Kris Olinger

Traveling With the Denver Media

The Mysterious Departure of KOA's Reggie McDaniel

Reggie McDaniels mystery solved

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 ... More >>

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 to ... More >>

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. org ... More >>

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 presen ... More >>

Olympics Travel a Hurdle for Local News Media

When it comes to travel, news organizations are asking themselves: Should we stay or should we go?

Rush to Riot

How seriously should we take Rush Limbaugh's fantasies of a disturbance in Denver?

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?

Post-Imus Radio

Talk show fallout.

Sound Check

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

Progress?

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

Home Boy

Steffan Tubbs defies logic by returning to his roots.

The Message

The Rookie

The Message

Free for All

The Message

Road Show

The Message

Gunny for Governor?

The Message

Left's Turn

Off Limits

Left's Turn

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. Sm ... More >>

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-Fidel ... More >>

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

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-Fidel ... More >>

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 ... More >>

"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 (an ... More >>

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 curren ... More >>

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 share ... More >>

Jay Marvin on his wife's possible breast cancer and the decision to pass the torch to David Sirota at AM 760

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June, before his epic surgery.​Earlier today, Jay Marvin appeared on the AM 760 program he used to host with David Sirota, who's been named his permanent replacement. And those who missed hearing it may not get another chance to catch him on the ou ... More >>

AM-760 lives on despite Air America's death

David Sirota is now the face -- and the voice -- of AM-760.​Air America, the liberal radio network, has seemed gravebound plenty of times over the past few years -- and now even the folks there admit the project is dead. But AM-760, a Clear Channel Denver outlet originally seen as Colorado's ... More >>

Dino Costa: Sorry, haters, but he's kicking ass in New York -- and leaving Denver behind

Photo by Anthony CameraDino Costa loves you, Denver. Why didn't enough of you love him back?​Dino Costa may have been the most divisive sports-media personality in Denver over the past several years. As we documented in a 2006 profile, he loves to stir things up, be it with his argument-genera ... More >>

Kris Olinger, boss at KOA, KHOW and AM 760, leaving Clear Channel Denver

Photo by Mark MangerKris Olinger in 2007.​Update, 11:56a.m.: Clear Channel Denver president Lee Larsen weights in on Kris Olinger's departure below our original item, originally published at 8:20 a.m., with a new e-mail communique included after our 10:16 a.m. addition. Kris Olinger, the long ... More >>

Reggie McDaniel, R.I.P.: "Everything reaches a culmination. Even Lazarus died"

Reggie McDaniel.​Radio personality Reggie McDaniel, who died Friday at age sixty, divided audiences simply by being himself. Some listeners loved his "Everyday People's Entertainment Guide" because of the way it rejected critical pretension, while others saw him as a throwback to an earlier ge ... More >>

Mario Solis-Marich: AM 760 host pimps Arizona candidate he's working for on Colorado airwaves

Mario Solis-Marich.​Last Friday, AM 760 afternoon-drive host Mario Solis-Marich spent part of his broadcast talking up Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Randy Parraz, who'll be facing John McCain in November. Indeed, he even encouraged Colorado listeners to contribute to Parraz's campaign, f ... More >>