OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  1. Jason Remington • June 12, 2024

    I was listening to KGY (KYYO HD2) Olympia 95.3 this afternoon. So tired, and it wasn’t the warm weather. The Oldies choices are not doing it for me. KGY has to step it up and run Oldies from the late 50s thru the 70s. It has got to change.

  2. Jason Remington • June 12, 2024

    Former President Jimmy Carter. The open mouth and look of dementia…similar to the look on Joe Biden’s face each day. Biden often appears to be asleep, during meetings and other events.
    Carter
    Carter’s grandson says Carter is NOT awake some days in hospice care.

    1. Dick Ellingson • June 21, 2024

      Jimmy might just be pretending to be unaware while he contemplates changing his will. What’s that sound, grandson’s sweat glands popping open?

  3. Steve Sibulsky • June 7, 2024

    When is Part Two of Randy’s interview with Gary Taylor going to be posted??

    1. Jason Remington • June 9, 2024

      Awaiting that audio download from Randy Roadz.

      1. Steve Sibulsky • June 9, 2024

        Thanks!

    1. Jason Remington • June 2, 2024

      I remember Bud Collyer as the radio version of Superman and then host of To Tell The Truth.

  6. Dick Ellingson • May 29, 2024

    In Illinois, legislative alchemy is transforming snarling dogs into pettable puppies.

    05/21/2024: State house submits bill amending the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009. Changes references from “offenders” to “justice-impacted individuals”.

    1. Jason Remington • May 29, 2024

      I’m betting most of those would be BIPOC marginalized citizens, or people without papers. To say that they have “offended” is just downright racist. Why not call them systemic-racism affected victims.

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          Maybe this Queen… https://shorturl.at/J9w8c

    2. louis • June 5, 2024

      Justice-impacted? Yet another word salad afflicted elected official.
      Yes lets forget and ignore the victims. You know POS, drug infested, ditbag impacted, law abiding citizen that has done nothing to deserve the coddling of the criminal justice system.

      1. Jason Remington • July 25, 2024

        Thanks to the money paid to corporate attorneys in past law cases your fast food may kill you–but that’s the chance you take.
        McDonald’s should just have customers sign a waiver at the drive-thru. It would be cheaper than lawsuits.

  7. Jason Remington • May 29, 2024

    That was my first thought. My understanding is, they were a couple. That seems like corruption, being given a position made especially for you, because you are the main squeeze of the police chief. Seattle, little Chicago.

  8. Dick Ellingson • May 27, 2024

    “It’s worth noting that . . .”

    No it isn’t.

    1. Jason Remington • May 28, 2024

      “McDonald’s new menu: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.”

      As if they have some inside scoop on that slop.

  9. Dick Ellingson • May 23, 2024

    More mellow internet radio:
    http://www.thepenthouse.fm/

    Last few:
    Judy Collins – Move On
    Matt Dusk – On the Street Where You Live
    Etta James – At Last
    Frank Sinatra – Drinking Again
    Frank Sinatra – I Like The Sunrise
    Rosemary Clooney with The Hi-Lo’s – Together
    Dean Martin – Arrivederci Roma
    Louis Prima – Basin Street Blues/When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
    Stan Kenton – How Deep Is The Ocean (How Blue Is The Sky)?
    Nancy Wilson – I Believe in You
    Mel Torme – Just One Of Those Things
    Marissa Mulder – Chelsea Morning
    Glenn Frey – For Sentimental Reasons
    Nat King Cole – My Lips Remember Your Kisses
    Dolores Gray – Penthouse Serenade (When We’re Alone)

  10. Jason Remington • May 22, 2024

    A product of DEI, Joy Reid, has come out as Mrs Potato Head.

  11. Jason Remington • May 9, 2024

    Thanks to Sam Lawson for prompting some final touch-ups to the new layout here at QZVX. The new look is complete and lookin’ pretty nifty. Sam has been added to the Admin staff here and has a corner office over-looking the parking lot and loading dock.
    Welcome Aboard, Sam!

  13. Dick Ellingson • April 20, 2024

    https://www.historylink.org/File/3289

    King County grand jury indicts public officials in police payoff scandal on July 27, 1971.

    From the sixth paragraph:

    “In January 1967, The Seattle Times published a series of articles exposing the system. Mayor Braman impaneled a blue-ribbon commission to investigate the Times allegations.”

    I wonder if The Seattle Times would be able to do that today.

    Right now it looks like it’s trying, investigating Martin Selig and his local real estate vacancies, cash shortages, late pays, defaults and bankruptcies, as well as his habit of stiffing his contractors.

    Does that sound like somebody we know? Somebody who’s spending four days a week lately in a ‘freezing’ room?

    1. Jason Remington • April 20, 2024

      Freezing in order to keep everyone awake. That doesn’t always work.

  14. Jason Remington • April 13, 2024

    Best line of the week:
    OJ Simpson died. Now he can rest in peace, knowing his wife’s murderer is dead.

  15. Dick Ellingson • April 12, 2024

    New page layout is excellent!!

    1. Jason Remington • April 12, 2024

      Thank you!

  17. Jason Remington • March 28, 2024

    An online publication had this story on 3/26/2024:

    JCPenney will close all stores in under a week leaving fans of department store scrambling for alternative for 24 hours–
    By Elizabeta Ranxburgaj, The US Sun

    A MAJOR department store chain will shut its doors for 24 hours in a few days. JCPenney will shut its doors for staff and customers to observe a holiday. The chain will be closed for Easter Sunday on March 31. This means shoppers looking to visit the store on this day will have to re-evaluate their plans.

    —-This is not news. This is not breaking news. This is not a major story. The US Sun reporter obviously had to turn in something and attempted to make news out of thin air. Or–this was actually written by AI.

    Either way, this was an example of the media attempting to make news where there is really nothing to report.

    According to LinkedIn, that reporter is a “trainee” .
    Elizabeta (Lizzie) Ranxburgaj – Reporter at The US Sun & Londoners News sites, Fast-track NCTJ Trainee at News Associates

    1. Jason Remington • March 21, 2024

      The decision by Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, severs a century-old partnership. It “enables us to invent our own stories.”

    2. Jason Remington • April 3, 2024

      I guess McClatchy and Gannett will get their news from social media now. Brilliant!

      1. Dick Ellingson • April 12, 2024

        But only when they’re all pooped out from a hard day of inventing their own bull poop.

  20. Dick Ellingson • March 20, 2024

    Just now on Out Front: “Next up on CNN, Oprah Winfrey’s weight loss. After this break, first clip from latest interview!!”

  21. Jason Remington • March 20, 2024

    Sinclair is adding the Tennis Channel’s T2 channel to the KOMO NextGen lineup. A Tennis Channel press release describes T2– With original programming and events that do not appear on Tennis Channel, T2 debuted in 2022 and since has provided fans with more annual free, live tennis than ever in U.S. television history. From January through November, professional tennis features multiple tournaments every week most of the time, sometimes as many as six at once. These consist of men’s and women’s competition; singles, doubles and mixed matches; all day long from various time zones around the world. Tennis Channel has the U.S. media rights to almost all of it, meaning T2 can stand alone among FAST sports channels in its ability to bring live, top-tier coverage of one of the country’s historically popular sports – every day.

  22. Jason Remington • March 20, 2024

    The Tacoma News Tribune is cutting back again! The newspaper will now deliver a print edition ONLY on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The digital edition is available 24/7 in real time. and doesn’t cost near as much as the print edition. But, we will miss the ink stains on our fingers. The digital edition is lackluster, local coverage is scant, and I doubt things will get better. The newspaper is fast becoming a thing of the past.

    1. Dick Ellingson • March 20, 2024

      And no more newsrooms filled with ink-stained wretches and shouting editors wearing green plastic visors.

      But do not fret, tomorrow’s Grandpappy will be flaunting his Keyboard Kalluses to the whippersnappers gathered at his swollen feet.

  23. Dick Ellingson • March 19, 2024

    “It’s a very slippery slope” must never be uttered again. Never!

    1. Jason Remington • March 19, 2024

      Tell it to the judge.

      1. Dick Ellingson • March 20, 2024

        And decapitate the next person who says “wrong-headed”.

        1. Jason Remington Untitled

          I don’t even know what wrong-headed means.

    2. Jason Remington • March 20, 2024

      We have a lot of things we have to unpack.

      1. Dick Ellingson • September 29, 2024

        Try Ex-Lax

    1. Dick Ellingson • March 19, 2024

      Pretty nice, and the player is good looking, too.

  25. Jason Remington • March 16, 2024

    Seattle Times reports that longtime (25 years) KEXP afternoon drive DJ, Kevin Cole, will exit the station this summer.

  26. Dick Ellingson • March 14, 2024

    “Scottsboro’s Only Hometown Radio Station, WWIC-AM 1050, Scottsboro, Alabama, your home for traditional country and bluegrass music.”

    But right now I’m listening to high school baseball. Play-by-play man Greg Bell says, “Tomorrow’s game might be internet only because they’re a little short on employees down at the radio station.”

    https://static.airable.io/90/46/704772.png

    Greg Bell is in his 37th year of calling Scottsboro High football, basketball, baseball and softball. Bell was inducted into the Jackson County Sports Hall of Fame/Class of 2018 on January 12, 2019.

  27. Jason Remington • March 13, 2024

    While watching KIRO 7 news at 6pm today, I caught a report of a dog rescue on Vashon Island’s KVI Beach.

    1. Dick Ellingson • March 14, 2024

      Woof!

    1. Jason Remington • March 12, 2024

      Di$comfort. Hmmm… we $hall $ee.

    1. Jason Remington • March 8, 2024

      I watched a few of his videos yesterday. SMOOTHER than Sinatra. I remember Steve Lawrence from the Mike Douglas show appearances.

    1. Jason Remington • March 5, 2024

      So long, CNN. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

  31. Jason Remington • February 26, 2024

    Dipping a little toe in the icy hiring pool, Seattle radio adds at least one new star to the roster…
    KZOK hires Ashley Ryan, producer of the Chuck & Buck show at SportsRadio KJR, as Saturday morning air personality.

  32. Jason Remington • February 25, 2024

    KCPQ FOX 13 sports anchor, Aaron Levine posted on X:
    Confirmed by WSP: Richard Sherman was arrested for DUI and was booked in the King County Jail around 4am. (Saturday) Per WSP, this under investigation so no other details can be released until the prosecutor’s office files the case.

    I wonder if this will have any effect on his sports broadcast career. Sherman has definitely crossed the line this time. His earlier dust up with his ex at her parents’ home only sidelined his career for a minute.

    1. louis • February 25, 2024

      FROM FAMILY INCIDENT: “authorities said he crashed his SUV in a suburban Seattle construction zone, tried to break into his in-laws’ home, and fought with officers who used a police dog to apprehend him”

      A dui in Washington isn’t much these days. If his previous dust up didn’t affect him I doubt this will.

      1. Jason Remington • February 25, 2024

        A DUI should be taken very seriously. But I am sure he has a good attorney.

        1. louis Untitled

          Agreed.

      2. Dick Ellingson • February 25, 2024

        In a construction zone? Oooh. They’ll double the fine from nothin’ to nearly nothin’.

        Burning question: why would a guy want to break IN to his in-laws’ home? OUT I can understand.

  35. Jason Remington • February 24, 2024

    4,325 posts here on the blog as of 2/24/24 — plus special pages like AM RADIO, TV, CHART & LINKS etc., and thousands of links to audio, pictures, video, pdf’s etc. I try to spend an hour or so each week scouring the site to make sure everything is still in place and visible/accessible.
    If you see something wonky, missing links etc. Let me know. Thanks!!!

    Trivia – A quick search shows that 104 posts mention Pat O’Day. Only 104?

  36. Dick Ellingson • February 23, 2024

    From the Feb. 10, 2024 Los Angeles Times:
    L.A. County sheriff’s deputy injured after accidentally shooting himself, officials say

    A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was wounded Friday night after accidentally shooting himself while unholstering his weapon, Sheriff’s Department officials said Saturday.

    The deputy was wounded in the lower torso, officials said. The unintentional discharge occurred about 10 p.m. at the Temple City sheriff’s station, officials said.

    Officials said the deputy was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, and was stable Saturday morning.

    No mention of how he became injured or how long after the shooting the injury occurred. Also omitted were details of the deputy’s unintentional discharge.

    1. Jason Remington • February 23, 2024

      I’m guessing the first two paragraphs explained how it happened and that the injuries occurred immediately when the gun discharged.
      The last paragraph seems to contradict my theory, but…

      Unintentional Discharge? Try Depends ®

  37. Dick Ellingson • February 21, 2024

    Breathtaking headline from apnews.com:

    Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner’s divorce is finalized, officially ending their marriage

    Yes, I think that’s how divorce works.

  38. Dick Ellingson • February 14, 2024

    Bob Edwards of NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition” died last Saturday, 2/10/2024.

    “I like sitting at the mic and being on the radio,” Edwards said shortly before leaving NPR. “That’s still a kick.”

    That quote could be from any of us in the biz. It explains why we did what we did.

  39. Dick Ellingson • February 7, 2024

    Brain dead MSNBC moderator: “Uhhhhhmmm I do have to ask ummm you and uummm because . .”

    1. Jason Remington • February 7, 2024

      One of the first things taught in broadcasting school: Avoid crutch words or phrases.

      1. Dick Ellingson • February 8, 2024

        I learned that in the first class at Ron Bailie’s. It was called the verbalized pause.

  40. Jason Remington • February 6, 2024

    KIRO 7 and other COX stations beg customers to contact the Direct TV & UVerse companies and demand that the stations be added back to the service. Adding these stations back, at a higher rate, raising the cable tv bill of each customer and putting more money in KIRO 7’s coffers. Just a big money grab from the owners of the tv station versus the nbig money grab being pulled off by Direct TV/UVerse.
    Customer … Screwed!
    KIRO’s website tells you:
    NO MORE BROKEN PROMISES
    DIRECTV has given some customers long-term contracts with heavy termination fees, while eliminating some of programming you love. Don’t let them get away with broken promises. Take action today!
    and urges customers to drop Direct TV and switch to other streamers that carry KIRO 7.
    Why not just switch to FOX 13. It is a better news product. Or KOMO. KOMO 4 is also popular.
    And when those two stations start the same money grab against Direct TV, there will also be KING 5 to switch to or KIRO 7, because KIRO 7 will be back on Direct TV, taking customers for a ride.

    1. Dick Ellingson • February 4, 2024

      Good one, Jason! Not the same old stuff. Nice to hear the old standards by different artists, new arrangements.

      Playing the same records over and over, no matter how good they are, is what killed music radio for anyone with an attention span longer than two seconds.

      “Playboy” by Kathy Kirby. Haven’t heard that for a while! I wonder how many different songs are called “Playboy”. Living proof that you can’t copyright a song title.

      And Frank Sinatra Jr. First ex and I saw his show at the Puyallup Fair fifty some years ago.

  43. Louis • January 23, 2024

    Prayers for Charles and his family. I enjoyed his work for many years.

  44. Jason Remington • January 23, 2024

    Award-winning journalist Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for 22 years and was host of the long-running radio program “The Osgood File,” died Tuesday at home in New Jersey.

    1. Jason Remington • January 20, 2024

      When speaking to Rolling Stone in a 2007 interview after four decades out of the public eye, Weiss looked back on stories from her past, including the time James Brown booked her for a Texas show. “When I walked out onstage, I thought he was going to have a coronary,” she said. “He didn’t realize I was white.

    1. Jason Remington • January 15, 2024

      From the article, it appears she was wealthy, based on her husbands’ earnings while he was alive, not The Honeymooners.

  48. Dick Ellingson • January 4, 2024

    More Good Oldies Radio

    From Rothesay, New Brunswick
    “Oldies96” Community Radio

    https://oldies96.com/

  49. Jason Remington • December 30, 2023

    Bye-Bye! KVOS
    KUNS announced on December 27, 2023 that KVOS Bellingham will pick up the Univision affiliation. The station is owned by Weigel Broadcasting and is currently carrying Heroes & Icons (H&I) which will move to a subchannel of KVOS.
    As was mentioned here by a reader, KVOS is nothing like the CBS affiliate you grew up watching in Bellingham. KVOS has city-grade coverage of Vancouver, and Victoria BC, but is a mere rimshot into parts of Seattle. KVOS is owned by Weigel Broadcasting. (info KVOS, NWBroadcasters. KUNS video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdvAU0n-OXQ

    1. John Christopher Kowsky • December 30, 2023

      I remember dropping by KVOS one night, in the ‘60’s researching a paper I was doing for a class. Was able to waltz right in, and there sat the announcer, who would come on during program breaks and read live ads. Turns out the guy (Rick Chase?) lived right across Ellis Street from the station and could have been a student at Western. KVOS was totally aiming for the Vancouver, B.C. market, and I believe beer commercials were not allowed by the Canadian channels so Channel 12 did a real killing appealing to those sponsors. At least until the Canadian Government put the kibosh on that revenue stream. It’s amazing that frequency has survived all this time.

  50. John Fortmeyer • December 29, 2023

    Someone just mentioned on the Portland Radio Guide site (pdxradio.com) that the Spanish-language network Univision is moving to Weigel-owned KVOS-TV 12.1. Any confirmation here to this site? I’m a bit surprised, because KVOS, even though now based in Seattle, is still licensed to Bellingham and its over-the-air signal from Orcas Island only reaches portions of the Seattle market. KVOS certainly is FAR different now from its many years as a CBS affiliate in northwest Washington.

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