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  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    DirecTV and Tribune Broadcasting Stalemate Continues to Wreak Havoc on Mother-In-Laws

    If you thought it was bad when thousands of Puget Sound-area DirecTV subscribers missed the latest episode of Bob's Burgers last night, wait until Monday-night couch surfers can't watch their Bones or House. Shit's going to get ugly. And with the DirecTV vs. Tribune Broadcasting contract stalemate r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    The Machine Is Raging: Bob Lefsetz on How "Music Gets Around"

    Yesterday, I wrote about Neil Young's quip that "Internet is the new radio" and that piracy is how "music gets around." Of course, Neil gets all the attention for making such a statement. Ah, the power of celebrity! Meanwhile, plenty of folks have been grumbling about this same thing for years, name ... More >>

  • Music

    January 11, 2012

    Jingle All the Way

    Noah Long's greatest wish was to spend a day with a bunch of music geeks in Ballard who make the radio noise you don't think twice about.

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    3 Musical Discoveries from My Non-Sasquatch!, Non-Folklife Memorial Day Weekend

    1. The 8-bit Anamanaguchi remix of Das Racist's "Rainbow in the Dark," which appears on the group's recently posted collection URC: Unreleased, Remixes, Collaborations. It starts off as a pretty typical chiptune reworking of the original track, but then around the two minute mark it takes a turn, ... More >>

  • Music

    October 6, 2010

    Salmon Bay Eagles (Upstairs)

    5216 Ballard Ave. N.W. / all ages

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    I'm No Dummy

    5216 Ballard Ave. N.W. / all ages

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Tonight: Black Whales, Grand Hallway and Amateur Radio Operator, Shabazz Palaces, Mobile Deathcamp, Richmond Fontaine

    Amateur Radio Operator​ Shabazz Palaces, Them Stahl Bros at Neumos, 8 p.m., $10 adv The mysterious it kids of Seattle hip hop step out for their first show. Black Whales, Grand Hallway, Amateur Radio Operator at the Tractor, 9 p.m., $8 Make sure you get there early for alt-country opener A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2010

    Black Whales

    Amateur Radio Operator​ Shabazz Palaces, Them Stahl Bros at Neumos, 8 p.m., $10 adv The mysterious it kids of Seattle hip hop step out for their first show. Black Whales, Grand Hallway, Amateur Radio Operator at the Tractor, 9 p.m., $8 Make sure you get there early for alt-country opener A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Microsoft to Team With Rupert Murdoch in Effort to Block Google?

    Collude with this man at your own risk, Microsoft.​According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay for the exclusive rights to deliver search results for papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and others. Murdoch has be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Obama's Big Talk Tonight

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2008

    What to watch? What to cover?

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    The Best Advertising Idea in History?

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Berkshire Grill Closing This Thursday

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Photo of the Day: Channel 58

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2008

    The Daily Wire: Unsound Sounds

    President Barack Obama is going to be speaking to the country about the economy, tonight on all the major television networks. You can take bets on whether the stock market will continue to recover afterwards... or will it take a groaning dump? Just one request though to the President. Don't repeat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 27, 2008

    Barry "Dr. Demento" Hansen

    Where would Weird Al be without him?

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Dubai: Not Messing Around

    Where would Weird Al be without him?

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    KEXP Goes to NYC

    Where would Weird Al be without him?

  • Film

    January 16, 2008

    Mad Money: Diane Keaton Offers Her Two Cents’ Worth

    Where would Weird Al be without him?

  • Calendar

    December 19, 2007

    Short Stories Live

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2007

    Save Internet Radio!

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2007

    Nickelback, Get Off The Air!

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2006

    Low Power to Seattle

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Arts

    June 22, 2005

    KCTS S.O.S.

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • News

    April 6, 2005

    Obscenely Stupid

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Diversions

    February 23, 2005

    Boob Tube

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • Food

    October 20, 2004

    Eating My Words

    Christmas tales, upbeat and otherwise

  • News

    June 4, 2003

    More Teleflubbies

    KCTS-TV concedes that it misappropriated Gates-related money.

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    Not-Quite-Reality Programming

    KCTS-TV concedes that it misappropriated Gates-related money.

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Ownership Rules

    Seattle vs. The Feds.

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    Whose Media?

    The Federal Communications Commission's debate over ownership rules comes to Seattle.

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    Fisher 4 Sale

    In selling some of its many pieces, the locally owned broadcast company buys time.

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Over Extended

    A provider of federal money says it might audit public KCTS.

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    Radio Out of This World

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    Inside Radio

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • News

    August 28, 2002
  • News

    August 14, 2002

    Radio, Then and Now

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    News Clips— Valiantly streaming

    Satellite services offer more programming, sound great, are ubiquitous, but aren't free.

  • Arts

    May 24, 2000

    Don't kill your television

    That subject of scorn, the TV, brings comfort as well as entertainment.

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    Nadering nabobs

    That subject of scorn, the TV, brings comfort as well as entertainment.

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    A new kind of radio

    That subject of scorn, the TV, brings comfort as well as entertainment.

  • News

    December 15, 1999

    SQUISHING CHANNELS

    Cramming 10 pounds of TV into a two-pound bag.

  • Music

    December 8, 1999

    Start me up

    Three new Seattle companies vie to shape the ways we interact with music.

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    TiVolution

    Not as remote, and with much more control

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Brave New Radio

    With radio gravitating to the Internet, the old way of doing business appears to be doomed.

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    Letters

    "Monopolistic corporate greed is why we end up listening to so much trash whetherwe like it or not."

  • News

    February 24, 1999

    Radio Revolution or Airwave Anarchy?

    NPR and the broadcast barons fight the FCC's attempt to make pirate radio legit and let a thousand stations bloom.

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    Hacks turned flacks

    NPR and the broadcast barons fight the FCC's attempt to make pirate radio legit and let a thousand stations bloom.

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Channel 9's outsized dreams, downsized reality

    KCTS launches a bold digital broadcasting initiative. So why is the station going broke?

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Donovan's grief

    KCTS launches a bold digital broadcasting initiative. So why is the station going broke?

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