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Old Seattle Radio Saturday: peter weissbach, 1983

Peter Weissbach, formerly of KVI, and KTTH (before his troubles with the feds) introduces the British television film "Threads" on Vancouver's CKVU Television in 1984.

A YouTube commenter writes, "If we get nuked, Im hidin in that dude's eyebrows."

Part 2: how weissbach did it

 As we reported in Part 1, former KVI conservative talk host Peter Weissbach and his company, Seattle Building Maintenance until recently defrauded the government, the union; and boosted already high profits by forcing legally vulnerable undocumented workers to, in essence, work for nothing.

(photo: Weissbach with the "Mephisto" look)

It’s a local story of the outrageous exploitation of foreign workers working illegally, but it’s more than that- a blueprint for what's probably going on all over the country.

It demonstrates how invested corporate interests can be in the status quo of look-the-other-way immigration policies. Employers who follow the rules have a real disadvantage.

Peter wiessbach's brutal business plan... part one

(Read Part 2 of this series here.)

It’s lunchtime in Factoria, and Top Gun restaurant is serving what made them famous, dim sum. Servers rattle loaded carts around the dining room plying customers with a wide assortment of Chinese delectables such as chicken feet, shrimp dumplings and sticky rice on little dishes.

(photo: Weissbach: still imperious after all these years)

UPDATED: No federal charges for weissbach

 Read our 2-part series exposing Peter Weissbach and his Seattle Building Maintainance company's skeevy and illegal tactics to inflate his already high profits. Part One here. Part 2 here.

Peter Weissbach, former KVI McTalk-host has dodged a bullet.

KVI sources say that last week, U.S. Prosecutor Don Reno decided against bringing charges against Weissbach and his Bellevue-based janitorial service, Seattle Building Maintenance.

(photo: a younger Weissbach)

Reno's not happy, we hear, that Weissbach slipped through the legal net.

Much was daylighted in November when The Seattle Times broke a story about how the right-wing talk host was operating his very profitable business on the backs of a workforce half of which or more were legal.

KVI, KOMO step back and step up to live & local radio

It’s Sunday night, and except for a little scrap of html in the corner on KVI’s pathetic website, you’d never know that Monday, (which is almost today!) will be the biggest local programming roll-out since Tony Ventrella's 2005 takeover of radio as we knew it.

(Jesus, on KVI's website, the fired, disgraced Peter Weissbach is still being welcomed!)

Blathering 2009, Part 2- in other news...

(photo: fan greets Glenn Beck in Mount Vernon)

DR. LAURA CHEATS AT THE YACHT RACES: America’s nutcracking yenta and moral compass was found to be off-course when officials caught her cheating in the arcane, fat cat world of yacht racing. See Dr. Laura naked here.

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.

Peter weissbach: KVI’s “prick of pretensions” still has a job- why?

“He’s so detached, he’s dead inside.” says a co-worker.

She’s speaks of KVI's blathering sociopath Peter Weissbach, 62, who opened his bought-and-paid-for talk show (m-f, 5-6p) -the day after the cop murders on… global warming!

This when every other talk host in town was opening phone lines to listeners to vent about the massacre in Lakewood just the day before.

KVI’s Peter Weissbach hires illegals, according to report

It’s one of those tropes you always hear on right-wing talk radio: bust the employers of undocumented workers, and the problem will be solved.
 
But in a Seattle Times story today, an Obama administration strategy that does just that has backfired on far-right talkhost, KVI Peter Weissbach, 62, (m-f, 5-6p) who’s gotten very rich running Seattle Building Maintenance, a janitorial service that employs the very illegals he rants against the government not busting!. (At, of course, the miserly wages that corporations can get away with paying such workers).

Who should stay and who should go?

There will be blood.

Seattle talk stations KTTH, KIRO FM, KVI, KIROFM, are all sucking in ratings and the late summer-fall season is the traditional time to give radio stations haircuts if not decapitations.

KIROFM in particular must make some changes... we're not sure what they'll do... flipping back to AM won't be it, and neither will putting Dave Ross out to pasture or in the afternoon drive.