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• REWIND: 8/10/22 - KIRO 7 Seattle morning Meteorologist Nick Allard will be off work again to recover from back surgery last Thursday. He took time off earlier this year, which he says, "didn’t work and things continued to get worse".

• Alerts from Netflix pop up in my email almost daily. I delete them immediately without reading them. Most of the made for Netflix/Amazon/Paramount +/Showtime series jump the shark after the first season, some after only a few episodes. I only have Netflix as a perk from my cell phone carrier, Paramount + from a family member that shares her login info.
  I started watching Dexter from Season One/Episode One. I am up to episode three. It has only been two weeks. Give me time to get through the first season and I will make a judgment.
  Are you an avid tv watcher? Any suggestions on what to watch? What to avoid?

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    • By the descriptions, I would be interested in checking out some of these. Thanks for the link, Mr. Ellingson.

• 06/07/13 - (All Access) Seattle market Warm KRWM-FM 106.9 has announced the appointment of Carey Edwards as production director effective Monday, June 10. He recently arrived from on-air positions in Portland and Phoenix.

  06/02/13 - (Seattle P-I) A section of North 34th Street between Fremont Avenue and Troll Avenue North in Seattle has been named J.P. Patches Place, in honor of Chris Wedes, who played the lovable clown on KIRO-TV from 1958 to 1981. Wedes died on July 22, 2012 after a long battle with cancer.

• June 13, 2013 - McLean VA-based Gannett Co., Inc. has reached a deal to buy TV station owner Belo Corp. for about $1.5 billion in cash. Belo operates KING-TV, KONG-TV and NWCN in the Puget Sound market. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher by circulation, owns USA Today and other newspapers as well as television stations. The deal nearly doubles Gannett's portfolio from 23 to 43 stations and has to be approved by the FCC and at least two-thirds of Belo shareholders. Seattle Times, Belo, Gannett.

• May 2, 2011 - KING FM dumps the commercials and returns to it's previous listener-supported status.

• May 2011 - Newsman Tony Miner leaves KIRO radio. Minor becomes the Director of Programming & News at KGMI in Bellingham. His last day at KIRO was May 6. Previous to KIRO, Minor had worked at KING, KVI, KOMO, and KZOK.

• April 2011 - Larry Gifford was named to succeed Ryan Hatch as Program Director of KIRO FM and KTTH.
  Most recently PD at ESPN Radio's west coast flagship KSPN in Los Angeles, and previous to that a two-year stint as PD of the ESPN Radio Network in Bristol, CT.

• The KAYO Untouchables, were personalities such as Pat O'Day, Bob Fredericks, Herb Hall, Claude Brimm, Norm Apple, Tad Jones, Russ Norman, Lee Lucas, Jack Hemmingway (1958 & 1959). Top 40 before KJR adopted the format.

• November 8, 2010--After 15 years as a Conservative talk leader, 570 KVI flipped to "Greatest Hits of the '60s and '70s".

• September 30, 2010, Bob Rivers announces at the end of his show that he and KZOK/CBS Radio could not come to terms on a contract renewal and he would be leaving KZOK.
  Gary Crow was moved to morning drive for two weeks while auditions for the new, music intensive program took place.