OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  1. Lou Robbins • January 13, 2025

    If you have a public library card and a smart tv, download the KANOPY app on your tv. Follow the instructions, set up an account–this links to your tv. You may find some rare and hard to find movies, old made for tv movies, documentaries AND MORE (as the commercials say) and… etc.

    Watching a made for tv movie that I saw on the night it aired, and not again until tonite. Today’s technology has opened up a treasure trove of goodies.

    “Picture Mommy Dead” – The movie stars Don Ameche, Zsa Zsa Gabor…

  2. Dick Ellingson • December 29, 2024

    WAPO headline: “Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says”
    Sounds like a reliable source to me.

    1. QZVX Admin • December 29, 2024

      Which President’s SON said that??? OK, Carter’s. He would be a credible source.

  3. Dick Ellingson • December 24, 2024

    KSFO is moving to 810.

  4. QZVX Admin • December 20, 2024


    Check out SAN, Straight Arrow News.
    This is what local TV News should look like, at least initially, based on current technology.
    A full-service news platform. Also, capsule summaries delivered to readers on X and other major social media platforms, drawing viewers to the station website. Serious news items, not The Question of the Day, or Hollywood gossip.
    TV stations should be adopting these features now. Stories should be delivered in audio, text and video. Currently, tv and radio station websites are only an afterthought.
    There is no future for local tv unless they adapt to an online delivery method. The current OTA model is not sustainable in the new environment.
    Local tv will be available through subscriptions — without the cable tv middleman. This has to happen and local tv stations have to adopt the new technology and delivery methods, for news AND programming.

  5. QZVX Admin • December 15, 2024

    Ty Rosenow has a great collection of Old Time Radio programs suitable for many hours of enjoyable listening. Check them out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TyRosenow/videos

  6. Lou Robbins • December 13, 2024

    I have been listening to Accu-radio the past few weeks.
    App is free-they don’t charge for the service.
    Combine genres for a mix – unlimited
    no DJ interruptions
    No fees
    I’ve combined the Beautiful Music-Beautiful Piano & Big Band stations tonight. I can add other genres, remove a genre… good stuff!

  8. Dick Ellingson • November 23, 2024

    How long since you’ve heard a record by Diana Dors? Serenade Radio UK just played “The Point of No Return”

    Les Baxter And His Orchestra – Ruby
    Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme – A Fine Romance
    Tommy Dorsey Orch. with Jo Stafford & Frank Sinatra – Snootie Little Cutie

    1. QZVX Admin • December 27, 2024

      The Serenade Radio site has helpful hints, such as how to avoid the Tune-In commercials. Works for those that have an Amazon account. First time I’ve seen this workaround with Alexa. https://www.serenade-radio.com/how_to_listen/

  9. Dick Ellingson • November 22, 2024

    Is there a competition on this forum to see who can post the greatest number of disjointed messages that show no concern with spelling, punctuation, grammar, or syntax?

  10. Lou Robbins • November 18, 2024

    The next best thing to hearing old-time-radio drama, reading the script.
    Check out: https://www.genericradio.com/
    Generic Radio

    1. Dick Ellingson • November 22, 2024

      Let George Do It!

  11. Lou Robbins • November 18, 2024

    In 1961, Tacoma civic leader Bob Corcoran, along with businessman Frank Karwoski, opened a sports supply store in Lakewood. The store later moved to a 6th Avenue location. Joining Corcoran in the enterprise as Vice-President of the company, Tacoma-Seattle TV and radio sportscaster Bob Robertson. Vic Cozzetti was sales manager at the operation.
    During the mid-1960s, Corcoran would broadcast little league slow pitch baseball on Channel 13 from Tacoma’s Heidelberg Park and regional college basketball on Channel 11 with Doug McArthur.
    For a period of time, Corcoran had a midday talk show on 1360 KMO each weekday.
    In 1964, Bob Robertson was calling play-by-play for the PCL Tacoma Giants on Channel 11. In December, Robertson, Corcoran, McArthur, along with John Jarstad, signed on to broadcast 13 University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University basketball games on KTNT 11. The company was Corcoran’s Pacific Northwest Sports Productions.
    In 1964, Corcoran and Vic Cozzetti would broadcast a series of college baseball games from the University of Puget Sound over KTVW 13.
    Corcoran was a booster of the Tyees of Tacoma, a local group playing just for the fun of it. Community donations supported the team and Corcoran, though having no official tie to the Tyees, helped out with supplying uniforms.
    Corcoran’s sports supply store was one of the many sponsors of the yearly Tacoma Salmon Bake at Point Defiance, buying ad space in the newspaper and brochures.

  12. Lou Robbins • November 17, 2024

    Maintenance note:

    1. Any plugins/apps which had hampered the speed or performance of QZVX were eliminated this weekend. The “Popular Posts” plugin has been eliminated. No satisfactory replacement is available.

    2. The site was swept for ‘dead links’. Readers are encouraged to report any posts which have issues with graphics that do not load or have dead links.

  13. Lou Robbins • November 15, 2024

    I think we need term limits for tv new anchors. Andrea Mitchell appears to be slurring her words and not quite comatose but possibly on Quaaludes.

  15. Lou Robbins • November 9, 2024

    Emmett Watson/Seattle P-I, June 17, 1971 – Today’s top definition award goes to KAYO’s disc jockey Don Lane defining an elephant.
    “That would be a mouse that was designed by the Pentagon and built by Lockheed on a cost-plus contract.”

    1. Lou Robbins • November 4, 2024

      I have Soul Bossa Nova on the Magnavox console stereo whenever I’m feeling frisky.

  17. John Ross • November 3, 2024

    Hey Y’all, if you haven’t yet sampled RewoundRadio.Com – with its 24/7 preservation of Top 40 Classic Radio Oldies – today would be a good day! Jon Wolfert is live from the Jingle Palace in Dallas, not only playing the hits, but revealing the early days of radio in Australia and the early PAM’s jingles. ENJOY!

  18. Lou Robbins • October 23, 2024

    Our MENU has changed… some adjustments have been made on the blog front-end and internally. The blog has been moved to new servers without any loss or significant downtime. This is supposed to improve performance overall. New SPAM filters were installed and batteries in the smoke alarms. Readers may notice some cleanup has been done, we are always looking to eradicate clutter and make the site simpler to navigate. We have restricted registration capabilities and there will be no new registrations going forward. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. Overall, the site has been tightened up and winterized. Please be careful not to twist the knobs up beyond “10” and stay out of the red.
    Thank you!

  19. Lou Robbins • October 22, 2024

    99% of women underestimate the power of making their man a sandwich and delivering it to him in a sundress.

  20. Dick Ellingson • October 21, 2024

    From fox13seattle.com,

    “The SUV was driving westbound on Pine Street at a high rate of speed, ran a red light and crashed into each other, detectives said.”

    Ad copy, news copy, whatever, it’s not a bad idea to read it to yourself out loud before sharing it with the public.

    1. Lou Robbins • October 22, 2024

      “The SUV, like a magnet, drew the other vehicle into it’s pull force, at the same time the impetus of the SUV’s forward movement resulted in a collision of great magnitude between the two vehicles.” said bystander Ferd Finkley, part-time stocker at a local grocery store.

  21. Lou Robbins • October 11, 2024

    Feliks Banel has a special show coming up this weekend—
    SPECIAL BOB BLACKBURN CENTENNIAL BROADCAST!
    Join me LIVE this Sunday night – October 13, 2024 – at 8pm Pacific Time on SPACE 101.1 FM in Seattle (and streaming everywhere via space101fm.org) for a special episode of CASCADE OF HISTORY marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of broadcasting legend and VOICE OF THE SONICS Bob Blackburn.
    We’ll have tons of rare vintage audio from throughout Bob’s long career on the West Coast, and Bob’s son will join us live for the entire hour.

  23. Lou Robbins • October 10, 2024

    KGRG AM& FM have gone silent. This happened in late June.

    KGRG-FM 210A Auburn, WA
    K207AP Sumner & Lake Tapps, WA
    Silent STA Request
    June 2024
    KGRG-FM has lost the use of its licensed transmitter site. The station discontinued operation on
    June 20th, and the antenna has been removed from the tower. Operation of associated FM
    translator K207AP was discontinued on June 18th, in anticipation of loss of its input
    programming feed.
    The licensee will now be seeking a new transmitter site for KGRG-FM, and requests Silent STA
    for a full six-month period to facilitate that search. The translator will remain silent while the
    KGRG-FM remains silent, and a six-month Silent STA is therefore requested for the translator,
    as well.

  24. Lou Robbins • October 10, 2024

    Can you name the famous actor in this photo from 1935?

    1. Martin R. Howell • October 10, 2024

      Maybe Robert Stack.

      1. Lou Robbins • October 10, 2024

        The answer may shock you.

    2. Lou Robbins • October 10, 2024

      I see the resemblance. But, No! You might be surprised to know who it is.

    3. Shirley • October 11, 2024

      Burgess Meredith

      1. Lou Robbins • October 11, 2024

        YES! Burgess Meredith. What a difference 30 or 40 years makes.

        1. Lou Robbins Untitled

          In my top 5 favorites of TZ.

  25. Dick Ellingson • September 29, 2024

    Listening to one of our local stations yesterday, I heard a two minute spot break (four :30s). I don’t remember what the first two were for, but #3 was for an aspiring U. S. Senator and #4 was for his opponent, the incumbent.

    Back in the day, the traffic girl would have been in deep trouble with the street scrounger and the G. M. for scheduling any competing businesses in adjacent breaks, much less in the same break, and never right up against each other. Just bad business, how-to-piss-off-the-client 101. And it seems to me that political spots had some more stringent legal requirements than that.

    1. Jason Remington • September 30, 2024

      One of the things we were told by management, that if we run into back-to-back competitor spots, carry the second spot to the next stop-set.

  26. Lou Robbins • September 20, 2024

    We have a problem with the economy when the announcer’s voice has to be sped up at the end of a Taco Bell commercial to explain the details of a discount on a bean burrito.

    1. Steven Smith • September 28, 2024

      Two things they do now that were unheard of: Sometimes to get a sixty second long spot they just have the same 30 play twice in a row. First time I heard that, years back, I thought the cart machine had skipped its cue tone. Of course nobody has cart machines anymore. But the most annoying is some ad for a vitamin or supplement that is easy to understand. Then at the end they speed it up to meet requirements for legal disclaimers….but you cannot understand a word of it. Like Mickey Mouse on speed. It all seems so amateur. Then you have the satellite stations where the length of the local break does not match the network break, so when it automatically switches back you hear the butt end of the networks commercial. Speaking as a geezer, back in the day any jock who was so sloppy would not last long.

      1. mavis gold • September 29, 2024

        or a lot of small print that’s too small and fuzzy to read and it’s not on the screen long enough to read even if you could make it out.

  27. Josh • September 20, 2024

    Apparently liz dueweke is heading back to seattle any ideas where she will land?

    1. Lou Robbins • September 20, 2024

      I have heard this rumor. She should not have left. Hopefully she will find an opportunity here. Seems that KIRO could be a landing place.

  28. Lou Robbins • September 17, 2024

    Has RADIO entered hospice yet?

    1. Lou Robbins • September 20, 2024

      The Top 15 Classic Rock songs of All-Time. So says an article on the web. Possibly click-bait, but these are songs you’ve heard each and every day as you have listened to your local Classic Rock radio station. No matter the city you live in, these and 85 other songs are played ad nauseum and have been for decades. ENOUGH!!! Who can listen, seriously? I ask you!!!!
      These stations continue to exist because radio programmers … ugh! Shoot me now!
      The Datsun B210 was actually a great little car for many reasons in the 1970s, but no one drives them any longer because a better car was developed in a heartbeat and all those better vehicles were replaced by much, much better cars. The reason– BETTER IDEAS!
      But RADIO. It’s the same as it has been since the 1970s, only much less entertaining.

  29. Dick Ellingson • September 14, 2024

    Sep. 13, 2024 at 4:33 pm, The Seattle Times reported that “a river otter pulled a young child into the water at the Bremerton Marina on Thursday morning as the child was walking down the dock with their mother”.

    Their mother? Is the otter a stepsibling or a foster otter?

    1. Lou Robbins • September 20, 2024

      Dick Ellingson talks right up to the post!

  31. Lou Robbins • September 9, 2024

    1959 TV listings – The SeaFair Gold Cup Race was broadcast all day on KOMO 4, KING 5, and KIRO 7. https://shorturl.at/ZbJPb

  32. Lou Robbins • September 8, 2024

    850 Black Information Network. Not even showing up in the Nielsen ratings at all. How has that multiple station/cluster ownership worked out for radio? Really no better than the Mom & Pops would have done, except the corporation can write-off the losses and survive.

  33. Frank Booth • September 2, 2024

    PODCASTS. I much prefer the video version when available. In fact, sometimes I will forego listening to a podcast that I might enjoy just because there is no visual. Any others prefer the video pods?

  34. Brea Hicks • August 31, 2024

    I am not sure if anyone can help me, I had an uncle Name Lawrence Brehmer ( The Crazy Cowboy) KTAC radio station. I was wondering if there are any recording that I might be able to obtain?

    1. Lou Robbins • August 31, 2024

      It would be a rare treat if anyone had audio from that era. QZVX welcomes ANY audio of local radio from that period.

      1. T.K. • September 22, 2024

        You’re in luck. The Tacoma Public Library has digitized some of the audio tape in the Murray Morgan Papers. Some of them have airchecks of newscasts on them. He taped them with a microphone up to the radio, so in some cases, you can hear him banging on a typewriter in the background.

        KTNT city council meeting 10/15/1968: Part 1: https://tinyurl.com/48nkx6ar Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/3x32skrh

        KMO newscast 12/1965 Begins 8:03 Ends 15:10, turns dial to KTNT, ends 20:50 after TOH ID and start of Mutual newscast. KMO newscast until 26:39, dial turns to music on KTAC (“Sunny Side Up” per the published schedule). At 31:02 KTAC announcer intros Murray Morgan newscast, you can hear Morgan clear his throat and quickly turn down his radio, then he delivers the newscast from his home studio: https://tinyurl.com/srbzzdts

        William B. Tanner jingle demo reel: https://tinyurl.com/5ytt8x9t

        October 1968 news and commentary from Tacoma radio: https://tinyurl.com/bdfepskp

        Roall Erickson KVI 4/20/1966 newscast until 5:44, then KTAC news with Bruce McMichael and sports with Johnny Welsh until 17:14, then KTNT news with Bob Cleland until 32:06. Recording resumes with music from KTNT (Hal Hills Show) and Bob Cleland news from 4/19/1966: https://tinyurl.com/ybrp83yy

        KMO Newscope with Clay Johnson, 4/20/1965. At 10:30, there is a Titus Ford spot with the same guy who did the Bill Pierre ads in Seattle: https://tinyurl.com/3e5ue6xa

        1. Lou Robbins Untitled

          My goodness, man! You have struck GOLD. Give these a listen, folks. KTNT covered the Tacoma City Council meetings and the reports were aired blow-by-blow. Good stuff!

        2. Lou Robbins Untitled

          Added these to audio collection in AIRCHECKS page 2. Not including the full City Council meetings.

  35. Lou Robbins • August 29, 2024

    KAYO, KING, KOL and KTAC jingle packages added. See AUDIO pages for each station.

  36. Lou Robbins • August 27, 2024

    People keep asking why I don’t use punctuation at the end of the story headlines. It’s because a period seems so final.

    1. Lou Robbins • August 27, 2024

      Speaking of no punctuation, William Faulkner once wrote a 1,288-word sentence. Victor Hugo wrote an 800-word sentence. Eventually they dropped punctuation at the end but these sound like poorly written high school papers.

  38. Bean • August 17, 2024

    What’s up with channel 7? New people all over the place.

    1. Jason Remington • August 17, 2024

      After a purge, there comes the less expensive new hires. We are seeing an exodus of reporters and anchors at all of the stations. Then the newbies come in.

  39. John Ross • August 17, 2024

    Ever since I played the hits at First Media’s KUBE 93 with Gary Bryan, Mary White, Charlie & Ty, Wendy Christopher, Stitch Mitchell and the gang in the mid-80’s, and then leaving radio in 1989 after a year or so stint doing morning drive at Viacom’s KBSG 97.3 “The Best Oldies” – I searched long and hard for an oldies music stream that satisfies – without all the obnoxious commercials and other mayhem. Originally, it was Rich Brother Robbin and his internet oldies stream Rich Bro Radio from Oceanside, California, who had DJ stints at San Diego’s KCBQ, XHPRS, 105.7 The Walrus, as well as 1970’s stops at L.A. stations KIQQ (K-100) and others. But along about January 2016, all that came to a screaming halt because of an dramatic increase in royalty fees as ruled upon by the Copyright Royalty Board. Soon after, Rich Bro Radio disappeared from the internet.

    But lo and behold, have I found a NEW HUM DINGER! REWOUND RADIO.COM from New York and it’s a keeper! Their music library is HUGE and they do the oldies right with just the right jingles, and never any commercials, just wall-to-wall Oldies. Listen on the weekend for live shows from Allan Sniffen and Jon Wolfert, and of course the Rewound Radio DJ Hall Of Fame shows. Coming up for Labor Day Weekend its GULP FULLS of WLS and WCFL. So, give it a whirl… it’s the BEST thing since KJR and KUBE 93! https://rewoundradio.com/

    1. Lou Robbins • September 8, 2024

      Hearing a couple of tunes I haven’t heard on other Oldies channels, R&B deep cuts. Me likey!

  40. Jason Remington • August 15, 2024

    STOP using MASTER CLASS to describe cooking like a pro, writing a book, selling a TV show, running a company, etc.
    It is another tired expression that has us reaching for the Excedrin.

  41. Jason Remington • August 13, 2024

    Types of clothing you should stalk up on for the winter. I have seen that spelling of stock twice this week.

    1. Dick Ellingson • August 18, 2024

      Game changer

      1. Jason Remington • August 18, 2024

        A sea change, one could say.

    2. Dick Ellingson • September 29, 2024

      Stalking up is what purse snatchers do.

  42. Jason Remington • August 11, 2024

    Political Commentary:

    Talking is cheap people follow like sheep
    Even though there is no where to go.

  43. Jason Remington • July 17, 2024

    Steve McCarron (KOMO 4) posts:

    ARC Seattle is expanding to 3 hours – starting next Monday, July 22nd!
    Join @tyrahmajors, me, & the rest of our team from 7-10am each weekday morning – starting next week on KUNS-TV. (To find us, just look for the CW Network on your channel guide)

    *** Oof! More lifestyle tv in daytime. For some reason, the programmers at KOMO4 think this is great entertainment. It is one step above The View or that terrible Ellen Degenerate show. KUNS TV exists solely to re-broadcast KOMO4 programming and the CW network. Adding the ARC program (the name means NOTHING to us) doesn’t improve anything about KUNS — geez! Change the call letters, those are terrible calls.

  44. Jason Remington • July 15, 2024

    Most people couldn’t care less what others say, irregardless. But misuse of language needs to be nipped in the butt. Maybe this is just an escape goat for the broader problem of the decline of education, but though I have been biting my time, cringing at each foe paw, it is possibly a mute point. Face it. It’s a doggie dog world. Sometimes, I just want to go curl up in a feeble position and dye.

    1. Dick Ellingson • August 12, 2024

      Yap, it’s a doggie dog world and a good thing too! It makes it worth living when I ask my dog to gimmie five and he extends a friend paw, not that other kind.

  45. Jason Remington • July 14, 2024

    So often, Hollyweird types die in 3’s…this time it was Dr. Ruth, Richard Simmons and Shannen Doherty. Strange how that happens.

    1. Dick Ellingson • August 18, 2024

      (1) Peter Marshall and (2) Maurice Williams and (3) Gena Rowlands

      1. Jason Remington • August 18, 2024

        Odd, but it seems to happen that way.

  46. Jason Remington • July 11, 2024

    Biden speech writer cheat sheet…

    I shouldn’t say it.
    I don’t want to sound self serving.
    Listen Jack
    My wife is looking at me.
    Look folks
    Watch me
    Don’t don’t
    It’s not hyperbole
    The idea that
    What are we doing here?
    C’mon man
    Here’s the deal
    “Guess what”?
    Not a joke
    In fact,
    Gimme a break!
    The fact of the matter is
    for example
    Number 1…
    Number 3…
    Anyway
    Ugh Nevermind

    1. Dick Ellingson • July 12, 2024

      Five star list, Jason!!

      C’mon man – what a condescending remark
      Anyway (then silence) – “. . . my mind just caved in for the fifth time in three minutes.”
      Ugh Nevermind – what an insulting thing to say
      “Guess what”? – F— you, tell us what!
      It’s not hyperbole – in fact, the fact of the matter is here’s the deal!
      I don’t want to sound self serving – but why not, every politician, especially me, is a self-serving S.O.B.

      And that crooked fake smile, what an appetite killer, at a state dinner or a Union Gospel Mission “pray or starve”.

  47. Jason Remington • July 3, 2024

    My new vehicle comes with XM and HD. Will HD offer something I enjoy? Still navigating the features of this SUV, but so far XM does not offer anything I would listen to.

    1. Jason Remington • July 10, 2024

      The answer is …NO. And that is a sad story.

    2. Dick Ellingson • August 12, 2024

      I bet you hear a lot of Red Norvo records – good jazzy Xylophone Music is what XM has always stood for.

    1. Jason Remington • June 21, 2024

      Anyone on tv is an actor. Pretty much the same thing for radio. Who can you trust?

    1. Jason Remington • June 21, 2024

      Anybody listening to KCIS, KGNW, KHHO, KBLE, KPTR, KKNW, KLAY, KKDZ, KKOL, KKMO, KRIZ, KXPA, KLFE ???

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