Spike O’Neill Replaces Jack Stine on KIRO Nights

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• I left KIRO a nasty text!...but will we ever really know the circumstances surrounding the exit of their top-rated nighttime show person?...I listened to Stine, on his last show he actually was on---nearly two months ago...he was railing about how he had been doing "three shows a day", for a couple of weeks, and was obviously getting a little burned out...most likely, he got into it with the program director about this situation...so he decided to quit!...this type of radio seems so cut-throat!...I mean, from making a large salary at KIRO, to quitting?!...Interestingly, he had talked frequently as to how he had managed to sue his previous station, in California, "for a very large sum of money", over the station owner not paying his people minimum wage...I was impressed with this guy, a proclaimed Libertarian, for standing up for his rights...maybe KIRO just got paranoid with his outspoken attitudes...He was definitely the most "cutting edge" KIRO had featured, since the firing of the late Mike Webb, many years ago...Stine and Webb were different politically, but both were not afraid to be "real" on the air. I assume Stine will drift back to California radio--although his wife may not be too happy with that!

  • JACK'S EGO COULDN'T KEEP FLOWING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES IT WAS TOO BIG AND HEAVY. I LIKED HIS TALK AND LISTENED REGULARLY BUT ALWAYS FOUND MYSELF ANNOYED BY HIS SELF BACK PATTING.

    • Don't most talkers self-promote? Who else will toot your horn if you won't. Ego has always been involved, with talk radio and Top 40.

    • Wow....so Dori also is quite self-promoting and being his own best cheerleader...but when Stine did that, it was not OK with you?..I feel that Stine brought a good sense of humor to his show...Dori does too--and I am not in agreement with either one of these guys when it comes to politics.

• Agreed. Things KIRO could replace the Gee Scott & Ursula show with:
  reruns of old Joe Pyne shows from the 1960s
  Coast To Coast w/George Noory
  Three extra hours of the Dori Monson program

  • Agree totally gee and Ursula are terrible.

  • I like Gee Scott, he keeps it real just like Jack Stine….

  • I totally agree with the lameness of KIROs lineup these days...I am liberal, but even Ron and Don would have been preferable to Gee and Ursula...such boring, "light" programming seems to be KIRO's theme these days....I am now training myself to stop listening to local talk radio.

• Wish he was replacing Gee Scott.

  • Someone teach Gee to use his inside voice. I cant stand getting shouted at and his opinions and comments are so stupid

  • Yes!
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