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Remaking dori monson: fellow KIRO jock licks him to death in the paper

It’s on the record, in a Seattle, er, website of record.

Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 1-3p) is a beautiful man. He loves kids, and basketball. (And we already know how much he loves dogs).

Unfortunately, the "reporter" is Dori’s KIRO colleague, Jim Moore, (m-f, 3-6p) with a schmoozy lap dance fuzzywuzzifying the far-right blabbermeister in this morning’s P-I.com.

Live & local wins: The Groz gets his own show

The good news is that 710 ESPN added three hours of live & local radio, the bad news, is… well, we don’t know what, (if any) bad news there actually is. (if we find some, we'll get it right to you).

Dave "The Groz" Grosby won’t be teaming up with afternoon drive host Kevin Calabro as had been the plan, but will get his own new show, m-f's, 12-3p.
You know we don’t give much of a shit about sports in general or sports talk 710 ESPN that shoved news talk off heritage KIRO ayem and onto its own FM Elba, 97.3, but Blatherfriend, Mike Seely, Seattle Weekly editor is all over this.

Calabro's show will continue to air from 3-6 p.m. and will be co-hosted instead by... [Jim] Moore, a beloved Wazzu homer of a columnist who was relegated to freelance status once the P-I put a halt to its print edition. The new lineup, which also includes Brock Huard and Mike Salk's show moving to the 9 a.m.-noon shot, thus canceling Colin Cowherd's syndicated show, will take effect August 9.

Read the rest of Seely's anals on the sporty radio wars here.

Billy Bob: BASEBALL, ROCKSTAR, TAMI-PIE AND BEAUJOLAIS

 Billy Bob (whose real name is neither Billy nor Bob) worked long in the Seattle radio market wearing a suit. He says the experience heightened his sense of irony, augmented his influences, and diminished his circle of friends. He knows more than we do, but not as much as he used to.

KIRO steals The Groz

He tweeted like a bird: Well after 14 years the second time around I am leaving KJR.  Final broadcast with Gas this Monday. What a ride....

It’s described by journalists who care about such things as the end of “one of the longest relationships in Seattle sports-radio history.”

KIROFM's troubles: are it the programming?

The PPM ratings, now the way of the world, were brutal to the established order in Seattle radio.

While we sit re-baiting our breaths waiting to hear if KVI and Fisher Radio have snatched Rush Limbaugh from Bonneville's KTTH, we ask the question: Will Bonneville significantly change the line-up in KIROFM to make it work in Seattle?

(photo: Dori Monson- "will dance for ratings")

Will Rush Limbaugh save KVI?

Negotiations should be wrapped up this Friday (July 10) between Bonneville International, Fisher Communications and Rush Limbaugh. Then the suits, and we hope everybody will know: will Big Pants leave Bonneville's KTTH to jump back to Fisher's KVI?

KVI is hopeful and their very existence as an AM talker in Seattle may depend on it. It's a long shot for sure, but what KVI has going for it is the precipitous drop in the new PPM ratings of KTTH ... even anchored as it is by the Big Fat Genius.

Geov parrish: john clayton leaps from KJR to 710 ESPN

In the first blood drawn in the new sports-talk war between Clear Channel's KJR and Bonneville's usta-be-KIRO 710 ESPN, ESPN football guru John Clayton, a Saturday morning fixture on KJR for nearly two decades (dating to his Tacoma News-Tribune sportswriter days) spinning his scarily encyclopedic knowledge of the NFL, is jumping to 710 effective Saturday.

Historic seattle radio day THURSDAY at KIRO

 Dave Ross will pull the plug, throw the switch, slay a small four-legged animal and fo, rmally say goodbye to 710KIRO as we know it at 11:55a THURSDAY April 2. The 710 KHz location has been news gab for over 80 years.

(The ceremony was delayed one day in order to April Fool BlatherWatch:
 were told it was to happen yesterday).

Sports talk 710AM ESPN will be launched in the hallowed location Monday, April 6. 

Listener's complaint: 'we only get KIROFM in the ladies' room!'

How does KIROFM come in where you live? Have you made the switch yet? How's it working for you? Will your listening habits be changed when the news talk format relocates April 1?
 
From reader Mike:

I'm so bummed at work. We can't get KIROFM in the shop. it's scratchy no matter where we put the radio, except in the ladies restroom! I bought a cheap indoor antenna but nothing has worked. We're having big arguments, but can't agree to what station to put the shop radio on when KIRO switches over. Everybody has a different idea. It will probably end up being on some kind of music. Bummer.

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.