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Seattle TV Friday needs help at KIRO


So it's a big weekend for local sports....Apple Cup,  Hawks home game and the Savannah Bananas at T Mobile.  Luckily Elle Thomas and Monique M-L, those paragons of sports reporting, are ON it.  Pretend you're happy, ladies.  Where's Eric Thomas???    And why is morning weather guru Nick Allard doing evening weather?  Did new hire Rip Van Winkle fall asleep already???  Maybe he did mornings so Nick could do prime time.   As a viewer, I'm confused on all of this?  

What a morass.  





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  1. MartinSeptember 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM

    Seems I remember something that Nick said around the time of his extended absence of not that long ago about not liking having to get up way early at all. Did the big honchos at Broadcast House have to cough up more money to bring him back/keep him?

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    1. IDC9September 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM

      And yet Nick has largely remained on the morning and Noon shows since that absence. If he wants to move to evenings, I'm sure he'll take it up with KIRO management or seek employment at another station.

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  2. Wayne LSeptember 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM

    I don't think Chief Met Morgan Palmer is out of commission, so I assume this was temporary, but at KIRO, who even knows?

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