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Ed Schultz Returning To A Seattle Station?

Bongwater

Bongwater

Today I was listening to his program (via the WCPT stream) and he mentioned he has a new Seattle affiliate beginning next year.

So is progressive talk returning to Seattle? I don't see why not. Seattle is far more liberal than even San Fransisco. We even have a Socialist on the city council now. And the political dynamics here are hard to ignore. So maybe it wasn't such a good idea for KPTK/KFNQ to flip to sports

This oughta be interesting......
 
1090's flip wasn't due to bad ratings or programming - it was a corporate edict to clear the sports programming in a major market. Don't expect that to change because as long as they're covering the cost of keeping the TX on things are good.

I'm going to go on a longshot here and speculate KOMO could pick him up for nights. With all the cutting lately it wouldn't surprise me if they go to all news during the day and talk nights and weekends. They're already doing talk overnights so it isn't that much of a stretch.
 
Portland had progressive talk on KPOJ 620, until this past November. The station's now carrying Fox Sports Radio.
 
'I'm going to go on a longshot here and speculate KOMO could pick him up for nights. With all the cutting lately it wouldn't surprise me if they go to all news during the day and talk nights and weekends. They're already doing talk overnights so it isn't that much of a stretch."


Yes, but one needs to know where KOMO will land in a post-Fisher world
 
But don't rule out Hubbard's AM stations. KKNW could be a possibility
 
What about fringe ... such as KLAY? Didn't they pick up several Progressive hosts when 'PTK went down -- or is Ed already on that one? (It's a challenge when I can't listen to the radio these daus without finding the instruction manual to remind me how to turn it on.....)
 
Well small town radio, esp in the south sound is experimenting with all things to all people. KLAY tried Stephenie Miller for a few months while having Dennis Miller later on, now they have the local news reader doing mornings, The human Christmas tree ornament, Jim Bohannon is on at nights, as he is on a lot of 1-5k watters. KGY has Ed Schultz and Dennis Miller too. Thom Hartmann seems to be on a lot of mixed programming as well, KMAS, KBCS and KLAY, tape delayed. Alex Jones is on KMAS. It seems the locally owned and operated stations are doing this type of format. Hartmann is really pushing his format on non commercial' stations like KBCS and KBOO in Portland, much to the chagrin of the listeners who don't care to hear eco wine ads or his book being hawked. Times are a changing in raydio.
 
There is a group trying to get progressive talk back on Seattle radio, but they haven't made any progress so far. I would expect Ed will land on KOMO or KLAY. Maybe KLAY wants to dump Thom since he's already on KBCS?
 
Progressive talk didn't have a huge audience but it was loyal and demos were good. They were the kind of people who'd buy HD radios is somebody was far-sighted enough to put it on one of their sub-channels. Progressive talk and several other formats with devoted listeners that got the ax.
 
Mike Brewer said:
1090's flip wasn't due to bad ratings or programming - it was a corporate edict to clear the sports programming in a major market. Don't expect that to change because as long as they're covering the cost of keeping the TX on things are good.

I'm going to go on a longshot here and speculate KOMO could pick him up for nights. With all the cutting lately it wouldn't surprise me if they go to all news during the day and talk nights and weekends. They're already doing talk overnights so it isn't that much of a stretch.
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Sinclair is an outspoken conservative outfit, and depending on the station, heavily micromanages their news departments and mandates specific political content. They've also preempted network programming for political advertisement disguised as 'documentaries.' Basically they are Fox News without the pretense.

Ed will land on KOMO when hell freezes over.
 
I thought it was odd someone would mention KOMO, as conservative as Sinclair is. I'm not even sure if they'll even be hanging on to the radio stations much longer.

I look at 2014 as a year of massive changes in the Puget Sound radio/TV landscape. The dynamics are in place and ready. We'll see.
 
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