OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  3. Patrick Hirang • November 19, 2020

    Five years ago I found this video from KIRO TV from 1971 called “Telephonic Happening” where you watch the show on TV and have three different radios to get that quadraphonic sound, two radios on KIRO 100.7 and one on 710. Do we have anyone here from KIRO 7 who worked there been because I’m wondering who came up with this idea? And was that the late Nick Freeman doing the voiceovers? I find it weird for KIRO to play hard rock on their stations when they were mostly a beautiful music station! https://youtu.be/ohutTMuM3z8

  4. Patrick Hirang • November 18, 2020

    Besides KIRO FM (KSEA), KIXI and KBRD were they other Beautiful Music stations in the Seattle area back then?

    1. Dick Ellingson • November 18, 2020

      Patrick,

      KLSN 96.5 had a diverse format with some classical, mellow jazz and some beautiful music from studios at University Village. There was a show in the evening hosted by a man and a woman. He was in one speaker and she in the other. Very distracting. I seem to remember them sitting in the window of The Bon Marche. But did the Bon even have a store at U Village?

    2. lonergan • November 19, 2020

      KEZX FM. I believe my friend Wes Longino was there, I believe, and maybe Peg Dempsey managing?

  5. Dick Ellingson • November 16, 2020

    From radioinsight.com:

    KBEK Mora, Minnesota has flipped from Full Service AAA to AC. The station is described as local news, weather, and sports paired with the best music. But “local news, weather, and sports paired with the best music” sounds sort of like what we used to call full service radio.

    All they’d have to do is add school lunch menus, Trading Post, Pet Patrol, and “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow”, an open-ended roundup of births, weddings, divorces, gossip & rumors, deaths and other “happenin’s ’round town”, co-sponsored by Welcome Wagon®, Hearse & Buggy®, and d-CON® Mouse Prufe.

    1. Jason Remington • November 16, 2020

      d-CON, what a way to go!

      1. Dick Ellingson • November 17, 2020

        Yes, the trendy secret agent on a budget is now eschewing the cyanide pill in favor of d-CON® Mouse Wedges on avocado toast triangles.

      2. Dick Ellingson • November 17, 2020

        Yes, the trendy secret agent on a budget is now eschewing the cyanide pill in favor of d-CON® Mouse Wedges on avocado toast triangles.

  6. Jason Remington • November 12, 2020

    Gabe Cohen had been working as a Reporter at KOMO in Seattle, leaving the station in March after just over 4 years with the station. Now, Cohen has been picked up by WUSA in DC and has joined the station as an Investigative Reporter.

  7. Edgar Bennett • November 11, 2020

    I,m good.

  8. Dick Ellingson • November 11, 2020

    I haven’t been able to log in for several days. I tried changing my password and still can’t. Has anyone else had a problem?

    1. Jason Remington • November 11, 2020

      Click on Log-In. Click on Forgot Password. Follow the instructions. You will get an email. Click the link. Change your password. Log-in with new password.

      I just tried it.

      1. Jason Remington • November 11, 2020

        It’s always a good idea to clear the browser history.

  9. Jason Remington • November 10, 2020

    Andrew Harms, former KNDD FM MD/PD moves from KYSR Alt 98.7 Los Angeles to Amazon Music as U.S. Rock & Alternative Programmer.

  10. Jason Remington • November 8, 2020

    Best TV election coverage https://qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/poll-results.jpg

    I won’t tell you how I voted in the above poll, but as for our national elections, I think we need to move to a standard process in each precinct nation-wide. This should be an on-line system of voting, with tabulation done in real-time. Those without Internet access can show up to a polling place and use a computer at that location. Voters enter their SS# to register. One vote per SS# and a unique voter ID number.

    Real-time tabulation gives immediate results to all news media once the polls close. Election night reports can be reduced to 30 minutes. This gives news channels the opportunity to run classic programming such as Twilight Zone and Green Acres, rather than Rachel Madcow and Sean Calamity.

  12. Duke Stern • November 7, 2020

    The latest to get the axe from iHeart…

    Keith Abrams exits (Cleveland) – was previously VP/Programming for CBS Radio Denver and PD of KBSG Seattle…Tim ‘Romeo’ Herbster exits postion as SVP/Programming and PD of CHR “Z100” KKRZ and Hip Hop “Jam’n 107.5” KXJM – Portland…Kristina Kage exits as morning host at Hip Hop “Jam’n 107.5” KXJM and afternoon host at AC “K103” KKCW, Portland.

  13. Jason Remington • November 7, 2020

    KRWM 106.9 began playing Christmas music this week. Still too early for that, in my opinion.

  14. steven smith • November 5, 2020

    Jason….you kind of excluded me on that one. I kept track online only. No TV. My wife had KIRO TV on for awhile Tuesday for state results but only the local anchors.

    1. Jason Remington • November 5, 2020

      Well, it may not be long before more of us abandon the mainstream tv media and the alternate tv news media, for some of the online sources.
      Unfortunately, there also, are too many of those sources taking sides, rather than reporting the truth and letting readers decide.

      1. Dick Ellingson • November 7, 2020

        Jason,

        I just saw an interview with Shepard Smith regarding his new program on CNBC. He claims it’s non-partisan straight news, no opinions, no interviews for their own sake, and some in-depth coverage, but only if warranted. I’m going to check it out this week. Mon-Fri, 7:00 P. M. Eastern.

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          I watched some of Shepard Smith’s new program and detected some of that good old fashioned “judgment” in his presentation. They just can’t shake it.

          1. Dick Ellingson Untitled

            Well, that’s no good.

    1. Jason Remington • November 5, 2020

      Way too early for this, in my opinion. I don’t mind it after Thanksgiving, but it causes burn out after 3 weeks or so.

      1. Dick Ellingson • November 6, 2020

        No argument here.

  16. Jason Remington • November 5, 2020

    BEST TV COVERAGE OF ELECTION RESULTS — Please only vote once. We don’t have room to add all the alternative streaming news outlets and chose only those streaming 24/7. How many of the pro-Trump news outlets survive a Biden presidency is questionable. NewsMax and OAN for example. These seem to favor Trump and will have to change their focus somewhat. We need truly “fair and balanced” coverage and maybe they can aim for that.
    Though I am pro-Trump, I chose a network that was not in the Trump camp, because of their measured and seemingly straightforward delivery of the facts (as can best be determined).
    Results of the poll will be revealed on November 8.

    1. Dick Ellingson • November 5, 2020

      Why aren’t CBSN and C-Span on the ballot?

      CBSN is pretty straightforward and non-partisan. Its commentary isn’t disguised as news.

      I watched the SOTU and both conventions on C-Span from start to finish because there’s no commentary by self-serving, self-proclaimed experts spouting talking points, buzzwords and scripts they’ve learned by rote over the past four years.

      Each cable news network has its own cabal, ten or twenty strong, paid to verify the validity of that network’s political slant and to reassure its viewers and advertisers that they’re thinking clearly.

      But do clear thinkers really need the likes of Maddow or Hannity to form their opinions for them?

      I watched a couple of movies, went to bed, and lived to tell about it.

      1. Jason Remington • November 5, 2020

        Next election maybe we will list the 30 networks streaming at that time. You can’t please everyone. I thought CBSN was associated with CBS, as MSNBC is with NBC.

        1. Dick Ellingson Untitled

          Jason,

          CBSN is owned by CBS, but it has its own news anchors. I particularly enjoy Elaine Quijano – low key, no show biz antics, a news pro.

    2. Dick Ellingson • November 7, 2020

      I tuned into Fox (not Fox News) for this evening’s Biden/Harris “Howdy” show. I was fifteen minutes early and stayed for ninety minutes. There were no commentators at all, just the two of them and the crowd noise. I watched via the Q13 website and I see that, so far, I am Fox’s only fan.

  17. Dick Ellingson • November 4, 2020

    It’s an absolute truth that all politicians lie. On the job description, it’s #1 with a bullet. Some try to “walk it back” or even admit they might have “misspoken”, but never ever admit to “distorting” the truth.

    Late on election night 2020, Norah O’Donnell of CBS-TV came up with a more painfully graphic and squirm-worthy description.

    From a posting on the New York Times website, quote without comment: “CBS aired Trump’s appearance with an on-screen graphic declaring: “CBS NEWS IS NOT PROJECTING A WINNER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Afterward, the anchor Norah O’Donnell told viewers that Mr. Trump was “castrating the facts” with his unfounded claims.”

    Network officials did not “immediately respond” to questions about how O’Donnell might describe the same offense by a member of the “gentler sex”. Cable pundits on deadline will no doubt be scouring the AP Style Book for guidance on acceptable veterinary terms.

    1. Jason Remington • November 4, 2020

      Judging by the outcome of that election, I think the majority of those voters are hoping Biden can lower the cost of their sex change operations and medications for schizophrenia, manic depression, and bipolar disorder. Enjoy this s__t show that will play out over the next 4 years.
      Just stay off my lawn!

  18. Jason Remington • November 4, 2020

    Steve Williams, Director of Audio Production at KUOW-FM 94.9 has been named President and CEO of Newark Public Radio, Jazz WBGO-FM 88.3 Newark/ New York effective January 4th.

  19. DT • November 4, 2020

    It was 40 years ago today that then-owner Kelly Television Co. returned KCPQ, Ch. 13 to the air after being off the air since the end of February of 1980 while setting up transmitter facilities on Gold Mountain near Bremerton. Today, KCPQ is western Washington’s Fox network station.

  20. Jason Remington • November 2, 2020

    KSWD is now playing Christmas music. The first station to do so this year. Which station is next???

    1. DT • November 4, 2020

      I guess Warm 106.9.

  21. Dick Ellingson • November 2, 2020

    I was watching Q-13 News this morning and was amazed and pleased to find a broadcaster who correctly pronounces the word “candidate”. Thank you, Brandi Kruse! You are the only one left!

    Would you ask your love interest to go out on a dUT? If the relationship advanced far enough, would you set the dUT?

    Quit calling contenders for public office candidUTs. Stop calling your neighbor who holds down four full-time jobs and has raised eight perfect kids a perfect candidUT for Mother of the Year.

    Saying “candidUT” is not cool. It’s lazy.

    I won’t say anymore. Let’s just start over with a clean sl– (ate or ut?).

    Brandi Kruse, I salute you!

    1. Jason Remington • November 2, 2020

      My latest pet peeve is with people who pronounce “button” as “butt-n” with emphasis on the “butt”.

      1. Dick Ellingson • November 2, 2020

        Jason, I pronounced Renton that way – you could barely hear the first “n” and the last syllable was just the n sound. I was completely unaware.

        Ron Bailie pointed it out to me in our conversation the day I walked in to enroll in his broadcast school. I was amazed because that’s how I had pronounced it all my life.

  22. DT • October 31, 2020

    Happy 60th anniversary to Canada’s CHAN-TV, Ch. 8(Global TV)in Vancouver, Canada. The station that use to be know as BCTV.

    1. Worm • November 5, 2020

      I even remember when then Victoria sister-station CHEK 6 once ran an ad for Gull oil. Just when i thought they were based in Seattle, did they really have stations in B.C.?

  23. Jason Remington • October 30, 2020

    Turning back your clocks and adding one hour to 2020 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.

    1. Edgar Bennett • October 30, 2020

      Now that would be good.

  24. Jason Remington • October 30, 2020

    Lance Venta reports, Andrew Harms is leaving as APD/MD/afternoon host at iHeartMedia Alternative “Alt 98.7” KYSR Los Angeles after today for a yet to be announced position.

    Harms has held those duties since March 2015. He previously spent 14 years at “107.7 The End” KNDD Seattle where he started in promotions and moved up to APD/MD. He also served as Director of Music Programming and host for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ “Revolt TV” prior to joining KYSR.
    https://radioinsight.com/headlines/200599/andrew-harms-departing-alt-98-7/

  25. Jason Remington • October 29, 2020

    TEGNA Inc. announced Jessica Hagan has been appointed president and general manager of KTVB and KTFT, TEGNA’s NBC affiliates in Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho, respectively, effective November 16, 2020.

    Hagan is joining KTVB from KING 5 Media Group, which includes TEGNA’s NBC affiliate KING and independent station KONG in Seattle, Washington, where she has been on the station’s leadership team as director of sales since 2016.

      1. Jason Remington • October 28, 2020

        Further research shows that KISW didn’t go on the air until 1950. So, I am betting on KOMO, which had an FM very early on and later dropped it and donated the equipment to KUOW. My final answer: KOMO FM

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          I should have checked our own pages here. https://qzvx.com/2019/01/04/wash-fm-stations-applications-1947/

          Sorry, Regis.

  27. Jack D. Bell • October 27, 2020

    Why Dori has to use his religion to mop up for his comment on twitter, I just do not get…but I still feel that his ramblings on his personal twitter site should not be scrutinized/punished by management…we either have freedom of personal expression, or we do not!

    1. Jason Remington • October 28, 2020

      I see it as Dori stating that he is a Christian, and still does not condone trans. Only apologizes that his Tweet did not hit the mark, but instead hurt some snowflakes. Dori’s comments were strong, less an apology, more like standing on his statement against Inslee’s policies.
      He stated he was a Christian to distance himself from the LGBTQ snowflakes who caused the ruckus.
      You have to understand that he didn’t shrink to grovel to the masters at Bonneville, KIRO or Seahawks. A clever statement, clearly defining who he is, the same old Dori.
      SOLID.

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 28, 2020

      (sniffle) … On that Thursday, I said, “I’m sorry. That was not where I was going. That was not my intent on that.”

      That wasn’t an apology, it was a defense.

      But golly whiz, Dori prayed for us, even for li’l ol’ me.

      I’m pleased to be one of his lost causes. He’s in wonderful company with an ex-wife of mine.

  29. Jason Remington • October 26, 2020

    A WALK IN THE DARK — Written by Feliks Banel.
    KIRO 97.3 FM Seattle, Seattle Radio Theater and Town Hall Seattle have a special treat for listeners this Halloween. A Walk in the Dark is a live radio drama that will air October 29.
    “It’s set just before WW2, it’s loosely based on facts. In early 1941 Seattle was the first city in the United States to do a practice blackout. It was in march of 1941 when they turned out all the lights in Seattle. Life magazine had pictures of that. It was a very haunting image of a city getting darker and darker.”

    “My story is set in October of 1941, just before Halloween and a new guy comes to the city to take a job at KIRO. He has a hard time getting to the station because he mistakenly goes to the transmitter which is out on an island in Puget Sound. Fearful that he is going to be fired before he even starts his new job; he has to get to downtown Seattle to work his first shift. That’s when spookiness ensues.” (KIRO FM)

  31. Jason Remington • October 21, 2020

    NEW POST notifications have not been going out, but have been stuck in the cue, for many weeks.
    The problem with this could not be resolved. Once I find a suitable, working alternative, I will make an announcement. In the meantime, just keep checking in. Thank you!

  35. Jason Remington • October 18, 2020

    READERS– Personal comments about someone’s suspected sexual orientation, or other unsubstantiated allegations, etc. will be removed. We will then be flagging future comments, holding them for review. Repeat offenses will get you banned.

  36. Dick Ellingson • October 16, 2020

    I just stumbled on a website with links to various local TV news broadcasts.

    https://livenewsglobe.com/

    1. Jason Remington • October 16, 2020

      That is a keeper! I just added it to our LINKS page.

      1. Jason Remington • October 18, 2020

        on the MENU > HOME > BLOG INFO LINKS is one of the tabbed pages

  37. Jason Remington • October 15, 2020

    Tom Tom, an early day looter. These nursery rhymes all seem to have associated sordid details. These must have been written by liberal college professors. Tom Tom was likely a Democrat youth living in his parents’ pumpkin shell.
    Goldilocks was part of the Occupy Never-Never Land movement.

  38. Dick Ellingson • October 15, 2020

    I would use, “After a great deal of introspective musing and cogitation, I have come to the conclusion, and may I say out of an extremely well thought-out abundance of caution, that Tom Tom the piper’s son did not steal the pig after all, nor did he “run away”, as has been maliciously alleged. The innocent young lad merely took it without explicit permission after noticing the sentry of the sty walking toward the barn with his arm around the waist of the farmer’s daughter, a lass not nearly as fetching as you, beloved teacher. Oh why, oh why can’t I be as bold as that son of a piper?”

  39. Jason Remington • October 15, 2020

    If you are in 6th grade and have been assigned to write an essay of no less than 500 words, you would use phrases such as “out of an abundance of caution”

  40. Dick Ellingson • October 15, 2020

    Can we all agree that the following phrase has no place in civilized public discourse?

    “out of an abundance of caution”

  41. Steven Smith • October 12, 2020

    Dick…not spell checking that. Just replying off the top of my head on my tablet. Tried to recall which comment I had approved.

  42. Steven Smith • October 12, 2020

    Yes..on the order of…… Goodun’ Bruce.

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 12, 2020

      Your spell check program needs the ‘colloquial apostrophe’ update, Steve.

  43. Steven Smith • October 12, 2020

    Jay had contacted me that his comment had appeared but then vanished. This happens to him sometimes. I told him that anytime a comment vanishes then let me know. My experience is they are NEVER really gone. For some reason…once in awhile, the anti spam software sends them to Jason or me to approve. I know it can be frustrating but I think anti spam software sometimes makes errors or is set off by an unknown reason. Automatic devices can be like that. For example YouTube’s robot often misses copyright material but more often errs the wrong way. My suggestion if a comment vanishes is to email me or Jason. Or, if you can wait, when we log in we see an icon that some comments have been held, but sometimes we are not by a computer. By the way Dick, when I approved Jay’s comment two dupes by you were there…I approved one,

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 12, 2020

      Steve, was it the comment replying to Bruce Caplan on Our Changing World? When I posted that, it didn’t show up under Recent Comments, so I went back to that page and it was gone. So I reposted it.

    1. Jason Remington • October 12, 2020

      I see Hamilton’s comment. Not sure what you are experiencing. Could it have been under edit by Hamilton at the moment? I dunno. But I see it there.

  46. Jason Remington • October 10, 2020

    KCBS/KCAL Los Angeles News Director Tara Finestone is leaving the station and will report soon to KIRO 7 Seattle to replace News Director John LaPorte.

  47. Jason Remington • October 9, 2020

    The midday 9-Noon program on KIRO is unlistenable. Dori had maybe the only program worth listening to. Dori had his detractors and fans. KIRO/Bonneville just shot themselves in the foot. My hope is that Dori does not apologize, even if he has to move to another radio station. It is time to STOP apologizing for your belief. The Left and their LGBTPDQ community doesn’t apologize for what they believe and they are activists. It is high time for the Right to get active and there should be no standing back or standing down.

  48. Jason Remington • October 8, 2020

    The Bob, Joe & Spike podcast is kaput. That ended in September.

  49. Dick Ellingson • October 8, 2020

    You’d think they’d have some pride.

    Another one – “in harm’s way”! “Oh pardon me, harm. Am I in your way?”

    Soldiers are in “danger”. Fighting a war is dangerous, not a breach of ettiquite.

    1. Jason Remington • October 8, 2020

      They have forgotten what they learned in elementary school.

      1. Jack D. Bell • October 9, 2020

        Hey Jason….kinda big news over at KIRO….Dori Monson has been suspended, for tweeting out a sarcastic comment, about how we “live in a state, where you can alter your birth certificate to change your sexual orientation…ha ha”….Various groups have flooded Bonneville with complaints, so even Dori now has had to have his fanny whacked by the political extremists…Are we losing the ability to say what we want?

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          We lost! And KIRO, through Bonneville, because of that corporate kowtowing to political correctness, has lost. I can’t listen then to KIRO FM. The credibilty is not there. They don’t stand for anything, they have fallen for everything.

  50. Jason Remington • October 7, 2020

    Once a phrase is let loose in the ether, all the news people have to use it.

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 10, 2020

      Another one is “be out over one’s skis”. Not new, but newly embraced by the nitwit news. I read it twice this week. One must have just copied and pasted the other because both misspelled “skis”. Next week it’ll show up every day, I suppose, and then guess what??

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