BlatherWatch

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).

Brian suits: "I AM a bit of an ass..."

LA talker and former Seattleite Bryan Suits (KFI m-f, 7-10p) says he agrees with one of our commenters, who wrote that he is a bit of an ass.

"I am a bit of an ass and in fact purchased a Nautilus machine to enhance that part. I lack empathy, and I'm cold-blooded but I'm here to tell you I treat people the way they should be treated."

He says a conversation reported by BlatherWatch "never happened, never would have happened."

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.

The long knives of tuesday: bryan suits will survive

The radio industry is abuzz after a New York Post piece Friday about a massive restructuring of Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio company who will cut costs of $400 million.

Ex-talk host/moviemaker debunked

Don't know if you've been following the ferkukkle around right-wing ex-talk host John Ziegler who's making a documentary on how Obama stole the election because the media was so biased in his favor.

He hired Zogby to ask questions of Obama supporters about the race; their answers were pre-supposed to prove they knew more about the bad stuff about McCain than the bad stuff about Obama, because -- natch -- of the media.

That poll has now been discredited, reports that liberal rag, The Wall Street Journal and John Zogby has been forced to admit, “This was not Zogby International’s finest hour,” he said. “Something, somehow, fell through the cracks.” (not the first example of Zogby's cavernous cracks).

The shit machine: talk radio's case against barack obama

Joe Gandelman is the editor at The Moderate Voice, a wry and respected independent political blog. Last week he drove up the California coast where the radio choices are none but right-wing talk.

He writes: "... unless you’re a Republican partisan, this week conservative talk radio seemed infiltrated by Democratic Party moles doing caricatured, extremist off-the-wall broadcasts guaranteed to convince independent voters listening in to vote for Democrats." You think the rhetoric, verbal extremism and unbottled rage displayed at Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s recent rallies is something?"

BREAKING: carlson/schram to KOMO; ingraham to kvi

The Commentators, John Carlson and Ken Schram are being shuffled  fromKVI's drivetime and back to KOMO for an unusual 4 hour show from 10a to 2p. 

The syndicated Laura Ingraham, fresh from being dropped from Salem's KKOL will replace them, her morning show tape delayed for the afternoon drive. This will start Monday Sept. 29.

Will KVI fire ken schram?

"I see that John Carlson is working solo this week on his afternoon show, so it's a good week to listen (which I don't usually do, due to the Shram factor) to KVI in the afternoon. ~~ Posted by Michele at Sound Politics, August 18, 2008 04:24 PM

When Ken Scram joined John Carlson in 2006 to create The Commentators, (KVI m-f, 3-6p) we had high hopes we'd get good 'ol weekdaily Crossfire, Firing Line, Point-Counterpoint, left-right punch 'em outs on the radio. 

Schram's the libertarian/contrarian who's mis-billed as a liberal. John's a name-brand Seattle conservative who ran for governor. Scham is a veteran teevee commentator; John is too. (OK, Carlson isn't as "veteran" as Ken by about 10 years). 

They self-describe as “radio odd couple,” but by our lights -- and granted ours are liberal lights -- they're not odd enough. Scram's no lib, and he agrees with Carlson way too much.

Dave Ross: will dino rossi ambush me... PLEASE?!

Last week Dori Monson was ambushed by Governor Gregoire that is, called him without prearrangement -- and he's been bragging/complaining ever since.

We loved the whole exchange, it was great radio, and wrote almost lovingly about Dori for once. (It showed that despite he has a girl's name, he is The King Of Seattle Talk Radio)

We realized that one of the things that bugs us about local talk radio now that it's been dry-cleaned, pressed and all the local weirdos removed, is the absence of the unexpected. With just Dori, Dave, The Commentators, Ron and "I would Be" Don, there's none (save maybe Kirby of KVI) of the pure, local, slightly strange, one-of-a-kind hosts that promote (not always intentionally) that tension of the unexpected and take you occasionally by surprise.

(That's some of why we're hooked on Too Beautiful to Live (KIRO m-f, 7-10p -- it's feeling that anything -- though perhaps trivial -- can happen at any time).

Bryan suits to team up with kennedy at kfi

Bryan Suits and weekend host Kennedy, former MTV VJ, and talk jock at Seattle's The Buzz (now country KKWF "The Wolf") will team up on KFI, the big LA talk shop, 7-10p, starting Monday, April 14.

Suits has been doing the evening show since February.

The two are old friends, so they've imaginatively named the show, KENNEDY AND SUITS.

Born Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, she was raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Her political beliefs are primarily Republican, although she has admitted to being a small "l" libertarian and supports issues such as same-sex marriage. She is married to former pro snowboarder Dave Lee and has a daughter named Pele.

This from Drudge, circa 1999: Kennedy (also known as Lisa Kennedy Montgomery) was only 27 years old, and her career had been almost as short-lived. She began as a VJ on MTV in September 1992, where she was celebrated for her virginity and her right-leaning politics. (It is said that she had a tattoo of the GOP elephant near her crotch region, although no man or woman can truly confirm this).

Suits, who hails from Port Angeles, WA,  is well-known to Seattle listeners -- he's a veteran of Iraq, KIRO and, KVI -- from which he was fired last November.

Suits was almost immediately hired by high profile LA program director, Robin Bertolucci for the evening spot on Clear Channel's KFI which had been freshly vacated by John Ziegler.