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KING's Madeline Carter's heartthrob is leaving Louisville's WAVE to follow her to Seattle in hopes of landing work.  She joined King in June last year. His name is Dusty Baker!   How sportsy.    Room at KIRO 7 for him as a freelancer for M's season?  

The team used its own production facility and personnel at Lumen to provide the ceremony telecast exclusively on KING at 10 a.m., just like for home pre-season games on K5.   The show had great player and fan closeups, music, dancing, speeches, toasts, Ernest Jones' totally unnecessary and embarrassing double profanity at a family event, the works (I swear Steve Raible grimaced at those words, not to mention the middle finger on the shirt).    Radio pbp man Steve Raible actually anchored the event.   KING had Paul Silvi and Ariel Orsuto at a separate desk inside the stadium.  Partnership paid off!  The other stations, including KING, set up reporters along the parade route.    BTW, Kenneth Walker III, the Super Bowl MVP, did not speak nor was he even mentioned that I saw.  That seemed strange.  Soft spoken, so maybe he didn't want the added attention?  Or maybe he's already committed to Vegas with Kubiak??

  From a social media post: KING 5 is the only station bringing you the Seahawks Championship Ceremony live tomorrow at 10 a.m., from the trophy presentation to speeches by the biggest players, followed by unique access to the parade, riding alongside the team on the route. Can’t be there in person? We’ve got you covered. Stream on the KING 5 app for your TV or phone, watch on KING5.com or tune into KONG TV, and celebrate with us! #Seahawks #12s #SeahawksParade #ChampionshipCelebration KOMO and KIRO also covering on linear.  Fox 13 isn't showing coverage as yet.  But expect it on their app.

  The Citizen Action Defense Fund is suing the WA House and Correspondents Association for denying press credentials to Brandi Kruse, formerly of KCPQ, Jonathan Choe, formerly of KOMO and Seattle radio talk host Ari Hoffman.   Here's the link to the press release https://citizenactiondefense.org/for-immediate-release-cadf-files-lawsuit-challenging-denial-of-press-credentials-to-ari-hoffman-brandi-kruse-and-jonathan-choe/

KING's partnership with the team was perfectly timed and it paid dividends with the game on NBC. And they jumped over the network Olympics to do a live post game with Paul Silvi and Joyce Taylor, Drew Mikkelsen and Steve Raible in Santa  Clara.   Very impressive. Great work.   And word that Wednesday KING will have EXCLUSIVE coverage of the ceremony at Lumen Field at 10 am, with the parade to follow starting at 4th and S.  Washington.    Kudos to Fox 13 for its aggressive coverage all week long despite not having the game. Impressive. They are the Champions!

Fox13 Seattle brought in its weekday morning anchor team for the promised long day of coverage on Super Sunday, also adding a countdown clock so every viewer knows exactly when to switch to KING for the game. How nice to lead us fans to the already well known start time.   Taylor Winkel, who anchors weekend mornings, was dispatched from studio duty to Lumen Field for live shots to make way for the big guns.   Lots of Santa Clara live shots, too.   Oh the comp days ahead! Ian Furness even turned up on the show wearing a Kraken cap!  Furness used to freelance for Fox during the football season.  He hosts the KHN. Oddly, the cable program grid had no listing for the 7-hour special.  On-air, they introduced the show as Seahawks Game Day at 11, shifting from Good Day earlier.

Social media briefly erupted in Seattle about Fox 13's Aaron Levine posting laugh emojis about Druski's verbal gaffe at the NFL honors show Thursday night. He butchered Seahawks star JSN's name into an apparent racial slur while announcing the player's award. KIRO 97.3 talk host posted about it, calling Levine out disappointedly while not naming him.  But Levine stepped up and took the blame.  Apparently, all is well now.   Here is the sequence: From Gee Scott Sr.on X: Kinda disappointed when I see someone in Seattle media posting laughing emojis on social media about Druski's disrespect of JSN's name. Yes, I saw it before it was deleted. Hope all of us learn from this. From Aaron Levine on X in response: Gee, this was me and it was a big mistake and I apologize. I’m not familiar with Druski nor that he likely did that on purpose. Anyone deserves more respect for such an important honor, especially JSN. My knee-jerk reaction was childish and wrong but it had eve...