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As heard on the Stephanie Miller show this morning, they have announced that AM1090 will flip formats in Janurary. We put in a call to AM 1090 and haven't heard back from programming. We'll update to confirm or deny.
This past Friday, another progressive talker, AM620 KPOJ in Portland suddenly switched to sports talk that same day.
Addendum: Brad Friedman covers this and more on the Peter B Collins show
KOMO and CBS Seattle reports the death of KOMO TV weekend anchor, Joel Connable, 39 who was found dead in his apartment. According to family members, Connable’s insulin pump malfunctioned without his knowledge and he suffered a fatal, diabetes-related seizure.
The Miami New Times says Connable had just married his longtime girlfriend two weeks ago.
"He called in sick Monday, saying he was very, very sorry but he had caught a bad bug," KOMO news director Holly Gauntt told Gossip Extra. "When he didn't show up for work late Tuesday, we called police and asked them to do a welfare check. Joel was found on the floor in his new apartment."
Connable had been out of the news business since 2009; he was last with Miami’s NBC affiliate before coming to Seattle.
After a career of over 50 years, KOMO's Bryan Johnson says so long.
Also, am 620 KPOJ, one of the first Air America outlets and Portland's home of progressive talk, flips to sports starting Monday. KPOJ will become the 3rd sports talk station in the Portland market. An article in Willamette Week by morning host Carl Wolfson explains.
Tip of the hat to Bob Nelson
The day of reckoning has arrived, otherwise known as the second worst hangover day or post election night blues.
To be sure, we weren't sure the outcome nationally would be in as soon as it was, and in a few places including the Inslee/Mckenna race, it still may not be decided for awhile. We do know this, it was the year of the woman and minority vote.
For schadenfreude, we tuned into FOX news when Ohio put the President at 274, clinching the electoral college vote. Karl Rove was busy with his calculator saying Ohio should be 'challenged' FOX was already calling the election though at 9pm PST.
We know to the victor goes the spoils, including conservative talk radio, with hosts like Limbaugh et al who will spend the next 4 years calling voters 'stupid' and woman 'sluts' and of course 'rigged elections'. More women and minorities turned out than in previous times, including the elections of Elizabeth Warren and the 2 Tammies, Duckworth and Baldwin to what were considered long shots to win, weeks earlier. Should we mention SCOTUS appointments?
We will follow the chatter from the blogosphere and talk radio and teevee as it makes for interesting analysis or just plain intervention on the part of public safety as the next 4 years promise to either change the party that lost into a more mainstream message or one that will go the way of the Whigs. We leave you with Diane Sawyer last night, somewhat out of it.
This just in, Ted Nugent is still alive
“If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
KGY AM 1240 in Olympia has changed what is refered to as a Full-Service format, 24/7 hosts who would host blocks of the stations time.
They still deliver the morning news, playing a song or 2 and inviting the Mayor or someone local in for an interview, but now KGY has joined the larger markets from having live/local all of the time, to a local morning show and then syndication the rest of the day and night from Dial Global and other networks featuring Jim Bohannon, Dennis Miller and Micheal Smerconish and Overnight America with Jon Grayson. A music block called Just Great Songs is offered on Saturday til midnight.
According to Talkers, President Obama Friendly to African American-Targeted Radio. President Obama
SiriusXM talk radio star Joe Madison (whose program is also heard on terrestrial outlet WOL, Washington, DC) tells Talkers that the President has reached out to the African American community, "being the first presidential candidate to seriously use social media to assist his election and re-election efforts but he’s also been a user of radio programs that target the urban audience."
"Madison says he believes the get-out-the-vote effort targeted to black radio by the Obama campaign appears to be working. “I believe the early voting we’ve seen in our community is due to black talk radio encouraging our audience to vote. Yesterday in Dade County, Florida, voters were in line until 1:00 am.”
Also from Talkers, Actor John Cusack to Produce and Star in Film About Rush Limbaugh. The Huffington Post reports that actor John Cusack’s company, New Crime Productions, is putting the finishing touches on the script of a movie about Rush Limbaugh tentatively titled “Rush.” The story quotes actress/director Betty Thomas (who also directed Howard Stern’s “Private Parts”) saying she will direct and that production starts sometime next year.
Bill-0' liver spots strangly absent
As pointed out by Media Matters, on Friday's Bill O Reilly show, Bill sort of welcomed Geraldo Rivera on his show to discuss the way FOX carried the attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Geraldo stated that the President deserved an apology over the way he was treated in the media especially by FOX news hosts.
Rivera stated, "The president of the United States has been absolutely slandered over this story. He's been called a murderer and a liar." O'Reilly then interjected: "OK. But not by anybody here, and not by rational people."
O Reilly then pulled one of his I don't recall moments in which he claimed no one at FOX called President Obama a "liar or a murderer" at least "not by rational people"
Evidently O Reilly is admitting FOX has irrational people hosting shows there. With just days before the election, O Reilly is hoping for a hail mary with the voters by keeping Benghazi in the news cycle.
Compare and contrast...
Just last week..
Who says working on the radio is a cushy job?
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian authorities say they have arrested three men for an arson attack that badly burned a radio journalist while he was on the air.
Fernando Vidal was in intensive care in the eastern city of Santa Cruz Tuesday, under treatment for burns suffered Monday in a midday attack on his station in Yacuiba, a city of 120,000 that borders Argentina.
Son-in-law Esteban Farfan says Vidal was interviewing two women about alleged corruption among customs police when masked men entered the studio. He said one splashed around gasoline, the other set it alight and a third fired shots in the air. He said Vidal was burned trying intervene.
Vidal is a former Yacuiba mayor who uses his daily radio program to denounce corruption in a city along a cocaine smuggling route.
From Rich Lieberman at 415 Media we learn news about Ronn Owens' future with KGO 810 AM. (KGO continues to be a popular choice among blatherers here.)
"*There's been some drips of info emanating from 55 Hawthorne that KGO vet talker, Ronn Owens,
will be staying on after all when his contract expires at the end of
the year. This, despite the fact that, A. Owens would be making less
than a third of what his expiring deal pays him, B. Owens, according to
my insiders, is in heavy duty pain due to a bad back, and C. sagging
numbers by a once-dominant industry giant who very recently told an
ex-colleague that he was probably going to retire.
Owens might be looking for some professional "in" to save face. He
understands that after Dec. 31 he has no leverage; The local
ClearChannel outlet, (Newstalk 910 AM),
has no interest in him. And given KGO's dismal ratings, the idea of
bringing him back, (under marked lower financial terms--probably some
compensation like an "avails deal," perhaps, is a nothing-to-lose
possibility.)"
Change is good
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