Decided to wait for awhile and check out the latest edition of Washington Sports Wrap at 730 weeknights on Fox 13 Seattle.   My take: The show is terribly under-produced in general.  Alyssa Charlston hosted this edition, I guess Aaron Levine was off.  She's OK but lacks tangible energy or enthusiasm and is rather standard as a sports host. Just a slowwww pace top to bottom on Wednesday night's show.   Host hould to start each block  on a closeup after a nice studio wide shot & needs to push it hard.  Inflection, tone, salesmanship.   The set remains more than mediocre with cheap lookiing director's chairs and overly long two shots combined with that really bad cutout logo as the backdrop.   Everett Fitzhugh, the Kraken radio guy was a very good guest, I like this guy's energy a lot, and I am amazed he hasn't been on the KHN pre-game show far with a taped piece on location, especially when the games are on KJR and Ian Furness still works there.  But don't ask

  With the Seattle Channel's future on the line because of budget cuts that will effectively gut it, lead host/anchor Brian Callanan makes an impassioned plea at City Council to fully fund the channel and make sure that the shows must go on.   https://x.com/typewriteralley/status/1846731771741982763

The Radio-TV Digital News Association just honored its Edward R. Murrow national award winners and there were eight winners for Overall Excellence, including KNKX, NPR nonprofit radio in Seattle.  Posting the station's winning award entry here.  No video, of course, but it shows how strong radio journalism can be. Give it a listen if you have some time. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s148/audio/2024/02/knkx-overall-excellence-entry-reel.mp3

Well, in the third pre-game Kraken hockey show on KONG, they must have read my critical posts and decided to get rid of the lava lamp moving ocean background.  Now replaced solely by the KHN logo.  Smart move.  Motion behind anchors can be very distracting and not something hockey viewers care about.   You're welcome. Oh and besides the compelling magnetic schedule giveaway at the upcoming home opener, if you buy a special promo ticket, you get a Kraken tote bag.  Big enough for a sea monster!!! And not one shout out to the viewers along the network in Portland, Spokane, Tri-Cities, even Juneau.  Who produces this show, seriously,  TV 101 errors.

This site has railed at the near dozen former KING5 Seattle employees who ended up at Boeing doing PR for the various divisions.  Layoffs may include them since internal comms are not needed right now with no planes being built and the strike continuing.    Megan Porter (ex producer) Josh Green (reporter) Bernard Choi (reporter) Michael King (Evening Mag and sports) Shaniqua Manning (KING and NWCN anchor) Ed Muir (NWCN reporter, weather) Adam Tischler (photog) Doug Alder (EP) Ted Land (reporter) Kierra Elfalan  (reporter) Wilson Chow (NWCN PDX reporter) https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-layoff-plan-suggests-deep-white-collar-job-cuts/?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=5583337

  Strong source confirms to the Media Maven that 97.3 KIRO News Director Charlie Harger will eventually leave his managment post to replace current morning co-host news anchor Dave Ross on the station's morning show, if Ross retires after the election as has been reported (supposedly Dec. 19).  That explains the puzzling double job post on the 97.3 Bonneville web site.  Jobs are posted for a new morning co-host and a new ND all at the same time.   So Harger will end up working for a new boss.  Two jobs, one hire.  Probably a money saver!   You heard it here first.