesman's Wikipedia page: Since recording the subway stops system-wide for the east side New York City subway train lines in the late 1990s, [Gottesman] has garnered a cult fo...
I liked listening to Heather. It seems like a lot of good people are leaving KIRo, is that to pay for Radke's ego?
KIROFM news sea-changing: heather bosch to CBS new york
Jeez, first Tony Miner, now good bye to KIRO ace reporter, Heather Bosch. Snippet from internal memo to CBS affiliates: CBS Radio News has announced the hiring of two more correspondents. Heather Bosch, an award winning reporter for KIRO Radio in Seattle, joins us as a New York based corr...
I liked Tony and thought for awhile he sounded really good with Linda Thomas. She has a way of bringing out the best in anyone she works with, although she has her hands full trying to pull some excitement out of Radke. He's the most passionless, pointless, person I've ever heard on the radio. I don't understand what KIRO liked about him in the beginning and now although he can get through a few minutes without making a technical mistake, he's boring and puts me back to sleep.
Tony Miner RIP 2000-2011
Newsman (reporter/anchor) Tony Miner braced himself against the gunwhales and weathered KIRO's tosses and turns through such gales as Entercom's neglectful ownership and the station's scary flip to FM. (photo: the anchor man) All the while, commuting to Eastlake from LaConner, over 100 miles (a...
What's the deal with Radke? He came back to Seattle with the reputation of being some big NPR guy and a stand up comedian. He's definitely an NPR guy (a whiny liberal who proclaims he's not a liberal). He's definitely not funny. Sarcastic, mean spirited, undercutting yes, but funny. I don't think so, do you?
KIRO's website makeover
(Rachel Belle from KIROFM's silly, drivetime Ron & Don Show) They already had the best website in the market, the best online/on-air integration in town and now they've scared up the dough and the wherewithal to kick it up a notch. Digital will and the money for radio are scarce commodities a...
Good Luck Alex. Have to agree with the above Dan Restione is the worst. Thinks he's interesting. He's not. Curley has been a surprise, not bad but always better when he's paired up with someone. I want to like Radke but so far have not been impressed. Thomas dances circles around him and she'd be a better driver while he should be in the backseat of the show.
Boy, that that was quick...
It hasn't quite been a year. Tweet from news wonderboy Alex Silverman: Well, the word's out. At the end of the month, I'll be leaving KIRO-FM to work at the one-and-only WCBS 880 in New York City, my dream since I was 10 years old. Thanks to all who have helped along the way, and to all who h...
If Bill Radke was Hatch's idea, then he should be gone. Radke brings his NPR snobbery to KIRO in the worst possible way. Elitist, thinking he's brilliant, but really coming off boring for the most part. I listen to CBS and Linda's news at the top of the hour, and every hour today he had the same "I'm James Franco with Ann Hathaway" line.
KIROFM: frank shiers stays, the guy who fired him moves on
First we gotta say, Frank wasn't fired from KIRO... he was only replaced in the evening slot by John Curley (m-f, 7-10p). Frank says, "I will return to a very familiar role at KIRO. They assure me that I will be filling in on a variety of shows. I'll also work in production, writing, voicing a...
Someone above noticed Radke on his blog is calling himself the "voice of Seattle's morning news." What an arrogant prick. He's not even the voice of is own blog. He may think he's something special, but Linda is the brains, soul and voice of that show. Clearly advertisers get that she's the leader of that show. Should someone tell Radke, or let him continue thinking he's important? Go back to NPR where your snark is right at home.
RIP Frank Shiers 2005-2011
Another local conservative has gone. In case you didn't notice, former local teevee star, John Curley is yucking it up tonight with ol' buddy Mike West about Justion Bieber in the 7-10p hour on KIROFM. Frank Shiers didn't get to say goodbye to his dozens of listeners: Curley and West just appe...
KIRO has dumbed down its station, maybe that's who's listening to commercial radio. I have to say Radke has been a huge disappointment. He's not funny, he's not particularly smart, he's clearly reading things people write for him and when he writes his own stuff it's painful to listen to as he struggles through it. I keep listening because I like Linda Thomas on news. She's obviously the smart one.
Now it's evenings... but what's next for john curley on KIRO?
The larger media story is not that KIRO shed Frank Shiers, but that KIRO hired John Curley. "An open pull no punches discussion of the biggest news stories of the day" reads the promotional rada-rada... (photo: Curley's armpit farts are some of the best in the business) Rest assured: John Cur...
I thought Tony Minor was going to KTTH? Is that just a place to stick him until his contract is up? I don't like KIRO's new morning show. Too much of Radke, not enough Thomas.
Whither KTTH? is dave boze toast?
Radiotown’s buzzing. Will Bonneville’s KTTH dump Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) to pick up Fox Newstool Sean Hannity formerly on the late KVI? We hope not: Boze is the only live & local Seattle show on the right-wing talker which already has Rush and Beck (and we forget who else) beamed down from ...
I'm looking forward to a smart combination of Bill and Linda in the morning. Tony is an alright guy too, he never seemed to have much to say. Wish him well though. Welcome Bill!
BREAKING: Bill Radke to KIRO mornings
Boyo... We did not see this coming...American Public Media today announced that Marketplace Morning Report host Bill Radke will be leaving the program on Friday, October 15. Radke is returning to his hometown of Seattle to take a position as the morning drive host at KIRO-FM. Bill has been L...
I'd like hearing Bob, Spike and Joe on KIRO. The new setting might freshen up their perspectives. With the exception of Linda Thomas, you could get rid of the whole news staff at KIRO and who would miss them? How many people are there anyway? Likely a clean swap of their salaries for Bob's.
BREAKING: Bob Rivers out at KZOK!
Bob Rivers is out at KZOK, his morning daypart will no longer be a talk show. He will make the formal announcement Friday. This is big. He's big. The word iconic comes to mind (tho' we're loath to use it). There's a non-compete, but this starts all manner of speculation: where will he go, and w...
Wish they'd podcast the news in the morning so I wouldn't have to sit through endless home improvement and Shick Shadel commercials. Any one know what they're doing with the morning news anyway? Is Tony Minor in there for good now?
TBTL summer slam, 2010: god, that was fun!
Too Beautiful To Live, the show that will not die. Luke Burbank sent us passes to TBTL’s fund-raising Summer Slam, Friday night at Columbia City Theater’s newly-refurbed digs. The joint was sold-out with hundreds of TBTL’s “10’s of listeners.” We weren’t the only geezers at hand, though we’d ...
Andrew's point that "it doesn't really matter" is most accurate. Radio isn't where I get most of my information anymore. That said, I could hear Bob Rivers and Linda Thomas but if KIRO snags him would they also have to employ Bob's coat tail riders who've been with him all those years? Or would Bob insist on taking his whole team and blowing out everyone else at KIRO in news to make room for his salary?
Can KIRO snag bob rivers? Can bob rivers snag KIRO?
KIRO is “evolving.” Bob Rivers’contract is up this summer, and is looking at a radio big picture that shows his kind of talk radio may be "devolving." KIRO is FM-icating its dayparts. Rivers is a big morning FM jock (KZOK m-f, 6-10a) who, with a rather tame zoo, rules the FM ‘waves with a fu...
By shoe dropping, do you mean talk show hosts or more news changes? Noticed that KIRO has a job opening posted for a morning news host. I assumed Tony Miner was temporary. He's boring and doesn't have the right energy for mornings. Maybe Ron and/or Don will do mornings?
KMPS moves along them dogies...
As we wait for Bonneville to drop the shoe, we’ll out point out another (CBS Radio) company’s apparent step in the revamping of a local station. Country music giant KMPS (no.7 in the market) has moved Tony Thomas (a veteran of 20+ years from afternoon drive to middays (m-f, 10 a-3p). (He's m...
I don't understand what KIRO has gained by getting rid of Gregg Hersholt? Maybe people are happier in the newsroom without him, over the years it seems like he's been a real jerk off. Tony Minor might be more well liked, but he's dull and robotic on air.
Duffman, regarding Restione, I don't know what he contributes in the newsroom but his voice and subjects of news stories in the morning are always a tune out for me.
What in hell does this mean, dep’t? KIRO division
Pete Gammel has been named to a newly-created position of News Director for the Bonneville Seattle Media Group. (photo: Gammell will presumably be shaven in the performance of his new duties) He'll oversee all news gathering and news content on each of Bonneville’s Seattle radio stations (...
Duffman, I thought I was the only one who didn't get it with Resitone. He does the most useless reports and sounds awful. If I cared about obscure British animal references, he'd be the guy but he is the biggest turn off they have on the mornings. They might as well toss out the news product, put someone interesting in there, let Linda Thomas do news and keep blogging and they'd all be better off.
KIRO, KTTH: only the techies are safe
Deathwatch con't: The word at Bonneville Seattle is that everyone's job is on the line. A source close to management says, “The talent on the main dayparts is very expensive and with ratings and revenue both down, no one is safe- the entire management team, administration, sales and marketing...
Tony Miner is boring, bland, washed up and old. You don't blow out a long time newscaster with name recognition in the market to replace him with the same kind of person who has less skills. I don't find Miner to be entertaining, and his news reading and money reports are robotic. Even though Miner is probably a lot cheaper, it's a step back for KIRO.
They need to breathe new life into the mornings with a more interesting news format that doesn't rely on the same four tired stories and endless commercials.
Gregg Hersholt, 1984-2010 R.I.P.
Facebook note from KIRO morning man and longtime newsie, Gregg Hersholt. “You might as well hear it first from me.... next week will be my final week on the air at KIRO Radio after 26 years. Change is in the winds!”Last day: May 28th. Mornings at KIRO changed last November when the ditaff h...
If anyone goes at KIRO it needs to be Hersholt. He sounds better with Linda Thomas than before, but still a full of himself blow hard.
Are those the rumbles of change at KIRO... or just gas?
Hoards of Bonneville brass washed over KIRO management suites this week creating the tremors that could foreshadow a real shakeup … or not. The once-proud mixed format AM news talker with heavy news emphasis has become a conservative FM news talker with lite news emphasi. As we've reported fo...
Glad to hear Hersholt was demoted. He sounds increasingly insecure, always trying to get the last word and pitifully laughing at his own corny jokes. I don't think 9 to noon has an edge but it does break from the too often repeated news. Brian Calvert and Linda Thomas would sound good together if it's supposed to be a social media show.
Life, death, tedia on KIRO weekends
When things happen on local weekend radio anymore, it’s like the proverbial tree falling in the woods: there’s nobody there not to hear it. (photo: Larry Rice) First, before we forget: KIROFM’s Phil the News Junkie is gone, done, pau, kaput, finished, history, all she wrote. etc. Phil was, is ...
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