BlatherWatch

Brace yourself: "seattle radio is about to be turned upside down... "

The sage of Eastlake, Don O'Neill, (the "Don" part of the Ron & Don Show) has just Facebooked that "Seattle radio is about to be turned upside down and no one saw it coming."

(photo: The Don of Eastlake)

(We have to mention the possibility that Don O'Neill's idea of upside down-turning at Eastlake might just be that he's having a bowel movement at work).

Will talking tag-teams be the face of the new KIRO?

Will the "new" KIROFM be talk teams of two? Dave & Luke, Dori & Jessica, Frank & Dori's dog, Star? 

(photo: Star)

Maybe. We doubt PD/GM/BFD Ryan Hatch has made a final decision, but he sure's played the teams card lately. Many of the summer fill-ins were teams: Curley and Moe; Rivers and Putz, Leopold & Loeb, etc.

Hatch comes from sports radio, where, we're told, two-person teams are common. A source says Hatch is "high on the concept." ('high' in the Mormon sense is about priorities, not brain chemistry... as in "I'm high on strawberry as an ice cream flavor.")

We like us some Jessica Gottesman. (You can tell: We post only flattering pics of her.). Feminizing Dori's locker-jock rant hour has made him nearly listenable lately. If they were to develop a schtick where she actually seemed to counter him, it might work.

We could hear more of the smart chemistry between Dave and Luke. It could develop. There's been uncharacteristically kind words generated by BlatherWatch readers, and, we hear from Ross regulars. We don't know if Luke Burbank is up to side-kicking for anyone on a down on its luck terrestrial station. How could he do both his podcast (which is growing) and a m-f schedule? As a commenter wrote yesterday: "Why would Luke step off a rocketship aimed at the moon [and] onto a rusty ferryboat going to Bainbridge?" (Burbank is leaving town for a live TBTL next week at The Troubadour in LA). 

Gottesman is already working at KIRO, so probably wouldn't cost Bonneville much: They could just pile on the sidekick gig onto her regular news job. She can handle it, she's a woman.

Star is a different matter. She's a female too, and available after those Purina One commercials dried up a few years ago. But she's engaged Dori's agent, Seattle-based superflack, Paul Andersen, so she won't settle for kibble (unlike Frank). Doubtless she'll insist on top billing over the hapless Shiers who reportedly tried in vain to get the job for his dog, Mutti.

 

 

LARadio.com loves them some TBTL...

Too Beautiful to Live is kicking podcasting ass, and Don Barrett of the influential LA radio site, LARadio.com gets it. Read his insightful and slobbering story about localite Luke Burbank and his little show.

TBTL the podcast: day one

Too Beautiful to Live started yet another new life podcasting from Luke Burbank's home office from his house in the Mt. Baker neighborhood.

TBTL: there's something happenin' here

Luke Burbank will throw out the first pitch at tonight's Mariner's game. "Awesome" will be the cry to about 900 "10's" (fans) who have already bought the tickets and will fill a couple of sections at Safeco Field wearing TBTL t-shirts.

 TBTL? It's Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) the hard-to-describe, weeknightly show/community/talk-romp that chronicles the lives, tastes, and Millenial Gen pop-cultural blabbin'-tary  of Burbank, Jen Andrews, and Sean DeTore.

Happy birthday, TBTL

It's the little show that might; the show that risks its life 5 days a week; the show the Blathercommenters love to hate; the show that raises envious bile among its radio cohort each and every day it breaths and lives to tell about it.

Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) is 1 year old today. There will be audio

KIRO to FM: "not a matter of if, but a matter of when."

It could be the biggest radio story of the year... or will it be next year?

When will KIRO news talk switch over to FM, leaving the historic AM band to... ESPN sports?

The scuttlebutt around KIRO gives it six months. But that it will happen, a staffer told us it's "not a matter of if, but a matter of when."

KIRO gets it... radio jocks live-blog the debates

We're impressed. The Daves: Boze (KTTH m-f, 3-6p) and Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) live-blogged the debate Wednesday night.

(photo: Dave Ross: blogger for common sense)

They're online brothers of different mothers on sister stations, and like many brothers, they were competing on the blogging,  according to Boze. Besides that, he and Ross are from opposing sides of the political fence. Hard right, and soft left, respectively.

Dunno if you know how hard live-blogging is, but at the very least, it's a heavy-duty piece of stenography --  especially the way these two did it: transcribing and making a separate post for each question posed by Tom

(photo: A new fur coat is a political statement for Dave Boze, a right-wing "hunter & blabberer").

Brokaw so readers could comment on each question. There were few comments, but these blogs aren't yet well visited.

Presidential debates on the radie-yo...

Will Olde John decide to go to the debate Friday?

Or stay the course on his funny, grandstanding, "leadership"   carnivale posing as the economic savior in Washington DC?

Will Barack Obama be there talking to himself? 

We're bettin' The Petulant Old Fool will show up hiding his tail behind him and acting like he's just saved the Republic. It won't work.
 
KIRO will have live coverage from 6-8p from CBS News until 7:30, when Dave Ross will join Luke Burbank for commentary on TBTL.

KVI will carry the debate live with programming in and around it for listener comments. KOMO will carry it on the stream due to the Mariners game.

KUOW is carrying all the debates from 6 to 8 p. with analysis for the last half-hour.From 8-9 p.m. there'll b a national call-in from NPR. (On Oct. 15th, BTW, KUOW will run a WA gubernatorial debate in conjunction with N3, KING TV and The Seattle Times (from (8-9 p).

UPDATED: Obama's "8 is Enough!" speech ignored by local radio

~~ according to the AP: Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was seen by more than 38 million people. Nielsen said more people watched Obama than the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, the final American Idol or the Academy Awards.

~~ we were wrong, wrong, wrong: PD Dennis Kelly writes to say KVI and KOMO ran the Obama speech last night, though without commentary or listener call-ins.