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GOP chair kirby wilbur leaves talk radio door open

We wrote a long piece for political site Publicola on Kirby Wilbur, the new GOP state chairman, and erstwhile KVI talk host. Read it here.

Kirby talked to us about all manner of things, including the Democrats' PDC charges against him. But for us, the takeaway was this:

He says wistfully, “If [Fisher] called tomorrow and said we want you back on mornings for a quarter of my old pay, I’d tell the Party in a heartbeat: ‘I’m outa here.’”

Mr. Clayton?

Salem moves to fill the seattle right-talk gap... mark levin, dennis miller to return monday

Mark Levin will re-enter the Seattle market as soon as Monday. Also Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Dennis Miller and Hugh Hewitt, at Salem's 1590 KLFE.

Last week the venerable AM talker KVI, gave up trying to compete in talk and flipped to 60's & '70's oldies.

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Old Seattle Radio Saturday: mike siegel at kvi

(Kurt Smith/Seattlepi.com)

Mike Siegel owned Seattle talk radio in 1995, shown here on-air at the old Tower Building studios at KVI.

Mayor Norm Rice's righteous defense of himself after on-air smears ended with Fisher Broadcasting firing Siegel, a fall from which his career, which had national stature, never really recovered.

Mike siegel endorses the endorsement of the endorser of clint didier

Pay attention now, this is complicated: 

(photo: Clint Didier- tight & right)

Mike Siegel, former radio talk host has endorsed the endorsement of former GOP chairman, ex-Washington Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Ken Eikenberry of former farmer and NFL tight end, Clint Didier, candidate for the Republican nomination for the US Senate against former real estate speculator and gubernatorial candidate governor, Dino Rossi

Mike siegel, R.I.P. all over again

Tree falling in the woods, dep’t:

Mike Siegel, who recently migrated from morning drive to afternoon drive without even a press release from KKOL, has now disappeared from the line-up altogether.

The incredible shrinking seattle talk radio... or ... why we don’t have much to write about any more

Conservative talk radio was invented in Seattle, now it’s as endangered as the wild Puget Sound salmon. and let’s face it, save Dave Ross, there ain’t no local liberal talk.

With the KVI’s elimination of Kirby Wilbur, another block of local airtime went to out-of-town, out-of-touch, syndicated blabbermeisters- sending a butt-load of ad $ somewhere else.

Will KPTK step up to radio reality?

Seattle liberal-interest money groups have long talked up the possibility of buying a radio station to counter the overwhelmingly conservative news talk stations in a market that's overwhelmingly liberal.

That's probably not a good idea, since it's been proven many times that radio should be left to radio professionals...Oh wait, that's right, a generation of professionals put radio where it is today: in the shit.

Mike siegel to KKOL morning drive

 We wrote to KKOL and begged them for a press release. They didn't respond.

We'd read on Radio-Info that our old pal Mike Siegel was starting up a new show on KKOL, the Salem news talker that flipped to business talk last year.

No one else got an announcement either -- there was nothing no where about this new show. We ransacked the Interwebs and finally found a line on a page on the KKOL website: "6 A.M. -- Sound Business with Mike Siegel," it read.

That's it!... helluva way to launch a new show, eh?

Unless, of course,Siegel bought (brokered) the on-air time for his real estate and consulting businesses. They sell a lot of time over at KKOL, so that's a distinct possibility.

Can right-wing talk inspire another beer-gut revolution?

Taking a moment from wall-to-wall coverage of the Octomom, Sean Hannity's website has a poll:

What kind of revolution appeals most to you? The Hannitized ditto-heads are voting, and so far, 22.22% favor a Military Coup; 35.56% are for a War for Secession; but 42.22% are for good ol' Armed Rebellion.

Is this another go at mainstreaming the far, far right with an uprising of the militia windbags, the exurban goons w/guns, those beer-gut revolutionaries with the mail-order long guns converted to fully-auto?

Don't laugh it's happened before, and not that long ago ... as the crow's feet fly.