This Year's Seattle Media Top 15 Turkeys

KIRO 7 for cutting the great consumer advocate Jesse Jones

KOMO for creating the unwatchable ARC Seattle (NOW 3 HOURS!!) on its CW station

KIRO 7 for promoting a faux investigative team of anchors and general assignment reporters

FOX 13 ex-anchor Jamie Tompkins for her role in the Diaz favoritism police scandal

KIRO and KOMO for desperation money and mug giveaways during news casts for cheap ratings hit

KOMO for its highly alarmist crime reporting agenda and just being owned by the evil Sinclair empire

FOX13 for having two weather people with no journalistic cred anchoring newscasts

KIRO 7 for forcing two general assignment reporters to do weather anchoring for short staffing

KRAKEN Hockey Network for presenting a bland, vanilla, poorly produced pre-game show

KING for using Walter Jones who offers no special insight on its 5th Quarter Show. Get Hasselbeck!

FOX13 for adding a nightly sports show we didn't need with a particularly awful set and weak guests

KIRO for firing Sports Director Chris Francis and Sports Producer Chris Francis

TEGNA (owners of KING) for cutting all of its stations marketing department personnel

KOMO Senior News Reporter Chris Daniels repeatedly upstaging the station's sports director, Niko T.

KING for letting Amity Addrisi and Kim Holcomb get away

Bonus: Comcast/RootSports charging $18.50 a month to watch the Mariners

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Rebecca Stevenson has left KOMO

"I am no longer at Komo 4." Thanks. Longtime Weather Anchor Rebecca Stevenson confirms that she left the station just before Christmas. Her last Facebook posts are 12/17. She has the Seattle station Quintafecta, having worked at the old NWCN, KING, KIRO, KCPQ and KOMO. Looks like her decision. Wants a new chapter. She was doing mainly weekend evenings for KOMO. Perhaps Stella Sun will move there. She has been sharing weekend mornings with Theron Zahn.

Seattle TV Weekender Ends Her Run

So long to KOMO's longtime weekend morning anchor Lee Stoll who did her final show Saturday. She previously worked at KIRO7 and KREM2 in Spokane and did a little fill-in for me at the old NWCN. She's a Northwestern U grad. Weekend weather sidekick Theron Zahn will likely step right into anchor slot. Newcomer Stella Sun may also be in the mix. Zahn bid Lee a final goodbye this morning. She is not revealing what is next, saying "That's for later." Also, next month Komo News Operations boss Dennis Hanson and longtime Production Tech Rena Mullen are retiring. There's a big Studio C station bash for them and retiring ND Phil Bruce on December 5th.

Where is Frankie?

Many have missed KIRO 7's weekend PM weather anchor, Frankie Katafias, so I reached out to some of my sources to find an answer. She is apparently taking a few months of leave, but not known specifically what the reason may be. Although there is uncertainty, it could be a personal or family matter. I am told she is expected back at some point in the new year. She is a great asset to what has become a troubled station. Meanwhile former KOIN Portland chief met holds down the fort.

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