Mike siegel, R.I.P. all over again

Tree falling in the woods, dep’t:

Mike Siegel, who recently migrated from morning drive to afternoon drive without even a press release from KKOL, has now disappeared from the line-up altogether.

We've reported the hard-edged conservative’s apparent professional demise many times over the years, and here we are we’re doing that once again.

(KKOL, home of Lou Dobbs, itself dropped off the back of the bleachers ratings-wise when the PPMs started cranking real listener data in March. The station owned by Salem, the Christian right-wing media group flipped to business talk in 2008.

The company has apparently given up getting the FCC licensing for their 50,000 watt output from their tower in Tacoma which inconveniently made sparks on metal things in the immediate neighborhood which, unfortunately, is also home to some gas docks.

We’re providing this as a service presuming someone gives a shit- if you fall into that category, we’re happy to report that Siegel apparently still rocks for an hour weekdaily, 6-7p on KITZ (Not to be conflated with KITZ, manufacturer of fine valve products) in Port Orchard or somewhere. 

(And oh yeah, former KIRO egg-head, and our pal, Fred Ebert is over there m-f, 3-6p) as well- we’d direct you to their live stream, but, not unlike our own live stream, it never seems to work).

Comments

[joanie]

Hmm. Didn't know Fred was still in radio.

Kind of sad about Siegel. I used to rush home to listen to him on the old KING station. Those were the days. He was a liberal then.

[Rich]

It is sad, I had Mike as a teacher @ Emerson Collage 75

[ksr]

Collage?

[marbar2]

I hear siegel's made a lot of money in real estate, and like weissbach, he doesn't need radio any more.

[Tommy008]

I'VE GOT THE LIVE STREAM ON NOW WAITING.... for Fred Ebert to come on... haven't heard him on hte air since the middle of the last decade.... didn't hit it off to well with him back then... didn't care for all the bragging about his intellect ....and let him know via email.... one time he said somehring on the air that was some sort of mistake ... a grammatical boner or some such... can't exactly recall but i know it made him sound foolish... doubly so since he was always being a condescending ass and correcting other peoples' English and such.. i called him on it via email... he denied having ever said it and then after a commercial break, made up a story about an imaginary caller that had just called in off the air to say he didn't say it ..i thought it revealing that he would make up a lie rather than copping to a relatively minor mistake... peculiar fellow... . i called him a lying sack of crap, via emial and challenged him to play back the tape... of course he wouldnt , and then threatened to trace my email add and charge me with harrassment if i kept emailing him... we'll see if he's changed at all..... i really doubt it.....

[Tommy008]

someone named McGee, no not Fibber, is on now, not Fred Ebert, as advetised by the lameass radio station website.....

[KS]

I'd be interested in hearing Fred Ebert's take on this administration - to see if I can respect him. Not sure about him when he was on KIRO - intelligent, but didn't agree with him on some big issues.

He used to bash Bush mercilessly and usually deservedly so - he may have been for Kerry in 2004. He called himself a Republican, but may have been a New England R - like Collins or Snow.

I liked Siegel, who may be too well off to do radio and he has made his mark. He was liberal way back when he started here in the 80's, but the Democratic leadership went so far left that the party left him - always envisioned him as a libertarian and a moderate.

[Jason Andersen]

I remember listening to Mike Siegel many years ago when I was still in high school, and he was rather progressive; then he seemed to morph into a populist; he replaced Art Bell for awhile, but he was clearly a little awkward in that niche. The last time I heard him, in the morning on KTTH, he was very right wing. My views have changed a lot, too, in that time span of years (though in the other direction), but I never was quite sure if Siegel was all an act. He is a decent broadcaster; you have to at least admire the man's energy.

[Mr Happy Man]

Siegel was interesting listening in the days before the Fairness Doctrine got repealed. That is because there was not a lot available to listen to, and the amount of opinion out there was much less than today. However, his style - non-entertaining - could not stand up to hosts who were actually entertaining. Which is why he has been booted from station to station over the years. When he was on KTTH, I never went over to him, as Kirby was much more interesting than Siegal was. His changing views really didn't have a lot to do with his declining ratings - it was his style that did.
If the rumor is true that he made buckets of money off real-estate, then I'm glad that he doesn't need this to bring income to the table.