I like that it has educational stuff for the kids and documentaries on tings for reports but to me…read morethe most that is on there is rather dull. Or packed with people asking for pledges instead of commercials. I find that it skips over the ages 12-25 in terms of demographics because it shows kid's shows and things geared towards older people like the antiques roadshow. If they did a program that was more relevant for our age group more youth would watch it. I find that when it comes to educational TV the history channel and discovery are better. One thing that did not make logical sense to me was in Arthur the cool kids loved school, homework and things of that sort. Of course I watched this as a child in the late 90's so it could have changed. Most of the kids I knew that liked school had no social life and were often picked on. I don't feel it's right to cram more learning into a kids day. It's like coming home after a busy day of work and watching a show on how wonderful work is. As a kid I thought my parents were trying to brainwash me into liking school!

I'm a fan of public television and will always be loyal, even though KCTS has had good programming…read moreyears and bad programming years. And even though it seems like the BEST stuff is shown during fundraising drives. And even though it seems like whenever I tune in at random Antiques Roadshow is on. You really have to get a guide to watch this channel and find the good stuff. It's there.

I've been listening to this station since around 2016, when I saw a commercial on TV advertising…read morethat KIXI played Harry Connick Jr. Sadly in this area, it's very hard to find a station that plays his music (How is that possible? How can anyone not love Harry?), so I started listening all the time. My husband and I loved it and I discovered so many different songs and artists that I never knew about or thought about before, really. I feel like by listening so much, my taste in music has improved dramatically. I love Frank Sinatra (Thanks, KIXI!) and of course other artists like The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Michael Buble, Neil Sedaka, etc. I could go on and on, but the point is that this is a great radio station. So much so that when I got an email newsletter from them saying that they were in danger of shutting down, I got really worried. They wanted people to sign up for the newsletter Budget cuts and other things (Im guessing) lead to the firing of my favorite DJ several years ago and now they don't play as much music as they used to, because the mornings (around 7am-9)and afternoons (from 3:30 until about 6) are taken over by paid programming. I understand that they had to do that to keep from going off the air, but the station isn't what it used to be. My husband used to say that the more he listened to this station the more he appreciated it. I really like Seth Thompson who DJ's from around 5-8pm. He's my favorite, but the others are great too. I've noticed that they've been playing "newer" songs from Richard Marx and from "Heart", which, although I love those songs, is a little disappointing because in the past if they played a song by a more recent artist, it was a cover of an older song. But they still play the stuff that makes them "Retro Radio". I really hope this station stays around for a long long time and that more people will start listening to it. It's an AM station, so I'm guessing that a lot of people don't know about it, but the station definitely needs more love. I'm willing to give a lot!

This radio station means a lot to me. Before my grandmother died, her and I used to listen to this…read moreradio station all the time. My grandmother had this strange dementia/parkinson's disease where she would get very anxious. When I watched her, one way to help calm her down was to put on 880 KIXI so she can listen to the music that she can sing along to. Thank you, Zipzap Zubidy Bop!

No local shows. In a progressive city like Seattle, this is unforgivable. KPOJ in Portland sets the…read moreexample on how to do it right. It's not as if we have a shortage or radio-experienced progressives - Goldy, Dan Savage, Erin Hart... I CAN'T STAND STEPHANIE MILLER. And Malloy, for that matter. Air America made a huge mistake when it canned Morning Sedition and Sam Seder. KPTK could really establish itself - locally and nationally - if it courted and syndicated a morning show of Maron vs. Seder vs. Goldy. This would require spending some money, though, for something other than bumper stickers and sign-wavers - KPTK doesn't strike me as that kind of operation.

UPDATE : After about 8 months of phone calls and emails, I…read morefinally got a refund on the certificates that didn't work. SO, I'm bumping them up for doing the right thing ans sticking by their products. Excellent Radio line-up, but I'm still staying away from the 1/2 off promotions!. --------------------------------------------------- THIS IS A GREAT AM AND LATE NIGHT PROGRESSIVE TALK LINEUP. The shows deserve 3-5 stars. Steph is wonderful, Thom is brilliant, and Mike Malloy the the soul that screams the rage I feel every night. I will agree that they need a local show, however.... THE SEATTLE HALF OFF IS A TOTAL F--KING SCAM. DON'T BUY IT!. To date I have seen several restaurants featured in the Seattle half Off decide that they no longer accept the certificates for various reasons. One mentioned that they were scammed by the promotion. Another told me that due to a change in management they didn't want to honor the certificates. I've lost more money on this SCAM than I hoped to save. I'll continue to listen [or pod cast], I'll even encourage people to listen and support the advertisers, BUT I WILL MAKE SURE I TELL EVERYONE TO AVOID MEDIAWEBCONNECT AND SEATTLE HALF OFF.

This was for a special KCTS 9 event back on 2/11/20 hosting Chef Marcus Samuelson from No Passport…read moreRequired showcasing Filipino culinary visionaries from the greater Seattle region. The College Friend and I weren't able to attend the other food/drink event at the KCTS 9 studios. But we froze waiting in line, hoping to get a good seat for the later free panel event. I remember we had had a terrific time chatting with a couple that had just moved from Chicago to Seattle. I was able to get tips for an upcoming trip to the upper midwest, just wished I was brilliant and actually exchanged contact info. I remember feeling so much pride seeing so many Filipino/Filipino American participants from the greater Seattle community from the cultural presentation from UW students to the folks on the panel with Chef Samuelson. I enjoyed the venue hosting the event that is adjacent to the Seattle Opera. Decent seating and interior, well emceed, and an overall memorable event. Thank you KCTS 9 for having terrific programming and community events like this.

Lots of old pbs programs for fund raising. Some new things but it's pretty much hit and miss with…read moreKCTS and the sister station KBTC. Extraordinarily biased evening news. You alienate a huge portion of your viewing audience and expect donations. Not a chance. I started donating in the 1970's. Programming was far better then. I watch pbs in LA , great station,lucky them. Seattle is cursed with one of the worst PBS Stations and Classical music stations. It's embarrassing.

Fraudulent and dishonest business. I retained Woodinville Weekly on November 18 to publish an…read moreobituary for my father who passed away November 13, I paid the publication fee, but despite multiple emails and phone calls, no publication took place and my fee was not refunded despite request, exactly one month after retention. Disgraceful.

This small-town weekly is usually well written and actually reports on issues of importance to…read morethose of us living here. A little too much coverage of Brightwater once in a while, but people are hot under the collar about that issue and until it's built and operating without a problem, I suppose it's to be expected that we'll hear a lot about it. The ads are all local as are the sweet stories about kids doing well in school, local volunteers making a difference, and the successes of local farmers and businesspeople.

Since the demise of the Seattle PI, there has been a huge gap in local coverage of Washington State…read moreand Seattle news (mainly politics), reported for the people of Seattle, not the outlying suburbs, which the mainstream media pays more attention and caters to. PublicCola fills this coverage gap very nicely, and is a refreshing change from the what the local mainstream media covers, which now days, flips its nose to the people of the City of Seattle and what they want to read. Since the beginning of the year, they've expanded their coverage from local political, to food, music, legal, and land use to name a few. I've been going to the mainstream sites increasingly less, since the writing is much better and much more on par with what this Seattle resident wants to read. So, if you're sick of the lack of detail that the local tv station or newspaper writes, or want much more detail with a Seattle perspective, head over to PublicCola.net and check it out!

A for Effort. That counts for something, right?…read more I first was turned on to Publicola in the late Summer of 2009, when the primary for Mayor of Seattle was really heating up. As a venture headed up by two former Stranger writers (Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett), it offered the possibility of decent to better coverage of local issues, with some snarky writing to make things a bit more entertaining. As the campaign wore on past the primary, the comment threads really kept me coming back. While they would, at times, get excessively heated, it was the one place where a bunch of local political junkies, insiders, outsiders who wish they were insiders, and antagonists converged and really hashed out the issues (and, occasionally, solely engaged in trashing the other person's favored nominee/position on the tunnel). It was also during this period that Publicola attempted (from my perspective) to go "mainstream", and offer, per Mr. Feit, a "dose of objectivity" to their reporting, an alternative to the blatantly biased reporting at the Stranger, and more subtle biased reporting at the Seattle Times. All of that aside, I still read Publicola daily, and comment fairly regularly. What I fear the site lacks, however, is a clear direction. At one point, it was a local political reporting site, and it seems to be becoming a hodgepodge of random "nerds", with postings at random times of the day. Some are interesting, some are uninteresting, and some are painfully boring and pointless (and not the funny pointless at the Slog (a la Lindy West)). The morning routine of "Morning Fizz" is never in any logical order for the blurbs on stories involved (literally - they will post on a topic from the City Council, then some random bit about THEESatisfaction, back to the City Council, someone is going to be on KUOW, State Legislature, and some other random bit), and it is common that simple spelling and grammatical errors that MS Word Spellcheck would catch are not caught in the editing room. The "dose" of objectivity is, more often than not, a farce. While there will be occasion of straight news reporting, almost every story includes a clear slant from the reporter involved. Making matters worse, it is rare that there will be opposing viewpoints, until one enters the comment threads. That's not objectivity. There is also the issue of "scoops". It is fairly common that a story will be posted, and end mid-sentence of a paragraph, in shorthand, in order to be the first local outlet to report. I personally find this very troubling, as if being first is more important than being accurate or, even worse, intelligible. Finally, the comment threads are one will_in_seattle away from becoming the mess of BS that the Times comment threads are. This is really sad, because it takes away from good, well thought out conversations to mayor bashing for the sake of mayor bashing. I know that they can't control the comment threads (even though they are known to pull and/or edit comments), but this is just a sad fact. Those gripes aside, the fact that the team at Publicola is willing to do so much digging for stories that most media don't care about (Dr. Bushnell), and really keep following others (the panhandling ordinance), does show a seriousness that they are trying. Where was the Stranger during the Bushnell fiasco? Is the Stranger willing to criticize the man they feigned over during the election? It seems not. Publicola has shown that, even though they'll support you, doesn't mean you're free from tough questions. They've been around for just over a year. I hope that in the next year, they continue to grow, but also continue to work on issues such as editing before posting, ensuring facts are correct, and ordering news items in a way that makes sense. For now, three stars. Maybe next time they can get four.

A very nice community newspaper for the Maple Valley community. Good job Voice of the Valley!read more

Bay Area music radio sucks. To a certain extent, most music radio sucks these days, but when you…read morecompare the Bay Area's selection of stations (corporate, college, NPR, etc.) to, say, what you can hear in L.A. County, it's not even close--L.A. wins every time. I grew up and went to college in L.A. County, and I spent way more time driving and, thus, listening to the radio in the 1990s and very early 2000s than I do in the Bay Area. Put another way, when I lived in Southern California, I had radio presets on my car. I've lived in San Francisco since 2003 and have had three cars over that time, and I've never bothered with radio presets, because aside from KQED, KALW, and KPFA (none of which are really music stations), it's generally not worth listening to the radio for music here. Until 2024, that is. I was running errands for an upcoming weekend trip, and I happened upon 92.7 FM, which is technically KEXC but which is just a repeater of 90.3 KEXP in Seattle. Whatever show I caught was really cool and eclectic, a combination of a college-radio station and Santa Monica's KCRW. The music was familiar and new at the same time, and the DJ sounded like a very polished college DJ. Over the next few months, I continued to listen to KEXP whenever I drove, and then, when I wasn't driving as much, I started streaming it. It's an amazing station with a long, interesting history in Seattle. Its current iteration is nonprofit, but it's not an NPR affiliate, as far as I can tell, and while it is still somehow connected to the University of Washington, it's not purely owned by the university. If they play anything other than music, I've never heard it. Not all the shows are the same, and some DJs are more interesting than others, but it's generally worth listening to at any time of the day. They have some Bay Area sponsors and ads as well, and while I generally abhor ads, most of them are for small businesses both here and in Seattle, so it feels like real community radio.

Came to KEXP just to get a Caffe Vita Del Sol and walked into a space that did not exist the last…read moretime I was around. It's gorgeous/huge and people are actually using it. I'm genuinely glad it's here. Brazil vs. Japan is on FIFA, my coffee is perfect, I grabbed a new Sub Pop tee because my old one is basically a thread, and my friend and I somehow scored the good leather seats. I walked straight into bliss and found myself in one of Seattle's best places to just exist for a minute.