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TBTL the podcast: day one

Too Beautiful to Live started yet another new life podcasting from Luke Burbank's home office from his house in the Mt. Baker neighborhood.

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.

Happy birthday, TBTL

It's the little show that might; the show that risks its life 5 days a week; the show the Blathercommenters love to hate; the show that raises envious bile among its radio cohort each and every day it breaths and lives to tell about it.

Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) is 1 year old today. There will be audio

KIRO to FM: "not a matter of if, but a matter of when."

It could be the biggest radio story of the year... or will it be next year?

When will KIRO news talk switch over to FM, leaving the historic AM band to... ESPN sports?

The scuttlebutt around KIRO gives it six months. But that it will happen, a staffer told us it's "not a matter of if, but a matter of when."

KIRO gets it... radio jocks live-blog the debates

We're impressed. The Daves: Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) and Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) live-blogged the debate Wednesday night.

(photo: Dave Ross: blogger for common sense)

They're online brothers of different mothers on sister stations, and like many brothers, they were competing on the blogging,  according to Boze. Besides that, he and Ross are from opposing sides of the political fence. Hard right, and soft left, respectively.

Dunno if you know how hard live-blogging is, but at the very least, it's a heavy-duty piece of stenography --  especially the way these two did it: transcribing and making a separate post for each question posed by Tom

(photo: A new fur coat is a political statement for Dave Boze, a right-wing "hunter & blabberer").

Brokaw so readers could comment on each question. There were few comments, but these blogs aren't yet well visited.

Presidential debates on the radie-yo...

Will Olde John decide to go to the debate Friday?

Or stay the course on his funny, grandstanding, "leadership"   carnivale posing as the economic savior in Washington DC?

Will Barack Obama be there talking to himself? 

We're bettin' The Petulant Old Fool will show up hiding his tail behind him and acting like he's just saved the Republic. It won't work.
 
KIRO will have live coverage from 6-8p from CBS News until 7:30, when Dave Ross will join Luke Burbank for commentary on TBTL.

KVI will carry the debate live with programming in and around it for listener comments. KOMO will carry it on the stream due to the Mariners game.

KUOW is carrying all the debates from 6 to 8 p. with analysis for the last half-hour.From 8-9 p.m. there'll b a national call-in from NPR. (On Oct. 15th, BTW, KUOW will run a WA gubernatorial debate in conjunction with N3, KING TV and The Seattle Times (from (8-9 p).

UPDATED: Obama's "8 is Enough!" speech ignored by local radio

~~ according to the AP: Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was seen by more than 38 million people. Nielsen said more people watched Obama than the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, the final American Idol or the Academy Awards.

~~ we were wrong, wrong, wrong: PD Dennis Kelly writes to say KVI and KOMO ran the Obama speech last night, though without commentary or listener call-ins.

UPDATED: KIRO to all sports? Not in the 'foreseeable' future...

Bye-bye KBSG: From faithful blather reader, Rev:  I was awake at 4:00 this AM, so I heard the dying gasps of KBSG: They played about 20 minutes of "that's the end" songs with no announcements or commercial break, and then at about 4:20, there was a "This is KIRO-FM" ID, followed by the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up." When that ended, they faded into the middle of a commercial and picked up the KIRO(AM) stream in progress, which was running the syndicated Wall Street Journal report. No announcement of the new signal or anything else -- just business as usual. So I went back to sleep.

KIRO suits left the door wide open today to what we've been told is the "inevitable switch" to all-sports programming for KIRO.

It even sounds like they've been talking to ESPN.

At 5a Tuesday morning, KIRO began simulcasting on 97.3 FM, shoving the oldies and the oldsters who loved them to Warmer climes in a move to serve the  "maggot-infested, long-haired FM-types," as Rush Limbaugh so poetically but inaccurately describes an audience who are actually the vast majority of radio listeners.

KUOW.org: where old men take their fathers

We're reminded of that old saw about the Rainier Club: It's where old men take their fathers.

We're not talking about a downtown private club past its prime in the 21st Century, but the first redesign of the KUOW website since we don't know when. (KUOW is Seattle's popular public radio talk station).

Unfortunately it's just a rearrangement of the furniture with some tech flourishes and furbelows.

Can Luke Burbank Make A.M. Radio Cool Again?

A brilliant profile of Luke Burbank and Too Beautiful to Live in Seattle magazine:

Luke Burbank lives a blessed life. He’s got his own radio show on KIRO-AM 710, Seattle’s mightiest, highest-rated AM news talk station, where he can do anything he wants and be exactly who he is. What’s more, he has every male radio host’s dream: a female sidekick who gets paid to laugh at his jokes...

Read the rest here.

(photo: Richard Darbonne)