~~ Mike Webb late of KIRO, who will be facing a judge on March 21 in the City of Seattle's case against him for felony fraud, has gone missing. No, he hasn't jumped bail as far as we know, he just hasn't done his podcast for a few weeks. He's been running KIRO tapes of his old show complete (yawn) with commercials and traffic. Also moldy Stephanie Miller Shows apparently ripped off the Net. The website says he's on vacation. Our sources bet he's out looking for a job- there's nothing in this market for Mike Webb, we're betting.
~~We're all about words around here, so every once in a while, we have to mock Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) for his, shall we say unique? pronunciations. We've bitched about his mangled "Nawlins," when he's trying to sound like Loozyana down-homeboy (kinda hard when you've gotta yiddisher kopf and all that Ivy League education). Then there's his Ku (rhymes with pew) Klux Klan, which gives us hives and today, he again said BOO-fay for buffet sounding like a realtor putting on airs at the Royal Fork. (In France, the slang buffer, pronounced BOO-fay, means to wolf your food- farmhands, teenage boys, and reporters buffe). He also says ISSaquh (rhymes with duh!) instead of Issaquah (rhymes with kiss-a-squaw). Knowing Michael (which we don't) his pronunciation is probably the correct Salish; but for people who live around here it just sounds like he's from LA and has the words but not the tune.
~~Quote of the Day: "Why do people still keep tuning in to KIRO? Isn't that like continually opening the refrigerator door, hoping that one of these times there will be something interesting to eat?" ~Sparky in our comment threads.
~~Quote of the Month: "It's hard to be a conservative these days." ~Laura Kiel, of Kiel Mortgage, Republican stalwart, patron, and principle sponsor of Republican Radio, the snide Saturday snorefest (KVI 3-5p) where we heard this in a discussion of Hell-with-port-security-everything's-for-salegate. It shows how deeply the Bush ineptitude and guile is rumbling through his own party. If Laura Kiel is doubting out loud on the radio- you know they're in trouble- and so do they.
~~Sorry, sorry sorry. We said Knute Berger, editor of the Seattle Weekly lived on the Eastside. You probably thought we meant the Eastside of the Lake Washington. No. We meant the east side of Capitol Hill- but we didn't say how far east because we don't know and because we hear there's a stalker who's stalking editors (what a freek!).
~~Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 3-6p) fails at the finger factor. (We've learned to trust our fingers to tell us what the real radio ratings are (this is the only thing besides eating Chinese food we can depend on our fingers for- they've utterly failed us at the piano and long term relationships). By noting when and where our fingers subconsciously jump on the car radio buttons, we can get a fairly accurate read on when and where other people do the same thing. It's our ratings system and it is at least as scientific as Arbitron's. Ross is the most thoughtful and engaging talk host in town, but it's all ambushed by the incessant "traffic on the 3's" and all those ads. We spent some time in the car today, and Dave got a one share. Whose idea was "traffic on the 3's?" Tell us it wasn't because KOMO has "traffic on the 4's"...please?
~~And besides NPR, (which considerably slows down the Russian fingers) there's almost no place for our fickle fingers to go at that hour except to John Carlson (KVI m-f. 3-5p) and for the last few days it's been Bryan Suits (KVI m-f, 5-8p) filling in. You can see a portrait of the artist as a young man, here. We'd forgotten how boring the Bad Lieutenant can be. Today, a woman's car was stolen in the southend after she left it running with her baby in it. The whole drama in real time took 25 minutes (the baby was immediately recovered) but our Lieutenant gave it 2 hours. OK, the 2 hours were separated by a ten minute rant with no callers about how successful is the Iraqi war effort by the boyz in blue (or whomever).
~~Black roses from one radio executive suite to another? We only recently heard this 2003 story. Entercom's KTTH stole Rush Limbaugh out from under Fisher's KVI, who had had the Big Panted One since the earth cooled. It was a coup- KTTH's highest moment. Unfortunately, the Maha Rushee had only been aboard for a day or so, when he went into drug rehab for abusing pain pills because he likes to get high and he is an addict. Fisher execs reportedly sent KTTH execs a bouquet of roses spray-painted black with some gloating endearments which included the word "junkie." Michael Medved had some self righteousness on-air for the prank and Sandeep Kaushik wrote briefly of the incident in The Stranger.
The jackass actually mentioned me on his show?
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 03, 2006 at 07:33 PM