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Tom Douglas show cancelled on KIRO-FM

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DangerousDan

According to MyNorthwest, Tom & Thierry have paid their check and left the KIRO-FM restaurant...

So long and Farewell

To our loyal food loving listeners-

We have loved chatting with you every Saturday for the past 5+ years but unfortunately we must bid you adieu as our show has been cancelled. We are going to miss each and every one of you and your passion for cooking, dining and all things food-related. We hope to see you at the restaurants, and keep an eye out on www.tomdouglas.com and www.rovers-seattle.com for a possible new show as well as upcoming events.

Cheers to you and yours
-Tom, Thierry and Katie O
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I wish the show would have been more "man about town" on restaurants and dining instead of lonnnnng segments with authors about cooking techniques. Heck, you're reaching people in their cars who are thinking about where to go for dinner on a Saturday evening. I much more enjoyed interviews with local chefs about the biz and their take on the restaurant scene.

As for this incident as a commentary on KIRO-FM local programming, it is a failure of their sales department not to be able to market this show better to local restaurants. They were more interested in selling ROS instead of the specific audience for this show. (That's the key to Ciscoe's longevity...there are plenty of garden stores lining up for remotes!)

Something tells me the replacement show will be more along the lines of "Best of Ron & Don" or even brokered time than any new local programming.
 
That's a shame. If KOMO were smart they'd send Tami Michaels to the overnight hours and pick up this show.
 
Actually KIRO is doing all news Sat/Sun now from Noon to 4 and it sounds good. Larry Rice was anchoring today.

His voice was hitting the board/clipper/processing too hard. Other than that it sounded good. Will have to listen more closely at home to see if they adjusted the processing up in general.

KIRO-FM has a lot of tweaks the past few months. Wonder who's running the show there? Consultants? If so, which company?

I wrote to the PD a few weeks ago suggesting they could run a fresh Leo Laporte show on Saturday AND Sunday and never got the courtesy of a reply.

So much for the care and feeding of your core audience.
 
I would bet a steak dinner that KOMO will pick up the Tom Douglas show. KIRO makes it easy for their competitor by casting off the unique programming it had. Rehash of news on the weekend with Larry Rice is boring. Yawn.
 
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