OFF-TOPIC ARCHIVE

   August 11, 2019

Jason Remington

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  3. Old music and musicals and good clean fun!

    Dick Ellingson • May 20, 2025

    I’m watching a 1944 movie, Swing Hostess, starring The Liltin’ Martha Tilton, Benny Goodman’s songstress, as a former singer working at a jukebox company.

    One scene involves a jukebox where, instead of button pressing, the client phones a switchboard/DJ girl who has a library of records at her fingertips in a room somewhere and she plays the selection. They can talk (in this case shout and be insolent) to each other thru a microphone and speaker in the jukebox.

    In Seattle in the fifties, there was an eatery downtown, maybe inside Penney’s or Newberry’s, that had this setup in the booths lining a wall. We’d sit down and get a dime Coke, maybe even a 15¢ burger, push a button on this art deco box and ask the friendly flirty chick to play a record. Great fun and flirting too! If they didn’t have the song we wanted, they’d name something else and we’d pop in our nickel and go for it. Every booth might have a different record playing. Maybe, if it wasn’t busy, there’d even be two Flirty Gerties talking to us.

    Anybody else remember this? Or am I the only codger on here?

      1. Jukebox girls

        Dick Ellingson • May 20, 2025

        Good article, Jason. Thanks!

        Finding out that they originated in Seattle is the frosting. Also of interest is that even out of sight in their sanctum, they dressed so nicely and businesslike.

  4. Please Stand By...

    Jason Remington • May 19, 2025

    The QZVX website was down for nearly eight hours overnight and into this morning due to a major software snafu. The issue today was with software offered by the website’s hosting company. Web host techs stuck to scripts and were of no help. We are back online thanks to technical support from GROK AI @ X.com. Better than a multilingual owners manual, more patient than telephone help desk, able to spend hours working through investigation and coding without a single cup of coffee. After clean-up and a website rewind, QZVX is back online!
    With the help of GROK, we have coded and MacGyvered website functions otherwise only available at ridiculously inflated costs. Thanks, Elon!

  5. To love somebody

    Jason Remington • May 12, 2025

    (1972) June Lockhart, 47, says she’s had only three hate letters as a result of her much publicized live – in romance with Robert Corff, 23, who plays the title role in Jesus Christ Superstar. She told San Francisco interviewers she has gotten many more letters of the other kind. “It is amazing how many women are having the same delightful good fortune that I am – to be loved by a young person. They write because they want to share their happiness with me. Kind of touching.”

  6. Old tv soundtrack

    Jason Remington • May 10, 2025

    Death Valley Days with the Old Ranger used the same music soundtrack as the George Reeves Superman series. When the action got intense or the mystery was building, the same music beds were used on both programs. Composer Lyricist: Herschel Burke Gilbert, Lan Adomian WATCH ON YOUTUBE

  7. Taking a chance on Netflix

    Jason Remington • May 8, 2025

    My cell phone carrier gives us free Netflix. So, I flipped through several episodes of Four Seasons. It stars Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. Based on the Carol Burnett/Alan Alda movie, this ends up being one of those remakes that should never have been re-made. Over the top queer characters have been added to the cast of a friends group and it ruined the whole thing. This comes off as an elite group of a-holes vacationing together throughout the years. And they all carry too much baggage. Save yourself from watching this. This is what I get for turning on the tv and sampling some video fare.

  8. First 24-hour tv news event

    Jason Remington • May 7, 2025

    John Kennedy assassination–
    Over the four days of the assassination and state funeral, the three television networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, were on the air 55 to 71 hours NON-STOP, the longest uninterrupted news event until September 11, 2001 and had a total of over 1,500 staff report on the events.

  9. Format change @ Idaho stations

    Jason Remington • May 3, 2025

    “Star 98” 98.1 KGTM Shelley/Idaho Falls and 98.5 KLLP Blackfoot/Pocatello and is currently stunting ahead of a new format launch on Monday, May 5 at 12pm. (Lance Venta)

  11. Let's chip in and buy Cumulus Media!

    Dick Ellingson • April 30, 2025

    Per The Broadcasters’ Desktop Resource Weekly Newsletter, https://www.thebdr.net/

    Cumulus Media (CMLS) is expected to be delisted from the Nasdaq market on Friday, May 2nd.

    It currently is hovering around 22 cents a share.

    If you have a spare $3.1 to 4.6 million, you could buy the whole company. Of course, there is considerable debt associated with the $3/4 Billion “Enterprise Value.”

    https://www.cumulusmedia.com/

    1. Cumulus stock

      Jason Remington • May 1, 2025

      You mean to tell me all the lay-offs, firings and cutbacks didn’t help the stock to soar? I’m Astonished, shocked, stunned, surprised, amazed, dumbfounded, bewildered, staggered, astounded, gobsmacked.

  13. Headlines

    Jason Remington • April 27, 2025

    An update from Rome on the death of Pope Francis | 04-27-25 @77WABC –
    I’m guessing his death continues, is not intermittent but steady and sustained.

    1. Weekend Update

      Dick Ellingson • April 27, 2025

      “Francisco Franco is still dead.” Chevy Chase

    2. Perks

      Dick Ellingson • April 27, 2025

      Fact: after a few years on the job, if the pope stays out of trouble, he gets a Pearly Gate Pass and skips that pat down from Saint Peter.

      1. Perks

        Jason Remington • April 27, 2025

        Who knows what shenanigans the Popes have gotten in to over the years? I can’t imagine the boredom and what that could lead to. Somewhere in the Vatican, there is a pool table, pinball machine and a playstation. Gotta be.

        1. Dick Ellingson Perks

          Holy watersports, purgatory poker

  14. December 1968

    Jason Remington • April 26, 2025

    Danny Kaye in town to look over remodeling plans for KJR and to buy an airplane from Boeing…John Mowbray (television sales/development manager) leaves KIRO to oversee his radio station in Eugene, Or., and to prepare operations of his Burien station, soon to go on the air…Anyone remember who partnered with Mowbray on the purchase of the Eugene radio station?

  15. "We did the math"

    Dick Ellingson • April 24, 2025

    Qualifier for endless meaningless lifestyle headlines:

    Hipster index – Hip boots or waders? We did the math.
    Braggadocio index – PhD or GED? We did the math.
    Quality of life index – Who breathes fresher air, Short Fat Fannie or Long Tall Sally? We did the math.
    Snobbery index – Yurts or pup tents? We did the math.
    Bowling shoes – buy or rent? We did the math.

  16. News as it happens

    Dick Ellingson • April 18, 2025

    On April 18, 1775, U.S. patriot Paul Revere began his famous ride through the Massachusetts countryside, crying out “The British are coming!” to rally the minutemen.

  17. Seattle Radio Legend Steve West, RIP

    John Ross • April 15, 2025

    Dan Walker, whom I went to radio school with, along with Chet Rogers (Ron Favre) in 1967-68 at Tacoma Vocational-Technical Institute (now L.H. Bates, or ?), posted on his Facebook page a few days ago (https://www.facebook.com/dan.walker.54379) that Steve West (KJR/KISW, etc.) had passed away and that there was a Memorial Service planned for May 12th at the Georgetown Ballroom. Jason, maybe you can enlarge on this as I have seen no other information about Steve’s passing.

    Thanks.

  18. Jason Remington • April 13, 2025

    Daily Mail Online
    Ben Affleck’s daughter Violet, 19, towers over mom Jennifer Garner in NYC after ‘distancing herself’ from JLo https://trib.al/68S3sTt

    Did she get taller when standing away from JLO? Would she be shorter while standing next to JLO?

  20. I blame the Seattle P-I

    Jason Remington • April 7, 2025

    There was an issue with the spelling of Bob Hardwick’s last name here on the blog a few months ago. Corrections were made, but then a glitch in the system undid that fix and the name was misspelled again. This required hours to delete the letter “e” at the end of Hardwick.
    Now, I find that the thought was planted in my brain decades ago by the Seattle P-I listings.
    Mystery solved. I thought maybe I was getting senile.
    Coming up… we will have a feature on Dave Clarke of KVI. Clark. Dave Clark.

  21. Joseph Kearns

    Jason Remington • April 7, 2025

    Old timers may remember that Joseph Kearns suffered the heart attack that killed him, on the set of the tv show. That was 1962.

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        Beaumont

        Maple Valley Mike • April 9, 2025

        Hugh and Fred McMurray helped define the “TV Dad”. Perfect mannered, stern but loving.

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      Dennis

      Maple Valley Mike • April 9, 2025

      Paul Lynde would have made a great Mr. Wilson, but he was probably too young for the part and possibly not on the horizon at the time.

  24. Dr. Kildare, Batman, Chuck Todd, Johnny Tillotson

    Jason Remington • April 2, 2025

    MSN reports: Steve Kornacki has quit his top role at MSNBC – as the station faces huge upheaval as it prepares to part ways with parent company NBCUniversal.

    The TV presenter has left the liberal station in a major shake-up months after fellow presenter Joy Reid was sacked. Steve is famed for his quirky data updates during presidential election counts. He will now focus on NBC News.

    Johnny Tillotson died due to complications from Parkinson’s, at his home in L.A., surrounded by family. Tillotson rose to fame in 1960, releasing “Poetry in Motion” — his best-known song.

    NBC NewsWire / William B. Plowman reports: Chuck Todd says he is launching a media empire—and is preparing to spend up to a whopping $2 billion to do so. Todd told The New York Times he was partnering with a bank to look at building or acquiring a company focused on community news, with a goal of finding local sites rooted in their communities and their local kids’ sports. ***I’m calling it***watch this die a quick death…

    Val Kilmer died of pneumonia on 1 April at the age of 65. Movies: Batman and Tombstone. Actor Richard Chamberlain dies at age 90. (Dr. Kildare)

    1. Dick Ellingson • April 3, 2025

      Good riddance to Kornacki & bye bye showboat!

    2. Dick Ellingson • April 3, 2025

      Johnny Tillotson died due to complications from Parkinson’s, at his home in L.A., “surrounded by family”.

      The ensuing gun battle over Johnny’s will and the “Poetry in Motion” gold record attached to the ceiling above his bed resulted in the untimely passing of seven family members, surrounded by each other. The first one to draw his last breath wheezed and gurgled, “I’m #1 with a bullet!”

      1. Talk Back Tremblin' Lips

        Jason Remington • April 3, 2025

        Tillotson died on April 1, 2025, from complications from Parkinson’s disease, as was announced by fellow singer Fabian Forte on his Instagram.
        Fabian lives!

        1. Jason Remington Enough about Fabian!

          Geez! Look at the movie & tv appearances listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Forte — yet he has been sued multiple times for not paying his debts.

          1. Dick Ellingson Geez!

            Let’s see . . . movie & tv appearances . . . not paying his debts – – – who else would ever do such a thing??

  26. RewoundRadio.Com

    John Ross • March 29, 2025

    Why bother with SiriusXM when there’s RewoundRadio.Com with 24/7 FREE Streaming with ALL THE OLDIES HITS you’d EVER wanna hear, no commercials and some fun-stuff on the weekends, like the recent DJ Hall of Fame with Chicago’s WLS DJ Fred Winston? There are fools… and then there are fools who can’t see the forest for the trees and fools who waste their money! LOL!

  27. Two tin cans and a string

    Jason Remington • March 29, 2025

    SiriusXM has lost nearly half a million subscribers in the 1st quarter of 2025. SiriusXM has increased the commercial (yes, advertisements, like terrestrial radio) load and the new streaming app has taken a crap. It just hasn’t caught on. The kids have their ear buds and all of Taylor Swift’s tunes on their phone. Howard Stern? Please! Woker than Oprah.

  28. Banish "Billion with a B"

    Dick Ellingson • March 20, 2025

    “The Boston Celtics were sold for $6,100,000,000 – that’s BILLION with a B!”

    Cable “news” anchors love to bulge their eyes and raise their eyebrows while babbling “that’s BILLION with a B!” as if it’s a scoop. That should be ample reason for those of us with an I.Q. above zero to never say it again. [Comment Title: Banish “Billion with a B”]

    1. For what it's worth

      Jason Remington • March 20, 2025

      Who’s face is on the $6 Billion dollar? [Comment Title: For what it’s worth]

  29. IMPROVED SEARCH CAPABILITIES

    Jason Remington • March 20, 2025

    “Comments” in POST & PAGES will now be included in SEARCH results. I have looked at some very expensive options for this. I decided to work at it myself. After coding for a couple days this week, I have now figured it out. This along with the TITLE on Comments were two things I have been wishing for for quite some time. [Comment Title: IMPROVED SEARCH CAPABILITIES]

  30. Add title to your comment

    Jason Remington • March 19, 2025

    Designed to solve the issue with FORUM comments, all comments can now include a title of your choosing, specific to your comment. This is available on Post, Page, and FORUM comments.

    You have the option to use this feature. If you decide not to add a title, the RECENT COMMENTS will simply show: “Comment by____ on FORUM: Off-Topic Comments____” or “Comment by____ on (name of post or page)

  31. Jason Remington • March 19, 2025

    Another day, researching and pounding out The Only News Fit To Print. A few may disagree with my editorial hot takes, as opposed to the many, many Russian OnlyFans models that follow me on social media.

  32. Jason Remington • March 18, 2025

    Just finished updating and installing a great SEARCH plug-in. Tricky set-up but now perfected. Better than the usual WordPress search that comes standard. https://www.qzvx.com/menu/

  33. Dick Ellingson • March 18, 2025

    Kudos to CNN for its coverage of the NASA astronauts’ return home and splashdown this afternoon; Lots of scientific information as well as the human, emotional side of the trip for the astronauts and their loved ones waiting for them here at home. Fine coverage.

  34. Jason Remington • March 16, 2025

    Had a tragedy in your life?

  35. Dick Ellingson • March 10, 2025

    From today’s (3/10/25) New York Times:

    King Charles III, a classical music fan who has studied the cello, piano and trumpet, released an eclectic playlist on Monday featuring 17 artists, including Beyoncé, Bob Marley and Grace Jones.

    Charles said, “Music has that remarkable ability to bring happy memories flooding back from the deepest recesses of our memory, to comfort us in times of sadness, and to take us to distant places . . .”

    The king is absolutely right, and you can’t bring those sweet memories back unless you’re playing the original hits. Pay attention, music directors, and thanks for the memories.

  36. Jason Remington • March 7, 2025

    Of the many reasons I dislike Bill Nye, the fact that he is a Nazi, really pisses me off the most.

  37. Jason Remington • March 6, 2025

    I often ask myself, why did Dino, Desi, and Billy never make it in the music business?

  38. Jason Remington • March 6, 2025

    Words every broadcaster should know the definition of–

    1. Dick Ellingson • March 11, 2025

      When I’m feeling a little green around the gills or just in slightly over my head, I always head for Ivar’s ’cause nobody fries up a better panacea food.

      1. Jason Remington • March 11, 2025

        I see you slipped into an Italian accent at the end there.

        1. Dick Ellingson Untitled

          Actually, I appropriated that dialect partly from my Norwegian grandmother and partly from Yogi Yorgesson.

  39. Jason Remington • March 5, 2025

    I don’t watch tv very often, but when I do it’s reruns of Twilight Zone or The Sopranos. Never tire of those.

  40. Jason Remington • March 2, 2025

    Adults must stop referring to a gun as a “pew pew”.

  41. Dick Ellingson • February 27, 2025

    John, are you or were you a firefighter in Pierce County?

  42. Dick Ellingson • February 26, 2025

    From:
    To:
    Why this feeling? Why this glow?
    Why the thrill when you say hello?
    It’s a strange and tender magic you do,
    Mister Wonderful, that’s you.

    1. Jason Remington • February 27, 2025

      I’m missing the point.

  43. Jason Remington • February 20, 2025

    FREE SPIRIT OTR https://www.youtube.com/@johnadams6378
    A collection including Rod Serling’s Zero Hour, The Death of Superman, Harry Nile, Cisco Kid, Jungle Jim and more!

  44. Jason Remington • February 17, 2025

    PET PEEVE–
    Broadcasters and former broadcasters may be noticing an uptick in bad grammar and spelling in newspapers, blogs and social media.
    The average American, depending on their upbringing, may be prone to errors. Those in the broadcast industry should be held to higher standards.
    Yet, we see errors in usage of the English language in national press, major blogs and the social media of broadcasters.
    Laziness. It has to be laziness. Alcohol. Maybe drink has taken a toll.
    Maybe ex-broadcasters have lost hope and have turned to drugs. All is lost.
    Sloppiness. We see it daily, time and time again, on newspaper and tv and radio station websites.
    When you see something-say something. Call it out. Email the editor. Whether it be CNN or the NY Times, FOX 13 or KJR FM.
    We, at QZVX, always make good on errors brought to our attention. Feel free to critique our grammar and spellink errors.
    And share with us what other goofs you see on the Internet, here in the FORUM comments.

    1. John Ross • February 18, 2025

      Jason, It’s NO WONDER! Look at the multi-tudes who allowed the propaganda of a PLANNED-demic to reach their core and they went out and took the so-called ‘MANDATED’ jabs and boosters and donned their masks! 17-Million DEAD worldwide and who knows how many others were deprived of livelihoods by the disasterous effects of the shots and boosters – for a pandemic that DID NOT EXIST! I refer everyone to Dr. David Martin, Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Amandha Vollmer and many others who were telling the terrible truth. Not only is there a reduction in cognition, given all the weird grammar and spelling errors, there have also been ENUMERABLE car accidents, people running off the roads, into the guard rails and general accident rate increases that are unexplainable. Also, given that I monitor Pierce County Fire on a regular basis, the other day in the span of a 30-minute period, there were ALS *(Advanced Life Support) calls for THREE Cardiac Arrests! That’s unheard of! Of course, the media has been to blame from the git-go, e.g., the dancing nurses and all the influential propaganda bribes of FREE MOVE TICKETS and Free Hamburgers and Fries… IF YOU GO GET THE SHOTS! What’s wrong with America’s PSYCHE? Wake up people, you’ve ALL had the wool pulled over your eyes! DO THE RESEARCH and see how you’ve been hoodwinked!

      1. Jason Remington • February 18, 2025

        And maybe airplanes falling out of the sky. Seems we have had a few of those lately.

    2. nsdarrow • March 10, 2025

      I too am beyond disgusted with the poor grammar and sloppy pronunciation of common words; going….gunna. For a few years at KXRO I was occasionally directed to the NBC Pronunciation Guide as a hint to “get it right the first time”!

  45. Jason Remington • February 17, 2025

    Daily press conferences at the White House emphasize the difference in how a large percentage of young people speak the language, as compared to say, Boomers.
    Boomers were not taught to put emphasis on any part of words like BUTTON.
    The youth, up to and including those in their late 30s, lose it slightly before the T, putting the emphasis on the ON. Sounds like BUTT IN rather than BUTTON.
    All words like this, CURTAIN becomes CURT IN, etc.
    The word should flow. No stop-pause or special emphasis.
    Sounds like they are stumbling at the T. T is not a stop or pause, and not a signal to emhasize what comes after the T.
    You have to ask, what changed in the educational system, as far as teaching ENGLISH?
    I know math had an overhaul.
    I dread to think what changes they made to History.

    1. Dick Ellingson • February 27, 2025

      History is being altered as we speak. The news media can’t keep up, much less the schools.

  46. Jason Remington • February 9, 2025

    Which Seattle radio station had a “WHERE YOUR FRIENDS ARE” jingle? Was it “too soon” since KIRO had been using the term “the Friendly Station?”
    Talk amongst yourselves…

    1. Dick Ellingson • February 26, 2025

      I don’t know, but KAYO had a “Home of the friendly fellers, that’s KAYO!” jingle.

  47. Jason Remington • February 4, 2025

    Years later, it still bothers me. I thought I would get over it, in time. If you are like me, 6’2″, gray hair and somewhat curmudgeonly, it still bothers you that Len Sampson replaced Buddy Webber at KOMO 4.

  48. Dick Ellingson • February 2, 2025

    I’m watching Little Bites and was curious about the star, with whom I’m unfamiliar. This is an actual AI bio, on a schlock site called Net Worth Planet:

    Krsy Fox (Knee High Fox, Chrissy Fox, Christine Danielle Connolly) was entered into the world at the place of Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada,on 14 February, 1984. However, by profession, she is a Actress, Editor, Producer.

    Those monkeys still tapping away on their Smith-Coronas on behalf of Wm. Shakespeare should have no worries about being passed over for future gigs.

    1. Jason Remington • February 3, 2025

      The word “However” is misplaced. 80 years from now, will Krsy Fox be “exited” from this mortal plane or maybe re-routed?

      1. Dick Ellingson • February 4, 2025

        You caught it! A few of us literate mortals do still exist.

    1. Lou Robbins • January 29, 2025

      Coincidentally, I am thinking about buying property in Brigadoon.

      1. Lou Robbins • January 29, 2025

        Bill Taylor sent this along.
        Here’s a site that lets you listen to any radio station in the world.
        https://radio.garden/search

        That website had to be a mammoth project to complete –Jason

        1. Dick Ellingson Untitled

          That’s the site I just mentioned above. I’ve been using it for about a year,

          1. Jason Remington Untitled

            Ah yess! I have tried it out a few times. An amazing site. Very impressive.

  50. Lou Robbins • January 24, 2025


    Scotty Brink on KHJ, and some other fairly talented personalities. October 1966 in Los Angeles.

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