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What happened to (KIRO)
- Thread starter Quo
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Jim Valley was laid off in November last year. I haven't heard him on the local radio since. Same goes for Jeff Pohjola.
Out of others that were displaced by changes at Bonneville and their own choices, I've mostly heard over at KOMO Radio.
* Marina Rockinger - weekends anchoring
* Rachel Belle - traffic reports, unless my ears are playing tricks on me
Out of others that were displaced by changes at Bonneville and their own choices, I've mostly heard over at KOMO Radio.
* Marina Rockinger - weekends anchoring
* Rachel Belle - traffic reports, unless my ears are playing tricks on me
I heard that Jim Valley took his severance pay and is living a fine life in Costa Rica. 
How about "all of the above"? There are a few posts here that go into why some think it has taken a digger...could be the "split" and also both KIRO and KOMO are not doing so well in the People Meter. Neither is KMPS.
Some would say that people used to "vote" for their favorite station instead of truly marking down in the diary what they listened to. But then again, sitting in a docs office for an hour and you are wearing the PPM...it could pick up one of the AC stations...even though you were not "actively listening".
Some would say that people used to "vote" for their favorite station instead of truly marking down in the diary what they listened to. But then again, sitting in a docs office for an hour and you are wearing the PPM...it could pick up one of the AC stations...even though you were not "actively listening".
KIRO is going through a reality phase - there really weren't that many folks listening to them as an AM station and even fewer on FM AND PPM is showing that they are in their BVDs when they thought they were wearing Botany 500. CHR went through the same reality check when new ways of measuring sales and spins showed Urban and Hip-Hop MUCH bigger than thought. That genre was pretty much ignored until BDS and a few other acronyms turned everything upside down. That's why rap went from a street thang to Puff Daddy and Fitty Cent livin' large -
KIRO-FM is sinking.
KIRO-FM is sinking.
Quo said:
Valley, unfortunately, won't be back on KIRO. Didn't play well with others.
I heard that the consultants liked him...I bet ya it was the news director that had it out for him...did he not do ehough brown nosing in the office? Humm...
I find a thread about Jim Valley and some other guy at KIRO nobody's heard of to be amusing. Quo/Jim are you that in need of attention?
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PhantomCume
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talkerdjdude said:
Yeah. We should be talking instead about when Linda Thomas is filling in next.
Jim has filled in from time to time at KRKO and Jeff was on KIRO today.
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SeattleRadioPro
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PhantomCume said:
Nah - let's talk about the growing rumbles that "710 ESPN Seattle" is done when the Mariners season is done.
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IndigoCoyote
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But what if it's the end of KIRO-FM when the Ms wind down instead? The AM seems to be doing all right, or at least doing well enough on the cheap. The FM costs a fortune in salaries I would assume. KBSG V2.0? Jockless oldies? Hmmmm......
Lol. I'm not Jim. I don't even work in radio, never have (although I did meet a high school job shadow requirement hanging out at a tiny AM station in Skagit county one day). I just remember Jim when he was in Eastern Washington and here, and he had the best blog on the KIRO website (mynorthwest.com/wired) which no one has taken over. Hence my curiosity, and I figured the folks on this site might know where he ended up.talkerdjdude said:
IndigoCoyote said:
Those big salary people are the only things that have kept KIRO from completely tanking. But I agree, for how much longer at this rate with PPM?
Dave Ross is with CBS and they could always take him and the network to KPTK, a CBS O&O. But everybody else at KIRO would be hosed. But this much is clear, the news/talk on FM experiment has failed.....AGAIN. And if 97.3 should go back to music, it's guaranteed 97.7 will go back to music within a few months as well.
I often wonder what KPTK would do if they put some resources behind it. CBS/Seattle (presumably under corporate approval) pretty much gutted the station...which was ALREADY operating on barebones local leadership. It has never really had any local presence as far as programming presence (meaning no local show, weekend gardening shows aside, despite a huge availability of local talent); and when cuts happened in Seattle KPTK was targeted first.
We have pondered on here about "what was First Thinking" and did the tsk-tsk at how they skirted ethics, etc. to get a move-in to Seattle. But I often think it's even WORSE when a owner like CBS or Clear Channel has a station that has some potential and does all they can to BURY it for purely economic reasons. Salem, while not a huge mover of the needle, at least holds and acquires AM's to TRY to make a "go" of them.
I still think a solid play would be Bonneville acquiring KPTK (even though it's AM status is not highly desirable) and pair it up with KTTH to package as "we have BOTH ends of the spectrum covered". You could, in some ways, sell as combo (esp. nationally) to buyers who want to reach as many of the listeners as possible. Dave Ross would be excellent anchor...poss. others like David Goldstein, etc. and fill out the schedule from the bird as these stations do now.
We have pondered on here about "what was First Thinking" and did the tsk-tsk at how they skirted ethics, etc. to get a move-in to Seattle. But I often think it's even WORSE when a owner like CBS or Clear Channel has a station that has some potential and does all they can to BURY it for purely economic reasons. Salem, while not a huge mover of the needle, at least holds and acquires AM's to TRY to make a "go" of them.
I still think a solid play would be Bonneville acquiring KPTK (even though it's AM status is not highly desirable) and pair it up with KTTH to package as "we have BOTH ends of the spectrum covered". You could, in some ways, sell as combo (esp. nationally) to buyers who want to reach as many of the listeners as possible. Dave Ross would be excellent anchor...poss. others like David Goldstein, etc. and fill out the schedule from the bird as these stations do now.
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