KUOW's loss of Vincent is significant. Losing Hansen would not be.
While Hansen's ability to twiddle a budget, coordinate meetings, and push dubious style decisions is not trivial, it's nothing that couldn't be done by many other less-hostile managers.
It seems that the KUOW execs have made a classic mistake regarding the value of management: If you're running a factory floor, the staff are cogs and the personnel value lies in your managers and designers. If you're running a skilled labor or knowledge-worker business, the managers and coordinators are cogs, and the personnel value lies in the individual contributors with special skills. That goes double anytime the public knows your workers by name.
Hansen ought to pack up his back-room opinions and spreadsheets, and spend more time with his family. Perhaps Vincent could be lured back to KUOW with the right opportunity to apply some of the perfectionism he developed from actual on-air experience.
-Jon