New York radio suit Dave Logan has been named as program director at Bonneville's newly-acquired oldies station, KBSG FM. (which they got, along with KIRO and KTTH in a trade with Entercom for a defunct mink farm, and a couple of teriyaki joints in Mill Valley). 
Logan comes with a lot of oldies and other rock experience- he presided over the last days of WCBS in New York goiving it what's been described as lots of "promotional and presentational energy" despite its dying state. The station was hi-JACKED in 2005. WLUP in Chicago, WNEW in New York and KFOG in San Francisco are also on his lengthy resumé.
Even more interesting to BlatherWatch is that Logan started up Air America Radio as Executive Vice President/Programming and Operations supervising the programming launch of liberal talk radio.
To his credit, four weeks after Air America's debut, Logan with CEO, Mark Walsh, left the network. He thus avoided the later messiness, yet added an exciting and legendary launch to his resumé.
Logan is the one of the founders of XM Satellite radio, and, as the Bonneville press release says, "spent five years (1998-2002) as Vice President of Program Operations where he helped create 101 unique channels and directed all music, production and on-air personnel as the direct supervisor of the company’s largest department."
Radio Town is buzzing about whether Bonneville will flip the oldies format to newstalk- liberal newstalk?
KBSG is not exactly tanking in Seattle, but the oldies format is said to be a dead man walking waltzing what with iPods, JACK attacks, and that kids have rejected music radio.
Bonneville has some history turning FM music stations into newstalkers.
So for progressives who represent the largest voting group in this town, hope springs infernal for a liberal talk station with local talk hosts- a phenom mysteriously missing here that would seem to seem to cry for it.
Before joining Air America, Logan was VP/Program Operations for XM
Satellite Radio. He previously was VP/Programming for Sony's SW
Networks; PD for WNEW/FM-New York, WLUP-Chicago and KFOG-San Francisco;
and was VP of the Superstars Division of the consulting firm of
Burkhart/Abrams/Douglas/Elliot & Associates. 
(Logan played softball in his Michigan State University days. He's the big guy kneeling (preparing for a career in radio
management) front row, second from left).
God, does that look like the class of 1970 or what?
I look at that picture and see everybody I hung out with at that time. The upraised fist included.
Posted by: chucks | June 11, 2007 at 03:51 PM
A local liberal-bent talk station would be a treat in this town. Hope it happens! :)
Posted by: Duffman | June 11, 2007 at 03:59 PM
He looks like lurch. will he fire Frank Shiers?
Posted by: torque | June 11, 2007 at 04:11 PM
Ron's back from vacation!! Yay! Happy day!!
If only Dori would go on a permanent vacation.
Posted by: coochie mama | June 11, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Thanks, Coochie mama. I'll start listening again.
Posted by: joanie | June 11, 2007 at 11:22 PM