Ron & Don delete and nix comment threads

It’s official. Ron & Don (KIRO m-f, 3-7p) can’t take it. All comments have been deleted from their lame web page and comments in general have been eliminated.

Commenters critical of their vapid show have long outnumbered the few who defend them. Guess it got too hot for them - even with the comment censoring the station does on the site.

Geez, such as Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) relishes downloading the shit sprayed on him. It's really half of the game.

Shutting off the listener intake valve is such a short-sighted waste of a resource. KIRO's mynorthwest.com is by far the best and most trafficked local radio website. (KVI jocks would kill for a site half as good. Hell, they'd settle one that spells their names right).   

It’s a real regression in the Internet age when the rest of radio is clamoring to be more interactive with their listeners, and trying to keep heads above the water of the technological tsunami that’s so far swamping it.

The laughable drivetime goofballs have been put on notice to make their program more substantive in the newsy-meaty time slot, but so far they’ve just fucked it up.

How long can KIRO’s brand take these buffoons in this flagship time slot?

Comments

[sparky]

oh brother.....

[Gregory McKie]

Moving?

Don has been hocking a moving company. Maybe R&D will get to use their services pretty soon.

[Duffman]

The way I see it, this pretty much does it for them. I've actually tried to listen to them in the most objective way possible, but unlike TBTL...they could never make it for me. Thank goodness John Carlson ressurected on KVI at the drive time and I was able to switch. KIRO/R&D...I would guess that it's not long 'till we read a headline on this blog that goes something like this 'RIP R&D',YOU DID YOURSELVES IN BY YOUR STUPIDITY and disconnect with a typical radio audience.
(It's not like you weren't given every chance in the book.)

[Ryder]

Ack! My wonderful post got eaten by the internet gobbler.

Bottom line: Pack 'em both off to Iran where censorship is normal.

[Gregory McKie]

Buffoons

I have been critical of R&D and all of my post has been deleted in the past.

At least Dori takes criticism.

[drool]

Comments for R&D could be posted on Dori's blog. I'm sure he would appreciate the traffic....if not the content.

[Duffman]

Alas, Ryder I doubt even Ahmadinejad could tolerate them. They are destined for much smaller pastures. They have peaked; KIRO was their Oscar moment.

[Ryder]

Duffman;

C'mon boss. Wouldn't you like to send them to Ahmadinejad to let him do as he will with them? Just think of the You-Tube possibilities!!

[Fred Thompson]

When will Don grow his own set and separate himself from that man/child?

[jackrebney]

Who gives a s**t about these two clowns. The boys of Mouthing off just said their last goodbyes over at KVI!

[Fatso]

Maybe they can replace them with Tom Leykis

[Tommy008]

yes Ron should grow a pair , finally separate from Don and- go sell hikinhg boots at REI. Don has the talent on that show.....and he can be funny... not Dori funny.... really funny...

[Dangerous Dan]

As a moderator for several web communities, I can attest trolls only drag down the entire forum. Commenters don't have to agree with the opinion expressed, but if their only purpose is to post rabble-rousing criticism of the author, it doesn't further the debate. Just like on radio. If a caller is all about bashing the host and not sticking to the issue, you punch out. I imagine R&D can still accept comments on a moderated basis, but that means someone has to take time to review and approve every post. Something tells me that Japan's #1 mixmaster doesn't get paid extra for that.

[jamesb]

there are not two functioning brain cells between the two of these idiots.

[Andrew]

KIRO has made a promo bumper of Don being hung up on by Adam Klein and then acting like it was Klein who was out of his element. Kudos for spinning idiocy and bad radio as a victory for Ron and Don.

I hear a few minutes of Monson or Shiers on occasion to see if they've improved since I last heard them. But for the record I don't listen to Ron and Don at all. Not even a second of it. Not in passing. Not out of curiousity. Not by accident. They're not dead to me as much as they're just nothing to me.

[David Tatelman]

Funny thing, I posted a comment to their Adam Klein story, asking them about Don's comment that they were the highest-rated talkshow hosts. I asked how he arrived at that, since Dori also claims to be the highest-rated.

My comment was deleted. :-(

[Tommy008]

Don O'Neill has proven he can carry the show, on the dayd wimpy Ron is off at home sick,- I can't say the same for Ron. On the days Ron has the mike to himself the show drags like molasses.

[Andrew]

Ron is a natural sidekick.

Sidekick. What a funny word.

[Tommy008]

freedom 970 has stopped running phil hendrie at least after 11 pm. KTLK 1150AM in LA STREAMS PHIL LIVE FROM 10 TO 4 AM. this gives us somethign to listen to, from 7pm to 1 am they give seven hours of absolute dreck- two jackasses, unlistenable, and asinine.....brought to you by The Mormons a division of Colgate-Palmolive

[Tommy008]

the two jackasses i'm talking about are Frank Shiers and Allen Hunt. These two turds must work real real cheap the Mormons must love their cheap price so they can save money while giving their KIROfm listeners a pair of substandard shits, just low quality radio, period. Thanks, Mormon bastards!

[Tommy008]

here's note for the libs here- Stephanie Miller comes on at 6 am on KTLLK am out of Los Angeles.... our mornings here are about as grim as the night time.... who the hell wants to deal with Bryan Suits chirpy, "too cool for school" conceits and militarorama show while fumbing for first coffee? Don't like Suits?...you have the choice between the banal chuckleheads delivering news sports and weather on KIRO fm or Glenn Beck....

[Tommy008]

sorry KTLK