Evergreen Politics Northwest regional politics and issues thoughtfully and provokingly written
Talker's Magazine The quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).
The Advocate No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
Media Matters David Brock tirelessly exposes right-wing obfuscation in media.
Pacific NW Portal An ambitious blog of blogs for the progressive Pacific Northwest plus news and weather.
Orcinus home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
Hominid Views "People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
artistdogboy He's neither a dog nor a boy, but an artist he is and an island of iconclasm on an island of iconoclasts.
Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
Howie in Seattle Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
LTR (Liberal Talk Radio) Invaluable national insider news and resources for devotees of our favorite medium.
Meet The Stress Chic chicanery by Mercifurious, relentless commentator on culture, politics, the Styblehead, and the end times. (Kitty Repellent Not Provided)
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
The Rusted Eye Artful linking, artfully narrated by our artful friend and Detroit movie critic, Jeph Meyers. Hardly anything, ever, here about talk radio, yet this site is as oddly compelling as Mr. Meyers himself.
The Naked Loon News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
The Rachel Maddow Show Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. videos, podcasts, transcripts, and classy graphics.
Northwest Broadcasters The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps.
Plus "recent" news.
News Corpse The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
STEVE YOUNG ON POLITICS Steve Young covers our beat in the prone position and with one hand tied behind his back. We wish we were Steve Young.
The Moderate Voice The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
HistoryLink Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.
right-wing blogs we like
The Reagan Wing Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
Orbusmax inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
The Radio Equalizer prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
When it was announced that Rachel Maddow (KPTK m-f, 3-6p) was to have her own MSNBC show, she asked the audience to shout out suggestions. We've been so busy, what with the conventions, Vacation Bible School, and the zucchini harvest, we've not been able to think about it much.
Next Monday is the day: so here are some suggestions, and advisements jotted on a scrap of paper we found in a bathrobe pocket:
1. Kent Jones ...now! It would be so lovely to have his comic writing and off-beat voice on your show again.
You did so well together before he was rif-ed by Air America from radio show. He could help make The Rachel Maddow Show de MSNBC sparkly.
The New York Times is now reporting that NPR suits will tell staffers Monday morning that Bryant Park Project is being canceled.
The last day will be July 25.
(photo: Stewart & Burbank. by Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times)
The experimental weekday morning news for a younger audiences, launched with co-hosts teevee news reporter Alison Stewart and localite Luke Burbank was an expensive attempt to lure listeners who had moved online to public radio.
The live, two-hour show was a conversational and off-beat treatment of news and culture and is said to have fallen prey to an economy that's hurt public radio underwriting as much as commercial radio's advertising shortfalls.
Rumors are flying in New York media that NPR's experimental Bryant Park Project will be cancelled sooner than later.
The staff may be told as early as Monday.
The off-beat newscast which was launched last October was morning news to bring a lighter 'tude, and reflecting a target 28-40 demo that wants news in new ways in the digital age. BPP is carried in the Seattle market on public radio's KXOT m-f, 5-8a).
The New York Observer and The New York Times were about to publish dueling features on the show, causing NPR suits to announce the plug-pulling earlier than planned.
The off-beat show ran into political problems within the NPR power structure after the departures of its champions former CEO Ken Stern, and senior veep for programming Jay Kernis, departed.
Host Alison Stewart, off on maternity leave can't confirm or deny anything except to say that rumors she's
been shopping around her rèsumè are apocryphal. "Frankly all I have
been doing is taking care of my newborn," she told Blatherwatch.
KIRO's Luke Burbank, Stewart's former co-host says, told BlatherWatch: "I'm sad if it's true, but I'm really out of the loop at NPR these days."
BlatherWatch holi-diddled in Canada, a foreign country that fails to
celebrate Xmas with the religiou$ fervor that we all do. It's un-American,
and we told them so. The laid-back Canucks are so calm about the
holiday, the War on Xmas that threatens its very extinction around here,
rages on unbeknownst to them. We got caught up in the torporific chaos and
spent the Day of Days absorbing the spiritual seasonal vibes in the
prone position in a medium hotel with maximum take-out from Vij's. Our
favorite in the lavish gift exchange: an Uncle Booger's Bumper
Dumper® to be used on one of our many
hunting and camping trips.
~ How much is a Duckworth? the price may be going down. Paul
Duckworth, former KVI/KOMO Program Director, who takes some to the
credit for making KVI what it was, is retiring- effective
January 1- from DC's WMAL where's he's PD. He says he's "... always
suspect of any radio guy who says that he's going to retire... I could
never promise that, at some point, I won't re-surface somewhere in the
biz ... right now the plan is to sleep a little later, spend more time
with family and pursue a few things that I haven't been able to get to
over the last 35 years." Sounds fishy...
Luke Burbank, co-host of NPR's groundbreaking Bryant Park Project, is returning to Seattle.
He says he needs to spend more time with his family.
In avideo, Burbank, a Seattle native, and Nathan Hale alum announced his decision to quit New York and his $4000 a month crappy apartment to spend more time with his daughter, Addie, who will be 14 in February.
"Living 3000 miles aways from your kid really sucks; you miss her all the time; wonder if you have your priorities straight. All this makes your getting up at 3a.m.particularly unpleasant."
(photo: Luke Burbank, The New York Times) We've been blabbing for months about NPR's experimental Bryant Park Project, a new NPR morning news attempting to bring a lighter 'tude, and reflecting a target 28-40 demo that wants news in different ways in the digital age.
It launches today on six stations nationwide (some on digital signals, but none in New York)
and on Sirius Satellite radio. But most important, it'll be streamed on the interweb and podcasted.
KUOW's Arvid
Hokansen says BPP will appear on their Olympia station, KXOT from 4
to 6 ayem. That's as close to our terrestrial market that it will get. (We're hearing BPP is pushing KXOT to run it in the more civilized (and listened to) hours from 7-9a).
We got to sit down recently and talk to the Peabody Award winning chica Alison Stewart, the former MSNB reporter and host, now hired for the Bryant Park Project to co-host with Luke Burbank. It's NPR's brave new morning show still in the rough, but scheduled to be up and running Oct. 1.
Stewart, 41, won a coveted Peabody Award for her pioneering MTV coverage of the 1992 Presidential election. (as opposed to Billo Reilly who tells women he has a Peabody when he wants to distract them from his turkey neck)
KIROFM 97.3 Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Luke Burbank, Tony Miner, and Tom Douglas.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Conservative talk: Except for Kirby Wilbur in the morning, this is syndicated right-wing such as Dennis Miller, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Noory.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local talker David Boze: and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Lars Larsony.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Lionel and more fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KGNW am 820 kHz Christian talk with occasional politics. Dr. James Dobson.
KOMOAM News, traffic, and and John Carlson & Ken Schram's "The Commentators."
When it was announced that Rachel Maddow (KPTK m-f, 3-6p) was to have her own MSNBC show, she asked the audience to shout out suggestions. We've been so busy, what with the conventions, Vacation Bible School, and the zucchini harvest, we've not been able to think about it much.
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