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Yes, so to speak, a new sports play-by-play voice joins the fray at Montlake replacing Tony Castricone, who joined Tampa Bay of the NFL.   SEATTLE – University of Washington Athletics and Learfield's Huskies Sports Properties announce the hiring of Nick Koop as Washington Director of Broadcasting, and the new radio play-by-play voice of Husky Men's Basketball. Koop (pronounced "Cope") brings to Seattle more than a decade of broadcasting in diverse roles such as UCLA football and basketball play-by-play, studio show host, Fox Sports Radio national news anchor, and many more.  I guess new football announcer Elise Woodward has a new boss!

Hear ye, hear ye.  This may be a new record. No local TV linear news on Seattle Fox 13 or 13+ since 2 pm Saturday the 17th.  Fox Local, local, local, local. Uh huh.   Abdication!  Day off for everyone.  

What is this segment posing as news when it's supposed to be the latest breaking material?  Total joke with an anchor and producer talking to each other about a worthless, meaningless topic.  Who thought this up?  Overkill video Live Desk dead.   No wonder nobody cares what's on Fox 13. Bad year for 13 so far.   July 4th Seafair fireworks show and Torchlight terribly under produced.  Studio 13 Live cancelled.  No wall to wall TV coverage during Bite of Seattle shooting and lead anchor Rose not in. Two weather people anchoring news on weekdays and weekends.  Weather wizard posting offensive sexual comments from the studio.  Major staff defections. Current news studio with trinkets in the backdrop of the main set.    RIP. New location won't save you.  A visit after it opens will become a Zip Trip. 

Hearing that KUOW-FM, which has led the Seattle radio ratings race for months, may have benefitted from a mistaken time shift in a recent measurement In short, KUOW apparently got credit for 11a.m. listening when it was actually 4 a.m., skewing the day part. This would affect last two days in August and three weeks in the September survey.   It appears Nielsen says it can't backdate the data for accuracy but is working with KUOW engineers to fix the situation going forward. Not sure what it all means, but I know the ratings survey went from August 20 to September 16, which would have been most of the three weeks Sept weeks mentioned.    Just passing along.

KING5 will stream not one, but TWO high school football games simultaneously on Friday night this week.   And, a little like NFL Red Zone, announcer Chris Egan will work both games.   Get those streaming numbers up!  But will he get double time pay?  Nah.     

Trevor Demers, play-by-play guy for Portland Trailblazers radio, will also do some TV games, apparently on a game by game, trial basis, according to the Oregonian.  Game by game??    Desperation is a lonely hunter.   He replaces the star-crossed Braiden Bell who replaced the real star, Kevin Calabro.   How's that Tegna investigation going of KGW revealing those teenage tweets?