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chaajoad
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No matter what format, I think it's sad to see heritage stations in any market go slowly down the drain. And what a mess KIRO has become.
The morning show has been and is well done. Solid, reliable and entertaining enough to keep things informal without trying to be a yuckfest.
Dave Ross is okay. He sounds like an aged uncle at a party who knows something is going on but isn't quite sure what. But he gamely tries to hip him self up. I'm pleased the lameoid satirical Weird Al songs are pretty much gone but it's still gagging to hear the "stand by" he uses 12 times an hour, like he's channeling Walter Winchell from 1932. And the "one listener at a time" delivered in the nasally pseudo-baritone is equally annoying. But overall, he's okay. He has some interesting guests and will sometimes dig in and throw a fast ball or two.
What can be said about Dore that he hasn't already said about himself? If there is a Seattle talk guy with a voice higher, muffled and more strident - tell us all. He sees himself as Seattle radio's Most Machismo Mic Wrangler - reality is more like Mr. Peepers with a lungful of self-promotion.
Ron & Don? Sweet God. Dear, merciful, sweet God. Anything that can get me to actually listen to Mark Levin is powerful in its awfulness.
And now Luke Burbank. What a great idea for a show. We'll get two thirty-somethings whose idea of brilliance is the ability to toss out cultural in-references like the bastard children of Dennis Miller, give them no constraints so they can yak unimpeded about their weight, favorite TV shows and onandonandon. I've tried. I've listened and wanted to like it but I think I'd rather have me ears ripped off by the Discovery Park coyote than hear one more smarmy, self-possesed verbal smirk. If it's possible to be even worse, it occured a few weeks back when Burbank was in absentia and the gal pal tickle and grinner girl filled in. Hours of her full-on Valley Girl choked throat type of talking actually gave me a headache. But I tried.
On the plus side -
Frank Shiers gone. No more Mr. Passive Aggressive.
Carl Jeffers gone. Does that guy EVER shut up? Never heard anything like him. And that's not a complimented.
Brian Styble gone. There is no broadcaster in the history of the medium more affected or more possessed by verbal tics than this guy.
More Tony Minor. Good, solid work. In fact, nearly all the KIRO news folks are good except a couple of the guys with extremely high voices. No names because they can't help it but some of those high pitched guys really hurt the ears.
Not that many years ago, KIRO was a powerhouse. It is a ghost of its former self today. I'm hoping for a new pretender to the throne to emerge.
The morning show has been and is well done. Solid, reliable and entertaining enough to keep things informal without trying to be a yuckfest.
Dave Ross is okay. He sounds like an aged uncle at a party who knows something is going on but isn't quite sure what. But he gamely tries to hip him self up. I'm pleased the lameoid satirical Weird Al songs are pretty much gone but it's still gagging to hear the "stand by" he uses 12 times an hour, like he's channeling Walter Winchell from 1932. And the "one listener at a time" delivered in the nasally pseudo-baritone is equally annoying. But overall, he's okay. He has some interesting guests and will sometimes dig in and throw a fast ball or two.
What can be said about Dore that he hasn't already said about himself? If there is a Seattle talk guy with a voice higher, muffled and more strident - tell us all. He sees himself as Seattle radio's Most Machismo Mic Wrangler - reality is more like Mr. Peepers with a lungful of self-promotion.
Ron & Don? Sweet God. Dear, merciful, sweet God. Anything that can get me to actually listen to Mark Levin is powerful in its awfulness.
And now Luke Burbank. What a great idea for a show. We'll get two thirty-somethings whose idea of brilliance is the ability to toss out cultural in-references like the bastard children of Dennis Miller, give them no constraints so they can yak unimpeded about their weight, favorite TV shows and onandonandon. I've tried. I've listened and wanted to like it but I think I'd rather have me ears ripped off by the Discovery Park coyote than hear one more smarmy, self-possesed verbal smirk. If it's possible to be even worse, it occured a few weeks back when Burbank was in absentia and the gal pal tickle and grinner girl filled in. Hours of her full-on Valley Girl choked throat type of talking actually gave me a headache. But I tried.
On the plus side -
Frank Shiers gone. No more Mr. Passive Aggressive.
Carl Jeffers gone. Does that guy EVER shut up? Never heard anything like him. And that's not a complimented.
Brian Styble gone. There is no broadcaster in the history of the medium more affected or more possessed by verbal tics than this guy.
More Tony Minor. Good, solid work. In fact, nearly all the KIRO news folks are good except a couple of the guys with extremely high voices. No names because they can't help it but some of those high pitched guys really hurt the ears.
Not that many years ago, KIRO was a powerhouse. It is a ghost of its former self today. I'm hoping for a new pretender to the throne to emerge.
