Posted on 11/02/2010 12:18:45 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Fisher Communications-owned KVI started a trend in 1993 when it became the first all-conservative big-market talk station. But the field became more and more crowded, and now Fisher sees an opportunity for a full-service oldies station that features recognizable Seattle personalities. As of next Monday (November 8), mornings will be Tom Hutyler (from KJR and KOMO) and Marina Rockinger (ex-KBSG, KOMO). Former KBSG jock Mark Christopher does afternoons and former KJR DJ Ric Hansen handles nights. While Sue Romero, Bill Rice and Ana Kelly, all recognizable market voices, will do local news, traffic and information. Travis Box continues as the PD, with Kent Phillips consulting. Kent works at sister hot AC KPLZ (101.5), for which he consults and does mornings. Phillips also consults 32 other stations outside of Seattle.
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.
Well, maybe if they only played Oldies from the years
1953-61, 1969-77, 1981-92, 2001-08...
Geriatric Hippies still having flashbacks of bad acid trips must abound there.
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!
In 1990 Rush was brought in and KVI took off with talk radio, a few years ago, Rush switched to FM and KVI is getting out of talk radio and going the el-cheapo way of playing oldies.
Wow! How utterly stupid of them. Love Brian Suits, hope he lands somewhere local.
Rush in not on FM here, he’s on 770 AM.
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.
They may well do that and keep website the same almost until the flip happens.
Sometimes a station will run a weekend long “stunt” before a format change. Boston’s AM 1200 went to Air America in 2004
and ran everything from clips of Neil Young’s
“Rockin’ in a Free World” to excerpts from Al Franken’s book. When Air America flopped they went to Spanish and last March went to conservative talk—and the weekend before, the “stunt” was a loop of excerpts from the shows they would be
carrying (Rush, Hannity, Beck etc.)
Whether there will be a stunt or not I don’t know but eventually the website will reflect the change etc
just reading that makes me burst out in uncontrollable laughter
And that station is now Rush Radio, conservative talk (improved signal too). Yes libtalk (at least the non-NPR
kind) bombed in Boston(though someone is paying time for it
to be on AM 1510 these days)
http://www.radio-info.com
Seattle loses conservative talker KVI (570), gains “Freedom 1590”
Today (11/15) Fisher converts KVI, the country’s oldest major-market all-conservative talk station to oldies. In a surprise move, cross-town operator Salem Communications is seizing the opening, and dropping the brokered-ethnic programming on its KLFE (1590). It is using many of the personalities of its Salem Radio Network: Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt. There’s also Westwood’s Dennis Miller and Citadel Media’s Mark Levin. The market’s other conservative talk outlet is Bonneville’s “Truth” KTTH (770)
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