~~ 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...

 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 ...

  When Big Weather arrives, flipping on the radio is still what people do first. (We're having a "snow event," as they say in newsrooms these days, a term we find as annoying as "window treatments," or "water features"). Bad weather is non-controversial, and i...

Kirby Wilbur said it Friday: if there were no holiday displays in the capitol building, "it would be better than the mess we've got down there." Our sediments exactly! The atheists may have won one for once. The strategy behind their controversial sign was that no holiday messages and ...

It's a holiday story of talk radio sin and redemption. Has John Carlson (KOMO m-f, 10--2p) gone all humanist on his loyal, hard-right listeners? (photo: John Carlson) Stevan Dozier may be released from prison where he's been for the last 14 years after conviction for second-degree robbery wh...

Michael Medved, The Wizard of Politics and Pop Culture, has written a most enlightened and realistic column for USA Today, We loved it because it bolsters our own views, but also because it adds some cogent and brilliant points even we hadn't thought of. (And typical of the Ivy League Michael, (...

News outlets report today that Fisher Communications turned down an unsolicited $390 million buy-out by an unnamed company in April. They were offered offered $43-45 a share for Fisher's approximate 8.7 million shares of stock, which openedat about $35 Monday on Nasdaq. "In consultation with ou...

It's always been a big, white elephant; a less-than-exciting performer with a voracious appetite for money that's hard to feed, and never sated. We speak, of course, of Fisher Plaza, the 7-year-old downtown high-tech development near the Space Needle and EMP. Fisher Communication has put their flags...

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...

~~  OMG!! WTF?? LOL!! We heard it. "Why wouldn't I be" Don referred to his eponymous Ron & Don Show as "award-winning." The award-winning Ron & Don Show, he said. We checked the Soundies. We checked the Peabodys. We checked the MacArthur Genius Awards -- no luck. Cou...