Subject: Kris Olinger

• Traveling With the Denver Media

  May 9, 2008

• The Mysterious Departure of KOA's Reggie McDaniel

  August 7, 2008

• Reggie McDaniels mystery solved

  August 15, 2008

• Bad news: Peter Boyles' radio show now vagina-free

  Peter Boyles. The craziness couldn't go on indefinitely. In an attempt to quiet the controversy caused by KHOW radio host Peter Boyles' off-the-cuff decision to call Congresswoman Diana DeGette "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet" (documented in blogs such as "Is It Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?" and "The Susan Greene-Peter Boyles Vagina Dialogue"), his immediate supervisor, Clear Channel Denver exec Kris Olinger, told him to put a sock in the V-talk -- a development reported in this

  February 24, 2009

• Gail Schoettler has the final word on vagina-gate

  The stir over KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles's use of the names "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet" in reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette has pretty much run its course -- which is precisely what Clear Channel Denver exec Kris Olinger hoped when she ordered Boyles to drop the topic. But today's Denver Post lobs one last shot in his direction, this one courtesy of former Colorado lieutenant governor (and onetime gubernatorial candidate) Gail Schoettler. And at least "Boyles' Talk Show A

  February 26, 2009

• Bill Menezes on the closure of Colorado Media Matters

  Photo by Anthony CameraBill Menezes, in a 2006 photo. In "On Watch," a September 2006 Message column, former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post journalist Bill Menezes explained his mission as head of Colorado Media Matters, the first state-based spin-off from Media Matters, a Washington, D.C. organization. He described CMM as "a progressive research organization that is aimed at reporting and correcting misinformation in the media that promotes a conservative point of view." At around the sam

  March 19, 2009

• KOA's Colorado Morning News letting its bias show in Tea Party coverage

  Today's tax-day Tea Party protests are predictably hypocritical: I don't seem to remember any conservative talk-show hosts leading State Capitol rallies when the George Bush administration pushed through the free-spending Troubled Asset Relief Program just a few short months ago. Still, the presence of folks like KHOW's Peter Boyles, who's on the scene at this writing, and KOA's Jon Caldara and Bob Newman, both scheduled to speak at the noon hour, violates no journalistic tenets that I can see

  April 15, 2009

• Olympics Travel a Hurdle for Local News Media

  May 8, 2008

• Rush to Riot

  May 1, 2008

• Shakeup in Denver Radio

  Denver radio's getting a shakeup, with more alterations on the horizon. But do any of the switches qualify as improvements?

  March 6, 2008

• Post-Imus Radio

  May 31, 2007

• Sound Check

  Has the Don Imus controversy permanently altered the radio universe? Clear Channel yakkers huddled to talk about it.

  April 26, 2007

• Progress?

  With troubles at Air America and sluggish ratings, AM 760 struggles to convince liberals that they have a place on talk radio.

  March 22, 2007

• Home Boy

  Steffan Tubbs defies logic by returning to his roots.

  December 1, 2005

• The Message

  The Rookie

  August 4, 2005

• The Message

  Free for All

  March 17, 2005

• The Message

  Road Show

  February 17, 2005

• The Message

  Gunny for Governor?

  November 25, 2004

• The Message

  Left's Turn

  September 2, 2004

• Off Limits

  August 21, 1997

• Clear Channel Denver's Kris Olinger on layoffs, news-outsourcing plan

  The radio news in Fort Smith, Arkansas will originate from Denver. In a small item about this week's layoffs at Clear Channel Denver, the Denver Post's Joanne Ostrow mentioned that KOA/850 AM "will now provide news for four other markets: Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Ft. Collins, Minneapolis and Ft. Smith, Arkansas." But part of that sentence is a little misleading. According to Kris Olinger, head of AM programming for Clear Channel Denver, KOA's actually been providing news coverage to Minneapolis

  April 30, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 30 edition

  Danielle Ate the Sandwich, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt... May flowers on the way. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich (and became an internet phenomenon). • My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore. • Dialed in: This week's local music radio playlists. • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 04.29.09. • Sound Bites: Quiet Company, Death Cab for Cutie, Peter Doherty, the Fratellis, the Life and Times and the View. • If this photo of Tupac is A) authentic and B) current,

  April 30, 2009

• George Weber found fame in Denver, death in New York City

  May 7, 2009

• Jay Marvin talks about his health crisis

  Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin in his Denver home. AM 760 morning talk-show host Jay Marvin has spent the last several months fighting for his life. He's been in and out of the hospital for a variety of serious health concerns since early March, and aside from occasional updates provided by his wife, Mary, on the radio and his Facebook page, most of his fans have only an inkling about how he's really doing. To address this issue, he invited yours truly to his Denver-area home yesterday afte

  June 9, 2009

• "Gunny" Bob Newman leaves KOA for mysterious new assignment

  Bob Newman.​As a former Marine gunnery sergeant, KOA radio host Bob Newman comes by his combativeness naturally. When politically liberal Colorado Media Matters, staffed by some of his most persistent critics, collapsed in March, Gunny Bob gleefully kicked the organization when it was down (and out) via a couple of for-publication e-mails that also fired shots at MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who'd named Newman the "Worst Person in the World" back in August 2007. Now, however, left wingers wil

  August 4, 2009

• AM-760's Mario Solis-Marich "boofs" the CU Buffs

  Mario Solis-Marich.​Although Mario Solis-Marich talks about Denver matters during his afternoon talk show on AM-760, he's seldom within the city limits when he does so. He lives in Los Angeles, where he helms a weekend program on KTLK-AM -- and the distance may come in handy, since he's currently taking flak in these parts for his manner of referring to the CU Buffaloes. When teasing Buffs broadcasts, as he did this past Friday, he tends to jokingly refer to the team as "the Boofs." A har

  September 15, 2009

• Mario Solis-Marich to stop "boof"-ing the CU Buffs

  Mario Solis-Marich.​A blog yesterday documented complaints from listeners about Mario Solis-Marich, a Los Angeles-based host for AM 760 who regularly refers to the CU Buffs as the "Boofs" -- a term whose first definition in the Urban Dictionary is: "Short for buttfuck." These gripes were shared with me personally, as well as on AM 760's online forum, where one commenter wrote, "So everytime he knowingly calls the CU team "b#ttf*ckers" because in his warped immature brain it's funny. Every

  September 16, 2009