It hasn't quite been a year. Tweet from news wonderboy Alex Silverman:
Well, the word's out. At the end of the month, I'll be leaving KIRO-FM to work at the one-and-only WCBS 880 in New York City, my dream since I was 10 years old. Thanks to all who have helped along the way, and to all who have made my time in Seattle amazing.
Congratulations to Alex! Quite the tweeter, he. Movin' on up...
Posted by: Benjamin | March 08, 2011 at 03:59 PM
Best of luck!! Id move to NY too if I had the option-would be glad to leave this boring drab city
Posted by: Kyle Mesherscmitt | March 08, 2011 at 04:11 PM
Thanks, folks. I can't escape that damn Rush photo....
Posted by: Alex Silverman | March 08, 2011 at 04:43 PM
"boring , drab city".......sounds ike another Lou Pate here......planes trains and automobiles can be accessed 24/7 for your departure, Kyle......why are we consistenly one of the top 4 or 5 vacation destinaiton cities for Americans if we're so boring and drab....nobody believes you....
Posted by: Tommy008. | March 08, 2011 at 04:53 PM
Hey, that Rush photo might make you famous some day...or maybe it will be when you're hired to replace Katie Couric down the road. Congrats.
Posted by: Radio Queen | March 08, 2011 at 05:14 PM
Tommy008 I was born here and it IS a boring drab city.I have the luxury of having traveled extensively (8 years in the Army)so I can make an objective comparison.
Seattle has never been a top 5 vacation destination.Do you have anything to back that claim up?
Posted by: Kyle Mesherscmitt | March 08, 2011 at 10:03 PM
You can't blame the guy. It was my dream at his age to work at a three-call radio station and I did it---TWICE! Good luck in NYC.
Posted by: JimF | March 08, 2011 at 10:48 PM
I was born here and raised here as well, KYle and have been in most of the major cities of the U.S. We'll have to agree to disagree. If you're Forgetting about it's obvious phsical majesty in the e , Seattle WAS drab and boring, about 20 years ago and before that.. It clearly is not that now. Yes i did see Seattle listed on more than one list right up at number 4 or five. I 'm not going to bother to cite you a link- i know i saw the lists, my memory is astounding. Believe me or dont believe me. The different lists are confusing because some of them include only big cities, others mix big cities with natural wonderland type spots, etc. It's common knowledge that Seattle is very popular with the tourists. . What's excitement? the glitzed up cheesy crapola of Vegas? Loud moronic local men in Rome pinching girls' asses? You're right, we certainly don't have that. I guess i dont need a lot of hyped up exctiement- more of a fan of subtle. Very subjective topic but im confident in saying that most people don't share your view. as i said, feel free to leave. This place is certainly not everyone's cup of tea, as Lou Pate reminded us every night with his bitter hatefilled rants about my hometown.
Posted by: Tommy008 | March 09, 2011 at 12:03 AM
No surprise, Alex Silverman sounds like a pro... although, just about anyone and everyone has a "Golden Radio Voice" when they're sharing the air with Bill Radke. I mean I probably sound more polished when I have to answer my phone at 4:15 in the AM. Bill Radke has a "you, too, could be a morning DJ!" appeal, like a kid who won a raffle and was given six months behind a microphone. Up is Down, greed is good, Dave is Luke, Bill Radke is the Voice of Seattle's morning news.
Posted by: Andrew | March 09, 2011 at 12:06 AM
Andrew
Is their anyone you do like?
You always complain.
Just asking.
I see the same thing over at your website.
Posted by: Audio-Slave | March 09, 2011 at 05:03 AM
Wrong Andrew, AS.
Posted by: Todd in Parkland | March 09, 2011 at 05:36 AM
Yeah I don't have a website, but since you asked, I think Dave Ross, Luke Burbank, Bill Handel, CtoC, most all of the KIRO news staff are great radio - except Dan Restione, specifically, and I believe Tom Tangney and John Curley only need minor tweaking.
Posted by: Andrew | March 09, 2011 at 09:55 AM
And what's wrong with Dan Restione?
Posted by: KIROSam | March 09, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Good Points, Tig.
I foresee a real backlash to conservatives coming in 2012.
To that end, I have been very active and doing my part.
I would invite you to my blog--see the referral link on this blog.
By working together, we can defeat the conservative movement.
Northwest Progressive Institute.
Posted by: Andrew | September 05, 2010 at 02:53 PM
You're THAT Andrew? Wow...I'm impressed and proud.
Posted by: sparky | September 05, 2010 at 05:09 PM
Sorry Andrew, I got confused earlier by the posts above.
Bill Handel is a pistol.
Posted by: Audio-Slave | March 09, 2011 at 03:32 PM
Both Andrews post here, non-blog Andrew more often than blog-Andrew. After I posted that, a correction was made by Bla'M. You should update your rolodex.
Posted by: sparky | March 09, 2011 at 04:19 PM
Good Luck Alex. Have to agree with the above Dan Restione is the worst. Thinks he's interesting. He's not. Curley has been a surprise, not bad but always better when he's paired up with someone. I want to like Radke but so far have not been impressed. Thomas dances circles around him and she'd be a better driver while he should be in the backseat of the show.
Posted by: NoBS | March 09, 2011 at 04:22 PM
AMEN, No BS! Thomas is the pro. Radke is the sidekick.
Posted by: Nantuckett | March 09, 2011 at 06:43 PM
Dan Restione basically provides nothing of value to society, while obviously taking some amount of value out of it, in trade for shitty, poorly produced food reviews, which are completely invalid all the same. There is a such things as a bad movie, poor acting, or a rehashed script. Tom Tangney's movie reviews aren't completely useless, but food and music are 110% subjective. A wine that is too sweet for one person might be too dry for another. Some people hate rap, other people own hundreds of rap LPs... and so on.
So here's this presumably less than fit guy stuffing himself with salty restaurant shit, proclaiming this or that about it in a snobbish, smug, but most importantly, objective tone.
His blog writing is verbose, sloppy and unfocused, as if it were written by a guy who might have lied in the job interview and claimed to have some kind of communication or english or creative writing degree, when in reality this person was spending his early 20's on a mission to hit every Wendy's in the greater Seattle area, while lecturing the victim in the passenger seat about the virtues of a square beef patty.
I'm not even kidding, he sounds like a kid at the controls. He must have good connections because I've never heard such an inferior product live as long as his. Maybe he has a Peter Weisbach deal and pays KIRO to let him work.
Posted by: Andrew | March 09, 2011 at 09:06 PM
I think there's a child in that balloon. Somebody call the police. (And TMZ.)
Posted by: Wanna play Monson in a Minute, Bruce? | March 10, 2011 at 08:54 AM
Alex, best of luck to you in NYC and a happy and successful career.
Posted by: Dana | March 10, 2011 at 02:44 PM
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I wanted to work for a CBS O&O, I'd want to be at KCBS, not WCBS...
Posted by: RadioWonkLance | March 10, 2011 at 04:08 PM