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This news courtesy of ex-colleague Kim Holcomb at KING 5. Angela Poe Russell was once a main evening anchor at KIRO, later co-hosted a failed 4pm show at KING for awhile, ended up on Evening at K5 for a spell and now sometimes fills in on 97.3 radio.  Her new play has debuted!  Kudos.  "Is there any better than watching someone you adore achieve a dream? ✨ When Angela Poe Russell sets her mind to something, amazing things happen. Three years ago she told me she was going to write a musical. It’s now playing at Seattle Public Theater - and tickets are selling out! If you want to feel inspired, laugh, cry, and dance in your seat, go see Aviatrix." 

97.3 KIRO FM becomes an ABC affiliate Friday. You heard it here first.   Bye bye to the Eye. 

Small history lesson: The beginning of trouble at KING started with the buyouts in April 2016 when the great, longtime leaders of the station decided to take the money and escape Tegna when they could. One talent called it a terrible company, even though being run by a previous KING GM and ND. Bounds, Brill, Byron, Renner and other top players took the buyouts.. Jean Enersen had already been pushed out prior but the then GM. The sale of the Dexter property ran parallel to the buyouts as Tegna wanted to cash in on the location and move to a Sodo rental with the Tegna-ordered, faddish, trendy high-ceiling newsroom for everyone and one tiny studio. Then, the initial talent replacements didn't work at all, and I don't believe they've ever fully recovered. Another GM was running the show back then and running interference for Tegna brass. The King ND and I both left (our calls) before the buyouts, seeing the trouble ahead.   In Response to a comment by Unknown King churned thru...

An interview visit by Mayor Katie Wilson on that hard hitting bastion of journalism, KING's New Day Northwest.  Wilson's been under fire for dodging questions and being protected by lower tier PR handlers, so what better way to curry favor by appearing on a lifestyle show.  She was introduced by host Hanson as "a person who's a pretty big deal around here, and we wanted to get to know her a little bit more." Sheesh. 

KING morning anchors turned to the magic window where a reporter was about to break some exclusive video on a story, when, lo and behold, a studio camera was wayyy in the way.  He then actually could be seen walking behind it to get into full position.   Well, it was at 6:02 so no one was awake anyway, right?   It continues to be an odd week at K5. Weather wizard Ashley Ruiz took on traffic this morning, BTW.   Also, on the Dusty Baker fabricated social post and his subsequent CYA post, hearing that the internal fallout is mostly just 'bad first impression.'.  I did not see him in studio on the new sports show this morning after his debut Weds., a show with The 700 Club as its lead-in.

Sebastian Robertson of KING 5 reporting on a child murder wearing a crew neck something or other on the story.  Just absurd.  Really classy, rookie. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program, Leave it to Beaver. Robertson isn't really a rookie, I should correct,  having worked in Austin and Dallas and 7 years here, so his apparel is even more surprising for a story like this.