Overheard On KUOW This Morning: "Steve Scher Returns On Monday"

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I agree so much

on September 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM

I, uh, guess, um, I'll just, um, have to, uh, go back to, um, you know, uh, listening, um, to KEXP, uh, in the, uh, mornings, uh, to avoid, um, being, uh, driven completely, uh, fucking, um, insane.

also on September 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM

I wrote KUOW and made a small contribution a while back, informing them that as an avid NPR listener I would love to give more, but couldn't bring myself to pay his salary. He is awful. I only now listen to KUOW2 88.5. Its a shame. I think if the Sloggers band together and make token contributions with a note pledging to give alot more if they get rid of him, we can make it happen.

Peace Frog on September 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM

@3 I wish the world worked like that.

timclark on September 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM

I do not share the same hatred of Steve as many sloggers do, but I do rather enjoy Marcie.
Steve has been out for nearly a month, I am surprised it wasn't posted on slog when he started his vacation.

nartweag on September 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM

awww, I like Steve. I think the 'sound scenes' episodes are a little too hodge-podgy though. Marcie's voice sounds crazy produced, think it's how she normally sounds of if it's her radio voice?

internet_jen on September 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM

Steve Scher can go fuck himself.

monkey on September 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM

Ehh, I don't really think she's much better.

care bear on September 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM

Steve is so so so bad at his job. It baffles the mind.

Andy_Squirrel on September 9, 2011 at 12:32 PM

@2 and 9, couldn't agree more.

Lola, Missing Iowa City on September 9, 2011 at 12:33 PM

Scher is awful, but I don't really think Marcie Sillman is much better.

Maybe I'm an asshole, but I find almost all the local 'talent' to be very subpar. Ross Reynolds is excruciating; far worse than anyone on the morning crew. Almost everything I like on KUOW comes from national programming, not local.

Reverse Polarity on September 9, 2011 at 12:46 PM

@11: Agreed. At least, I think so. I've managed to avoid Reynolds for so long I only have memories of how awful he is.

You go to SF or LA or NY, and you get an NPR station with a mix of world, national, and local interest, with the local talent being pretty professional and covering news, economic, and other noteworthy stuff. In Seattle, we get people with speech impediments talking about mulching for an hour. It's embarrassing.

also on September 9, 2011 at 12:51 PM

I turn off the radio the moment Steve Scher starts talking.

Greydon Clark on September 9, 2011 at 12:56 PM

@#13 Me too! I go straight to AM1090. Steve is the most unprepared, ever-bumbling, rattled-sounding voice "talent" ever to make it on the air. I simply can't listen to his voice as it sends me up a tree, FAST. I have written on the memo line of contribution checks to the station: "For God's sake, please fire Steve Scher already." After reading #3, I wonder how many listeners have done the same. The public has spoken, KUOW: BE DONE WITH HIM.

TBne on September 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM

Pat Cashman needs to do radio again. He makes any other local host look like a pretender.

laterite on September 9, 2011 at 1:34 PM

Steve Scher is a bumbling, ill prepared host with almost no understanding of the topics his show is supposed to illuminate, but Marci Sillman is all that with a panicky, fingernails-on-chalkboard voice added to the bargain. I haven't supported that station in years and those two are just a couple of reasons why.

on September 9, 2011 at 2:01 PM

I think I'm in a tiny minority here, but I really like Diane Rehm and wish her show was on at a reasonable hour here, maybe replacing weekday. It's nice to hear about local stuff, but I really like listening to Diane nail senators to the fucking wall when they try to sidestep her questions. She has always sounded like she's 102, and she will destroy you.

Volo on September 9, 2011 at 2:35 PM

Steve Scher makes me regret moving back to Seattle.

SM9 on September 9, 2011 at 3:33 PM

Steve Scher has a conversational gift that oscillates between the sublime and the inchoate. He is like the Delta Blues man playing his busted old instrument with such an intuitive connection to the music that his odd tunings emerge as additional universes, worthy of and requiring exploration on there own. Scher's is an highly elliptical approach well suited to breaking down the seamless, wall-of-words style cultivated by most talk shows and for guiding that verbal flow into forms that more fully evoke the human beings beneath. His style deconstructs the slickness and often insecure arrogance of mediagenic "expertise," to reveal that tender ground of human fallibility out of which all knowledge emerges.

on September 9, 2011 at 3:55 PM

@19: Can't say if I agree or disagree. With "uh" and "um" every other word, it's impossible for me to tell the quality of his thinking, other than that it's too aggravating to listen to for more than two or three seconds.

also on September 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM

@17 Diane Rehm is on KUOW2 (91.7 FM) every morning.

Nic in Greenlake on September 9, 2011 at 4:40 PM

@19: Buwahahaha!

You're the Delta blues master of language, my friend.

TVDinner on September 9, 2011 at 7:26 PM

Ross Reynolds is prepared, but has a truly awful voice and demeanor.

Marcie Sillman has very little depth, and a voice not made for radio.

Steve Scher has a good voice and seems to be reasonably prepared, but my anger over the whole Cliff Mass firing knows no bounds.

There you have it.

lotus eater on September 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM

I don't know about much better. Slightly better, maybe.

w7ngman on September 10, 2011 at 1:40 AM

Meh, so much histrionics. Steve's fine, a bit more impromptu than most NPR hosts, sure, but he's a decent and self-effacing interviewer. Marcie's great as a producer, or feature and arts reporter, but it's no accident she no longer hosts a daily show.

And for the people fellating the local programming elsewhere, there is WNYC and there is everything else. If you want to whine about a truly annoying self-aggrandizing douchecock try listening to Michael Krasny in SF on KQED. Anybody with half a brain flees that newsroom (e.g. Tamara Keith) at first opportunity.

Ross Reynolds, on the other hand...he should be calling out Bingo numbers for a living.

capicola on September 10, 2011 at 2:00 AM

Going out on a limb here, but I like Steve. I like the fact that when he is interviewing, he usually asks the next question I was going to ask as a result of the guest's previous response. A bit shocked that he had a falling out with Cliff Mass though.

KaraC on September 11, 2011 at 5:34 PM

I hope that this thread still open, because I just need to vent somewhere!

This morning while announcing a new call for listener sound recordings that were scary for Halloween, Steve Sher suggested jokingly that for instance, someone could record something that suggested the sound of puppies in a plastic bag.

I wrote in to complain and recieved a response from Ann Dornfield telling me that they would never endorse violence and the "Halloween is all about pretend"

....um, like let's just *pretend* that it's puppies in a plastic bag....right?

lolalaptop on October 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM

I hope that this thread still open, because I just need to vent!

This morning while requesting submissions of listeners' scary sound recordings for Halloween , Steve Sher suggested jokingly that, someone could record something that sounded like "puppies in a plastic bag".

I wrote in to complain and recieved a response from Ann Dornfield telling me that they would never endorse violence and the "Halloween is all about pretend"

....um, like let's just *pretend* that it's puppies in a plastic bag....right?

lolalaptop on October 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM

Buh-bye!
http://kuow.org/post/steve-scher-resigns…

Justin on June 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM

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