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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Slicing Staff in Seattle TV

ICYMI, it appears COX-APOLLO owned KIRO7 in Seattle has cut almost a dozen staff as cutbacks across the company reportedly continue. The only names confirmed so far are Sports DIrector Chris Francis, son of longtime NBC correspondent Fred Francis, and his producer, Chris Swanson, who formerly worked for me at the old Northwest Cable News. No word on how KIRO will cover sports in the market going forward, with the Mariners leading the AL West, the Seahawks and UW football coming soon, not to mention the Kraken's fourth hockey season. Gonna be interesting to watch. I already notice KOMO's weekend news, where the news anchor reads just a minute or two of sports. Nico Tamurian is the station's only sports reporter/anchor right now. Courtesy: ftvlive.com ...

Major 'Evening' Departure in Seattle

After 18 years, KING 5's Evening Magazine co-host Kim Holcomb is not renewing her contract with the station, and her last day is July 24th, just as the program goes on hiatus during the Olympics. Kim is married to former KING/NWCN reporter.anchor Rob Piercy who works for the Paul Allen Brain Institute in media relations. No word on what's next. Here's is her goodbye message. "It feels surreal to post this but I’m making a major life change: I’ve decided to not renew my contract and I’m leaving KING & Evening. I’m so proud of everything I’ve accomplished during my almost 18 years at the station, and I’m eternally grateful for every viewer who’s watched and supported our show. But, a lot has changed in the past 1.5 years and I feel like it’s time to step away, move forward and try something different (which sounds like a weird jig but YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.) I’m not sure what comes next, but I’m thrilled to find out! Thanks for being a part of my little l...

Seattle Cops Chief of Staff Collateral Damage?

Wondering what the future is for Jamie Tompkins, the former Fox 13 anchor whom Seattle Top Cop Adrian Diaz strangely made of Chief of Staff? Will she survive his demotion? Their rumored but later debunked romantic liaison didn't help with the suits he and the dept. now face, even with his recent coming out. You may remember it all started with her ride-along with the Diaz a while back. Later, he hired her to a big communications job with the PD, and then Chief of Staff, with ZERO law enforcement experience. Next move, Interim Chief Sue Rahr? Collateral damage? https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/behind-the-badge-get-to-know-seattle-police-interim-chief-adrian-diaz

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