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KIRO - A Look Into the Future

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WKomm

The crystal ball is a bit murky, but let's see now ...

When Washington State finally passes an income tax law, I predict midday yakker Doris will finally strain his well paddy fanny to the point where he throws a clot. As EMS wheels him out of the CR, here's the first spot in the break:

Hi! Doris Munson here. Are you the kind who likes to do puzzles? Enjoy Sudoko? Do you enjoy spending money? Well, you'll be thrilled when you're contacted by my friends at the Washing state Income Tax Authority! You'll enjoy the thrill of dealing with large sums of cash and challengin yourself with stacks of one complicated form after another! If you call today and mention my name, you'll get ten percent off your first return! Even my dog Queen is looking forward to doing her part for Washington!!!

Yup, good ol' Doris will find a way to pimp the system to avoid paying while he has a coronary hollering about how unfair life is.

Ron & Don will start out their show - as always - with a salute to Mother Goose.

"You wanted all three of R&D but you wanted more so we'll give you four!
When we're on the air we have a good time so forget four and give us all five!
The truth really is we were asked to work more - and if we said no, they'd show us the door!"

I actually laughed out loud this afternoon when Don, in that testosterone choked delivery, vowed that Mayor Nichols would regret ignoring Ron & Don over this Youth 180 thing. Uh-huh. As of this writing, their mini blog entry for the issue today has a whole 4 entries. Yes, the might of the Ron & Don nation will shake City Hall to its foundations! You go, fellas! Change the world while I change the station!
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Look, I get a minor kick out of mocking a once great station that now sounds like Frankenstein radio. It's all pieces-parts and actually saddens me. And yes, I had it on in the bg a few hours today.
 
I thought Dori's dog's name was Star. Or did Star break through the invisible fence and get hit by a car or die of obesity from all the free Purina One?
 
Grindlfan - You're right, I guess. It's Star. And if anything happens to Star, expect to suddenly hear endorsement spots for Puget Sound Kennels.

Why do posts get moved to "take it outside?" It's just satire aimed at a successful station. Not classy any longer but I guess successful ...
 
WKomm said:
Grindlfan - You're right, I guess. It's Star. And if anything happens to Star, expect to suddenly hear endorsement spots for Puget Sound Kennels.

Why do posts get moved to "take it outside?" It's just satire aimed at a successful station. Not classy any longer but I guess successful ...
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Welll, I'm glad you let it all out. It was satire. For a while there, you were starting to scare me........
 
WKomm said:
Grindlfan - You're right, I guess. It's Star. And if anything happens to Star, expect to suddenly hear endorsement spots for Puget Sound Kennels.

Why do posts get moved to "take it outside?" It's just satire aimed at a successful station. Not classy any longer but I guess successful ...
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"Take it Outside" is where AQH Radio Guru Seattle Pro move all the messages that hurt their wittle feelings.
 
Mack Daddy said:
"Take it Outside" is where AQH Radio Guru Seattle Pro move all the messages that hurt their wittle feelings.
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Baby Mack, you never fail to disappoint this board with your cluelessness. It's the MODERATORS who move offensive posts to TIO. Perhaps it's you that has "wittle hurt feelings" because I sure don't.
 
Honest to crap, people....can we STOP with the ego-driven stupid attacks and accusations and what-not?? Am sure you could ALL set the world on fire with all the knowledge that the real world is not allowing you to unleash ..... but I think the rest of us would seriously LOVE to see the average age on the board climb back into double-digit territory.

thanks.
 
Good! Now let's get back to the topic of this post: what does the future hold for KIRO when it's only on the FM band?
 
Little Boy Blue - As I stated in "take it outside" thread -

Guys on air at KIRO have hours to yak until they turn blue. They can rant/rave/proclaim/mock and maybe take 3 brief calls an hour. "Satire" is a weapon that folks like us (without talk shows) can express our disagreement or disgust at these windbags. If Monson (or anyone on KIRO) can't take a few shots or folks on this board can't accept not everyone thinks they're the benchmark for talk radio, so be it. What you rather do? Have an in depth discussion on the wave fluctuation properties of nano-cyles in the range of 710 kz and how it might affect the celluar structure of those living close to their warm starter translator?

Just made that up, btw?

It's a bit unfortunate but I do my best writing when I'm ticked. Actors know this. It's a lot easier and less fun to play a good guy than a multi-layered bad guy - hello, Heath Ledger.

So let the sugar nips in this crowd adore Doris. I prefer to blast away on this untalented, raggedy-voiced over-thinker who sees himself as a Light, Leading the Way.

That's all :)
 
My complaint is not with the radio-related topics....it's all the stupid sniping about who is more on target with their own skills and observations, who can/can't perform in the biz, etc. (based on their observations) .. it's just not going to go anywhere. That score will never get settled here...so it is frustrating for rest of us to wade through the folks who are spending all the effort with personal attacks back & forth. Fair game, I think, to whine all you want about radio topics...that's what we're here to do.
 
SeattleRadioPro said:
Mack Daddy said:
"Take it Outside" is where AQH Radio Guru Seattle Pro move all the messages that hurt their wittle feelings.
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Baby Mack, you never fail to disappoint this board with your cluelessness. It's the MODERATORS who move offensive posts to TIO. Perhaps it's you that has "wittle hurt feelings" because I sure don't.
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Sounds like you need some Coke U-10, AND some Co enzyme ke U-10!
 
LBB - Well, we disagree. To me, sniping at on-air talent IS a radio topic. I kind of like to scan over other cities to find juicy pot-shots at folks I might know. IMO - and you expressed yours - I get mighty tired of reading opinions on "radio topics" such as:

Clear Channel sucks
Entercom sucks
Citadel sucks
CBS sucks
Cumulus sucks
Consultants/PDs/GMs suck
Voice Tracking sucks

Get my drift? These are also topics that will never be resolved and only end in circular arguments. Besides, if you are paying attention, we live in an age where absolutely nobody will have ther minds changed. Not by fact, not by satire, not by pleading - it just doesn't happen. So ANY topic on ANY board usually results in endless argument.

At least when you see my name and KIRO/Dori/Doris etc in the subject line, you have a decent idea of what you'd rather not read. But I hope you do ck in with my occasional rants. I don't avoid your posts ...
 
If the topic of this thread is KIRO after the AM-FM break, I think the future of FM should include a different morning team. Jason Brooks and Linda Thomas should be paired together. Both sound younger than the current Greg Hersholt and Jane Shannon team, and both sound better than the current team. KIRO can't keep pretending they are young to get a young audience, they need to show it with the on air chemistry and delivery. Even with Hersholt gone today when I listened, Jane doesn't do it for me. She's as much a part of the old sound of that station as he is.
 
talkerdjdude - you might have a point. Although I like them both and their chemistry and think there's a place for them. But to your "youth" point -

KIRO is a schizy station. Dave Ross is like your slightly hip dad. He doesn't even try to be current and when he does, it's painful. He's much more at home with Gilbert and Sullivan rather than Timbaland and Apatow. Doris is just an angry old man - his whole thing is about being constantly pissed off or talking about how tough he is. Today, during the very few moments I listened, his big chest-pounder was about shooting a crow with a pellet gun. My goodness - what a toughie! Ron & Don are vaudeville and sound neither young nor hip.

And then there's Luke. God help us. A 35 yr -old manchild who sounds young as in "juvenile" with his Val Gal sidekick. Just bad radio.

There is a big difference between having a young attitude and just sounding young. As a result, KIRO going from angry old man to Laurel & Hardy (middays to PM drive) just seems wrong.
 
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