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• 1680 KNTS has filed an STA. The owners have a dispute the tower lessor. KNTS apparently went off the air March 1.

• We've seen this before. Left-wing/activist judges attempting to overturn decisions made by the Trump administration.

  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the Voice of America (VOA) to full operations after it was effectively shut down for a year.

  U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake, Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), lacked legal authority to implement the executive-order shutdown. He voided her actions shelving 1,042 of VOA’s 1,147 employees and gave USAGM one week to submit a plan for resuming broadcasts and returning hundreds of journalists from administrative leave. Lamberth wrote that the decisions had “nothing approaching a principled basis.” Plaintiff Patsy Widakuswara, VOA’s White House bureau chief, welcomed the ruling and said staff are eager to repair damage inflicted by Lake, return to Congress’s mandate of independent journalism (not propaganda), and rebuild global trust.VOA, founded in World War II, once broadcast in 49 languages to 362 million people worldwide.

  The agency had no immediate comment; Lake denounced earlier rulings and said they would be appealed. Trump has since nominated Sarah Rogers (undersecretary of state) to lead USAGM, pending Senate confirmation.

  This is no different in structure from dozens of other federal rulings against Trump administrations: a district judge reviewing executive actions and finding them unlawful. Courts routinely check presidential power on statutory or constitutional grounds (travel bans, DACA, wall funding, agency reorganizations in term one; similar agency reforms now).

  Like prior cases, the administration is appealing; higher courts or the Supreme Court will likely have the final word.

  Over at CNN, Brian Stelter is giddy with anticipation that this ruling will stand.

  This is a story widely publicized on CNN, Washington Post and everywhere you'd find your Liberal talking points. As of 11:47 pm Eastern time, Fair & Balanced FOX NEWS has not published information on this story. Nothing on NewsMax.com either. Enuff said! This is a 'nothing burger.'

  Have another corndog, Stelter.

  • "We’ve seen this before. Left-wing/activist judges attempting to overturn decisions made by the Trump administration."

    Worth noting -- Judge Lamberth is a Ronald Reagan appointee.

    Trump put twice-failed Republican political candidate Kari Lake in charge of USAGM without Congressional confirmation. Two weeks ago her appointment was ruled invalid.

    • On appeals involving Trump administration policies (especially in his second term), Trump-appointed appellate judges have supported the agenda at rates like 92%, far higher than other Republican appointees (including Reagan-era ones, who opposed 32% of the time). This according to the nytimes.com --

      Some still-active Reagan appointees (now senior judges with decades on the bench) have issued unusually sharp rebukes or blocks of Trump policies on executive overreach, immigration enforcement, or related matters— District Judges William Young, Mark Wolf, and Royce Lamberth criticizing actions as discriminatory, unconstitutional, or rule-of-law threats. This reflects an "institutionalist" conservatism from the Reagan era (accepting a regulatory state with checks) that has diverged from more populist or aggressive modern approaches. This from politico.com--

      Disagreements are more likely on novel executive-power cases or where Reagan judges prioritize precedent/stability over rapid policy shifts. However, across thousands of routine cases, Republican-appointed judges (Reagan or Trump) vote conservatively far more often than Democratic ones, with Trump judges simply pushing that tendency further.

      Trump's selections are younger, more uniformly originalist via Federalist Society screening, and less prone to moderation, creating measurable differences in edge cases or high-stakes Trump-related litigation.

      Reagan-appointed judges and Bush-appointed judges (both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush) are broadly similar in conservative ideology, with Trump-appointed judges tending to be more consistently and extremely conservative.

      In high-profile or Trump-related litigation (especially appellate level), Trump appointees support executive actions at far higher rates than other Republican appointees, including Reagan/Bush-era ones.

      Reagan or Bush judge would likely agree with a Trump judge far more often than with a Democratic one. But on edge cases involving expansive executive power, loyalty tests, or populist shifts, Trump judges are more reliably aligned with aggressive conservative outcomes, while some Reagan/Bush holdouts have issued sharp rebukes.

      The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a major conservative and libertarian legal organization founded in 1982 by law students at Yale, Chicago, and Harvard. It promotes originalism and textualism in constitutional interpretation—interpreting the Constitution based on its original public meaning or plain text rather than evolving societal views or living constitutionalism.

      The group functions primarily as a network, debate forum, and talent pipeline for conservative lawyers, judges, academics, and government officials, hosting events, chapters at law schools, and professional gatherings. Its role in judicial appointments has grown dramatically over time, evolving from a resource for Republican administrations to a near-gatekeeper for many conservative nominees, especially under recent presidents. This directly ties into why Trump-appointed judges are often more uniformly and extremely conservative than those from Reagan or Bush eras.

      Trump publicly stated his judges would be "picked by the Federalist Society" and released public lists of potential Supreme Court nominees vetted by the group. All three of Trump's Supreme Court justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—have strong affiliations.

      This produced a more ideologically consistent, rightward cohort than prior Republican presidents—fewer moderates or institutionalists who might diverge on executive power or novel issues.

• Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' --
  No matter who has been President, little has changed since the movie "Network" was released in 1976. The only difference is, the world is crazier and people are angrier. Social media and the Internet have a lot to do with it.

• Funny line from FTVLive.com, talking about CNN employees' future after the big merger. Scott Jones states that CNN news reporting is a " legacy of objectivity." I just about choked while laughing at that.

  • CNN - The most biased name in news.
    The website for MSNBC/MSNOW is not helping their cause. They could not get the MSNOW dot com domain and are using MS dot NOW Another stupid move from the least watched of the non-stop drivel channels.

• The latest Neilsen ratings have Spirit 105.3 in second spot. Is Seattle turning to God? https://radioinsight.com/ratings/seattle-tacoma/

• Discussion board listener reporting that KBRO is on the air now at 1480. The switch from 1490 AM was authorized under conditions--which reportedly have not been met.

• Lauren Chapin (full name Lauren Ann Chapin) was an American actress best known as a beloved child star of the 1950s. Born on May 23, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, she was the youngest of three siblings—all of whom were child actors. Her brothers were Billy Chapin (known for The Night of the Hunter) and Michael Chapin (who appeared in It's a Wonderful Life).

  She began her career early, with appearances in TV anthology series like Lux Video Theatre (starting around 1952) and an uncredited role in the 1954 film A Star Is Born starring Judy Garland. At age 9, she landed her breakout role as Kathy "Kitten" Anderson, the youngest daughter in the wholesome family sitcom Father Knows Best (1954–1960). She appeared in 196 of the show's 203 episodes, earning five Junior Emmy Awards for Best Child Actress. Her character was a giggly, curious tomboy affectionately called "Kitten" by her TV father (played by Robert Young), contrasting with her on-screen siblings played by Billy Gray and Elinor Donahahue. The show portrayed an idealized all-American family, making Chapin a household name during its run.

  Behind the scenes, her childhood was far more troubled than the idyllic image projected on television. In her 1989 memoir Father Does Know Best (and in later interviews), she described being raised by an alcoholic mother who pushed her and her brothers into acting, and a sexually abusive father. She reported developing a "manic depressive personality" by age 11, attempting suicide, and facing significant emotional challenges during and after her time on the show.

  After Father Knows Best ended when she was 15, Chapin struggled with the transition out of child stardom. She dealt with drug abuse, jail time, several miscarriages, divorce, and other personal hardships in her teens and young adulthood. She married at 16 and had children, including a son named Matthew and a daughter named Summer-Healy Chapin.

  In later years, Chapin turned her life around through faith. She became a licensed and ordained evangelist, sharing her story through public speaking, ministry, and outreach work. She advocated for various causes, including support for Israel, and engaged in charitable efforts that earned her honorary "Mayor" titles in Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida. She also worked behind the scenes in entertainment, owning beauty pageant enterprises and helping launch careers, notably guiding a young Jennifer Love Hewitt as a talent agent or manager.

  Chapin made occasional later appearances, including in The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976), Scout's Honor (1980), and School Bus Diaries (2016), though she largely stepped away from acting.She passed away on Tuesday, February 24, at age 80 in Miami, Florida, after a five-year battle with cancer. Her son Matthew announced her death on social media, describing it as the end of a "long hard fought battle." Tributes from fans and the entertainment community highlighted her enduring legacy as the sweet, precocious "Kitten" while acknowledging the resilience she showed in overcoming personal adversity.

• A reader writes:
  With Netflix out of the way, looks like Paramount Skydance will take over WBD, including CNN.

  David Ellison has a cozy relationship with Trump. Six months ago, Ellison took over Paramount, which includes CBS. Ellison hand-picked Bari Weiss, an opinion journalist who never worked in TV news, to be CBS News’ editor-in-chief.

  If -- as now seems likely -- Paramount ends up taking control of WBD, what's in store for CNN?
  It’s unclear, but many believe it’s not good.
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  We shall see, but I did see a clip of Brian Stelter practically wetting himself while trying to explain to Wolf Blitzer how perfectly CNN fits into the Paramount view of how the news channel should present the news.
  CNN would have to undergo a dramatic make-over. CBS already has the platform needed to flip a switch and put CBS News 24/7 in that space.

• WGN-TV (Channel 9), known as “Chicago’s Very Own,” faced major layoffs on Monday as owner Nexstar Media implemented deep cost-cutting measures this week. Eight veteran on-air personalities were let go: anchors Sean Lewis, Ray Cortopassi, and Judy Wang; reporters Bronagh Tumulty and Julian Crews; political analyst Paul Lisnek; sports anchor Chris Boden; and entertainment reporter Dean Richards.

  Longtime anchor Sean Lewis, with nearly 20 years at the station and weekend morning duties since 2010, shared his shock after filing his final report. The cuts, part of ongoing reductions over months, stunned the newsroom and left staff speechless, with insiders saying Nexstar is hollowing out the once-vibrant operation.

  • Wait til Nexstar gets a hold of Tegna.

    • TEGNA Expects Nexstar Merger Closing By July

• Several of the great Canadian bloggers/message board operators have passed away recently, leaving a void for continued sharing of history and conversation on the topic of radio and tv in British Columbia.
  PugetsoundRadio.Com and RadioWest.ca are two of the recently closed sites.
  QZVX will not replace or mirror any of those websites.
  What we intend to do is to incorporate some Vancouver & Victoria area radio-tv history and current news articles.
  This will not be a comprehensive encyclopedia of Canadian media info, but interesting pieces of information as we find them.
  As always, much of what is posted here has come from readers and reader suggestion. So, reader input is always welcome.

  • Thank-you, Jason, for filling the void and providing some Canadian news. I appreciate your publishing of the old radio schedules.

    • My pleasure!