OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  1. alanw • June 10, 2022

    [I don’t see a “new topic” button, only “Leave a Reply”–but this isn’t a reply to above posts]

    Question:
    Did this person–Bob Haugen–work at KPUG in early/mid 1970s, using the name “Bob Walker”?

    Steven Smith: did you know, or know of, Bob Walker [Haugen]?

    https://cascadememorial.com/obituary/590718/Robert-Haugen/

  2. Jack D. Bell • June 8, 2022

    Hey…most folks here are quite conservative, but no one seems to comment on that Jack Stine guy over on KIRO FM…He has a highly rated evening show…presents himself as a “Reagan conservative”…He also, rather proudly refers to his several years of being a hard-core drug addict-street person!…and (predictably) he freely talks about being in therapy…Kind of refreshing to hear someone being so upfront!…strangely, he has been frequently vacating his evening show, to cover for other show hosts. Why would KIRO make him their “go-to-guy”, when he is doing so well in the ratings game at night?…He seems to be extra-friendly with John Curley…I have already speculated that he is likely to take over Curley’s pm show if (when) Curley moves on to other things….so, what do you older, very conservative dudes think about this Stine upstart? I find him to be interesting, even funny…but do not agree with most of what he espouses politically.

    1. Jason Remington • June 8, 2022

      I was impressed with what little I had heard of Stine. I haven’t listened regularly though, to anything on the radio. I tend to tune around.

      1. Jack D. Bell • July 26, 2022

        Stine has been missing from his regular evening show on KIRO for nearly two months now!…they keep saying he is “subbing” on other shows, but I have not been able to find him on any other shows….does anyone know where this guy is?…did he get fired?

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          No change to his bio on KIRO FM website, no Instagram announcement, KIRO Nights Facebook page has not been updated since March 2021 and Stine’s LinkedIn page gives us no clue. 3 1/2 years in broadcasting? Maybe he has had enough!

          1. Jack D. Bell Untitled

            Thanks for that…I always am miffed, when talk show hosts either leave, or are actually fired without their loyal audience being clued in as to whatever is going on…one of the dudes taking his place at night has mentioned that Stine is making “quite the rounds here at KIRO, subbing on other shows”…but lately, they just step in and say “Jack Stine” is not here tonight.”……Well, DUH!

      2. Jack D. Bell • July 29, 2022

        As you have seen…Jack Stine is history, and you were right–I guess–about his having had enough…I am thinking that he was more of a head case than he even alluded to….But I also think KIRO management must have had a problem with his forthrightness?

  3. Jason Remington • June 5, 2022

    This is the second time around for Suits who had been at KIRO & KVI but then left for a gig in San Diego (KOGO) and Los Angeles (KFI). He also did a short stint at KABC. He is very clever storyteller.

    1. Jack D. Bell • June 8, 2022

      I listened to Suits several years ago…I found him to be very abrasive about his political beliefs…and he is some sort of a military fetishist…he once bragged about joining the Marines, so he could kill people!…I am not surprised to see that he did not last long in the LA radio-world.

      1. Jason Remington • June 8, 2022

        Seeing more articles on places like San Fran turning away from the WOKE mentality, starting to lean Right. Possibly LA at some time in the future. Just like with NETFLIX, corporations are seeing that a woke stance can negatively affect the bottom line.

  4. jon richards • June 5, 2022

    Wondering if anyone has been listening to Bryan Suits on KTTH-am Seattle–what do you think?

  5. Jason Remington • May 3, 2022

    Another topic sending Libs into a tailspin: the striking down of Roe V. Wade by the Supreme court. “Our bodies, Our Choice” something you didn’t hear the Libs screaming during Covid masking mandates. They insist on the right to kill babies. Oh, the spectacle being made on social media! The meltdown and protests have begun. Rather than sit-ins and marches, I believe it would be more effective and bring more attention to the matter if Libs would just start leaping from the windows of skyscrapers or off of area bridges. C’mon you far-Left Libs, you aren’t really trying.

    1. Jack D. Bell • June 8, 2022

      I am very Liberal–except for being anti-abortion…Ya see…I look at abortion as killing a human being…and folks–before we are male and female, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. And since I, as a male, am human, I do not wish to see any of my other humans murdered in the womb…if you step on a caterpillar, you have killed a butterfly…So ladies, be a whole lot more careful who you allow to impregnate you, unless you want to raise a baby…Of course, cases of rape, or of a pregnant woman being in danger if she gives birth (medical reasons) are a different situation….but as HUMANS, male or female, we all should try very hard to not bring unwanted children into this world. When I was a single guy, I always made sure the lady in my sexual life was on the pill…not hard to be this way…and women need to be very careful of getting PG…there is always adoption, if you cannot see your way to being a real mother to your unexpected baby….my fellow libs are always shocked by my feelings on this subject!

  6. Dick Ellingson • May 2, 2022

    Courtesy of the Noo Yawk Times:

    Radio Stars who have studio studcams will be merging graphic T-shirts under blazers with“elasticized” pants for a “smuggly snuggly” microphonic version of “secret comfort and casualization of the lower half.”

    1. Jason Remington • May 2, 2022

      You have always looked stylish in power casual, Dick.

  8. Jason Remington • April 21, 2022

    Best line I have heard today: I’ve had milk that’s lasted longer than CNN+

  9. Jason Remington • April 21, 2022

    46.5 Billion to fund a take-over of Twitter. Someone should let Elon Musk know that he can snap up QZVX.COM for… 12 Billion. (That’s a nice figure.) He can pocket the rest for a rainy day.

  10. Juice Brenner • April 14, 2022

    If she then stopped to snap a selfie, that would be the trifecta.

  11. Dick Ellingson • April 14, 2022

    “Literally” and “Wow” in the same paragraph tonight from CNN’s (trying to sound young and relevant) Erin Burnett.

    1. Jason Remington • June 8, 2022

      I read that the new head honcho at CNN is going to encourage hosts to be less snarky in their presentations, or face dismissal. At the same time, he says he wants to keep personalities like Stelter on air. You can’t have Stelter without the snarky attitude.

  12. Jason Remington • March 25, 2022

    American Hostage
    Widely available, episodes weekly
    Jon Hamm is a soundbite-spouting radio host with silky tones in this scripted podcast based on a true story. It’s 1977 and WIBC Radio’s Fred Heckman (Hamm) is feeling disillusioned (“I don’t know if the news lost me, or I lost the news”) when a huge story breaks. He dives in and gets on the phone with a man holding a hostage at gunpoint. As the pressure and adrenaline build, can Fred keep his cool for a live interview to end the 63-hour standoff?

  14. Jason Remington • February 26, 2022

    The Ric Dees Weekly Top 40 from the 1980s, heard on KGY-FM on Saturday night is more entertaining than all the other competition. That is sad.

  15. Jason Remington • February 23, 2022

    Random movie pick this evening: Black Sheep, starring Chris Farley & David Spade. Takes place in Buckley and Olympia (supposedly). A KTZZ mic flag, KOMO cameras/news van and KCPQ news van were featured. In one scene Farley’s belt gets hooked on KCPQ microwave gear hoisting Farley above the van. Most outdoor scenes were actually filmed in Monrovia, CA.

    1. Jason Remington • February 20, 2022

      Even as a young man, he appeared to be a much older man.

  17. Jason Remington • January 27, 2022

    What is the largest segment of our population right now? Baby Boomers. What are the odds we don’t care for the “new music”?

    1. John Fortmeyer • January 27, 2022

      Doggone large odds!

    2. Mike Forrester • January 28, 2022

      Most of the “new music” sucks! But then my dad never understood the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. So I’d say we’re even.

  19. John Fortmeyer • January 24, 2022

    I was just reading the long and very thorough entry about KCPQ on Wikipedia, and toward the end it stated that as of October — only three months ago — Fox Television Stations, the owner of both Channel 13 and KZJO Channel 22, has applied to move 13’s main transmitter from Gold Mountain near Bremerton to the Capitol Hill site in Seattle of 22’s transmitter.

    This surprises me a bit, because 13’s previous owner, Kelly Broadcasting, had spent big, big bucks in 1980 to move 13’s signal from Tacoma to Gold Mountain and claimed that then-new location provided the highest transmission point in the Puget Sound area. But I know from experience (I used to live on the east slope of a big hill in the Maple Leaf area of north Seattle) that there were parts of Seattle in which the Gold Mountain signal was spotty, so I assume Fox wants to correct that.

    From a technical standpoint, could both 13’s and 22’s primary signals be transmitted off that Capitol Hill tower? And would any other local TV station have an interest in moving transmission to the Gold Mountain site to replace 13’s signal there? I know 4,5 and 7 have long been well situated with their towers on Queen Anne Hill, and 9 and 11 also have theirs on Capitol Hill. I seem to recall that when KSTW moved their signal from Port Orchard to Capitol Hill, the folks at 11 ran ads proclaiming it to be on a “Supertower!”

    1. Dick Ellingson • August 18, 2022

      I remember when Cordes and Thor were Seattle’s super towers.

  20. Jason Remington • January 6, 2022

    Lotus radio station websites are pretty much the same across the nation. They use a WordPress theme and plug in the station information for each particular market.
    https://q921radio.com/ website is the same theme as nwnewsradio.com
    There should be no problem getting the site up in one day. The site showing KVI info has been up for three days, with errors.

  21. Jason Remington • December 26, 2021

    FOX 13’s Bill Wixey and Liz Dueweke speaking with WashDot person on phone about road conditions during today’s snow event. WashDot spokesperson mentions that they are monitoring weather reports from KING 5 and others… oops!

  22. Jason Remington • December 13, 2021

    When an anchor or reporter says mountains but it comes out mount-Ins, buttons as butt-ins, it’s like a nail on a blackboard to me.
    How to pronounce–
    mountains: mown – tnz
    buttons: buh-tnz
    I hear this way too often on local and national tv news and it is a younger generation of reporters.

    1. Dick Ellingson • February 27, 2022

      I love my lawn when it is freshly mown.

      1. Jason Remington • February 27, 2022

        The English language can be confusing. It used to be taught in schools.

        1. Dick Ellingson Untitled

          Jason,

          You remember Bill Close, the KOOL-TV news anchor who always wore a bola tie, Arizona’s official state neckwear. He was 54 when Mary Jo West, half his age, was hired to be his co-anchor, the second female anchor in Phoenix He was already against women in the newsroom. She told the story years later of reading a news item and mispronouncing “insurance” as “INsurances” (accent on the first syllable). When they went to commercial, he reamed her out, telling her in no uncertain terms that she WOULD pronounce “insurance” and all other words correctly from then on.

          Bill’s 2013 obituary:
          https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2014/06/02/bill-close-arizona-icon/9184885/

          A certificate he signed as president of the Bola Tie Society of Arizona:
          https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/api/singleitem/image/acmgifts/81/default.jpg

          1. Jason Remington Untitled

            There should be more like Bill Close and fewer of the Chatty Cathys on local tv news.

  23. Diana Stence • December 12, 2021

    Being a typical radio listener in the Seattle Puget Sound area, I am so HAPPY that Seattle is no longer flush with Rush’s hate-filled voice.
    Other than KBCS, 91.3 FM, Seattle needs more liberal talk radio. Thank God for Thom Hartmann. BTW, what is it with these troglodytes who actually still listen to Rush or the entire hate-filled right wing ? Do they dream they are in 1950, or more like 3000 BC?
    Diana

    1. lonergan • January 27, 2022

      I just came upon this comment from late last year. I know it all depends on “whose ox is being gored” but I have listened to both Rush Limbaugh and Thom Hartmann. Limbaugh could skewer his opponents alright, but I always thought he did it cleverly and with a twinkle in his eye. Hartmann comes across to me as venomous and just plain mean to those on the other end of the political spectrum. As a former broadcaster, I admired Rush as an entertainer as well as influencer. Thom also has a way with words, but his come across to me as accusatory and demeaning. I don’t expect this to change Ms. Stence’s opinion, but neither does she win me over by calling me a troglodyte from 3000 BC when, doggone it, I know I’m happy, healthy and smart, and some people like me!

    2. Jason Remington • February 20, 2022

      God Bless Rush. The best at his craft. And spot on with EVERY political rant.

  24. Jason Remington • December 2, 2021

    Correct! I was also surprised that the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton show was not picked up in Seattle. Dan Bongino was chosen as a replacement for Limbaugh here. With changes coming to the Lotus cluster, perhaps there will be a slot at KOMO (under new call letters soon) or KVI.

  25. JohnFortmeyer • December 2, 2021

    I was quite surprised this morning by something. I grew up in Seattle but am a longtime Oregon resident, yet continue to be very interested in the Seattle media market. Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears NO Seattle or Puget Sound area station is carrying the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, which is the official replacement for Rush Limbaugh’s program. The Travis/Sexton show even carries the “EIB Network” label that Rush originated.

    I assumed that either KVI or KTTH, as conservative talkers, would carry their show. Seems strange that no station in one of the nation’s biggest markets would want to do so.

  27. Jason Remington • November 20, 2021

    AUDACY dropped its 2-minute limit on spot sets at all stations, except KNDD 107.7, where the concept originated in 2014. Now, instead of 4 breaks per hour, the Audacy stations switch to two long spot sets, lasting up to 5 minutes each.

  28. Jay Larsen • November 9, 2021

    KOMO2 airs x-files and other stuff without captions for the hearing impaired. FCC is on their case but no results yet.

    1. Jason Remington • November 9, 2021

      Maybe the CC signal has been interrupted by an alien force field.

      1. Dick Ellingson • August 18, 2022

        How about audio stop signs for “blind as a bat” drivers?

        And before the P. C.’ers cry “How insensitive!”, a disclaimer. I volunteered for a few years at Evergreen Radio Reading Service, reading The Times, P-I and TNT to blind listeners once a week. They were disgusted by the moniker “visually impaired”.

        It’s like being called a senior citizen. Canada’s got it right – they call them old age pensioners.

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          Hopefully, the new self-driving vehicles will help. Though I have seen recently where a couple of those failed and resulted in car wrecks.

  31. Jason Remington • October 20, 2021

    You realize how stupid people are when you watch a simple game show, such as, You Bet Your Life. Tonight, the category required spelling words. There was no trickery. These were English words that we use everyday. The contestants failed to spell the military title “colonel”.
    The secret words were “bed” and “people”. Jay Leno could not lead contestants to say the word in conversation except by asking an obvious question, the secret word being the answer.
    Compare present day game shows to something like What’s My Line, from the 1960s. The dumbing-down of America has been successful.

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 21, 2021

      I’m glad I missed this. Does Leno really believe he can be another Groucho? Such an ego.

      “What’s My Line” was one of early TV’s very best game shows.

      It was like my favorite radio game show of the 1940’s, “Information Please”. Both shows required brain power. Both shows had intellegent, witty panelists who treated each other with respect, which included addressing each other as “Miss” or “Mister”. The atmosphere was cordial, with good-natured humor and teasing – gay repartee.

    1. Dick Ellingson • October 11, 2021

      Vlad moonlights there via Zoom as format captain.

  34. Dick Ellingson • September 16, 2021

    Happy 100th anniversary to WBZ Boston. The iconic station signed on Sept. 19, 1921.

    One cold fall night half a century ago, I arrived at my home in Woodway from my work day at KFKF, grabbed a Miller High Life, turned on my living room analog receiver and began scanning back and forth across the AM dial. It was history being made when, for the only time in my life, I dx’ed WBZ from the Seattle area. But the real history was the sports scoreboard: it was announced that the Boston Patriots lost to the New York Giants, 16-Zip! “Zip!!” It was the first time I heard Zip as part of a ball score. I thought it sounded excellent and perfectly descriptive.

  35. Dick Ellingson • September 16, 2021

    Real item from news@radioinsight.com: “KEZK St. Louis has cut ties with morning host Greg Hewitt.”

    No, I was NOT fired by KAYO or KMPS, they simply opted to cut ties with me.

    1. Jason Remington • September 16, 2021

      Only one radio station ever cut ties with me. I recall the owner staring me in the face and yelling, “We are cutting ties with you. Get out!”

  36. Jason Remington • September 6, 2021

    OK, I see that the term Brand Manager has replaced Program Director. There are no programs or personalities to manage, only liner cards.

  37. Jason Remington • August 12, 2021

    J-MEN FOREVER — The Lightning Bug has a multi-prong scheme to enslave the earth. First, rock and roll, which the JMen counter with Muzak, then marijuana. Finally, the JMen build a bomb to blow up the moon with, but the Bug beats them to it by self destructing the moon by playing his rock and roll too loud.
    MG KELLY voices a character (Lightning Bug). Old movie clips pieced together to make this movie. Over-dubbed with new audio.
    Radio jocks must see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Zt0cqpvso

  39. Dick Ellingson • August 11, 2021

    I just found: http://www.wold.rocks and an interesting variety of music.

    Oldies and soft rock hits, concentrating on oldies from the 1950s and 1960s and soft rock hits up to the disco era. Oldies is their term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, rockabilly, doo-wop, Motown and surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to about the 1980s.

    Dean Martin, In the Chapel in the Moonlight
    Beach Boys, Surfin’ Safari
    Floyd Cramer, On the Rebound
    Wayne Newton, Danke Schoen
    The Shangri-Las, Leader of the Pack
    The Gladiolas, Little Darlin’
    Little Anthony & The Imperials, Cha Cha Henry
    The Tune Weavers, Happy Happy Birthday Baby
    Mungo Jerry, Wild Love
    B.B. King, To Know You Is to Love You
    Freddy Cannon, Palisades Park
    The Monkees, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
    Rita Coolidge, Old Fashioned Heart
    Lee Andrews & The Hearts, Try the Impossible
    Theodore Bikel & Mary Martin, Edelweiss
    The Pointer Sisters, Yes We Can Can
    Bob Dylan, All I Really Want to Do
    etc.

  40. John Fortmeyer • August 10, 2021

    But Jason, I specifically remember that they ONLY carried the newscast in the VERY early morning . Like at 3:55, 4:55. 5:55 a.m., (I remember that the ABC Contemporary news was always at 5 minutes to the hour). KJR never ran the ABC news during the rest of the day or evening.

    1. Dick Ellingson • August 10, 2021

      I seem to remember ABC Contemporary on KQIN for a little while. I contacted ABC about getting it on KURB and was politely turned down.

    2. John Fortmeyer • August 11, 2021

      So… the question then is why did KJR even bother to affiliate with ABC Contemporary if it was essentially hiding the newscasts? Was it to fulfill some FCC requirement on content? I can’t think of any other reason….

      1. Dick Ellingson • October 11, 2021

        Maybe it was to prevent a competitor from getting it. Didn’t Don Burden buy up all the hot jingle packages, with no intention of airing them, just so the competition couldn’t get them?

  43. Dick Ellingson • July 19, 2021

    New oldies today on KYNO Fresno, now 50kw at 940AM

    Just heard Ramsey Lewis with Wade in the Water, Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkle and It’s All in The Game by Tommy Edwards.

    So far so good.

    https://streamdb8web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KYNO

    1. Jason Remington • July 19, 2021

      Fats Domino-I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday…
      Englebert Humperdinck-Am I That Easy To Forget
      so they are getting into the 50s and MOR 60s music. Better that than slipping in some 80s tunes which KOOL FM Phoenix did before going to a Classic Rock format. Way to kill a great Oldies station.

  44. Jason Remington • July 19, 2021

    Any chance they get, AT&T or Comcast will try to sell you a new streaming service. AT&T’s CNN said it plans to launch a streaming subscription service in the first quarter of 2022.
    The service, dubbed CNN Plus, will be a standalone, direct-to-consumer product separate from CNN’s current TV channels.
    At launch CNN Plus is expected to have eight to 12 hours of live, daily programming featuring some of CNN’s best-known talent. It will also have new faces, CNN said.
    CNN Plus will also launch with a library of non-fiction, long-form programming including series like Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, This is Life with Lisa Ling and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. Starting CNN Plus continues the trend of media companies shifting their focus to direct-to-consumer streaming products from traditional pay TV as cord-cutting and other changes in consumer behavior slice into wholesale distribution revenue. (story from NEXT | TV)

  45. Dick Ellingson • July 19, 2021

    Congratulations to Bill Diehl on a half century with the same employer, ABC Radio.

    https://radioink.com/2021/07/19/congratulations-bill-diehl/

    Bill made his debut fifty years ago today, July 19,1971, on the American Entertainment Radio Network, which had recently replaced Mutual on KAYO, where I was a new weekender and doing vacation fill-in. Bill went on to specialize in entertainment world interviews, show biz, sports, etc. At that time, ABC Radio’s four networks operated from 6:00 A. M. until midnight eastern time (3:00 AM – 9:00 PM pacific). KAYO’s first ABC news ran at 3:30 AM and opened with, “Here’s the latest worldwide news from the American Entertainment Radio Network, Bill Diehl in New York reporting”. I was doing the all-nighter for vacation relief and adopted the oh-so-cute intro, “It’s time to hand out the news from ABC, so if you’re ready, Bill . . . DEAL!”

    As an aside, with my two regular weekend shifts, and the six all-nighters during summer vacation, I was on the air and spinning records forty-eight hours a week for more than three months, Sat 6pm-midnight, Sun noon-6pm, Mon-Sat midnight-6am.

  47. Jason Remington • July 13, 2021

    The FCC has approved Alpha Media’s bankruptcy, Chapter 11 restructuring.
    This is conditioned upon the filing of a petition for declaratory ruling within 30 days of closing on the transaction described therein, would serve the public interest. Alpha had filed for Chapter 11 protection in January. The restructured Alpha Media USA will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Alpha. amilton Lane Incorporated and its subsidiaries will be the largest shareholder of the company controlling 49% of the equity and voting interests. MetLife Inc. will control 43.7% of the equity and voting interests, while Intermediate Capital Group PLC’s will hold 5.8% of Alpha. Approximately 22% of the company’s equity and 14% of voting interests will be foreign controlled. (Lance Venta-RadioInsight)

  48. Jason Remington • July 13, 2021

    Monday, July 19th, 2021, KYNO Fresno moves to 940 AM. With 50,000 watts, KYNO will blast Oldies on the AM frequency which is currently Sportsradio KFIG. KYNO, originally at 1300, a legendary Top 40 station, currently sits at 1430. Listeners are being reminded to dial 940 on Monday morning to hear the new KYNO. https://bit.ly/2TcqPXw

  49. KEVIN • July 7, 2021

    BOGUS! Britney clapped back over this conservatorship thingy. Britney flexxed all these years and deserves her pocket full of celery. Now she is all high key over this sus ruling and it all needs to skrt! Her fans be shook. We need to see the receipts. No cap! All the time, Brit tryin’ to swerve, but her dad! In concert, on video, Brit is on fleek. TBH, slaps! Slayin’. We know Britney can serve executive realness by her own self. Did you see that court hearing? Neither did I, I was at pac sun. I heard about it. I’m dead. This nonsense is extra. Fans need to keep it 100 AF. Britney, we are here for you!

    This video will live forever! Or until Britney gains her freedom.
    https://qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Britney-Spears-cryer.mp4

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