Lowbrow conservatism, name-calling, neocons, bullying bluster, blind loyalty to George Bush and the abandonment of elitism on talk radio have allowed carny barkers to run away with the right. Although we've said similar stuff many times, this time it's an influential conservative magazine. (...

~~ 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...

Weekend America, MPR's magazine show, as we've reported, will end Jan. 31, and KUOW will replace it Feb. 7. with KUOW Presents Weekend. Will this be a locally produced gem of a show which will develop their bench, regain the station's once proud reputation for innovation and edge, and gi...

In December, NPR announced they were cutting some programming: Day to Day , (KUOW m-f,12-1p)  and News & Notes (KXOT, m-f, 11p-12a). Last day: March 20. So far, no pronouncements have come down from Mt. KUOW about how they might fill those noonish dayparts but we think San Francisco's ...

~~ 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...

In the ten years I’ve lived in Seattle, I’ve never been on the local NPR station, KUOW (I have been on KBCS, another local station).  This week I’ll be on the air TWICE due to the disaster unfolding in Gaza.  Yesterday, John O’Brien, a producer for the public affair show, T...

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(photo: the usual crowd: from left; KVI PD Dennis Kelly, Dino Rossi, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur; forefront: Glenn Beck) GOP guber-candidate Dino Rossi appeared on KUOW's The Conversation (m-f, 1-2p) Wednesday as announced below. Here's how it went: Listening to Dino Rossi trying to stuff his memoriz...

It was off-putting. Listeners wrote in to say they turned off Weekday with Steve Scher (KUOW m-f, 9-11a) this morning in the first 20 minutes of his interview with new media magnate Arianna Huffington, the vivacious cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post. She's an intelebrity, a concep...

Elderly political pariah and presidential "candidate" Ralph Nader will appear Wednesday on The Conversation with Ross Reynolds (KUOW 1-2p). He's the cynical refusenik who traded his liberal icon status; and political effectiveness for that of irrelevant ideologue after he refused to releas...