We're embarrassed we didn't find out about this sooner. Remember Dan Sytman, "Producer of the Mike's" (Siegel and Medved) and talent on KTTH 's ill-fated Sytman & Boze?
Last September Sytman was hired as Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna's Media Relations Manager.
Dan was nicer in person than he was on the radio: we liked him.
Congratulations, Dan -- glad to see you in some honorable work in the public sector...
Dori Monson, popped his buttons for a couple of hours Friday about ads Governor Christine Gregoire has mounted against her sneaky opponent Dino Rossi attacking his stance against embryonic stem cell reserach .
Dori (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) is a not so stealthy surrogate for Rossi.
Although Rossi claims he supports stem cell research, he really doesn't: there's some fine print he and his campaign strains to hide from voters. (And that's but one of his deeply held panderings to the religious right base who've held the state GOP hostage, and rendered them impotent statewide for decades).
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).
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Where do you go after you're fired from talk radio job in Seattle?
The answer, apparently, is Port Orchard if you want to stay anywhere near the Seattle market.
Those regularly scheduled Seattle newstalk spots are coveted ... seems you gotta leave town or get a gig selling cars.
It's the dilemma faced by the recently fired Bryan Suits, and Dan Sytman but also faced by such as Allan Prell, Mike Webb, Mike Siegel, New York Vinnie, Erin Hart, Lou Pate, Fred Ebert, Peter Weissbach, Brian Maloney, and Bryan Styble.
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~ Larry Nelson, longtime KOMO radio morning man has stage 4 lung
cancer. Terminal, and inoperable, says his wife Gina. Stan Orchard has made
a Larry website to honor him. Take a gander, and add
your best wishes to the impressive and growing list of admirers and old
friends who have written. There are pics, airchecks and lots of
memories flying around- go up there at once.
~ We like Dave Boze's new show (KTTH m-f, 3-6p). He had the capable help of mentor and local ultra-conservative poohbah, Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) with whom he's used to yucking it up and mocking Seattle. We particularly enjoyed the talk about his homemade bear sausage, and BlatherWatch fully expects some in our KTTH goody-bag this year. If Boze can quit saying Dan Sytman's name (as in "This is Sytman & Boze on KTTH...") we think this show has a pretty good chance of grabbing not only Bryan Suits' old (and we mean old) listeners (after all there were more than a hundred). He could also grab some who've been listening to the idiotic Ron & Don (KIRO m-f, 3-6p) out of pure resignation. We're about to see a real afternoon battle for conservative hearts & minds. We read what commenters write, it's obvious there's a rightie backlash to Ken Schram- his place, even balanced by Carlson is off-putting to many veteran KVI listeners. As that Zogby poll revealed last week, conservatives don't like to hear the other side.
~ "discussions of discussions" are going on, according to sources, on another place for Dan Sytman on KTTH. We'd approve of anyone getting a live and local show in this market- even Dan Sytman.
The David Boze Show premiers today at 3p on KTTH. We'll definitely be giving it a listen.
KOMO's Dennis Kelly and other are asking: IIs this sudden programing development a reaction to last week's firing of Bryan Suits and movement of The Commentators to afternoon drive.
Dave has been up and coming for a while. He was a winner in what's being called the being called The Season of the Witch: Seattle newstalk lost two well-established local talk hosts in one week, and another well-known talker bit the dust.
Bryan Suits was fired from "Thee Talk Station," KVI; Dan Sytman was canned from "The Truth," KTTH. The Mark Fuhrman Show on KGA in Spokane was dropped Thursday.
Boze was the Dumb half of Dumb & Meaner, BlatherWatch's not-so-sober sobriquet for the late Sytman & Boze Show, early mornings on KTTH until last Friday. They were replaced by syndicated jerk, Glenn Beck.
Effective immediately, KTTH weekdaily morning show, Sytman & Boze has been dropped and Glenn Beck will be inserted live into the 6-9a slot.
A note on Dan Sytman's website says:
Being the ridiculously blessed person that I am, I have a little extra time off this November. I hope to talk with you soon. In the meantime I'll leave you with my favorite quote from President Ronald Reagan: Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
David Boze will host his own drive-time show from 3-6p. Brilliantly, it's to be called, The David Boze Show.
"We’ve been very impressed with David’s performance and with Glenn Beck’s show," Said 
Program Director Rod Arquette in a statement, "This change allows us to air the Beck show live in morning drive and provide live, local, conservative talk with David in the afternoon. David has the ability to really connect with his listeners and brings a unique perspective to some of the more compelling local and national issues.
Another casualty of the Holiday massacre is Teresa Joy, the snide early morning newsreader.
Sytman was a longtime producer for the Michael Medved Show, and had a weekend show on KTTH before doing the team-up with Boze in 2005 replacing Mike Siegel.
Seattle's No. 1 talk host Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) and Sytman & Boze (KTTH m-f,5-9a) told listeners Thursday the "far left haters" who dominate Seattle were making themselves and all of us look bad.
(Wow, we thought, that sounds terrible! Then we wondered why- if Dori is Seattle's No.1 talk host- does he hate Seattle so much?).
Seems when President Bush came to Bellevue for his fat cat/big bucks shakedown for the endangered Rep. Dave Reichert last week, Seahawks Matt Hasselbeck and Mack Strong presented the No.1 Lovable Fuck-up with Hawk jersey No.43 in a touching opportunity of the photographic kind.
"I'm sleeping behind locked doors with a shot gun," says Michael Savage.
It's just the latest crisis manufactured by the bellicose San Francisco talker to enhance his profile and give him victim coin to spend in the outer edges of the right-wing.
Tomorrow, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval's non-binding resolution which "condemns defamatory language used by radio personality Michael Savage against the immigrant community."
This is what dreams are made of for a talk radio host such as Michael Savage (KSFO's Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan must be so jealous).
The Spring '07 Arbitron ratings book in the vital 25-54 demo for the Seattle market are in. And yikes!
~ Liberal talk KPTK is tanking across the board- down 66% overall.
Stephanie Miller (6-9a) lost 40%; Thom Hartmann (9a-12p) plunged 63%; Ed Shultz is in the bucket 68%; our Rachel Maddow is down 50%, and Randy Rhodes lost 33% of her audience. The only host who got over 1% of the audience was Mike Malloy- and even he dove 64%. Has everyone taken to reading blogs?
Change is good
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