KIRO producers trade places

KIRO PD Ryan Hatch spends a lot of time in his office with the door closed. Some of the stone fruits of those long days are to fall to ground, Monday.

KIRO's Dori Monson Show (m-f, 12-3p) will trade producers with KTTH's Dave Boze Show. That means veteran Phil Vandervort will swap jobs with less-vet Jake Skorheim, 26.

They hope Vandervort might spruce up the lackluster (but nice) David Boze Show in time to meet a new competitor on KOMO, and inject a little youthiness in Dori's   weekdaily blab show.

Here's a good place to quote radio Sasquatch, Billy Bob:

Well, when it comes to total listeners (something Arbitron refers to as 'cume') KTTH isn't exactly setting the world on fire. They are ranked 24th. Let me say that more clearly: TWENTY-FUCKING FOURTH! Not only are KIRO-AM and FM ahead of KTTH. But so is KOMO. So is KJR-AM. So are three country stations. So are two jazz stations. So are the NPR stations. So is Jack and KUBE and Star and the Wolf and the Mountain and Kiss and Warm and Movin' and the End and Christa Ministries and Classic KING and the Funky Monkey and, well, just about everybody.

Gotta say it: Phil the News Junkie is a pro. A source wrote today:

"... if Phil can bring some "showbiz" (masterful manipulation of YouTube audio for use on-air and masterful enhancement of the showpage to supplement topics and drive web traffic), then maybe that  will help Dave Boze--I still think Dori's show does both of these better than anybody else in town."

Dave Boze is too affable and bland in an ah-shucks kind of way -- especially considering his crazypants politics. He seems more eager to be a local Republican kingmaker and conservative celeb than a spellbinding broadcaster. He's a cerebral partisan - maybe he doesn't have the fire-breathing gene. We can't imagine Bonneville continuing to spend the dough they do on him if this doesn't work. 

He's the only live and local voice on KTTH, which former Fisher PD Dennis Fisher once described as a "a life support system for Rush Limbaugh."

Don't know enough about Producer Jake to know if he can save Dori but we know he has age-appropriate hair, a boyish face, is from Snohomish, and graduated from University of Hawaii in 2007. 

(photo: Producer Jake & Dave Boze) 

(We met him as he was helping produce the TBTL summer stage show in August. He seemed fairly normal and unaffected from his year or so in the Dave Boze orbit).

Dori's got a little of the feminine side now with Goddess Jessicaman, maybe now with Jake, the show will get a little younger.

Comments

[Tommy008]

"htree cheers for the American! Three cheer for the American!" Boze regaled his audience one day with a taleof recently being in England on hoiday and stopping a bully from abusing an elderly passenger on a bus. A British man in the bus exclaimed "three cheers for the American" after witnessing his stand up beghavior. Three cheers, Dave, you're s decent guy personally, but you're a bore on the radio. You really should start doing something else, man. You're a freakign snoozefest.

[Rat_Bastard]

I hear the David Boze show a bit each day...
(Used to flip between him and Carlson before "the change")
One of the best things going for him was the relationship with "young Jake".
It gave Boze a little brother type to bully a bit and get that younger opinion to banter with.
Dave came off as cruel at first and it then became more of a joking tone.
I liked the chemistry between them.
Phil has always been the Paul Shafer to Dori's "Letterman act".
Chiming in here and there...
And Phil's great sound clip hounding.
Sad to hear they will be split up.
I'll always be a Dori supporter even though I hear him less than I used to.
I'm interested to see what KIRO does with the program changes to come.

[Rat_Bastard]

Also, I missed the "Three cheers for the American" story.
Good for Dave!

[Fanta]

Why don't they just cancel Dave Boze and give us Michael Savage back? Who needs these local yokels?

[crotch handbags]

Dave Boze is a great producer! He should produce, and somebody else should talk.

[Low Ratins]

Well, when it comes to total listeners (something Arbitron refers to as 'cume') KTTH isn't exactly setting the world on fire. They are ranked 24th. Let me say that more clearly: TWENTY-FUCKING FOURTH! Not only are KIRO-AM and FM ahead of KTTH. But so is KOMO. So is KJR-AM. So are three country stations. So are two jazz stations. So are the NPR stations. So is Jack and KUBE and Star and the Wolf and the Mountain and Kiss and Warm and Movin' and the End and Christa Ministries and Classic KING and the Funky Monkey and, well, just about everybody.

EXCEPT AM 1090