Bush Address: Only KIRO Carried It

[CorporateSuit]

The US is on the verge of financial and political collapse, far greater than The Great Depression, and neither KTTH (taped show), KVI (taped show), or....KOMO took the President's address live tonight. Only KIRO took it live. You could hear it on KOMO's Web site, but not on air because of Mariner baseball. How so, so sad. And Dennis Kelly calls himself a PD of a news station? Give me a break.

 

[machinehead]

Dennis deserves some props for not giving into one-sided hysteria, and focusing on programming instead. If you really wanted to listen to Bush, an afterthought in any reasonable context these days, you could hear him use the same adjectives he used to sell the Iraq War back in 2002 on KIRO. People who went to KOMO clearly chose to do so so they WOULDN'T have to hear a guy whose already had way too many chances to be heard, and squandered all of them to cynicism and "political capital."

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

And if I understand how "news" works these days....it's NEVER about the actual event any more, but about the panels of "experts" who come in to EXPLAIN what you would have seen had you talked with the actual newsmaker.

I want one of those spin jobs.
20% = speaking off the top of your head
80% = backpedaling on later show about why the 20% opinions turned out to be completely wrong.

Even the WEATHER guys have better up-front accuracy.

(Speaking of "Up Front" ... love the TV show but would love to see them ditch their regular "experts" that appear every week. They're almost always wrong with predictuions and personally I don't have enough free time to listen to people who try to fill my life with facts that aren't)

 

[SeattleRadioPro]

Dennis deserves some props for not giving into one-sided hysteria, and focusing on programming instead. If you really wanted to listen to Bush, an afterthought in any reasonable context these days, you could hear him use the same adjectives he used to sell the Iraq War back in 2002 on KIRO. People who went to KOMO clearly chose to do so so they WOULDN'T have to hear a guy whose already had way too many chances to be heard, and squandered all of them to cynicism and "political capital."

Uh - not quite.

People went to KOMO to listen to the Mariners pre-game show, not necessarily to avoid Bush's speech. And it wasn't a "brilliant programming decision" not to carry the President's speech - contractual obligation along with preservation of spot revenue required carrying the Mariners game on air and putting the speech online.

 

[Bongwater]

Dennis deserves some props for not giving into one-sided hysteria, and focusing on programming instead. If you really wanted to listen to Bush, an afterthought in any reasonable context these days, you could hear him use the same adjectives he used to sell the Iraq War back in 2002 on KIRO. People who went to KOMO clearly chose to do so so they WOULDN'T have to hear a guy whose already had way too many chances to be heard, and squandered all of them to cynicism and "political capital."

Mariners contracts and other things aside, we've learnt the hard way that emergency news from this president isn't quite the serious news we expect or deserve from a president, to say nothing of KOMO. Even in the M's weren't on KOMO, KOMO could find more important LOCAL things to report on. As Public Enemy once said "Don't believe the hype". Kudos to DK.

 

[searadiofreak]

Seattleradiopro is correct. KOMO is contractually required to run M's. And I agree, even without the Mariners, there is no guarantee KOMO would have aired it.

I will add that the plethora of cable nets and other sources probably contribute to the lack of radio exposure of a Presidential speech. Where is the old NBC radio network when you need it?