[Speed Gibson,
Sunday August 27, 2006 at 8:35pm]
State Fair Live Radio
It sounds better than it usually is, the idea of broadcasting from the Minnesota State Fair. Once a challenging technical task, technology has made it easy and affordable, even for television.
Joe Soucheray claims to plan his State Fair shows for months ahead of time and I'll take him at his word. The level of discourse is lowered, pushed aside really, in favor of a magazine show. It's probably what I'd do, too, just for the live audience's sake. But listening is another matter.
That Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett, and Michael Medved are all visiting is great, but they largely do their shows indoors. (Maybe that's changed this year, but it was true in the past.)
The Northern Alliance seems the exception, a show that really adapts well, given their range and types of personalities.
But even that makes me wish for the end of the Fair, Labor Day, the start of school, jacket weather, NFL Football, and that most blessed of months IMO, September.
Joe Soucheray claims to plan his State Fair shows for months ahead of time and I'll take him at his word. The level of discourse is lowered, pushed aside really, in favor of a magazine show. It's probably what I'd do, too, just for the live audience's sake. But listening is another matter.
That Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett, and Michael Medved are all visiting is great, but they largely do their shows indoors. (Maybe that's changed this year, but it was true in the past.)
The Northern Alliance seems the exception, a show that really adapts well, given their range and types of personalities.
But even that makes me wish for the end of the Fair, Labor Day, the start of school, jacket weather, NFL Football, and that most blessed of months IMO, September.
Found your blog via tracking down Jason Lewis. I remember him from back in the early 90's on KOA. WBT in Charolette still has some of his old podcasts online even though he has left. I think most of the Clear Channel stations are moving to pod cast local personalities, at least the big local ones. I can't wait until KTLK-FM start pod casting. Clear Channel is already podcasting in Denver with Mike Rosen on KOA, a right of center host, and Peter Boyles on KHOW, a Jon-Benet fanatic.