More new blood has been injected into Bonneville's flaccid Seattle radio cluster.
Ryan Hatch, 44, has been named as operations director and will take on day-to-day programming for conservative news talkers, KIROFM, and KTTH on April 12. (new hires, reshuffles, and a cancellation have recently rocked the stations which took a huge hit with the onset of the PPM's last year).
He'll take over for Rod Arquette who was relieved of duties earlier this month.
Odd that Hatch will not do programming for sporty KIROAM since his background is sports rather than news. He comes to Seattle from Phoenix, where he's been PD of Bonneville's news/talk/sports KTAR-FM.
Before that it was sports, sports, sports…
During his career, Hatch was Program Director for 1280 The Zone KZNS, the top rated sports talker in Utah, and hosted the number one rated midday sports talk show in the Beehive State. The Salt Lake native has also hosted countless Utah Jazz, University of Utah and BYU pre and post-game shows, and provided television and radio play-by-play for Major League Soccer and Arena Football League broadcasts. Hatch began his radio career at KISN-AM in Salt Lake City in 1995, before helping to launch KFNZ-AM and the Utah Jazz Radio Network.A source reminds us:
KTAR, incidentally, was one of the two models Bonneville cited (DC was the other) where they've moved the established AM news/talk operation to FM and put sports talk on the AM. Both Phoenix and DC worked out a lot better than Seattle has so far - but then, Seattle is a much stronger AM market than the other two, and the 710 is much more of a regional signal than the Bonneville AMs in Phoenix (620 AM, but less power) or DC (50 kw, but high on the dial at 1500 AM).
He'll emphasize, they say, new media. “Hatch will bring “a … strategy to Seattle creating a culture of collaboration and product integration between the newsroom, talk shows and digital media assets.”
He'll emphasize, they say, new media. “Hatch will bring “a … strategy to Seattle creating a culture of collaboration and product integration between the newsroom, talk shows and digital media assets.”
Isn't that what they just did?
Posted by: Andrew | March 23, 2010 at 06:33 PM
Maybe a little less [b]bile[/b] from Limbaugh wanna-be Monson?
Posted by: Jake Bottero | March 23, 2010 at 07:36 PM
Bonneville is baffling, almost like they make decisions with coin flips and dart throwing.
Posted by: Sclub | March 23, 2010 at 07:51 PM
Hatch is a Hatch-it man. Just look at that neck, that shaved head. He looks like a Hell's Angel in the yard at Folsom. Don O'Neill will be his bitch. It's gonna be a ride that's fun to watch.
Posted by: Poxie | March 23, 2010 at 08:24 PM
Any word on why Arquette was summarily dismissed? Dave Ross has steadily gone out of his way to engage and encourage discourse with 'conservative callers', so much so, it is tough to listen to at times, monson is unlistenable. I'm guessing Dave is probably looking over his shoulder.
Posted by: james chan | March 23, 2010 at 09:53 PM
Mormon cleaner come to mop up the mess and put more Jesus on the radio.
Posted by: RealityInSeattle | March 24, 2010 at 03:07 AM
>>More new blood has been injected into Bonneville's flaccid Seattle radio cluster.<<
Nah, it's just old blood in a new city, just like it was when Arquette came here. I give this guy eighteen months before he's "dismissed".
Posted by: Rob | March 24, 2010 at 07:46 AM
Just want to thank KTTH for streaming at a bit rate that I can get using my dial up connection. I am disabled and can't afford a fast connection and live in a very fringe area. KTTH is the one station I have found that streams very well.
Again, THANK YOU!
David
Posted by: David Zimmer | May 25, 2010 at 09:46 AM