We love it when one of the homeys gets some national attention, (or in this case, ridicule). We've heard from a bunch of readers: Stephanie Miller ((KPTK m-f, 6-9a) mocked Dori Monson (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) on-air Monday; her sidekick, Jim Ward did a hilarious impression of the The King of Seattle Ta...

How does KIROFM come in where you live? Have you made the switch yet ? How's it working for you? Will your listening habits be changed when the news talk format relocates April 1?   From reader Mike: I'm so bummed at work. We can't get KIROFM in the shop. it's scratchy no matte...

~~ 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 ...

 Governor Christine Gregoire was not amused. It was around 6:30a, Monday and anchor Jane Shannon, (KIRO m-f, 5-9a) Business Editor Jason Brooks, (filling in the other anchor chair) and Gregoire were doing one of those live-ers they stick in local news in the morning. (photo: Governor Gregoire:...

~~ She got the gig! Tina Nole left CBS Radio wednesday to start Air America Thursday where her duties as yet announceable. "It feels like home here with all these progressives!" she says. The longtime Dave Ross (KIRO m-f, 9a-12p) producer left for NY in 2007 and produced, among other thing...

It's the little show that might; the show that risks its life 5 days a week; the show the Blathercommenters love to hate; the show that raises envious bile among its radio cohort each and every day it breaths and lives to tell about it. Too Beautiful to Live (KIROFM m-f, 7-10p) is 1 year old tod...

  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 ...

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, (...