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Seattle sports KIRO 710 parlayed the Mariners last chance September playoff hopes with the new Seahawks season to cut into KUOW's first place lead in last month's Seattle sweeps.   The station got a little help, too!.   KIRO-AM jumped .3 share points to a 7.3 while the usual leader dropped .5 to a 8.9.    KJEB-FM took third as the top music station.  KIRO-FM was up some for its best book in a few months while KNWN stayed flat amid some program changes. Check out the numbers: https://ratings.radio-online.com/content/arb039

FYI. https://x.com/sas68499839/status/2107259060185911603 

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 Newly-minted PortlandTrailblazers pxp man out same day.  Team announcement after a KGW uncovered bad tweets from a decade ago.   https://www.kgw.com/article/sports/nba/blazers/trail-blazers-fire-new-broadcaster-after-misogynistic-racist-comments-surface/283-8c6b0cd9-3db0-4aba-89ec-545f5cdc0b86 Obviously, the WNBA team he previously did pxp for, the Phoenix Mercury, didn't vett him very well either.  At 29 now, he was in his teens when these comments were made, per the story.   Good reporting and an embarrassing league scandal involving a new owner. 

Hearing that freelancer Jillian Raftery, who most recently worked for KIRO Radio, has joined Fox 13 as the new morning executive producer, dealing with the happy, go lucky, Good Day Seattle crew.   She was formerly a special projects producer at KIRO7 and did a stint with the Seattle City Club management. Also hearing of a 'dust-up' between a top news manager and producer during a morning editorial meeting there which sent a producer out of the room in awful tears.   Apparently it was about a lunch hour she was granted, something that a former insider confirms 'was and is' a rarity at the station for news personnel.   Certainly there is room for a sandwich at The Live Desk, right?

The Trail Blazers name Braiden Bell as new television play-by-play announcer. The 29-year-old's last gigs were calling games for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and the G League’s Valley Suns.  He fills the spot vacated by Kevin Calabro after Calabro said the team surprised him with a low-ball contract offer.  He took his voice to the Timberwolves. Bell's comments: Rip City - Wow, it’s going to be an awesome ride! It’s hard to describe the honor I’m feeling. I can’t wait to settle into this community & fanbase. My goal is to make you proud every game and honor the incredible history & tradition of Blazers play-by-play. Talk to you soon!