the current schedule acc to their site; not sure where these shows will go
5am-9am The Bryan Suits Show
9am-Noon Laura Ingraham
Noon-3pm Sean Hannity
3pm-6pm Laura Ingraham
6pm-9pm Mark Levin
9pm-3am Coast to Coast with George Noory
3am-5am The Dennis Miller Show
From the lefty-oriented Blather Watch:
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2010/11/kvi-oldies-in-bryan-suits-outi.html#more
KVI: oldies in, bryan suits outI
Classic_oldies1.323193356_sq_thumb_mThe news was big — it’s the end of Talk Radio 570 as we know it.
FisherComm pulled the trigger Monday afternoon: heritage talker KVI will flip next week to AM oldies.
It ends a 15-year stint for a station widely considered seminal in the talk format. It was the first all-conservative big-market talk station.
In a written statement, KVI PD Travis Box said the station will play “Greatest Hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s”, starting Nov. 8. (Music on AM? sounds nutz, but then again we thought right-wing talk was nutz).
Gone with the format is the recently-re-hired morning guy Bryan Suits, along with syndicated talkers Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Noory, and Dennis Miller.
KOMO sports announcer Tom Hutyler and news reporter/anchor Marina Rockinger will be spinning the Creedence and Beatles in the morning, former KBSG jock Mark Christopher will spin’ em in the PM drive, and ex-KJR DJ Ric Hansen will do nights. Sue Romero, Bill Rice and Ana Kelly will do local news, traffic and information.
(Actually it’s a flip-back ... KVI was doing oldies when Gene Autry owned the station, Brian Jennings and Shannon Swette were programming, and Mike Webb was assisting. Around 1990 Rush Limbaugh was brought in, and saved not only KVI, but ayem radio which was in the process of being killed off by FM, which produces a superior audio product especially for music. KVI, with Jennings and Sweatte at the helm built a powerful model for conservative talk, and led the Seattle market in many ways. John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Dave Boze, Luke Burbank, Michael Reagan, and Michael Medved started radio careers working at the station).
(NOTE: Mike Webb was murdered, IIRC...Bryan Jennings would later write the book Censorship about libs trying to implement the fairness doctrine—RR)
the current schedule acc to their site; not sure where these shows will go
5am-9am The Bryan Suits Show
9am-Noon Laura Ingraham
Noon-3pm Sean Hannity
3pm-6pm Laura Ingraham
6pm-9pm Mark Levin
9pm-3am Coast to Coast with George Noory
3am-5am The Dennis Miller Show
From the lefty-oriented Blather Watch:
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/talk_radio/2010/11/kvi-oldies-in-bryan-suits-outi.html#more
KVI: oldies in, bryan suits outI
Classic_oldies1.323193356_sq_thumb_mThe news was big — it’s the end of Talk Radio 570 as we know it.
FisherComm pulled the trigger Monday afternoon: heritage talker KVI will flip next week to AM oldies.
It ends a 15-year stint for a station widely considered seminal in the talk format. It was the first all-conservative big-market talk station.
In a written statement, KVI PD Travis Box said the station will play “Greatest Hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s”, starting Nov. 8. (Music on AM? sounds nutz, but then again we thought right-wing talk was nutz).
Gone with the format is the recently-re-hired morning guy Bryan Suits, along with syndicated talkers Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, George Noory, and Dennis Miller.
KOMO sports announcer Tom Hutyler and news reporter/anchor Marina Rockinger will be spinning the Creedence and Beatles in the morning, former KBSG jock Mark Christopher will spin’ em in the PM drive, and ex-KJR DJ Ric Hansen will do nights. Sue Romero, Bill Rice and Ana Kelly will do local news, traffic and information.
(Actually it’s a flip-back ... KVI was doing oldies when Gene Autry owned the station, Brian Jennings and Shannon Swette were programming, and Mike Webb was assisting. Around 1990 Rush Limbaugh was brought in, and saved not only KVI, but ayem radio which was in the process of being killed off by FM, which produces a superior audio product especially for music. KVI, with Jennings and Sweatte at the helm built a powerful model for conservative talk, and led the Seattle market in many ways. John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Dave Boze, Luke Burbank, Michael Reagan, and Michael Medved started radio careers working at the station).
(NOTE: Mike Webb was murdered, IIRC...Bryan Jennings would later write the book Censorship about libs trying to implement the fairness doctrine—RR)
Well...once Kirby was shown the door, that pretty much screwed them over.
They’ll go dark within a year.
They do not seem to have that great a lineup .
3 hours of Hannity...I would not listen 3 min.
Ingraham...6 hours?? Great girl, but I do not have time.
Levin is fine, but I rarely listen.
I listen to Savage, and I have Rush 24/7
That is enough talk for me.
I’m listening to KVI right now, and they are still running ads for “conservative talk radio”...
Of course I lived in Seattle from 1968 through 1974...
Run away! Run away!
This was tried in Portland. They took an underperforming conservative talk station and turned it into oldies. It lasted about six months. Then, they turned it into Air America (and “progressive talk” after AA went out of business). That worked for a year or two, but it’s now doing poorly, and probably won’t last much longer.
I was a graduate student at UDub when KVI switched formats. IIRC, KVI before the switch used to play oldies from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. I liked music of that era so I had the station set on my car radio. When they changed to conservative talk radio, I had no reason to change stations.