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The awful week for Seattle marches on.  Vanishing leadership, excuses, revisionist history, you name it. But... Major kudos to Chris Daniels for great reporting Thursday afternoon on the Barnes resignation, the Wilson weak, attempted to come clean, Facebook speech on botched response and possible no confidence vote from Council.  So much to process on the fly

As first reported here - From KING on social: "Big news: Thanks to some amazing viewership, gr eat guests, and incredible teamwork, the @KING5Sports Ultimate Seattle Sports Show will be moving! Starting August 10th our show will air on @KING5Seattle at 3:00pm and also stream on King 5+.  The show will replay on Kong TV at 8:00." Looks like this 6-month trial run is making headway! BTW the 3 pm show will be LIVE.   

Wednesday at 10, with Sabirah Radford anchoring, they break a lead story that Seattle Mayor Wilson has asked the police chief to resign in the wake of the Seattle Center shootings.  Big story, but by 10:15 it was back into a news replay with the usual anchor team of Rose and Kim.  Not even repeated at the half hour mark to get the story back on the air as an exclusive breaker.  The story was up on the station web site, citing multiple sources. UPDATE:  Minutes later, KOMO's Jeremy Harris at KOMO reports this: Multiple sources saying @SeattlePD Chief Shon Barnes is telling people he has been fired. @MayorofSeattle has NOT confirmed this. At a time when her office is under fire for confusing and slow communication, clarity TONIGHT. Now, KIRO Radio is confirming: BREAKING: Shon Barnes was fired from his position as chief of the Seattle Police Department by Mayor Katie Wilson, multiple sources confirmed with KIRO Newsradio King posted: According to a high level source in...

Is the Seattle Media focusing on the right things after the shootings? Lots of discussion about delays about information and dignitaries delays and now calls for firing the Mayor and Top Cop?   Certainly worthy, compelling issues in terms of public safety and timing Sunday night. But should the focus now be in cleaning up gangs in the city instead of worrying about media issues. The questions are totally valid, but long term, but is govt response most important going forward?  Mistakes were made by leadership, but it is time to deeply examine root cause of the shootings here? Is the media more concerned about feeding itself or trying to find solutions? Just asking.  Feedback pls.

The Seattle Storm are now 6-24 at the bottom of the standings and going nowhere, so viewership has got to be down overall.  Should Alyssa Charlston-Smith have stayed with 13 as #2?   Part-time there?    Elise Woodward got out before the crash to go to PDX and now has the UW pbp job.   

1. One station (KOMO) dominated.  KIRO brought in major anchors and finished strong.  KING was streaming but weak on TV, and Fox 13 worse.   David Rose of Fox 13, the lead anchor who has made a living helping the cops, was MIA, claiming he offered to come in to help, but was declined and worked phones from home.  Really?  No, he should have just gone directly to the scene.  KING hung.a newbie anchor out to dry with an old time King County Sheriff as a co-anchor and a weak reporter on site. Expected much more. Castro, Taylor or Copeland should have been called in.  Fumbled badly.  And the bright red breaking news background is horrendous. 2. Seattle PD and Mayor not ready for prime time on any form or fashion.   Barnes was in Dallas for a conference?  So, Zoom in to be part of the presser.  What's his priority?  He was two hours ahead and abjectly failed to recognize the gravity of the situation. 3. Barnes is apparentl...

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