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Hey…most folks here are quite conservative, but no one seems to comment on that Jack Stine guy over on KIRO FM…He has a highly rated evening show…presents himself as a “Reagan conservative”…He also, rather proudly refers to his several years of being a hard-core drug addict-street person!…and (predictably) he freely talks about being in therapy…Kind of refreshing to hear someone being so upfront!…strangely, he has been frequently vacating his evening show, to cover for other show hosts. Why would KIRO make him their “go-to-guy”, when he is doing so well in the ratings game at night?…He seems to be extra-friendly with John Curley…I have already speculated that he is likely to take over Curley’s pm show if (when) Curley moves on to other things….so, what do you older, very conservative dudes think about this Stine upstart? I find him to be interesting, even funny…but do not agree with most of what he espouses politically.
I was impressed with what little I had heard of Stine. I haven’t listened regularly though, to anything on the radio. I tend to tune around.
Stine has been missing from his regular evening show on KIRO for nearly two months now!…they keep saying he is “subbing” on other shows, but I have not been able to find him on any other shows….does anyone know where this guy is?…did he get fired?
No change to his bio on KIRO FM website, no Instagram announcement, KIRO Nights Facebook page has not been updated since March 2021 and Stine’s LinkedIn page gives us no clue. 3 1/2 years in broadcasting? Maybe he has had enough!
Thanks for that…I always am miffed, when talk show hosts either leave, or are actually fired without their loyal audience being clued in as to whatever is going on…one of the dudes taking his place at night has mentioned that Stine is making “quite the rounds here at KIRO, subbing on other shows”…but lately, they just step in and say “Jack Stine” is not here tonight.”……Well, DUH!
As you have seen…Jack Stine is history, and you were right–I guess–about his having had enough…I am thinking that he was more of a head case than he even alluded to….But I also think KIRO management must have had a problem with his forthrightness?
This is the second time around for Suits who had been at KIRO & KVI but then left for a gig in San Diego (KOGO) and Los Angeles (KFI). He also did a short stint at KABC. He is very clever storyteller.
I listened to Suits several years ago…I found him to be very abrasive about his political beliefs…and he is some sort of a military fetishist…he once bragged about joining the Marines, so he could kill people!…I am not surprised to see that he did not last long in the LA radio-world.
Seeing more articles on places like San Fran turning away from the WOKE mentality, starting to lean Right. Possibly LA at some time in the future. Just like with NETFLIX, corporations are seeing that a woke stance can negatively affect the bottom line.
Wondering if anyone has been listening to Bryan Suits on KTTH-am Seattle–what do you think?
Another topic sending Libs into a tailspin: the striking down of Roe V. Wade by the Supreme court. “Our bodies, Our Choice” something you didn’t hear the Libs screaming during Covid masking mandates. They insist on the right to kill babies. Oh, the spectacle being made on social media! The meltdown and protests have begun. Rather than sit-ins and marches, I believe it would be more effective and bring more attention to the matter if Libs would just start leaping from the windows of skyscrapers or off of area bridges. C’mon you far-Left Libs, you aren’t really trying.
I am very Liberal–except for being anti-abortion…Ya see…I look at abortion as killing a human being…and folks–before we are male and female, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. And since I, as a male, am human, I do not wish to see any of my other humans murdered in the womb…if you step on a caterpillar, you have killed a butterfly…So ladies, be a whole lot more careful who you allow to impregnate you, unless you want to raise a baby…Of course, cases of rape, or of a pregnant woman being in danger if she gives birth (medical reasons) are a different situation….but as HUMANS, male or female, we all should try very hard to not bring unwanted children into this world. When I was a single guy, I always made sure the lady in my sexual life was on the pill…not hard to be this way…and women need to be very careful of getting PG…there is always adoption, if you cannot see your way to being a real mother to your unexpected baby….my fellow libs are always shocked by my feelings on this subject!
Courtesy of the Noo Yawk Times:
Radio Stars who have studio studcams will be merging graphic T-shirts under blazers with“elasticized” pants for a “smuggly snuggly” microphonic version of “secret comfort and casualization of the lower half.”
You have always looked stylish in power casual, Dick.
The Century 21 Exposition opened sixty years ago today. Here’s a Channel 9 documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIqY9Hk3S4
Best line I have heard today: I’ve had milk that’s lasted longer than CNN+
46.5 Billion to fund a take-over of Twitter. Someone should let Elon Musk know that he can snap up QZVX.COM for… 12 Billion. (That’s a nice figure.) He can pocket the rest for a rainy day.
If she then stopped to snap a selfie, that would be the trifecta.
“Literally” and “Wow” in the same paragraph tonight from CNN’s (trying to sound young and relevant) Erin Burnett.
I read that the new head honcho at CNN is going to encourage hosts to be less snarky in their presentations, or face dismissal. At the same time, he says he wants to keep personalities like Stelter on air. You can’t have Stelter without the snarky attitude.
American Hostage
Widely available, episodes weekly
Jon Hamm is a soundbite-spouting radio host with silky tones in this scripted podcast based on a true story. It’s 1977 and WIBC Radio’s Fred Heckman (Hamm) is feeling disillusioned (“I don’t know if the news lost me, or I lost the news”) when a huge story breaks. He dives in and gets on the phone with a man holding a hostage at gunpoint. As the pressure and adrenaline build, can Fred keep his cool for a live interview to end the 63-hour standoff?
Check out Pat Cashman’s podcast ‘Almost Live – Still Alive’ interviews with the cast, writers and crew. http://www.almostlivestillalive.com/ Funny stuff!
Also, did you know that many of the sketches from Almost Live were recycled for a FOX network sketch comedy program called HayWire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evH9sUEu244
The Ric Dees Weekly Top 40 from the 1980s, heard on KGY-FM on Saturday night is more entertaining than all the other competition. That is sad.
Random movie pick this evening: Black Sheep, starring Chris Farley & David Spade. Takes place in Buckley and Olympia (supposedly). A KTZZ mic flag, KOMO cameras/news van and KCPQ news van were featured. In one scene Farley’s belt gets hooked on KCPQ microwave gear hoisting Farley above the van. Most outdoor scenes were actually filmed in Monrovia, CA.
Who is he?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODEzZGYzMjYtM2NiNy00ZWJmLThhN2YtOTliMTFmZDU1ZTcyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzk3NTUwOQ@@._V1_FMjpg
Even as a young man, he appeared to be a much older man.
What is the largest segment of our population right now? Baby Boomers. What are the odds we don’t care for the “new music”?
Doggone large odds!
Most of the “new music” sucks! But then my dad never understood the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. So I’d say we’re even.
Atlantic Magazine article: “Is Old Music Killing New Music?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/
I was just reading the long and very thorough entry about KCPQ on Wikipedia, and toward the end it stated that as of October — only three months ago — Fox Television Stations, the owner of both Channel 13 and KZJO Channel 22, has applied to move 13’s main transmitter from Gold Mountain near Bremerton to the Capitol Hill site in Seattle of 22’s transmitter.
This surprises me a bit, because 13’s previous owner, Kelly Broadcasting, had spent big, big bucks in 1980 to move 13’s signal from Tacoma to Gold Mountain and claimed that then-new location provided the highest transmission point in the Puget Sound area. But I know from experience (I used to live on the east slope of a big hill in the Maple Leaf area of north Seattle) that there were parts of Seattle in which the Gold Mountain signal was spotty, so I assume Fox wants to correct that.
From a technical standpoint, could both 13’s and 22’s primary signals be transmitted off that Capitol Hill tower? And would any other local TV station have an interest in moving transmission to the Gold Mountain site to replace 13’s signal there? I know 4,5 and 7 have long been well situated with their towers on Queen Anne Hill, and 9 and 11 also have theirs on Capitol Hill. I seem to recall that when KSTW moved their signal from Port Orchard to Capitol Hill, the folks at 11 ran ads proclaiming it to be on a “Supertower!”
I remember when Cordes and Thor were Seattle’s super towers.
Lotus radio station websites are pretty much the same across the nation. They use a WordPress theme and plug in the station information for each particular market.
https://q921radio.com/ website is the same theme as nwnewsradio.com
There should be no problem getting the site up in one day. The site showing KVI info has been up for three days, with errors.
FOX 13’s Bill Wixey and Liz Dueweke speaking with WashDot person on phone about road conditions during today’s snow event. WashDot spokesperson mentions that they are monitoring weather reports from KING 5 and others… oops!
When an anchor or reporter says mountains but it comes out mount-Ins, buttons as butt-ins, it’s like a nail on a blackboard to me.
How to pronounce–
mountains: mown – tnz
buttons: buh-tnz
I hear this way too often on local and national tv news and it is a younger generation of reporters.
I love my lawn when it is freshly mown.
The English language can be confusing. It used to be taught in schools.
Jason,
You remember Bill Close, the KOOL-TV news anchor who always wore a bola tie, Arizona’s official state neckwear. He was 54 when Mary Jo West, half his age, was hired to be his co-anchor, the second female anchor in Phoenix He was already against women in the newsroom. She told the story years later of reading a news item and mispronouncing “insurance” as “INsurances” (accent on the first syllable). When they went to commercial, he reamed her out, telling her in no uncertain terms that she WOULD pronounce “insurance” and all other words correctly from then on.
Bill’s 2013 obituary:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2014/06/02/bill-close-arizona-icon/9184885/
A certificate he signed as president of the Bola Tie Society of Arizona:
https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/api/singleitem/image/acmgifts/81/default.jpg
There should be more like Bill Close and fewer of the Chatty Cathys on local tv news.
Being a typical radio listener in the Seattle Puget Sound area, I am so HAPPY that Seattle is no longer flush with Rush’s hate-filled voice.
Other than KBCS, 91.3 FM, Seattle needs more liberal talk radio. Thank God for Thom Hartmann. BTW, what is it with these troglodytes who actually still listen to Rush or the entire hate-filled right wing ? Do they dream they are in 1950, or more like 3000 BC?
Diana
I just came upon this comment from late last year. I know it all depends on “whose ox is being gored” but I have listened to both Rush Limbaugh and Thom Hartmann. Limbaugh could skewer his opponents alright, but I always thought he did it cleverly and with a twinkle in his eye. Hartmann comes across to me as venomous and just plain mean to those on the other end of the political spectrum. As a former broadcaster, I admired Rush as an entertainer as well as influencer. Thom also has a way with words, but his come across to me as accusatory and demeaning. I don’t expect this to change Ms. Stence’s opinion, but neither does she win me over by calling me a troglodyte from 3000 BC when, doggone it, I know I’m happy, healthy and smart, and some people like me!
God Bless Rush. The best at his craft. And spot on with EVERY political rant.
Correct! I was also surprised that the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show was not picked up in Seattle. Dan Bongino was chosen as a replacement for Limbaugh here. With changes coming to the Lotus cluster, perhaps there will be a slot at KOMO (under new call letters soon) or KVI.
I was quite surprised this morning by something. I grew up in Seattle but am a longtime Oregon resident, yet continue to be very interested in the Seattle media market. Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears NO Seattle or Puget Sound area station is carrying the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, which is the official replacement for Rush Limbaugh’s program. The Travis/Sexton show even carries the “EIB Network” label that Rush originated.
I assumed that either KVI or KTTH, as conservative talkers, would carry their show. Seems strange that no station in one of the nation’s biggest markets would want to do so.
KURB 1510 music survey from 1970. https://www.qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/KURB-1510-1970musicsurvey.jpg
(Kim Sloan blog – https://kimsloans.wordpress.com/top-40-stations-virginia/)
AUDACY dropped its 2-minute limit on spot sets at all stations, except KNDD 107.7, where the concept originated in 2014. Now, instead of 4 breaks per hour, the Audacy stations switch to two long spot sets, lasting up to 5 minutes each.
KOMO2 airs x-files and other stuff without captions for the hearing impaired. FCC is on their case but no results yet.
Maybe the CC signal has been interrupted by an alien force field.
How about audio stop signs for “blind as a bat” drivers?
And before the P. C.’ers cry “How insensitive!”, a disclaimer. I volunteered for a few years at Evergreen Radio Reading Service, reading The Times, P-I and TNT to blind listeners once a week. They were disgusted by the moniker “visually impaired”.
It’s like being called a senior citizen. Canada’s got it right – they call them old age pensioners.
Hopefully, the new self-driving vehicles will help. Though I have seen recently where a couple of those failed and resulted in car wrecks.
I am sick and tired of all the commercials with dancing… here, choke on this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=commercials+with+dancing+2021
Diane Downs escaped over a “bob-wired fence”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmv4m53qRlY
You realize how stupid people are when you watch a simple game show, such as, You Bet Your Life. Tonight, the category required spelling words. There was no trickery. These were English words that we use everyday. The contestants failed to spell the military title “colonel”.
The secret words were “bed” and “people”. Jay Leno could not lead contestants to say the word in conversation except by asking an obvious question, the secret word being the answer.
Compare present day game shows to something like What’s My Line, from the 1960s. The dumbing-down of America has been successful.
I’m glad I missed this. Does Leno really believe he can be another Groucho? Such an ego.
“What’s My Line” was one of early TV’s very best game shows.
It was like my favorite radio game show of the 1940’s, “Information Please”. Both shows required brain power. Both shows had intellegent, witty panelists who treated each other with respect, which included addressing each other as “Miss” or “Mister”. The atmosphere was cordial, with good-natured humor and teasing – gay repartee.
An old set of call letters still in use today, KGB which started in Tacoma in 1923, still on the air in San Diego. https://www.qzvx.com/call-letter-originreferences/
Vlad moonlights there via Zoom as format captain.
Newscaster at Amalgamated Transit Union, Seattle, Local 587 protest over contract, probably 1985
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/iiif/social/7998/full/full/0/default.jpg
Who is he?
Happy 100th anniversary to WBZ Boston. The iconic station signed on Sept. 19, 1921.
One cold fall night half a century ago, I arrived at my home in Woodway from my work day at KFKF, grabbed a Miller High Life, turned on my living room analog receiver and began scanning back and forth across the AM dial. It was history being made when, for the only time in my life, I dx’ed WBZ from the Seattle area. But the real history was the sports scoreboard: it was announced that the Boston Patriots lost to the New York Giants, 16-Zip! “Zip!!” It was the first time I heard Zip as part of a ball score. I thought it sounded excellent and perfectly descriptive.
Real item from news@radioinsight.com: “KEZK St. Louis has cut ties with morning host Greg Hewitt.”
No, I was NOT fired by KAYO or KMPS, they simply opted to cut ties with me.
Only one radio station ever cut ties with me. I recall the owner staring me in the face and yelling, “We are cutting ties with you. Get out!”
OK, I see that the term Brand Manager has replaced Program Director. There are no programs or personalities to manage, only liner cards.
J-MEN FOREVER — The Lightning Bug has a multi-prong scheme to enslave the earth. First, rock and roll, which the JMen counter with Muzak, then marijuana. Finally, the JMen build a bomb to blow up the moon with, but the Bug beats them to it by self destructing the moon by playing his rock and roll too loud.
MG KELLY voices a character (Lightning Bug). Old movie clips pieced together to make this movie. Over-dubbed with new audio.
Radio jocks must see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Zt0cqpvso
Former 710 ESPN host and P-I Sports columnist, Jim Moore begins a twice-monthly sports column for the Tacoma News Tribune. https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/article253422804.html
I just found: http://www.wold.rocks and an interesting variety of music.
Oldies and soft rock hits, concentrating on oldies from the 1950s and 1960s and soft rock hits up to the disco era. Oldies is their term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, Motown and surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to about the 1980s.
Dean Martin, In the Chapel in the Moonlight
Beach Boys, Surfin’ Safari
Floyd Cramer, On the Rebound
Wayne Newton, Danke Schoen
The Shangri-Las, Leader of the Pack
The Gladiolas, Little Darlin’
Little Anthony & The Imperials, Cha Cha Henry
The Tune Weavers, Happy Happy Birthday Baby
Mungo Jerry, Wild Love
B.B. King, To Know You Is to Love You
Freddy Cannon, Palisades Park
The Monkees, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
Rita Coolidge, Old Fashioned Heart
Lee Andrews & The Hearts, Try the Impossible
Theodore Bikel & Mary Martin, Edelweiss
The Pointer Sisters, Yes We Can Can
Bob Dylan, All I Really Want to Do
etc.
But Jason, I specifically remember that they ONLY carried the newscast in the VERY early morning . Like at 3:55, 4:55. 5:55 a.m., (I remember that the ABC Contemporary news was always at 5 minutes to the hour). KJR never ran the ABC news during the rest of the day or evening.
I seem to remember ABC Contemporary on KQIN for a little while. I contacted ABC about getting it on KURB and was politely turned down.
So… the question then is why did KJR even bother to affiliate with ABC Contemporary if it was essentially hiding the newscasts? Was it to fulfill some FCC requirement on content? I can’t think of any other reason….
Maybe it was to prevent a competitor from getting it. Didn’t Don Burden buy up all the hot jingle packages, with no intention of airing them, just so the competition couldn’t get them?
Conservative host passes from covid
https://radioink.com/2021/08/09/conservative-host-passes-from-covid/?vgo_ee=H%2F0Ig3htZt7qH%2FNupOiNRXzOup0zXC6Am01SOsN5RL4%3D
93 KHJ live!
https://www.southseasbroadcasting.com/93khj/
New oldies today on KYNO Fresno, now 50kw at 940AM
Just heard Ramsey Lewis with Wade in the Water, Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkle and It’s All in The Game by Tommy Edwards.
So far so good.
https://streamdb8web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KYNO
Fats Domino-I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday…
Englebert Humperdinck-Am I That Easy To Forget
so they are getting into the 50s and MOR 60s music. Better that than slipping in some 80s tunes which KOOL FM Phoenix did before going to a Classic Rock format. Way to kill a great Oldies station.
Any chance they get, AT&T or Comcast will try to sell you a new streaming service. AT&T’s CNN said it plans to launch a streaming subscription service in the first quarter of 2022.
The service, dubbed CNN Plus, will be a standalone, direct-to-consumer product separate from CNN’s current TV channels.
At launch CNN Plus is expected to have eight to 12 hours of live, daily programming featuring some of CNN’s best-known talent. It will also have new faces, CNN said.
CNN Plus will also launch with a library of non-fiction, long-form programming including series like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, This is Life with Lisa Ling and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. Starting CNN Plus continues the trend of media companies shifting their focus to direct-to-consumer streaming products from traditional pay TV as cord-cutting and other changes in consumer behavior slice into wholesale distribution revenue. (story from NEXT | TV)
Congratulations to Bill Diehl on a half century with the same employer, ABC Radio.
https://radioink.com/2021/07/19/congratulations-bill-diehl/
Bill made his debut fifty years ago today, July 19,1971, on the American Entertainment Radio Network, which had recently replaced Mutual on KAYO, where I was a new weekender and doing vacation fill-in. Bill went on to specialize in entertainment world interviews, show biz, sports, etc. At that time, ABC Radio’s four networks operated from 6:00 A. M. until midnight eastern time (3:00 AM – 9:00 PM pacific). KAYO’s first ABC news ran at 3:30 AM and opened with, “Here’s the latest worldwide news from the American Entertainment Radio Network, Bill Diehl in New York reporting”. I was doing the all-nighter for vacation relief and adopted the oh-so-cute intro, “It’s time to hand out the news from ABC, so if you’re ready, Bill . . . DEAL!”
As an aside, with my two regular weekend shifts, and the six all-nighters during summer vacation, I was on the air and spinning records forty-eight hours a week for more than three months, Sat 6pm-midnight, Sun noon-6pm, Mon-Sat midnight-6am.
You wake up on a Sunday morning and find that a little street justice is being meted out… https://www.qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Antifa-meets-LAPD.mp4
The FCC has approved Alpha Media’s bankruptcy, Chapter 11 restructuring.
This is conditioned upon the filing of a petition for declaratory ruling within 30 days of closing on the transaction described therein, would serve the public interest. Alpha had filed for Chapter 11 protection in January. The restructured Alpha Media USA will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Alpha. amilton Lane Incorporated and its subsidiaries will be the largest shareholder of the company controlling 49% of the equity and voting interests. MetLife Inc. will control 43.7% of the equity and voting interests, while Intermediate Capital Group PLC’s will hold 5.8% of Alpha. Approximately 22% of the company’s equity and 14% of voting interests will be foreign controlled. (Lance Venta-RadioInsight)
Monday, July 19th, 2021, KYNO Fresno moves to 940 AM. With 50,000 watts, KYNO will blast Oldies on the AM frequency which is currently Sportsradio KFIG. KYNO, originally at 1300, a legendary Top 40 station, currently sits at 1430. Listeners are being reminded to dial 940 on Monday morning to hear the new KYNO. https://bit.ly/2TcqPXw
BOGUS! Britney clapped back over this conservatorship thingy. Britney flexxed all these years and deserves her pocket full of celery. Now she is all high key over this sus ruling and it all needs to skrt! Her fans be shook. We need to see the receipts. No cap! All the time, Brit tryin’ to swerve, but her dad! In concert, on video, Brit is on fleek. TBH, slaps! Slayin’. We know Britney can serve executive realness by her own self. Did you see that court hearing? Neither did I, I was at pac sun. I heard about it. I’m dead. This nonsense is extra. Fans need to keep it 100 AF. Britney, we are here for you!
This video will live forever! Or until Britney gains her freedom.
https://www.qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Britney-Spears-cryer.mp4
Feliks Banel, local historian and KIRO FM broadcaster, caught up with Bill McLain. What is Brakeman Bill up to these days?
https://mynorthwest.com/3019552/legendary-tv-host-brakeman-bill-still-chuggin-along/
I started my radio career in the early 1990’s working as the KOMO Road Ranger. I worked on the ground in the KOMO Road Ranger van (couldn’t miss the bright yellow) feeding reports to Ted Potter who was in his plane. From there I moved to the East coast where I was GM at WYCS radio for 25 years until retirement last year.
I’d say that was a good move and a step up. I like the Oasis Network website and audio player.
Frank Bonner, WKRP’s Herb Tarlek, has died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/arts/television/frank-bonner-dead.html
Oh, the rumor mill keeps on churning out the news: The latest is, singer BJ Thomas died shortly after receiving the Covid vaccine. Just like Hank Aaron and many others. 2 (two) of the vaccine types are known to cause blood clots leading to stroke or death.
Is this presented as ”rumor” or ”news”? [Or was your tongue firmly planted in your cheek]? Vaccine types were ”suspected of”, but not [as implied] ”known” to cause blood clots – with data never confirming it one way or the other. – BJ Thomas announced, as far back as March, that he was diagnosed to have lung cancer. His death was confirmed as being caused by complications involving this disease.
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/05/30/b-j-thomas-dead/
Even Tucker Carlson is pro-vaccine. As verified by Fox.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/05/05/tucker-carlson-says-vaccine-related-deaths-may-be-abnormally-high—but-vaccines-havent-been-linked-to-deaths/
You are watching Fox and have not seen the stories about the blood clots?
Google: Johnson and Johnson vaccine blood clots. You’ll see plenty of stories.
When I see that someone has made an assertion during a conversation, and I question what they say, I Google the topic and read up on it.
This is a discussion here, not a master’s theses with citations.
For those who still believe everything the Government and “science” tells you, you be sure to get those shots.
Four patients remained hospitalized as of Wednesday, with one in intensive care, and three patients have died. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 11 more cases of serious blood clots among Americans who have received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, according to a CDC official.May 13, 2021
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/johnson-johnson-vaccine-linked-28-cases-blood-clots-cdc-reports-n1267128
Apparently you didn’t have your tongue firmly planted in your cheek.
https://ym.care/46t
Everyone who took the vaccine was basically part of a trial, a test case. The vaccine was rushed. There was no testing done. It was unknown what the outcome would be for those who took it. I wouldn’t stand in line for that.
CDC FINDS MORE HEART INFLAMMATION AFTER VAX (1200 cases) https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/cdc-reports-more-than-1200-cases-of-rare-heart-inflammation-after-covid-vaccine-shots.html
While driving this morning, I accidently hit the KIRO 97.3 preset. The Ursula/G Scott show is a joke. While discussing the Chinese space junk that will hurtle to Earth this weekend, Scott suggested that if it hit Tacoma it would solve the traffic problems.
The listening time to confirm that KIRO should replace the 9 am – Noon time slot with DEAD AIR, sixty seconds.
Five days from now, May 3, 2021, NPR turns fifty.
Listen: “50 Years Of NPR: Radio Legends Susan Stamberg & Bill Siemering”
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989817906/50-years-of-npr-radio-legends-susan-stamberg-bill-siemeringa3
I was slaving over hot turntables at KTOY FM/Tacoma on Thanksgiving day 1972. Station manager, Chuck Ellsworth, was preparing a piece for All Things Considered which aired at 3 pm. At the end of the report, Susan Stamberg spoke for a minute with Chuck. He was beaming as he listened to the broadcast on the monitor.
Burlesque legend Tempest Storm, who performed at Seattle’s Rivoli Theatre in the 1940’s and 50’s, has died at the ripe old age of 93.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/arts/tempest-storm-dead.html
Mike Mitchell has died. Founding member of The Kingsmen, lead guitarist on “Louie Louie”, died April 16, 2021, his seventy-seventh birthday.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/18/us/mike-mitchell-lead-guitarist-the-kingsmen-obit/index.html
What is the format of KAYO these days.
Current country music KYYO FM. Last I heard, the actual KAYO call letters are on a station in Alaska.
Check it out! Live and local for 80 years, KSJB in Jamestown ND!
No, they have four live jocks with 4-Hour shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and then their computer plays unannounced music for 8 hours. I called and talked to the lady who does the last live shift, she even played Ernest Tubb for me and we had a long talk. They have a text number and a talk number right into the studio that nobody else answers.
The jocks from the AM have shifts on the FM also. Check the websites.
There have been several, lengthy periods of DEAD AIR on 96.9 KAYO. Are the DJs asleep at the turntable? Don’t tell me it is computer-driven!
KAYO is my daughter’s favorite station. She alerted me to this issue, she contacted the station and later got a callback from the station manager. That response impressed her. The fact that a family-owned local station responded to a listener concern. Very cool.
Man on the street . . .
https://assets.amuniversal.com/e74fb840fa4701318884005056a9545d
One of my favorite comic strips. Blondie was the other.
95.3 KGY/Olympia (streaming online) features Ric Dees, weeknights and The Ric Dees Top 40 Countdown on Saturday night, The Real Don Steele “Live from the 60s” Sunday evening 5-8pm, followed by MG Kelly with “Back to the 70s” from 8pm to Midnight.
Oldies? You like oldies? All kinds of Super DeLuxe focus groupie repellent, time tested by humans! 24/7 since way back on April 4, 2021.
It’s called “Vintage Radio” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvgFl14c3Uch
Rip It Up, Little Richard
I Cover the Waterfront, Connee Boswell
Oh Boy, The Crickets
Ain’t It a Shame, Fats Domino
Mannish Boy, Muddy Waters
In the Shadow of the Valley, Lost Weekend Western Swing Band
Dig Down Deep, Tommy Dorsey
Whispering Grass, The Ink Spots
There’ll Be a Jubilee, the Andrews Sisters
Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, arranged by Mary Lou Williams
Nightmare, Artie Shaw
Auf Wiedersehen, Les Baxter
Ring-a-Ding-Ding, Frank Sinatra (first single released on Reprise Records)
Rocket 69, Connie Allen
Stay Put, Klaus Waldeck
The Best Things in Life Are Free, The Ink Spots
Book of Love, The Monotones
Zoot Suit, Kid Kasino
G. I. Jive, Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Did You Ever Love a Woman, Gatemouth Moore
Rags to Riches, Billy Ward and his Dominoes
Two Sleepy People, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, vocal assistance from Shirley Ross
Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Bob Crosby’s Bobcats
Wonderful! Wonderful!, Johnny Mathis
Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow, Nat King Cole
A Wonderful Guy, Tex Beneke and his Band, vocal by Claire Chatwin
Check it out, music lovers. You won’t be miffed, if you get my drift.
Full Service Local Radio lives at The Mighty 790, KGHL Billings! Listen at
https://mighty790.com/
https://mytuner-radio.com/search/?q=kghl
Ag news, Tradio, CBS News including World News Roundup, classic country music.
Right this minute and every Sunday morning it’s classic country by request, 8 AM til noon Mountain Time, and they actually play the requests.
Politics and radio
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2021/03/19
From time to time, I encounter a page/post here at PSM that contains only the sidebar menu. Revisions are made each time and the posts/pages are then readable. If you see something hinky in the pages of PSM, drop us an email and revisions will be made.
Roger Mudd dies at 93; stumped Teddy Kennedy with “Why do you want to be president?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/business/media/roger-mudd-dead.html
Of the three Kennedy brothers, I think most Americans had doubts about Ted’s abilities. He was a career politician, like Biden, but other than the Kennedy name, Ted didn’t have much going for him. These days, it doesn’t matter that you have no accomplishments during your political career.
Like Bush, Like Reagan like Nixon ect.
Would like to read article. But cannot access it for some reason. I,ll try you tube. I knew back then that Kennedy would not make it. As much as I hate to admit it, there are too many questions about Chappaquiddick that have never been answered plus he did have a drinking problem. I also do not think he was like his two brothers. Great senator, but I question his ability as president.
Fanne Foxe has died at the age of eighty-four. Who?
You might remember October 1974’s titillating tale of the Tidal Basin. Fanne Foxe, girlfriend of eighteen-term Arkansas congressman and beloved booze hound Wilbur Mills, leapt from his Lincoln Continental into the basin’s cold water when he was pulled over at 2:00 A. M. for driving with no headlights. When the cops rescued Fanne, they noticed her two black eyes. They also spotted a few cuts on Wilbur’s face. History was being made.
We may have never found out, but a TV news cameraman just happened by and recorded the incident for posterity.
https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/07/15/fanne-foxe/
Very interesting podcast.
Fanne Foxe was not bad looking, and at least had some talent, whether polite society approved of her or not. Scandalous! Well, look at politics today. Politicians sleeping with Chinese spies, Governors getting handsy with a half-dozen women, and a senile President that likes to sniff womens hair and is handsy with children.
“Tiger Man, yer a pussy cat”
https://youtu.be/QyTcYacSo7g
Flash! Tiger Woods rescues cable news!
As of 3:00 P. M. Pacific, CBSN, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC are live with LA Police and Fire’s “Getting to the Bottom of This” press conference.
Journalism Lives!!
As usual, Tiger will be given the “kid gloves” treatment here, as to how/why he ran off the road…I think most of us know why this would be happening to him.
It is my opinion, that KING 5 should remove the three circles above their “K5” logo, because that is a sign of White Supremacy. I have called KING 5 and hope to here from their Community Relations Department.
Having to play “Achy Breaky Heart” on the Real Country Network. It had the same toe-tapping mindlessness as “Sugar Sugar” and was just about as “country”. Both were #1 songs of their year in Billboard. I still enjoy both of them.
https://youtu.be/vDjbZVawd68
https://youtu.be/h9nE2spOw_o
By the way, anything by Ernest Ashworth is good.
Those who subscribed to show prep, like the Electric Weenie, should enjoy the Dr. Don Rose biography.
https://www.qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Don-Rose-Anything-For-A-Gag-1985.pdf
Funny, FUNNY! I just read it cover to cover! Great timely local stuff. If you need to cheer up and laugh out loud, read it!!
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Born in Camas, Wa., pop star Jimmie Rodgers, passed away January 18th, 2021. His hit songs included Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine and Oh-Oh, I’m Falling in Love Again. He was 87.
Bruce Caplan, a contributor to PugetSound.media, hosts a program called Radio Masterpieces on 104.9 KAPY lpFM (Carnation). The station streams online at Valley1049.org –This program is a collection of old-time radio audio.
“I was today years old when I learned that.”
This makes me want to blow my brains out. This is going around social media right now. Another catch-phrase that could be said in a much simpler form, such as “I didn’t know that.”
Bouncing back – Former HITS 106.1 KBKS PD Jared Fallon has been named VP/Marketing for iHeartRadio. He was canned from KBKS in November. Fallon’s new position is based in Nashville.
“The Phoenix federal public defender’s office did not immediately return a message from The Washington Post late Thursday.”
Translation:
“The Phoenix federal public defender’s office ignored a message from The Washington Post late Thursday.”
Well….living in Bellingham I might say….. North of the border.
Saying “north of” instead of “more than” stopped being cute the second time it was said.
Never used the term, North of. I realized it was a stupid thing to say, the first time I heard it. No brag, just fact. (What tv character said that?)
The News Tribune no longer will publish a daily list of people who died in Pierce County.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, citing a change in state disclosure laws, notified the newspaper it would no longer supply that information as of Jan. 1.
Mommy, can I be a format captain when I get big ‘n stuff? Can I, Mommy? Please, Mommy. It’ll be fun ‘n stuff, Mommy. Look how happy they are, Mommy!
https://radioink.com/2021/01/11/smg-names-two-format-captains/?vgo_ee=H%2F0Ig3htZt7qH%2FNupOiNRXzOup0zXC6Am01SOsN5RL4%3D
Format captain? A new title for Programming Consultant, General Manager, What? It’s all a crock!
Who under sixty can name the celebs without googling?
https://cdn.radioink.com/t72c61109/img/4pgqe_muezbv_ffcea3ed.jpg
I’m guessing no one under 60 knows who these two are.
Dick Curtis obit https://obituaries.journal-times.com/obituary/dick-curtis-1081337219
One error in this is that KMPS is listed as a current station.
I just received this brief email from Jack Blanchard:
“I was sitting in the hospital room watching Misty sleep and she died.
They tell me I’m in shock so I’d better stop writing.
Thanks, friends, for caring.
Love,
Jack”
https://youtu.be/0I1O8KKoefk
50+ years of marriage and a career together. That is rare.
Fya is slang form of fire, used for anything that’s, well, lit. It means something is amazing, extremely good, or on point, especially said of how someone feels or looks.
When someone uses that word, Fya, or fire, we should be allowed to set them on fire.
The ‘Rona
It does not make you cool by using slang like that. It makes you sound stupid. It’s not cute. It is annoying and I would unfriend you, on FB and in reality. I would remove you from my phone’s contact list.
Phyllis expressed sorrow and regret about her family’s reaction to her relationship with Giancana, but she didn’t apologize for it. She particularly regretted what it might have done to the sisters’ professional “girls next door” image. If they had been the McGuire Brothers, nobody would’ve blinked an eye.
Look at Frank Sinatra, who was rumored to have very close ties to the mob. It didn’t do anything but enhance his “tough guy” persona.
To me, the record buyer, it made no difference. They made great records and I bought them. What they did on their days off made no difference to me.
Phyllis McGuire met Sam Giancana, according to legend, in Las Vegas in 1960, when the McGuire Sisters were performing there four times a year and pulling down $30,000 a week. Sam was a widower of fifty-two, and Phyllis, barely thirty, had already divorced Neal Van Ells, a radio/television announcer from Dayton, Ohio. Like many another Vegas performer, Phyllis had taken a liking to the gaming tables and had run up a hefty marker. As the story goes, Sam, spotting her, and liking her, went to Moe Dalitz, who ran the Desert Inn, and asked him how much the McGuire girl owed. Moe told him $100,000, a large marker at any time but enormous then. Sam is alleged to have said to Moe, “Eat it,” meaning, in gangland parlance, erase the debt, which is different, of course, from paying the debt, but nonetheless it was a gesture not without charm and romantic appeal, especially since Sam followed it up with a suiteful of flowers. They fell in love. https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1989/6/high-roller-the-phyllis-mcguire-story
The last of the singing McGuire Sisters, Phyllis, has died at age 89, 12/31/2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/arts/music/phyllis-mcguire-dead.html
They made the best record of the 1950s, “Sincerely”.
https://youtu.be/vh_DdJ10IaA
Dick Cutis dies.
Ed Bremer, manager of KSER-90.7 FM in Everett has died after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 68.
Two more music makers have passed away, singer/songwriter/actress K. T. Oslin on Monday, December 21, 2020, and Chad Stuart, partner of Jeremy Clyde, on Sunday, December 20, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/music/kt-oslin-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/arts/music/chad-stuart-dead.html
Was he the public address announcer on KOMO TV back in the 70’s?
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=len-beardsley&pid=145782547
Well, he was part of ABC’s west coast announcing crew.
Short article about Delilah in today’s NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/podcasts/the-daily/delilah-radio-host.html?rref=vanity
Good article about Delilah. Probably the best I have seen. Still not a fan, but she has done well for herself and deserves a lot of credit for sticking to the formula she created.
Does iHeart have the worst radio station websites? https://955themountain.iheart.com/
Da!
It appears that the Russians have hacked US government computer systems and the White House is silent on the matter. What the heck?
At least we have a secure system here in the home office of QZVX. All systems are operating normally, firewalls are up and lwekufdh uweh kweh
Это советская разведка. Теперь у нас есть контроль над .
тупые американцы!
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Former KOMO AM 1000 Seattle PD Ken Kohl (1981-1987) announces retirement after a 50-year broadcast and consulting career. DIRECTV has closed down its Audience Network, Kohl has been responsible for broadcast and sales operations, project and talent management for DIRECTV for the past 12 years.
Country music superstar Charley Pride has passed away at age 86, Saturday 12/12/2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/arts/music/charley-pride-dead.html
Here’s Charley’s eighth #1 hit and most famous song, Kiss an Angel Good Morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7VYF8hM8s
“game changer”
Never say it again.
Thanks.
Not saying ‘game changer’ ever again would be a sea change.
It would be a change for the better.
Besides KING 5 was Bob Hale on KIRO TV as well?