Weekend America, MPR's magazine show, as we've reported, will end Jan. 31, and KUOW will replace it Feb. 7. with KUOW Presents Weekend.
Will this be a locally produced gem of a show which will develop their bench, regain the station's once proud reputation for innovation and edge, and give some up-and-coming talent some air-time?
(photo: Jet City Cakes)
Hell no, this is KUOW, and there's a depression on, boy!
KPW will a "best-of" show of which will be gleaned from recent local shows. Re-runs.
They already run a KP, (weeknights, 9p) and we're not sure if they can squeeze any more juice from the shows for this. Maybe the weekend show will be re-re-runs.
But we're excited, especially after soaking in this metaphoric slumgullion that describes the show on the program's web page:
(Getting hit between the ears with a pudding full of stone-fruit is not good, no matter how sweet they are).
To replace Day to Day, the syndicated NPR show being unplugged, The Conversation, the local, one-hour, week daily chat show will switch to noon, they hope by Feb. 23.
No announcements yet on what will air at 1p weekdays, or any indication KUOW suits have taken to our idea -- so freely given -- that they do what San Francisco's KALW' did: a suggestion-blog.
UW needs to offer a Writing Metaphors 101 class..lol..
They should just carry weekend stuff from Minnesota Public Radio..
Posted by: sparky | January 26, 2009 at 06:50 AM
Maybe KUOW should follow the lead of KIRO..go with sports 24/7, moving the rest of their programming to some obscure FM station that many of us down here in forgotten Lewis Co. (except when I-5 is closed) can't even get.
Posted by: Upton | January 26, 2009 at 08:21 AM
anything is better than KELA.
Posted by: Coiler | January 26, 2009 at 09:24 AM
this is just blowing my Sat. on the radio...
Posted by: zothar | January 26, 2009 at 10:28 AM
It would be great if they produced much of anything fascinating locally during the week, but getting the grab-bag blah-blah rehashed is depressing. Think they can use such a show to sell during Pledge Week? "Deft, exciting digital editing by deft, exciting Northwest editors!"
I'll need more than a totebag to go with it, thank you very much.
Posted by: Sundulu | January 26, 2009 at 10:40 AM
I came back for one,
But no more than that,
For Joanie dislikes me,
She calls me a brat.
Whatever the reason,
Whatever the rhyme,
I thought this was funny,
'bout media online:
http://www.davidhenderson.com/2009/01/21/key-online-influencer/
Posted by: Wistful Poet | January 26, 2009 at 06:16 PM
oh WP
don't let joanie's hate get you down. hell, she even rags on people who've lost their jobs here on this website. so ignore the white noise that is the big wind of birch bay.
Posted by: Puget Sound for COILS! | January 26, 2009 at 06:40 PM
The Stranger helped not,
His big ratings mess.
So he buys a new article,
From the Weekly, I guess.
Desperately dealing,
To salvage his show,
One thing is clear,
Luke Burbank's a ho:
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=78&sid=128525
Posted by: Wistful Poet | January 26, 2009 at 06:43 PM
Joanie is Bathbub boy's alter ego.
Posted by: KS | January 26, 2009 at 08:28 PM
Up here in Everett, Saturday afternoon's the best day of the week for radio on 90.7 KSER (Frettin' Fingers followed by Pull The String).
KUOW doesn't come in so good up here (Tacoma's NPR and All-that-Jazz station comes in quite a bit better) so I've lost touch with it. I've also stopped caring what goes on in Seattle so my opinion can't really weigh in on much in the discussions with people who do.
I have XM which now has two public radio channels (Bob Edwards' show is really great -- I mean, really awesome, but still not really a substitute for Morning Edition) and I doubt any of it is live, by minutes, hours, or days. The content is pretty good regardless, but I have to say the live factor, even on Dori Dickhead's show, adds a substantial intangible that I sorely miss. I expect a radio announcer to be speaking to a live audience, not a tape recorder. If I know that's not what I'm getting, it takes a lot away.
KUOW would do better recruiting interns from the student body (shouldn't be hard, since the station's right in the middle of the UW campus) to read poems from the walls of Parnassus cafe rather than air reruns of weekdays news discussions.
Posted by: Rodman | January 26, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Gosh it's fun being the topic of a thread. I'm famous! I'm available for your rhyme anytime, wist.
I haven't listened to KUOW for a very long time. Well, except one Saturday night a couple months ago the Swing Years with Amanda Wild. I was in the mood.
Too much good politics!
Posted by: joanie | January 27, 2009 at 01:34 AM
uh oh...Rodman, Steven will read that as "Pull My Finger" radio...
Posted by: sparky | January 27, 2009 at 04:54 AM