How many dittoheads are there, really? With Rush Limbaugh leading conservatives and heading up the Republican Party, radio ratings have entered the national political conversation. Radio ratings, done mainly by Arbitron, are, unlike their teevee counterparts, notoriously secretive, and intent...

~~ KUOW, not KIRO is No.1 in the ratings in Seattle as P-I's Bill Virgin has reported. We hope Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) has made a correction, after the strutting, crowing segment he did, taking the credit for KIRO's success. Has Steve Scher (KUOW m-f, 9-11) usurped Dori as the new &quo...

We can ignore this no more: the Portable People Meter is about to be launched in the Seattle market, and several readers have written to say they've received a letter and a $10 bill from Arbitron President Steve Morris with this glad announcement:  Your household has been selected to be pa...

 It's the Fall Book, and Bonneville's KIRO (AM & FM) are -- as in the trends a few weeks ago, No.1 in the age 12+ market. Some of that was to be expected -- the survey was taken in the Fall, in the crux of a white-hot election -- and they were, after all open for business with two ...

More on the shutter of Los Angeles freeishform radio station Indie 103.1, which had its format go online-only earlier today: The semi-bewildering goodbye notice running on the terrestrial station, which bemoans their having to "play the corporate radio game," is apparently at least somewhat rooted i...

Dennis Miller, the former SNL comedian, sports caster turned libertarian, security conservative radio talk host and will take over KVI's 9 ta noon slot in early February. He left the Seattle market when KKOL flipped to business talk early this month. The KVI slot is now filled with Dr. Laura Sch...

They're feeling pretty good over at KIRO -- the Winter Arbitron book was the first true measure of their format gamble on Luke Burbank his groundbreaking show, Too Beautiful to Live. (photo: Luke & Jen) Luke, and Jen Andrews, his sidekick/producer have chased off the older demo, and Bonneville h...

Barack Obama is our candidate, now, and we've been thinking about whether right-wing talk radio and Fox News will help Olde John in 2008, as much as it did George W. Bush in 2004. We don't think so. While talk radio can be influential, things have changed radically since those dark days that re-elec...

In a huge lead the likes of which we've never seen, public radio's talker KUOW  smashed the commercial opposition in the Seattle market. Dig it: KUOW     6.1KUBE        5.2KRWM        4.8KIRO        4.1KOM...