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BREAKING: Al Franken wins devastating court ruling!

As expected, and after seven weeks of deliberations, a special 3-judge panel ruled potentially for Al Franken in a decision the media is calling "potentially decisive."

Politico:

But even as Democrat Al Franken’s campaign celebrated a three-judge panel’s decision to put at most 400 ballots back in play, the Coleman camp is still promising to take its case to the Minnesota Supreme Court. And it’s not ruling out an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court or filing a new lawsuit in federal district court.

Historic seattle radio day THURSDAY at KIRO

 Dave Ross will pull the plug, throw the switch, slay a small four-legged animal and fo, rmally say goodbye to 710KIRO as we know it at 11:55a THURSDAY April 2. The 710 KHz location has been news gab for over 80 years.

(The ceremony was delayed one day in order to April Fool BlatherWatch:
 were told it was to happen yesterday).

Sports talk 710AM ESPN will be launched in the hallowed location Monday, April 6. 

Five years! happy birthday, air america

Five years.

Some of Air America's tenuous existence has felt like a colonoscopy to sympathetic, liberal listeners like us: the network has been on life support many times. There's been a cash register scandal; a bankruptcy, a parade of owners, managers, and talent.

The mouse can roar ... but can it start 'WWIII?'

Politico quotes Sen John Cornyn (R,TX) says it will be "World War III" if Democrats try to get Al Franken into the Senate before this plays out in federal courts.

(AP photo: Coleman- 'covered in glory')

(May we remind him: Lichtenstein might be hard put to start WWIII).

Ho-hum, say the Republicans: "it could take years."

Legally, it's an open question as to whether pursuing a federal suit -- one that no one thinks has merit but Coleman's lawyers -- would legally pause Franken's certification.

Bad night on public access...

Rush's approval depends on disapproval, says ppm study

It's no surprise: A little-reported study of PPM data last year starkly shows that Rush Limbaugh's ratings go down when he approves of something!

When Limbaugh was expressing disapproval, he got a 5.71% share of listeners, but when he expressed positives on people oir issues, his share went down to 5.43%.

Rush gets it (he's a genius!) so he rarely approves of much of anything.

UPS boots o'reilly

There's plenty of brown left on The O'Reilly Factor, but for now, The Brown has deserted Billo the clown... and his vindictive ambushes are the reason.

After the exposure of the details of O'Reilly's weekend stalking of Think Progress editor Amanda for a one of his ambushes, UPS  has withdrawn advertising from the show.

Considering alan colmes

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai Stevenson (1952)

That quote always makes us think of Alan Colmes -- we'll catch holy hell from our liberal readers for even saying this, but it's a shame that KPTK is not responding to Colmes' syndicaters about filling the empty evening slot vacated by Randi Rhodes.

The measure of a man...

The King of Seattle Talk Radio, Dori "the Munster" Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) is actually 4' 7" and especially squeaks pips when standing next to a normal human being.

Being legally dwarfed, and having a girl's name has hardly slowed down his ascension to the "thrown" -- although it sure makes him hard to live with!
(hat tip to PIFan)

Talk radio ratings improve with PPMs

“People who program, manage or own spoken-word formatted stations are going to like the findings of this study,” says radio consultant Jon Coleman.

That's because talk stations experience a 12% improvement when Arbitron changes a market from diary to PPM.