SEATTLE, Wash. -- On Monday, April 26th The Ari Hoffman Show will be officially added to the Talk Radio 570 KVI line-up, from 3 – 6 p. m. weekdays. Ari Hoffman has been filling in for us since long-time host, Kirby Wilbur retired at the end of January. A local businessman and civic activist, Hoffman ran for Seattle City Council in 2020. Now he has a more powerful platform on America’s first conservative talk radio station, 570 KVI.

This tweet from a Pacific Northwest social justice group seems to be a call to commit crimes. There definitely is a call to action by Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front. Their Twitter following is significant with more than 36,000 followers. This post was made just a few hours before groups gathered in both Seattle and Portland to ostensibly honor police shooting victim in Brooklyn Center, Minn. , Daunte Wright.

Click the image above to listen to Kirby Wilbur pay tribute to the late Daryl Summers. KVI afternoon talk show producer, Daryl Summers, passed away unexpectedly last week. Daryl had worked in broadcasting for 30 years, mostly between Seattle and Portland radio stations, serving as the mid-day DJ on KRWM Warm 106. 9 from 1999 - 2012. We were fortunate enough to have Daryl as our Afternoon Show producer for the last five years.

Um, what happened to the backers of the McCleary decision that cited the Washington Constitution's fateful words the "paramount duty of the state" is education of children to legally justify the allocation of more taxpayer money to public schools? Remember McCleary? It was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Washington (SCOW) in a 9-0 ruling and it led to billions of extra Washington tax dollars supporting K-12 public instruction.

Click the image above to listen to the KVI Morning Show's On-Air Tribute to Daryl Summers. KVI afternoon talk show producer, Daryl Summers, passed away unexpectedly last week. Daryl had worked in broadcasting for 30 years, mostly between Seattle and Portland radio stations, serving as the mid-day DJ on KRWM Warm 106. 9 from 1999 - 2012.

For those of you who weren't able to join us, or would like to view it again, you can click the link below to watch the FULL KVI Salutes Kirby Wilbur Virtual Event. CLICK TOWATCH THE EVENT HERE. After 20+ years on 570 KVI, Kirby Wilbur is headed to Texas to enjoy his well-deserved retirement with his family.

Is this legal? The Seattle City Council has voted unanimously to require "grocery companies with more than 500 employees worldwide and to stores larger than 10,000 square feet", according to Q13 News, to pay employees $4 per hour for 'hazard pay' during the COVID pandemic. The vast majority—if not all—of these employees are going to be United Food and Commercial (UFCW) labor union members at grocery stores like Safeway and QFC, thus the cronyism.

Two days after U. S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted "Abolish ICE", cities likeSeattle andPortlandwere attacked and damaged by anarchists who organized "abolish ICE" protests. ICE is commonly referred to in political circles as an acronym for U. S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which deals with immigration issues and cross-border traffic. In Seattle, the anarchist mob threw rocks and water bottles at photographers and journalists trying to observe and monitor the mob.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has expanded the COVID-19 vaccine criteria now allowing more people to be eligible for inoculation. For complete criteria and vaccine locations in your county, click this State Dept. of Health link.

KVI's Kirby Wilbur is setting the headphones down and trading in a blue state for a red one. After 20 combined years on our airwaves, 570 KVI's Kirby Wilbur is moving to the Lone Star State to embark on a well-earned retirement. You can watch Kirby make the announcement to his listeners liveHERE. "There is a point in everyone’s life when change comes. The Wilbur family has reached that point.

During the month of December, KVI listeners were asked to vote on the greatest, worst and most definitive Christmas songs of all-time and the voting concluded with a tie for greatest Christmas song of all time. The vote was split between Nate King Cole's "The Christmas Song" and Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" with each receiving 45. 4% of the vote. The song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey collected the remaining 9. 2%.

All of us here at 570 KVI are wishing you and your families a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. See below for notes from KVI's John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur. John Carlson:"This was the most volatile year of my adulthood. Not since the late 60’s and very early 70’s, when I was just a boy, was there a more challenging year for our country than this one. And yet, oddly, it reminds us why Thanksgiving is so important.

It's time for our annual KOMO Toy Drive - a great way to bring joy in a challenging time. Help put toys under the tree and hope in the hearts of local kids in need this holiday season. Here's how you can help make a difference: Donate new unwrapped toys or donate money to benefit The Salvation Army Toy and Joy program. ONLINE NOW: Make an online monetary donation HERE. Shop directly from The Salvation Army's Wish ListHERE and send toys directly to Toy and Joy. IN STORE:

Written by KVI's morning show host, John Carlson: Has Governor Jay Inslee presented scientific evidence that socially distanced restaurant dining has spread COVID? No, he has not. Has the Governor presented evidence that socially distanced movie viewing, gym workouts, museums and worshipping have spread COVID? No, he has not. Don't you think he should, before he throws thousands of people back out of work, and tosses a wrench into the retail industry during the Christmas shopping season?

Give the first few graphs of this Associated Press story a read until you get to this important nugget: Though Redlener sees some of the new wave as inevitable... Doom and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom, but, ohp, wait, this might be inevitable. Seriously, for all the anti-Trump bluster of ‘Trump’s responsible for 230,000 deaths’, what would those critics have done differently to prevent 1. ) a brutal economic collapse or 2.