KING5 owns the Seahawks paid sponsorship, gets all the access it wants, has the pre-season games and The Fifth Quarter Show every Sunday after NFL football. Silvi, Egan, producer Knip and EP Tony White hold this thing together. They just added another reporter from the Denver market to beef up. KING has the Kraken in the fall as well. Clear leader.
KOMO is down to Niko Tamurian, who does a nice job, but has no backup except the Senior News Reporter who thinks he does sports, Chris Daniels, who does a podcast with Tamurian. Pick one, Chris.
KIRO no longer has a sports department, but what will it do when it has a Sunday Seahawks game on CBS with nobody to do post-game. Maybe K.J. Wright?? Wasteland.
KCPQ has a good number of Seahawks games on Sunday and post-game shows, too. They just added a weeknight sports show starting 7-29 that no one needs. Storm games a plus and I like DIck Fain and Elise. Strong on soccer with Sounders and Reign. Aaron is a pro. Would put them #2.,
KIRO/KJR radio. I don't listen. Could not care less what they do. Meanwhile, KIRO's ratings more than double KJR (per June) and that the Mariners games. Radio play-by-play of football is in trouble, despite Raible and Tony on UW. I do have old friendships with Brock, Wyman, Stelton and Salk from 710. They all worked for me freelance on NWCN back in the day.
ROOT SPORTS. Nearly dead. But Jen Mueller is a plus. If the Mariners choke in September, and with the Kraken moving to broadcast (KING KONG), good luck with any viewers keeping an $18.50 subscription. I think its days are numbered.
The market in general is soft. Very little hard opinion, because no one wants to lose access.
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