BlatherWatch

Friday oddems: wedgies, styblehead, sheriff hairspray, hernia transplants, lou pate, lou grant, ron silver, your mom

~ "Talking to you is like drinking from a fire hose. -Dave Ross to Carl Jeffers, Aug.18.

~ Anybody got a Macaca cam on Dave Reichert? Oh, that's right, he never says anything. Dan at "On the Road to 2008" has a great video-clip of citizens of Bellevue talking about their Congressman. Meanwhile, Darcy is doing well in the polls, especially considering she was unknown 6 months ago. Sheriff "Hairspray" can't get that Bush right out of his hair. We were told by a Mercer Island legislator over the weekend that Sen. Fred Jarrett is reporting to peers that he's getting doors slammed in his face doorbelling when he identifies as a Republican. Maybe the 8th District is ready to dump Reichert, who's been so closely linked to the Bush Administration. 

~ Today's favorite keyword that will fetch BlatherWatch on an MSN Search is "pictures of middle schoolers getting bullied with wedgies." Take that, Sound Politics.

~ Otherly challenged Bryan Styble's (KIRO every night but Friday 1-5a) website, Radioactiveseattle, is nearly impossible to search or even find. Much to his consternation, when you google "radioactiveseattle" or even "Bryan Styble," you mostly get...yup, BlatherWatch.

~ Did Dave Ross actually ask that guy from the Discovery Institute if hernias were created by Intelligent Design? Yes, he did.

Bryan Styble: the worst of seattle quantified

A listener cornered us at a glamorous party recently and said,"If Bryan Styble causes Seattle radio to lose its only live and local overnight show, I'll be extremely pissed."

(OK, you're right, people who go to glamorous parties don't listen to overnight radio, but that doesn't mean that we don't go to glamorous parties or that the listeners we talk to don't have good taste... truck drivers listen to the overnight. Crack heads, hookers on their lunch hours, bloggers on meth, raccoons and possums...).

The KIRO overnight(1-5a) with Bryan Styble (rhymes with non-viable) is pulling as bad numbers as we've ever seen anywhere- with a .08 in the 25-54 demographic. (That's a percentage of the total market- a very, very small one).

The competition, George Noory's ufological Coast to Coast (KVI m-f, 10p-3a) turned in one of its all time best Seattle books at 18%. As a matter of fact, a source says it's the highest number it's gotten in a single book in this market, ever. CtC is what Art Bell's woo-woo show became and, unfortunately, it's not local. But it is in over 400 markets in the US and Canada- to broadcasters, CtC is "the big dog that eats your lunch late at night."

Ex-KIRO talkers graze nationwide in the fill-in green pastures...

AllAccess, the radio trade site, reported all of these items Thursday. With ex-overnighter Lou Pate's fill-ins in Miami we reported yesterday, it looks like the numerous ghosts of KIRO past are ubiquitous across the dials of America. Missing is Mike Webb, who, incidentally is scheduled to appear in Superior Court Friday on his felony insurance fraud case. There will be no fill-ins allowed for Mike's appearance.

Siegel Back On Seattle Radio
MIKE SIEGEL returns to the SEATTLE airwaves with a one hour daily talk show 6-7p ET on talk simulcast KITZ-A/SILVERDALE, WA and KGTK-A/OLYMPIA, WA, reports the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER's BILL VIRGIN.

Maloney Equal To Fill-In Tasks At WRKO/Boston
Listen for the RADIO EQUALIZER himself, BRIAN MALONEY, on ENTERCOM Talk WRKO-A/BOSTON throughout the holiday weeks. MALONEY filled in for middayer JOHN DEPETRO TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY and will handle mornings or the vacationing SCOTT ALLEN MILLER next MONDAY and TUESDAY.

Hart In For Marvin At AM 760/Denver
Veteran talker ERIN HART is filling in for JAY MARVIN in mornings JUNE 30 and JULY 3-4 at CLEAR CHANNEL Talk KKZN-A (PROGRESSIVE TALK AM 760)/DENVER. The fill-ins return HART to the 760 frequency where she hosted when the station was called KTLK in the 90s; most recently at
KIRO-A/SEATTLE, HART has also hosted at KOA-A and KNUS-A/DENVER and TALKSPOT.COM.