We’re happy to report that the fledgling, Mouthing Off,(KVI 6-7p Sundays) has survived to blab another day…
Seattle veteran talk host, Kirby Wilbur was fired after 16 years at KVI and ignominiously led out the back door last week with his stuff in a cardboard box.
The little show with KVI producers Dave Carson, and Kevin Dodrill is masculine, libertarian, off-beat, and funny. It is, however, but a hopeful glimmer in what appears to be the sunsetting of KVI and Seattle local programming.
The show, which recently celebrated its first anniversary on the air, doesn’t bow to the white, male 35-64 demo the rest of talk radio (especially KVI) has found itself left with. MO aims at a younger audience and doesn’t have to keep up the perfunctory reverence to God, family, country and clichés that makes so many other talk shows so boring. ("Thanks for your service.")
Carson, who doesn’t take our calls anymore, was Kirby’s producer, and we feared that, in the cost-cutting purge of last week, he might be gone too. But there they were Sunday night, as always leading into the foul Willy Cunningham (Sundays, 7-10p).
While we’re old for the show’s target audience, we love that there’s an attempt (meager as it is: one hour at Sunday dinnertime) to appeal to a demo that doesn’t remember Woodstock.
Carson, who doesn’t take our calls anymore, was Kirby’s producer, and we feared that, in the cost-cutting purge of last week, he might be gone too. But there they were Sunday night, as always leading into the foul Willy Cunningham (Sundays, 7-10p).
While we’re old for the show’s target audience, we love that there’s an attempt (meager as it is: one hour at Sunday dinnertime) to appeal to a demo that doesn’t remember Woodstock.
Kirby Wilbur would be perfect to star in a remake of the movie About Schimdt.
Posted by: mrogi | November 16, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Umm, is this KVI's answer to your other fave: TBTL? If so, I can only hope they avoid the fate visited upon Luke and Jen.
Posted by: joanie | November 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM
>>Umm, is this KVI's answer to your other fave: TBTL?<<
Nope - it's more like "two dudes dishing" without the NPR-style presentation.
Posted by: RobP | November 17, 2009 at 03:15 PM
DAMN that Carson! he never thanked me for my service! K-Dod, however, knew how to make G.I. feel good.
Posted by: twitter.com/KFIBryan | November 18, 2009 at 09:03 PM