Looks like Manda Factor is moving from KNWN to join Charlie Harger on the morning show at 97.3 KIRO. Charlie told me he wanted to go it alone on the show but I guess March has come and he needed a partner. When and if it's announced, tt's a reunion because Charlie worked with her for years when it was KOMO and then KNWN and, of course, the new ND at 97.3 is Frank Lenzi, formerly the news boss at that station (97.7). BTW, Ms. Factor came to Seattle from Portland (KEX) in summer 2002.
This is what I might call a "boomerang" effect. There were a number of people who came to KOMO/KNWN from KIRO when the former adopted an all-news format back in 2002 (Bill Yeend, Brian Calvert, just to name a couple). After Lotus pretty much cleaned house last year and got rid of all the on-air staff, producers, KNWN pretty much is a shell of its former self. Despite the different call letters and ownership, they still say we maintain a "friendly" relationship with their former neighbor, now ex-TV partner KOMO4 and utilizes the audio feed from their reporters in what I could call now to filter out those the little to no reporting staff they have. For all of you news junkies and historians like me, KIRO was also the first station that Chet Huntley worked and launched his career. The same Chet Huntley before he became one half of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. The more you know. Cheers!
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