Posted on 08/29/2012 12:13:45 PM PDT by raccoonradio
570 KVI Seattle John Carlson Laura Ingraham Mark Levin KOMO 1000 97.7 NewsIts been a tumultuous two years at Fisher Communication’s 570 KVI Seattle.
In November 2010 the station dropped its long running Conservative Talk format amidst declining ratings to flip to Oldies. After the music format failed to generate an audience on AM, the station went back to Talk with a lifestyle and consumer based lineup. On Tuesday, September 4, with ratings hovering around a 0.2, KVI will complete the cycle as it will return to conservative talk. The new KVI will be anchored by John Carlson’s return to the station to host mornings from 5-9am. Carlson had been hosting afternoons on KVI prior to the switch to Oldies; at which time he moved to sister News 1000/97.7 KOMO for a 9am-12pm show. The remainder of the lineup will be syndicated including Laura Ingraham from 9am-12pm, Todd Schnitt 12-3pm, Mark Levin 3-6pm (starting October 15), Lars Larson 6-9pm, Michael Savage 9pm-11pm, Red Eye Radio 11pm-3am, and Don Imus 3-5am. Levin and Larson currently air in the market on Salem’s “Freedom 1590” KLFE. They will both move to KVI, but not right away.
With Carlson moving back to KVI, KOMO will expand its News programming blocks into the 9am-3pm timeslots held by Carlson and Ken Schram’s talk shows.
Bryan Suits?
We desperately need local commentators talking about local issues. I mean in addition to David Boze (love his show!).
I miss the heydays of listening to Kirby Wilbur, Mike Seigel,
Peter Weissbach, even John Carlson before he wussed out - those were some entertaining and informative times. Now all we get is an hour with Boze.
I used to listen to him in 1994 on KVI nite time before Art Bell came on!!!
Seigel did fill ins on WRKO Boston recently. Back in the 1990s, he would do fill ins for Jerry Williams (who died about 8-9 yrs back) at ‘RKO, flying to Boston to do so (for a week or so...I’m guessing he did, rather than ISDN lines that are used today). Seigel and Jerry, IIRC, started the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts (which has since disbanded)
He did a fill in recently at WRKO Boston for a couple days; other than that I don’t know.
Yes though Clear Channel figures all comedy can work, even if it only makes a slight profit. They bought the 24/7 Comedy Network and plan to launch it on multiple stations. Maybe they figure people of all age groups will listen whereas conservative talk might skew older. They’ll run comedy routines and then ads for local and national businesses.
Clear Channel doesn’t own it but WTAR 850 in Norfolk VA has been “funny 850” for a little over a year now and supposedly does OK. Or maybe they use it to sweeten the deal: “Advertise on our we-play-everything Bob 96.9, and we’ll throw in spots to air on Funny 850, too!”
For some AM stations now the options include sports (a network), ethnic, oldies, conservative or liberal talk,
religious, and now comedy....FM is where the real action is but there are still some big powerful AMs (like WBZ Boston)
The last time I heard of Mike Seigel he was doing a local show on a small station in Tacoma.
1340 has such a weak signal and I am glad they switched over to 870. Never figured out why 610 didn’t jump on the bandwagon when national talk radio exploded in the 90’s.
Those were pretty heady days when Mike Siegel was hammering away at Tom Foley.
The first thing I do every morning at 5:30 is go to KTRH on line and enjoy Michael Berry. (and I do mean ENJOY)
I have always liked the hosts on AM 1590 Salem Radio station.
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