OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  1. Greg • June 25, 2021

    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.

    1. Jason Remington • June 25, 2021

      I’d say that was a good move and a step up. I like the Oasis Network website and audio player.

  3. Jason Remington • June 3, 2021

    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.

    1. Sky Creek • June 22, 2021

      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/

      1. Jason Remington • June 22, 2021

        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

        1. Sky Creek Untitled

          Apparently you didn’t have your tongue firmly planted in your cheek.
          https://ym.care/46t

          1. Jason Remington Untitled

            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.

            1. Jason Remington Untitled

              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

  4. Jason Remington • May 7, 2021

    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.

    1. Jason Remington • April 29, 2021

      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.

  8. Steven Smith • April 20, 2021

    What is the format of KAYO these days.

    1. Jason Remington • April 20, 2021

      Current country music KYYO FM. Last I heard, the actual KAYO call letters are on a station in Alaska.

    2. Dick Ellingson • May 17, 2021

      Check it out! Live and local for 80 years, KSJB in Jamestown ND!

      1. Dick Ellingson • May 17, 2021

        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.

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          The jocks from the AM have shifts on the FM also. Check the websites.

  9. Jason Remington • April 20, 2021

    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!

    1. Jason Remington • April 20, 2021

      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.

    1. Jason Remington • April 19, 2021

      One of my favorite comic strips. Blondie was the other.

  11. Jason Remington • April 18, 2021

    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.

  12. Dick Ellingson • April 18, 2021

    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.

  13. Dick Ellingson • March 28, 2021

    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.

  15. Jason Remington • March 21, 2021

    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.

    1. Jason Remington • March 9, 2021

      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.

      1. Edgar Bennett • March 10, 2021

        Like Bush, Like Reagan like Nixon ect.

    2. Edgar Bennett • March 10, 2021

      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.

  17. Dick Ellingson • February 25, 2021

    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/

    1. Edgar Bennett • March 10, 2021

      Very interesting podcast.

    2. Jason Remington • March 10, 2021

      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.

  19. Dick Ellingson • February 23, 2021

    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!!

    1. Jack D. Bell • February 24, 2021

      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.

  20. Jason Remington • February 18, 2021

    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.

  21. Dick Ellingson • February 15, 2021

    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.

    1. Dick Ellingson • February 15, 2021

      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!!
      .

  23. Jason Remington • January 31, 2021

    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.

  24. Jason Remington • January 29, 2021

    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.

  25. Jason Remington • January 29, 2021

    “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.”

  26. Jason Remington • January 27, 2021

    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.

  27. Dick Ellingson • January 15, 2021

    “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.”

  28. Steven Smith • January 14, 2021

    Well….living in Bellingham I might say….. North of the border.

  29. Dick Ellingson • January 13, 2021

    Saying “north of” instead of “more than” stopped being cute the second time it was said.

    1. Jason Remington • January 13, 2021

      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?)

  30. Jason Remington • January 12, 2021

    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.

    1. Jason Remington • January 12, 2021

      Format captain? A new title for Programming Consultant, General Manager, What? It’s all a crock!

    1. Jason Remington • January 12, 2021

      I’m guessing no one under 60 knows who these two are.

  34. Dick Ellingson • January 2, 2021

    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

    1. Jason Remington • January 2, 2021

      50+ years of marriage and a career together. That is rare.

  35. Jason Remington • January 1, 2021

    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.

  36. Jason Remington • January 1, 2021

    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.

  37. Dick Ellingson • January 1, 2021

    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.

  38. Jason Remington • January 1, 2021

    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

  40. DT • December 23, 2020

    Ed Bremer, manager of KSER-90.7 FM in Everett has died after a year-long battle with cancer. He was 68.

    1. DT • December 27, 2020

      Well, he was part of ABC’s west coast announcing crew.

    1. Jason Remington • December 21, 2020

      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.

  45. Dick Ellingson • December 19, 2020

    Da!

  46. Jason Remington • December 18, 2020

    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!
    —
    Борис

    1. mavis gold • December 20, 2020

      Борис

      и наташа

      1. Jason Remington • December 21, 2020

        Лось и белка

  47. Jason Remington • December 15, 2020

    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.

  49. Dick Ellingson • December 10, 2020

    “game changer”

    Never say it again.

    Thanks.

    1. Jason Remington • December 11, 2020

      Not saying ‘game changer’ ever again would be a sea change.

      1. Dick Ellingson • December 11, 2020

        It would be a change for the better.

  50. Patrick Hirang • December 4, 2020

    Besides KING 5 was Bob Hale on KIRO TV as well?

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