What's your KIRO fix?

[Bongwater]

I was roasting you to Howie, sweet ass. Let Kylie grab those sweet cheeks of yours!

On the upper half...yeah, but be careful (my wife is never too far away.) On the lower half, help yourself...but be careful still....

 

[4 Towers]

It's not a mixed format if it's all News-Talk. All News-Talk can succeed, even with politically different hosts. It's the mixing of News-Talk and Hot, or Entertainment or Crap Talk or whatever they call R&D and Luke Burbank that makes peoples heads spin.

My lineup is the best possible for an AM station in SEA.

Now, if they stay @ the FM then may I suggest ...

I like your ideas for both AM and FM. I've seen liberal and conservative local hosts together succeed beautifully w/ top ratings in many markets: San Francisco / KGO; Denver / KOA; Los Angeles / KFI; KIRO under Ken Berry/Kris Olinger; KIRO under Tom Clendening; KING 1090 under Brian Jennings; KVI 570 under Brian Jennings; and the old KDWN / Las Vegas under Reese and Williams.

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

 

[4 Towers]

Well first, move it back to 710 kHz. News/Talk doesn't belong on FM in Seattle. We already saw that in the '90s with KIRO-FM 100.7. How anyone could have done something so misguided without bearing in mind what happened to KIRO-FM from 1992-98 still amazes me.

Bonneville's KSL in Salt Lake is a simulcast on AM/FM; as is CBS's KCBS in San Francisco among others.

Bonneville's news/talk 92.3fm in Phoenix doesn't have a good signal, failing to reach much of Yavapai county (areas such as Prescott and Sedona), where as Bonneville's KTAR Sports 620 does better at 5kW.

Phoenix and Seattle are both sprawling so AM is better for talk. FM can work in smaller markets, or, as a simulcast for office buildings / concrete buildings.

Phoenix' AM signal w/ the largest coverage area (daytime, that is) is arguably and ironically its business station, 1510 KFNN at 22.5kW - can be heard in Vegas during the day in winter ...

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

Contract not renewed. Subtle difference.

 

[4 Towers]

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

Contract not renewed. Subtle difference.

What is Curley doing these days ?

I think he'd be a good morning co-host, perhaps on 1300 KKOL - that station could feature all your expired talent up there: Styble, Siegel, Shiers, Hart, Ryder, Webb, Pete, etc. etc. etc.

Lots of fatal decisions at Fischer, Bonneville, and Entercom over the years, and Salem could take advantage of it on 1300

 

[TVradioguru]

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

Contract not renewed. Subtle difference.

What is Curley doing these days ?

I think he'd be a good morning co-host, perhaps on 1300 KKOL - that station could feature all your expired talent up there: Styble, Siegel, Shiers, Hart, Ryder, Webb, Pete, etc. etc. etc.

Lots of fatal decisions at Fischer, Bonneville, and Entercom over the years, and Salem could take advantage of it on 1300

Your spelling is as big of a mess as your ideas. Fischer? I'm not even in the area and know it's spelled Fisher.

A morning co-host on an AM station which signal won't even reach the city it's licensed to? Really?? Oh yes, I'm sure that Salem has plenty of operating money to just throw into not one, but two morning show people on a station that nobody listens to. Good Lord..

 

[Bongwater]

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

Contract not renewed. Subtle difference.

What is Curley doing these days ?

I think he'd be a good morning co-host, perhaps on 1300 KKOL - that station could feature all your expired talent up there: Styble, Siegel, Shiers, Hart, Ryder, Webb, Pete, etc. etc. etc.

Mike Webb was murdered in 2007. And from what I know, he didn't particularly care for anything Salem did.....And Salem isn't known for it's progressive talk radio.....

 

[TheFrameGuy]

This is what John Curley is doing: http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3825/imag0097.jpg

 

[4 Towers]

Was John Curley fired? That's what I heard and if so it's very unfortunate. If he had a morning show he'd sound great with a good sense of humor.

Contract not renewed. Subtle difference.

What is Curley doing these days ?

I think he'd be a good morning co-host, perhaps on 1300 KKOL - that station could feature all your expired talent up there: Styble, Siegel, Shiers, Hart, Ryder, Webb, Pete, etc. etc. etc.

Lots of fatal decisions at Fischer, Bonneville, and Entercom over the years, and Salem could take advantage of it on 1300

Your spelling is as big of a mess as your ideas. Fischer? I'm not even in the area and know it's spelled Fisher.

A morning co-host on an AM station which signal won't even reach the city it's licensed to? Really?? Oh yes, I'm sure that Salem has plenty of operating money to just throw into not one, but two morning show people on a station that nobody listens to. Good Lord..

The last time I heard, KKOL-A (1300) was 25kW directional, instead of their licensed 50kW dir day, and 47kW night, due to issues interfering with the Port of Tacoma. I also heard of their proposed booster in Redmond.

If they can get a booster in Redmond w/o interference with the existing signal from the Tacoma towers they would cover the eastside. Look at KKOB Albuquerque who has a booster for Santa Fe the state capital; the booster is just turned on at night. One time they were a day late for daylight savings, and you could hear how weak the Albuquerque signal is.

So what if they haven't done progressive talk? And who says that Curley would have to do a progressive show? He could do a Lifestyle talk show, just like the TV one.

What counts in talk radio is Talent first, your political ideology second.

 

[Goldilocks94941]

My problem as a listener to KIRO (or mostly a former one now) is that I can't find what I want without having to sit thru 4 or more minutes of bombastic loud and over processed commercials. Their "News" breaks tend to run less than a minute, and are buried inside lengthy commercial breaks with lots of tune-out ads (why do so many area businesses think hard sell is the only way to get customers?). I also can't figure out when the traffic and weather reports actually run anymore (I'm guessing it's only twice an hour outside of morning drive). Often, when I happen to catch one, it's so brief or poorly delivered that it really wasn't worth the wait. Or the announcer isn't there when called for and they just skip over it (that seems to happen a lot).

I don't think I'm alone here in that one of the main reasons I would tune to AM-710 is not working for me anymore as a listener on 97.3 FM. I can't go on the internet in my car (OK, the local Subaru dealers don't seem interested in selling me devices, including satellite radio, for my 2006 Forester, so maybe there's something else out there you all can recommend to get me WSDOT and internet radio on the road, and make local radio irrelevant altogether).

Otherwise, when I need to know if I'm going to get stuck on I-5 or should take I-90 instead of SR-520, I can only hope to find something useful close to the "fahs" on KOMO, but they also have some rather poor weekend traffic hosts who rattle off a list in ten seconds that is frankly hard to comprehend. They need to learn to think about what the people who actually need the information have to do to picture what they're blurting out. It would aid comprehension if they said what CITY they're talking about first when reporting a blockage or incident. (I'm certain people from "out of town" have NO idea what they're hearing, and can't really plan their route into or around Seattle based on what little traffic info they might happen to find on the radio.) All those numbered streets without the northeast or southwest designators, avenue vs street, are rather hard to comprehend when you've got a big rig jamming down your tail and you're trying to figure out if you're going to be stuck yet again in bumper-to-bumper nonsense while trying to run a few errands on a Saturday!!! "on 188th what? where?? huh??"

The standard Seattle retort to solving problems, "just stay home if you dont' have to be anywhere" really doesn't help, either.

KIRO - if you want a larger, loyal audience, and bigger cumes, give us a reason to sample you more often, with comprehensive, professionally-delivered traffic and weather together on the whatevers all day and night, and compete with KOMO. Just like they do on the big news stations in the major markets.