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Odds and Ends, Sytman stays in the Establishment WorkFirst! Job Club. Portland's Taft finds out how the Free Market works

You remember Dan Sytman, the former host of the ill-fated or just ill Sytman and Boze show on KTTH who later found a gubmint job with Rob Mc Kenna as Media Relations Manager at the Attorney General's office? Also one-time producer for the 2 Mike's,  Medved and Siegel.

Now that electing a gubernatorial candidate, who was more likely to call the cops on your loud party is out of favor (Ken Eikenberry was the other one) Dan needs a job.  He moves on to the Washington Policy Center as director of communications and marketing, joining other Dan's like Evans in the establishment WorkFirst! job placement center.

  Speaking of Boze, he has moved on to 4 freaking hours! starting at 5am, possibly preempting the last hour of the Washington Times sponsored "America's Morning Snooze".

Meanwhile down south, Portland's KPAM 860 has fired 8 year weekday host, Victoria Taft. 

 

scary lady alert!

 

 

 

Taft, whose show was the female version of another Portland Righty, Lars Larson,  claims she was given no reason for her departure other than a speculative claim that was tied to a blogpost.  The Invisible hand of Adam Smith would disagree. Taft's show goes online somewhere on the Intertubes.

KIROFM jocks join the "fart fetish groups;" KUOW pledge drive soars

KIROFM is no. 1 in the ratings, but can anyone take it seriously as a community forum? Or anything but a dumbed-down Page Six with sports and pets?

We'd say no. Latest evidence to the contrary: air time spent nearly every day for a week on the Nancy Grace flatulance "issue." Did she fart loudily and cartoonishly during a recent Dancing With the Stars episode? Or is the YouTube audio a fake? Inquiring children need to know...

Nancy claims she was framed, but doesn't anyone when accused of making the choice between shame and pain?

Dori Monson (KIROFM m-f, 12-3p) took time away from his pet and government abuse stories numerous times over the week, always playing the audio at least twice per. He and L'il Jake couldn't resist the latest "development" that the audio rights were being requested of ABC from a "fart fetish group." The "reporting" was done, of course, accompanied by two more plays of the alleged flatulance, "Just so you can decide for yourself."  Ron & Don couldn't resist playing it a few times. Even Dave 'Bigfoot' Boze, (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) filling in for John Curley, played the cut (if you will) in the evening. (Ya think he's auditioning for the job?)

Frankly, there's nothing that Nancy Grace could do or say that would make her remotely interesting to us. It's hard to imagine Dancing with The Stars generating any real news. Celebrity farting is a recent entertainment phenom, but one we'd rather explore on our personal computers late at night.

Can anyone take KIRO seriously these days? The old Dave Ross must be rolling in his grave... reminds us to get our pledge into KUOW.

Jason rantz stunner: after swine flu, what?

His real name isn't Rantz- that was his nom de goon as a right-wing talk host and radio producer.

He's really Jason Antebi and the new Asst. Programming Director at KTTH and KIROFM.

As is not untypical of his kind (radio talk hosts, real or aspiring) what Jason lacks in social skills or taste, he makes up for in narcissisism and the expectation the rest of the world actually gives a shit about where he throws his dirty socks.

Wingers loves them some stormy weather!

(photo: Pat Robertson "bringin' in the sheaves."

Sick as we are of having the Sunday morning talk shows (and virtually all other media) walloped by the high winds and swollen tidal surge of East Coast local weather reports, we gotta laugh at the some of the goofy right's reactions to the Big Storm.

Ron Paul:

says FEMA needs to be abolished. On Fox News Sunday, Paul described FEMA as a drain on the economy — a “gross distortion of insurance” that only “bleeding hearts” would support — that “just bail[s] out everybody.”

Wednesday he told a group in a speech:

"We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district."

Pat Robertson

apparently didn't comment on the storm, but we know what he was thinking! Especially after he said on Wednesday’s 700 Club that the earthquake that struck Washington Tuesday “means that we’re closer to the coming of the Lord.” Then on Thursday, Robertson pointed to the damage to the Washington Monument in the earthquake as a Divine Message (and it wasn't a 'like'):

“It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say ‘this is one nation under God.’ Now there’s a crack in it... Is that sign from the Lord? ... You judge. It seems to me symbolic.”

Robertson has long called disasters (both man-made and natural) God's punishments for immoral behavior or signs of The End Times. He never fails to pass the teevee collection plate to help out God's victims.

Glenn Beck

also warned about The Big Guy's Wrath, Hurricane Irene and the earthquake.

How many warnings do you think you’re going to get, and how many warnings do you deserve? This hurricane that is coming thorough the East Coast, for anyone who’s in the East Coast and has been listening to me say ‘Food storage!’ ‘Be prepared!’ […] If you’ve waited, this hurricane is a blessing. It is a blessing. It is God reminding you — as was the earthquake last week — it’s God reminding you you’re not in control.

 The Washington Post wrote that Beck's recommendations about stockpiling might come from his Mormonism: 

Section 78 of the Doctrine and Covenants revelation was given, Mormons believe, to Joseph Smith by God in 1832 and includes the command to “organize and establish a storehouse,” which Mormon leaders have interpreted as a requirement to, when possible, “store and save a one-year supply of food.” The church Web site even includes a Food Storage Calculator “to help you determine your longer-term food storage needs.”

The Republican House budget

pledges to fight socialism and stop big government by making Draconian cuts to the NOAA budget to stop or delay the construction and launch of an extreme weather forecasting satellite.

"Thomas" a caller

to the Rusty Humphries Show, Friday, has no doubt where the blame lays: Clearly, he said, "God is pissed at Obama."

UPDATED: Talk radio stokes anti-muslim flames over oslo attacks by christian extremist

"By the way, the group that is taking credit for this - guess what, it’s not - sorry to disappoint you people out there who hate Christianity, it’s not Christian group, it’s not a secular group, it’s not a left-wing group, it’s not a right-wing group, it's Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami." ~~ Michael Medved, July 22, 2011; 1st hour.

Michael Medved (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) and Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-4p) lectured listeners Friday about Moslems who would slaughter your children because they had just got done slaughtering Norweigan children. (Listen to Medved podcast (for free!) here).

(photo: Moslem jihadist or Hitlerjugend?)

Before Norweigan authorities had carefully avoided any conclusions about the perpetrators, Medved jumped to his favorite conclusion, saying the attacks in Oslo were assuredly from jihadists. Boze later agreed, saying Norweigans (with whom he's quite familiar- coming, as he does, from Stanwood WA) are naïve, and politically correct.

Why Don o'neill and dave boze are in radio, not teevee

Questions inherent in this video:

Why?

Who "wrote" the script? (Or, Who wrote "the script?")

Why is Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) wearing a tie in the woods?

Whatever happened to Dave Boze's hair?

Why would Dave Boze allow his profile be videoed for YouTube? (Those days are gone, Dave).

Why would Dave Boze allow himself to be videoed with Don O'Neill for YouTube?

Why would Don O'Neill (KIROFM m-f, 3-7p) allow himself to be videoed (let alone seen) in that hat for YouTube?

Do bears shit in the woods?

Does Don O'Neill shit in the woods?

KIRO's website makeover

(Rachel Belle from KIROFM's silly, drivetime Ron & Don Show)

They already had the best website in the market, the best online/on-air integration in town and now they've scared up the dough and the wherewithal to kick it up a notch.

Digital will and the money for radio are scarce commodities around here, and you (we) should commend 'em.

Mynorthwest.com is the site for Bonneville International's Seattle cluster. That's the KIRO's (which include the ayem with sports talk and the blowtorching wattage, and the effem heard   in the basements but not the living rooms - or vice versa- in homes 'cross the Puget Sound region) and KTTH, the satellite support system for Rush and Glenn Beck, with a strange and inadequate nod to live & local programming in the person of one Dave Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-4p).

BREAKING: John Carlson to KUOW’s “Weekday"

KUOW PD Jeff Hansen announced today that longtime KOMO talker, and radio conservative John Carlson will join Steve Scher to co-host the weekdaily, morning blab-cast: Weekday (m-f, 9a-12p). He will start May 15.

“John is a fine broadcaster, and a Seattle native,” said Hansen in a press release: “He’ll bring a new point of view to KUOW listeners."

KIROFM: frank shiers stays, the guy who fired him moves on

First we gotta say, Frank wasn't fired from KIRO... he was only replaced in the evening slot by John Curley (m-f, 7-10p).

Frank says, "I will return to a very familiar role at KIRO. They assure me that I will be filling in on a variety of shows. I'll also work in production, writing, voicing and producing commercials." 

Ironies of ironies, the guy who's responsible for all the changes at the KIRO's Program Director Ryan Hatch is leaving Eastlake.

Hatch writes: "In one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever had to make, my family and I are heading back home to Phoenix. I absolutely love the people and products at Bonneville Seattle, and I’m proud of what the team has accomplished."

He says he'll be Bonneville's VP of News and Sports in Phoenix, and may be here for the next few months during transition of the new PD ...as yet unnamed.

Hatch has been in Seattle only for a year, but o, what a year! Taking over from Rod Arquette last February, (Arquette is now a drivetime talk host in Salt Lake City's KNRS) Hatch has overseen a rehaul of th KIRO's and KTTH. 

Hatch fired Gregg Hershold, and Jane Shannon and hired Bill Radke and Linda Thomas  for the morning news. He hooked-up (so to speak) sparkling punketeur Luke Burbank to the iconic, ironic Dave Ross on mid-mornings. He dumped restaurateur Tom Douglas from his Saturday gig, and fired neither Dori Monson in the afternoons, nor Ron & Don in the PM drive. He did lure local teevee has-was John Curley to replace Frank Shiers in the weekevenings. He got George Noory's Coast to Coast for the wee hours.

We won't recite all Hatch did with sporty KIROAM because we don't care, but for KTTH, he killed 2 of 3 hours of Dave Boze's live and local PM drivetime show, snagged re-runs of Sean Hannity, Lars Larson and Laura Ingraham.

It was a mighty busy year; Ryan Hatch might not have made a lot of friends in Seattle, but he sure made a difference... and left a bloody trail.

Looking for a job?

 

KIROFM rules in January... fluffy puppies carry the day

Month by month the Seattle market continues to ping and pong.

We last reported KOMO was up at no. 2. In January, it's flipped again. KIRO is no. 2 and KOMO is way down at no. 10.