If this station is on the wrong track with liberal programming, then why are they still the top ranked talk station in the market and beating the conservative talk station (even with the NRP erosion that does not show in the ratings.)BTW, the station that carries Rush, Medved, Savage, O'Reilly, Ingram and Bill Bennett is ranked 11th. the station that carries Tony Snow and Sean Hannity is ranked 15th.
Those figures I cited were actually pre-Mariners. Until, I think, 1986 the Mariners broadcasts were carried on KVI. Of course, back then the Mariners were so bad they wouldn't have added to the ratings of KIRO.
I haven't lived in Seattle for a few years, but it seems that there isn't a strong talk radio station there. There are a few that compete, but I don't think KVI has the winning line up it used to.
I had started listening to KOMO a fair bit simply because they were rather entertaining and not blatantly liberal. I think the problem in Seattle is that conservatives, who are outnumbered to begin with, don't have one station to latch onto.