Talker's Magazine The quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).
The Advocate No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
Media Matters Documentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.
Orcinus home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
Hominid Views "People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
Howie in Seattle Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
The Naked Loon News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
The Maddow Blog Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. daily show-vids, freakishly geeky research, and classy graphics.
Northwest Broadcasters The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps.
Plus "recent" news.
News Corpse The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
The Moderate Voice The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
HistoryLink Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.
right-wing blogs we like
The Reagan Wing Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
Orbusmax inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
The Radio Equalizer prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
Historian and civic activist Walt Crowley, a friend of BlatherWatch, and of so many Seattleites, suffered a massive stroke last night after surgery for cancer.
Friends have gathered at the ICU at Virginia Mason.
Walt had a laryngectomy in February after return of cancer following several years of treatment.
Two weeks ago, doctors found the cancer had returned, culminating in Wednesday's surgery.
We spent the afternoon with other friends and his wife Marie McCaffrey in his room today as a parade of folks dropped in to say goodbye.
No more program directors stifling your creative urges and broadcasting ambitions.
No more years of diddling the potentiometers and fetching coffee for egotistical, assholian blabbermeisters before getting a chance behind the mic.
Launched last year, BlogTalkRadio is a social radio network which combines online audio broadcasting on a free, streaming, user-friendly, citizen broadcasting platform.
We've heard that KIRO PD Rod Arquette has been telling staff that when finishes buffing out the Mother Ship, he's going to start in on KTTH, the little station a tad to the right both politically and on the dial (770 KHz) of KIRO.
Arquette's not done with KIRO yet- he's got the mysterious, weekdaily 6-9p spot to fill, (and we can't wait- so horrid is that slot on Seattle radio with the sports or the Mark 'Squeaky' Levin).
I felt like I was railing on the outside of a locked door when it was all Republicans in power everywhere. But the closer we get to retaking the country, the closer the Democrats get to retaking the country, the closer we get to overtaking the traditional media in terms of content and influence.
We're always raving about Rachel Maddow, (KPTK m-f, 3-5p) whom we believe will be the no.1 talk radio host in an America in that future where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings that'll burst forth on Jan. 21, 2009. As that utopia unfolds, Rush Limbaugh will be fighting for drivetime spots on stations that read the school lunch menus every morning and Dori Monson will be selling dogfood full time.
Rachel's got the brains, education, sense of humor, irony, and optimism that adds up to a tight, news-serious yet human-hilarious show that makes us remember why we're liberals. We're not the only ones- she's got a metastasizing audience, and appears more and more frequently as atalking head all over the Tee Vee.
Her format's disciplined newscast in an easy-going conversational style that satisfies our wonkiness and our less noble need to laugh in the graveyard.
~ I was recently described in print as Amy Goodman with animal noises.
~ It used to be that it mattered whether you were reading Reuters or
the AP, or The New York Times or the Washington Post, if we were
talking about a specific issue in Washington. Now they're all baking
the same cookies every single day. It's up to citizen journalism and
populist journalism, like we're doing online and in progressive radio,
to do basic, basic, basic reporting. It's embarrassing.
The new magazine format show that was a bone of contention in the recent staff roilings at KUOW. will be heard 2-3p Monday. It replaces The Beat, which focused on the arts. According to the KUOW website, Dave Beck, Megan Sukys and Jeannie Yandel will conduct "engaging interviews with local people who define the Northwest character. National guests join the conversation to share ideas that can change the way we look at life around the Puget Sound."
Today's features will be on Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Poet Ted Kooser; spiritual environmental author, Charlie Fisher; the indomitable Nancy Pearl; and consumerist photographer Chris Jordan.
This show is a departure from the interview/talk format of its predecessor, it's controversial at the station, and we'd be interested in what listeners think about it.
Tonight on “The David Goldstein Show”, (KIRO Sat., Sun., 7-10p)
7p: The Stranger Hour
The Stranger’s Josh Feit joins me for our weekly round up of the week’s news, and a look ahead to coming headlines. Tops for tonight include post-hangover report from last night’s Genius Awards, the education of Jane Hague, and Dino Rossi’s non-campaign. But mostly Josh just wants to talk about the Saturday Night Massacre.
(photo, Jane Hague: "life of the Party")
8p: Mandatory sentencing or “tailored” justice?
A Burien family got the justice they asked for when their 15-year-old son avoided a prison sentence for the accidental shooting of his 16-year-old brother. Prosecutors insisted the shooter needed incarceration for his “serious violent crime,” but in sentencing the boy to 24-months of home detention, King County Superior Court Judge Harry McCarthy said that justice “has to sometimes be tailored for each person.” Should justice be blind, or tailored to the circumstance?
We've been reporting this for months, it's been in trade news all over the country, but there's been nothing but denials from KIRO. They're still being coy- Bill Virgin's On Radio column in today's Seattle Post Intelligencer:
The Nightside Project marks the convergence of several trends for Bonneville specifically and radio generally. First, [KIRO PD Rod] Arquette says KSL used to do multiple hours of evening sports talk, much like KIRO has done over the years. But with the emergence of all-sports talk competition, Bonneville management decided there was little point in duplicating that.
~ It's not "the rest of the story," as Crosscut's KUOW story's hopeful headline declares. No mention of the large cash reserves accrued by the station who'll start begging listeners for support their big Fall pledge drive, October 8th–17th. Casey Corr's marshmallow roast with KUOW's Wayne Roth and PD Jeff Hansen doesn't engage most of the charges against the management made recently by employees. The station's so-far successful management of the news is pissing us off- they are a news organization after all. They stonewalled Blatherwatch and The Stranger; forbidden employees to speak to media; and now handed off this cozy interview to a friendly. Can't blame them for wanting to make nice-nice, but don't they know that such manipulation just eggs on the curious? There's a lot more to this story, folks, so stay tuned...
~~It finally happenedlast Friday night. Keith Olbermann's ratings
beat O'Reilly's in the important
25 to 54 demo. Ironically, Olbermann, who's honed his
show for the massive and growing Daily Show audience, has built his
ratings in part on ridiculing
Billo- who won't even mention Olbermann's name on-air.
KIROFM 97.3 Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross & Luke Burbank, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Frank Shiers, Bill Radke, Linda Thomas, Tony Miner and George Noory.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KLFE AM 1590 kHz Syndicated right-wing 2nd stringers like Mark Levin, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Dennis Miller and Hugh Hewitt inhabit this timid-voiced neighbor honker for your radio enjoyment (unless you're behind something large like Costco).
KOMOAM News, traffic, Ken Schram and John Carlson.
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