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Snow - KIRO & KOMO

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I am sitting in snow impacted traffic in Seattle. I tuned in KIRO and they are talking about Dave Ross vacation and playing clips from Saturday Night Live. I tuned into KOMO and John was taking weather/traffic related calls.

WHY KIRO WHY? You are almost off my presets!!!!!!!!!!!
 
We have KOMO on up here in Bellingham. Not particularly a fan of John Carlson, but it's the best radio coverage out there......
 
Bongwater said:
We have KOMO on up here in Bellingham. Not particularly a fan of John Carlson, but it's the best radio coverage out there......
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I agree with that; I mean why else is KOMO called KOMO News Radio? Because they cover the news and not talk about dumb stuff like Saturday Night Live and Dave Ross' Vacation; they can do that stuff any time, but not during a major weather event.
 
Even KOMO slipped a bit (no pun intended) - at 11:30 they had an interview with Steve Moore of the WSJ which was no doubt pre-arranged. Bad move, KOMO. The weather is the news today.

As for KIRO - they've totally lost touch with reality. Listening to Ross & Burbank I felt like they were in their own little bright sunshine-y world.
 
Scoobyfan1 said:
Bongwater said:
We have KOMO on up here in Bellingham. Not particularly a fan of John Carlson, but it's the best radio coverage out there......
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I agree with that; I mean why else is KOMO called KOMO News Radio? Because they cover the news and not talk about dumb stuff like Saturday Night Live and Dave Ross' Vacation; they can do that stuff any time, but not during a major weather event.
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KIRO as far as I'm concerned handed it's balls to KOMO when they HANDED KOMO the "Newsradio" moniker. Now KIRO is just hanging around like a once-famous silent movie actress at the 1965 Oscars while KOMO is the only one of the two that actually sounds like they're serious about what they're doing......
 
I also noticed KIRO-FM HD seems to be down. Crappy reception on the analog may force me to change stations, and I may not change back. :-\
 
I'm worried about Paul Tosch's two-way radio, you can barely hear it through the static.....

Bundle in and like Crowski says, "Be safe..."
 
floradora said:
Kind of off topic, but why is KOMO off the air on the FM but on the air on the AM? Been like that for a while.
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Where I live, KOMO-FM is blocked out by CBUF, Vancouver. But all along the Olympic peninsula, radio/TV stations that broadcast from hills/mountains were having problems the last few days because of the weather.....
 
floradora said:
Kind of off topic, but why is KOMO off the air on the FM but on the air on the AM? Been like that for a while.
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It's on as of 7pm. The STL from Seattle to Olympia goes down quite frequently - that's why the FM can be down while the AM is fine.
 
I must admit..KIRO to me has become something like a traffic accident that I can't seem to take my eyes off of. The weather and traffic coverage this week was.....(what word am I looking for here?)...laughable..I have never, ever seen a broadcast outlet relentlessly throw shit against the wall like KIRO has done. Does anyone believe that some of its sticking..? Just asking..
 
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