Tired of the station repeating every news story for 7 days! They need new stories everyday!read more

today September 3, 2025 Cairo news has a story about a hit-and-run on an eight year-old kid riding…read morea bicycle but the only way you can even identify the vehicle as if you watch a bunch of ads to me that is disgusting If they really cared about the family and the kid, you watch 10 minutes of ads to see who the car was just really sad what they have came to today

I absolutely love their morning crew but KOMO has the worst web page of any of the local news…read morestations and is very frustrating. I'm retired and I don't get up at 4:30 anymore so I like to watch the National News desk and then catch the daily news afterwards. Unfortunately, you have no idea which day they're going to air. There was a Tuesday where they showed the previous Friday's broadcast. Today they showed yesterday's broadcast. As much as I love the morning crew, it does make me wonder how reliable their broadcasts are if they can't even take care of a website which is so easily programmable these days. I wish they would fix this because I've always felt they were the least biased of all of the current local stations.

I think they have the best weather team in Seattle. I think overall they're pretty good they're…read morethey're at least a four out of five

I like this station... They have good traffic alerts every 10 minutes. And daily 10am-2pm they have…read morethe commentators which I also like. I feel like I get a good balance of political commentary when I listen to that program. KOMO 1000 is a good way to keep up with whats going on.

News reporting on tv needs to be reviewed for volume going up and down when reporter switches to…read moreinterviewing or showing a related story. I called the station to ask/complain about it and got the answer that '..no one has reported about it ...' . Which gives me the impression that my call/complaint is just another whistle in the wind.

Have to give a 5 star for content and un-biased news. They Always provide two sides of the story…read morewhereas NBC, CBS, CNN etc does not. only complaints is the streaming live news could work in more areas like seattle.

Fox news 13 Seattle is the worst of the worst, they show news from days ago ,we want to know what's…read morehappening today not days ago get new people to work on finding out about New News in Washington State other channels do it also but not like fox 13 news change the name to Fox repeated news 13 Seattle..

It was lovely that KONG televised the Seahawk celebration today (Feb 11, 2026)…read more It was DOWNRIGHT UNPROFESSIONAL of the station to not bleep out the inappropriate language (MF and F) from some Seahawk players. There are people who let their kids stay home from school to watch this show. I am an adult and I don't want to hear it. Shame on those players and shame on KONG for not regulating it.

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.

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.

I spent 45 minutes trying to locate a story penned by Lori M and shown on the news shown on…read more5/15/19. There is no search button on the web site and no link to stories by Lori M. (except her retirement). Also I couldn't find a link to get help or directly to someone who could point me in the right direction. For a news station, this group fails with their lack of transparency in their own web site.

King 5 has been my favorite news station for years. They tell the truth and deliver the news with a…read morecalm expertise. I enjoy the news first thing in the AM and before bed. The news anchors have the professionalism and kind demeanor that makes me feel that I can trust what they say. The news they deliver is easily verifiable. My favorite news anchors are Mark Wright, Steve Bunin, Michelle Li, Jordon Wilkerson, Rich Marriott, Ben Dary, Joyce Taylor, Greg Copeland,Jake Whittenberg, Susannah Frame, Mimi Jung, etc. I guess I like them all! I am a fan!