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Eddie Olzyck had announced that he is leaving the Seattle Kraken Hockey Network broadcasts for personal and family reasons.   He's been one of the top hockey analysts for many years and NBC has also used him frequently for his horse race handicapping expertise on the Triple Crown broadcasts.    He has battled cancer in the past.   This is certainly another blow to the KHN after some non-playoff seasons and a change in top management.   I wonder how long PBP man John Forslund will want to be with a losing team with little upside right now.    He could do a lot better. https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/kraken-color-analyst-olczyk-thank-you

David Rose, Fox 13 lead male anchor and longtime crime reporter and Spotlight hos there, tells me he was home working the phones during the shooting incident Sunday evening at Seattle Center.   Said he was helping to get suspect info.  All well and good, however Fox reported nothing on TV that I saw till 10.  Hmm.  I appreciate him responding to my inquiry, but IMHO, he should have been on site going live by 7 pm as the face of the station's news franchise.  Period.  ND dropped the ball, too.   Can't depend only on web and streaming on a big story like this.  Has to be on good old TV.    Can't imagine being in that newsroom watching the competition crush them.    How about switching to the vaunted LIVE DESK?  Nah, that's hype to counter their news reruns.     From a reader: Q13 embarrassed themselves on Sunday.

Longtime Seattle sportscaster Elise Woodward has been named the new voice of UW football.  The university announced the promotion: "University of Washington Athletics and Learfield's Huskies Sports Properties announce the hiring of Elise Woodward as the new radio play-by-play voice of Husky Football. Woodward moves up to the booth after more than two decades of reporting on Husky Football from the sidelines.' From Elise:  "This is such an honor and a dream come true. I love Husky football to my core. Every game for the last 23 seasons as the sideline reporter, I am filled with gratitude for the chance to cover these great athletes at my alma mater. New role, same passion. LFG DAWGS!! 💜💜💜" Woodward is also the play-by-play announcer for the Portland Fire of the WNBA, but will reportedly not be tapped for the UW roundball job.  We shall see.    She replaces Tony Castricone, who left for an NFL play-by-play job with Tampa Bay.    Congrats to Elise.

Jake Garcia, who was a sports reporter at KING 5 before moving within Tegna to KPNX in Phoenix, has now left that station to become part of the teaching faculty at the Arizona State University Cronkite J-School.

Felicia Michelle is the a new streaming anchor at FOX 13, presumably indicating addition LIVE DESK times beyond Matthew Smith's work.  She last worked in Indy and previously in Shreveport and Monroe, LA, and South Bend.   And Sam Campbell, who has worked as a reporter at KIRO radio, jumps to TV.

Starting: 645 pm Sunday: KOMO reporter Jeremy Harris with a great job on the breaking news Sunday evening.  Heather Bosch helped with an interview on KIRO.  KING stuck in linear network baseball now live on streaming effectively and so much for Fox 13 Live Desk.   DOA. KOMO did a fantastic job on this breaking news.  Jeremy Harris and Tyler Cunnington dominated. They dumped ABC network for wall to wall coverage.  Not easy on a Sunday night.  Harris saying he was in the area downtown and responded quickly. Lynnanne Nguyen of KOMO now live at Harborview, two DOA there. KIRO, a bit late to the action, brought in lead anchor Monique Ming-Laven and freelancer Heather Bosch is live at Seattle Center just before 8 pm.  4pm anchor Sloss moved to Harborview. KING in a Mariners taped baseball show on linear and should have broken in live, IMHO, then news at 8 with two reporters.  Fox in a kitchen show and núow in Simpsons. Shameful. Fox reportedly show...

  KIRO's versatile Eric Thomas usually anchors the weekend evening news, but on Saturday, when the Seahawks opened training camp, Thomas was dispatched to the VMAC and Jaon Sloss took over the news desk.  That kept the sports department department-less station in the ballgame, so to speak.  He has a strong TV sports background previously working in Toronto.