MediaMaven

I'm pleased to offer another in our series of interviews with past and present Seattle TV & radio  personalities.    This time it's  Allen Schauffler , who had a legendary career at  KING5 ,  and much later had a terrific final anchor run at Central Oregon Daily News in Bend.   It was a 35-year journey with many international stops as well. 1.  Allen, take us through your long career and don't leave anything out! I would never have landed at KING if it hadn’t been for the Veritable Quandary. I managed to parlay an Ivy League education into a 7-year stint as a bartender in my hometown of Portland, OR, most of it at the venerable VQ, a popular downtown lunch spot and late-night drinking joint. I worked the day shift for years and some of my regular afternoon customers were news-peeps from KOIN, Channel 6, just down the street. I got to know them pretty well (Kirk Mathews, Linda Cobell, Phil Volker and others) and after a while realized they...

  See you Monday. Don't expect much, if any, local media news till then.   I thank all of you for checking in and commenting when you feel the urge.   Besides sports, may I recommend watching Ken Burns 'The American Revolution' on PBS.   It's detailed, illuminating and thought-provoking, for sure.   Spoiler Alert: We Won.

Adam Bjaranson has announced he is leaving KOIN in Portland to take a sales job at Lawyers Title Oregon, where he says he's actually been doing double duty while still on the TV job.   He previously worked at KGW and was a host on Portland Trailblazers TV.   He escapes the other evil empire, Nexstar.

Here's the broadcast team for the new women's hockey franchise.  This looks like a time buy for the team and selling the spots on a revenue share.

Spokane's CBS affil shows off brand new studio space for its KREM+ content.   https://x.com/KREM2/status/1991597577507139667?t=O42wWySG3YxUx9lBUEtNjg&s=19

From what I see here, the new MLB baseball/media deal means Mariners games will be streamed thru the new ESPN app or MLB.tv app. Guess that will be the only way to watch?   Haven't seen anything about cost or schedule. More from KIRO radio:    https://x.com/SeattleSports/status/1991292907471376385?t=sHIBahnspbUjOHWk00pJUg&s=19

The new Seattle Torrent of the Professional Women's Hockey League has partnered with Fox 13+ to be its flagship TV outlet, starting with this Friday's game plus 23 more.  A half dozen games will be seen on KONG, primary home of the Kraken.