i had never paid attention to AM970 before this morning, but i thought rather than streaming Stephanie Miller via Seattle's Air America Radio station, or her own live feed (with ghastly music in place of local commercials), i'd try the local feed. AM970. i check out their website, and it turns out they had some other program on at her live 6am-9am slot; she's broadcast, taped (or however they do it now in this new millenium) 3pm.
so i get home from work and turn on my radio to listen to the end of the show and it's Tom Leykis?
! as the kids say, wtf? so i pop back to the website — and today, while i was at work, they change their format. somewhat.
Stephanie is now on live, at 6am. but for some dumbass reason, they drop her last hour for — get this — Dennis Miller. trade an hour of highly rated, very entertaining Stephanie for a hack who who's funniest joke was trying to be a movie star and then a talk show host. apparently the station thinks they'll shake up the same-old-same-old with this approach, but what they'll get is listeners switching off at 8am. it's nice that everyone wants to get along, but i know enough about the other programming to know this station ain't going on memory. what does Dennis Miller have to say that i want to hear, other than admitting he's been wrong about Bush all along? and then retiring.
this is about as bright as open primaries and kum-by-yah bi-partisanism. bleah.
I stopped listening to KPOJ in the morning. As soon as they put on the tired right-wing hack (Olbermann calls him "retired comedian")Dennis Miller, I went back to 620. I know she's on at 6 and I try to catch her but it's not the same. It was a really dumb move on 970's part.
Probably a Rick Emerson move. Thankfully, I don't listen to a single minute of his show. LCD and less. Sad how he can ignore a town full of interesting people who could be great potential guests in lieu of the people who make his show sound like "Good Day Boise."