Talker's Magazine The quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).
The Advocate No, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.
Media Matters Documentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.
Orcinus home of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups
Hominid Views "People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.
Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.
Howie in Seattle Howie Martin is the Abe Linkin' of progressive Seattle.
Streaming Radio Guide Hellishly long (5795!) list of radio streaming, steaming on the Internets.
The Naked Loon News satire -- The Onion in the Seattle petunia patch.
Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."
The Maddow Blog Here's the hyper-interactive La Raych of MSNBC. daily show-vids, freakishly geeky research, and classy graphics.
Northwest Broadcasters The AM, FM, TV and digital broadcasters of Northwest Washington, USA and Southwest British Columbia, Canada. From Kelso, WA to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC - call letters, formats, slogans, networks, technical data, and transmitter maps.
Plus "recent" news.
News Corpse The Internet's chronicle of media decay.
The Moderate Voice The voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.
News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.
HistoryLink Fun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.
right-wing blogs we like
The Reagan Wing Hearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.
Orbusmax inexhaustible Drudgery of NW conservative news
The Radio Equalizer prolific former Seattle KVI, KIRO talk host speaks authoritatively about radio.
We've launched a fund-raising drive here at Melody Ranch so that Pat Buttram and I can try to re-purchase KVI radio and restore some sanity to the airwaves.
In the meantime, if anyone is in the Los Angeles area can you please stop by Forest Lawn Cematery and bring a shovel, some rope and several spikes. I need to configure some type of netting so that I will stop spinning in this fucking grave.
listened to the Wall Sreet recap for a gew hours...not bad, not bad. upbeat, informative,....they repeat taped segments though, round and round, so if you listen for more than an hour youre going to be hearing them again. cant stand clark howard,,,,love imus and hendrie, who are coming up at ten. two out of three aint bad. ill catch elisa jaffe tomorrow morning. She has to be better than sarcastic sourpuss Bryan Suits.
Ronny: Excellent observation. My grandma, too, would have liked Scott Carty. But she died in 1958. Scott is to talk radio what Lawrence Welk was/is to rock.
I'm sure he's a very nice man and has some talent. But the segments I've heard so far are so incredibly bland and vanilla I feel like I'm watching a Saturday Night Live parody of a milquetoast radio host.
KVI's "Jesus girl" Carleen Johnson os still at the station, still doing news erports..........ermember when she pulled her little tantrum and quit for a few days, some years back?,,,hahcarleen hahacarleen.....
So far this new KVI is so lightweight my radio keeps floating off the table! I'm pretty disappointed. Even the morning show is awfully fluffy....I switch off the radio when Scott Carty started talking about Kanye West and some unimportant pop culture "news". If I want that I'll look at the TMZ site or read a check out line tabloid. Only good thing about the new KVI is Clark Howard's syndicated show out Atlanta.
KIROFM 97.3 Multi-format: news and nearly all local talk. This is where classic KIRO AM news talk radio went... hopefully, not to die. The home of Dave Ross & Luke Burbank, Dori Monson, Ron & Don, Frank Shiers, Bill Radke, Linda Thomas, Tony Miner and George Noory.
KUOW FM 94.9 Seattle's foremost public radio news and talk.
KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.
KTTH am 770 KHz Right wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.
KPTK am 1090 KHz Syndicated liberal talk. Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman fill in the large hole to the left on Northwest radio dial.
KLFE AM 1590 kHz Syndicated right-wing 2nd stringers like Mark Levin, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Dennis Miller and Hugh Hewitt inhabit this timid-voiced neighbor honker for your radio enjoyment (unless you're behind something large like Costco).
KOMOAM News, traffic, Ken Schram and John Carlson.
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Posted by: WILD BILL | January 03, 2012 at 02:06 PM
I received this email this afternoon:
Dear Itchy;
We've launched a fund-raising drive here at Melody Ranch so that Pat Buttram and I can try to re-purchase KVI radio and restore some sanity to the airwaves.
In the meantime, if anyone is in the Los Angeles area can you please stop by Forest Lawn Cematery and bring a shovel, some rope and several spikes. I need to configure some type of netting so that I will stop spinning in this fucking grave.
Regards,
Mr. Gene Autry
Posted by: Itchy | January 03, 2012 at 06:42 PM
HA, that's good Itchy
Posted by: WILD BILL | January 03, 2012 at 06:50 PM
listened to the Wall Sreet recap for a gew hours...not bad, not bad. upbeat, informative,....they repeat taped segments though, round and round, so if you listen for more than an hour youre going to be hearing them again. cant stand clark howard,,,,love imus and hendrie, who are coming up at ten. two out of three aint bad. ill catch elisa jaffe tomorrow morning. She has to be better than sarcastic sourpuss Bryan Suits.
Posted by: Tommy008 | January 03, 2012 at 09:33 PM
My grandma would have loved Scott Carty, but she died in 1980. What an incredibly boring, lifeless man.
Posted by: Ronny Alstead | January 04, 2012 at 01:25 PM
Ronny: Excellent observation. My grandma, too, would have liked Scott Carty. But she died in 1958. Scott is to talk radio what Lawrence Welk was/is to rock.
I'm sure he's a very nice man and has some talent. But the segments I've heard so far are so incredibly bland and vanilla I feel like I'm watching a Saturday Night Live parody of a milquetoast radio host.
There's just no 'there' there.
He talks but says nothing.
Posted by: Itchy | January 04, 2012 at 08:07 PM
Seems like a vanilla format, except for Phil Hendrie, who is paid to be full of himself and Imus, who is on in the middle of the night.
Clark Howard is OK to hear once in a while, but they have him in the AM and repeat him in the evenings - typical Fisher programming.
Posted by: KS | January 04, 2012 at 08:24 PM
i know the solution....Tom Leykis ...his new radio show starts 4/11/12 ..Tommy and Fisher....a perfet fit! hhahahaahaha.....not...
Posted by: Tommy008 | January 04, 2012 at 08:31 PM
KVI's "Jesus girl" Carleen Johnson os still at the station, still doing news erports..........ermember when she pulled her little tantrum and quit for a few days, some years back?,,,hahcarleen hahacarleen.....
Posted by: Tommy008 | January 09, 2012 at 09:34 AM
So far this new KVI is so lightweight my radio keeps floating off the table! I'm pretty disappointed. Even the morning show is awfully fluffy....I switch off the radio when Scott Carty started talking about Kanye West and some unimportant pop culture "news". If I want that I'll look at the TMZ site or read a check out line tabloid. Only good thing about the new KVI is Clark Howard's syndicated show out Atlanta.
Posted by: Lydia | January 09, 2012 at 09:43 AM