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Polishing the turds… can a big, gnarly LA producer save the ron & don show?

Another producer for the silly Ron & Don Show? Not news- they use up producers like nasal inhalers.

 But Jason Stein, of LA's KFI has been hired away from his enviable position at the #1 talker in the country, to make the smart radio consumers of Seattle listen to R & D (KIROFM m-f, 3-6p).

Rent's due at KUOW... pretty pleeze???

Hooty-hoo! Is it just us, or is this the longest pledge drive in the history of KUOW?

 Smooth jazz KPLU wrapped theirs up in a record 6 days. But KUOW's need$ are presumably higher and seem to be having trouble raising it- they're half way though a second week.

(photo credit: KUOW)

It's the economy, stupid.

We'd love to see PPM weeklies in Seattle as other stations get a little windfall goose as the mighty KUOW audience dives for the dial to avoid the slappy-happy semi-annual money grab. 

TBTL, R.I.P. 2008-2009

It was too beautiful to live. Turns out that the little show that could, couldn't, at least on terrestrial radio.

Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) it's the little show that might've. After risking its life 5 days a week for one year and nine months, KIROFM has cancelled the quirky, smart radio world created by Luke Burbank, Jen Andrews, and Sean DiTore.

Seattle ratings breakout shows more trouble for conservative talk radio

Right-wing talk stations are missing in top 15 rankings in Seattle (where you'd expect) but also in the rest of the market as well (including Arlington, Mount Vernon, and Bellevue).

A fascinating breakout of Seattle's July radio ratings has been posted by Eric Lacitis at the Seattle Times. (Seattle for the ZIP codes from Greenwood to Seward Park compared with the Metro region including King, Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston, Skagit and Island counties).

July seattle radio ratings: more of the dismal same for news talk

KOMO dropped a little, 4.9- to 4.0, but still good in 9th place; public talker KUOW is still at 11th with 3.8. Mariners baseball helps KIROAM, up from last month's 2.5 to 3.3. KTTH (Rush Limbaugh's home) lost slightly 3.0 to 2.9 at 18th place but still whacks former Big Dog KIROFM, who rose from 2.3 to 2.7, but only tied for 19th place. Progressive talk KPTK sucks as usual, tied for 27th place with only a 1 share. Kool Konservative KVI does only slightly better tied with KJRAM with a 1.6.

It's down at KIROFM- dori sweats like a pig, bryan suits bathes in the irony

"It gets sticky some afternoons " says someone who knows.

(Dori Monson. Photo: KUOW)

Dori Monson (KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) who once crowed daily about the King of Seattle Talk Radio is having a problem he hasn't had for years- getting callers to call his show.

Seattle's June ratings: ouch! for talk radio

The KIROs and KTTH are still in the pooper with KVI and KUOW, KPTK. Congratulations to KOMO. Read more here.

1.KJR-FM      5.7
2.KMPS-FM     5.0
3.KRWM-FM   5.0
4.KOMO-AM   4.9 (KOMO-AM and KFMY-FM are simulcast)
5,KPLZ-FM     4.8
6.KBKS-FM     4.7
7.KCMS-FM     4.3
8.KJAQ-FM     4.3
9.KUBE-FM     4.2
10. KKWF-FM     4.1

The story linda thomas left out...

Linda Thomas, the honey-voiced KIROFM fill-in newsie whose work we've often admired, wrote a happy-face reader blog post about Seattle conservative talk radio host at Seattlepi.com

(photo: dittohead in "listening position.")

Her blog, News Chick is not journalism but rather for branding purposes and to promote her radio work. The self-promotion here, is in the form of a breezy, well-written, journalistic feature.

UPDATED: seattle radio ratings

Seattle listeners, according to the new PPM survey have stars in their ears, and music in their hearts. The news and politcs are way down there on the listenables.

Music radio rules ... especially Fisher's KPLZ (Star 101.5 FM). The market's all fuzzy tunes and almost no talk.  Note public radio KUOW kicks news and news talk ass at #11 but still can't overcome the shit-kickers, the oldies and the Charmin soft rock; progressive robo-talk KPTK, and hard right talkers KTTH and KVI are nowhere to be seen in the top 20. Sports talk isn't much of a factor, re: the low standings of KJR-AM and KIRO-AM.

TBTL: there's something happenin' here

Luke Burbank will throw out the first pitch at tonight's Mariner's game. "Awesome" will be the cry to about 900 "10's" (fans) who have already bought the tickets and will fill a couple of sections at Safeco Field wearing TBTL t-shirts.

 TBTL? It's Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) the hard-to-describe, weeknightly show/community/talk-romp that chronicles the lives, tastes, and Millenial Gen pop-cultural blabbin'-tary  of Burbank, Jen Andrews, and Sean DeTore.