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.
Goldy's story is up on DailyKOS, and has gone viral. Read it here:
Here's an open letter to KIRO for Goldy's release, prepared by the venerable NW Progressive Institute. Please sign it. .
The David Goldstein Show was a hit & run mess: a conglom of smart-ass, east-coast Jew-boy shrugs, non-sequiturs, and one-liners. David's voice was annoying; his views not always the liberal boilerplate some prefer; he was politically incorrect; and loved getting up to his ears in arcana like Oregon politics or Eastern Washington city council races; or down and deep in the weeds of tax levies and economic policies.
"This has got Dori's fingerprints all over it," says one KIRO-ite.
"It stinks," writes another. "He finally won."
The post-massacre KIRO weekend skedge is out and wonder of wonders: The Angel of Death passed over Phil, the news junkie's door! Besides the gardening Cisco and the cookin' Tom Douglas, the only local talk show left on the weekend is The News Junkie, the little show that does no harm, has neither listeners, nor point of view; but does have the tremendous advantage of being hosted by Phil Vandevort, the longtime producer for conservative Dori Monson, the self-proclaimed "King of Seattle Talk Radio."
David Goldstein, Bryan Styble, and Carl Jeffers and the support hours that go with them were eliminated Wednesday.
The Dori Monson Clause that retained Phil kinda blows a hole in the out-of-their-hands, "budgetary concerns" explanation they gave for laying off all these people.
It kinda blows...
"Dori has been after Goldy's hide for a year," says a newsie; "He's pushes his weight around, always has -- I don't know whether he got Goldy fired, but for sure if Phil's $300 a week job was saved, Dori was behind it."
Dori (whose name is a girl's name) stopped speaking or acknowledging Goldy's presence a few months ago.
KIRO staffers agree: Dori can be a real prick. "All this reminds me of the bad old Entercom days when you felt like you had to kiss his ass to keep your job."
They'll be gloating from the right -- he's an activist who has a loud and influential voice in the region's political conversation. But many were surprised at the tonme of his show: it was more an ardent, rabbinical dinner table discussion than the edgy outrageousness of his blog, Horsesass.org.
We were surprised. Why, after KIRO just launched their new website; hired a "new media" director, would they fire the guy who has inarguably the most influential blogger in the region?
And in a presidential election year -- traditional ratings bonanzas for talk radio?
There are more firings today at KIRO. We'll report them to you as soon as we get them; and have much, much more to say about the dumbing down of this great station.
Veteran Seattle broadcaster, and longtime KIRO middle manager, and King of the Board Ops,
Dustin Hornby vacated the Eastlake premises today, reportedly on his own steam.
The Bryan Styble wrote this on his blog this morning:
It's my solemn duty to inform the radioactive audience and, in fact, all Pugent Sound newstalk radio listeners, that KIRO's new ownership regime has cancelled The Bryan Styble Program, replacing it with an as-yet-unannounced syndicated show to be pulled down off a satellite.
The reason cited is "purely budgetary", and inasmuch as syndicated fare always comes to local-affiliating stations free-of-charge (a fact many newstalk radio fans are surprised to learn), this change will certainly save KIRO and Bonneville the quite-generous salary they've been expending for my professional efforts.
It's a given that election years are good for talk radio. And that 2008 is a presidential year and the races are close make this year even better for the explaining industry.
The campaign trail started unwinding way early because the nation can't wait to get rid of President Bush. Another mitzvah for talk radio.
When Bill Clinton won in 1992, Rush Limbaugh rejoiced: he used to say that without the Clinton presidency, there might never have been a Limbaugh monarchy. Even after Dumbo took the White House in 2001, right-wing radio flogged the Clintons for years after and still do, as recently we have seen vividly.
Right-wing radio has declined while they were in the majority. that's because they were forced to regurgitate talking points, and make happy face as conservative principles were trod upon; incompetence was plain to see; Iraq disintegrated, and the Bush presidency crumbled like a Costco snickerdoodle. Hence: left-wing radio got its first toe-hold in the market. (Photo: crumbled Costco chocolate chip cookie, snickerdoodles were not available, at this writing)
(They always fell back on decrying the "hatred," and "desperation," and "bitterness" of the left; chiding us for being negative; being against anything Bush was for; and always seeing the glass as empty. Besides that the glass (and the president's suit) actually was empty, the role of the "loyal opposition" is to tear down the ruling party. During those gloomy days wandering in the desert of the minority, the left did our best to do just that -- and it wasn't always attractive. But we couldn't have torn the Bush administration down any more effectively than it did itself by bad calculations, go-it-alone arrogance, and missed opportunities).
So whose success would make the best talk fodder for the next four years? Let's talk...
One big happy sitefor the three Seattle Bonneville stations KIRO, the newstalk one, KTTH the right-wing one, and B97.3 (KBSG) the oldies music station.
Seattle veteran broadcaster Gary Ryan, late of KIRO will join 920 KGTK AM in Olympia, and 1400 KITZ AM in Port Orchard full time in the noon to 3p spot starting Monday.
General Manager and former KIRO-ite Conn Williamson is building up quite a live and local stable. Former KIRO evening host Fred Ebert, does 5-6p weeknightly; and the legendary Seattle talker, Mike Siegel broadcasts m-f, from 6-7p.
The stations are owned by right-wing media mini-mogul and 2nd Amendment buff, Alan Gottlieb.
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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