[Speed Gibson,
Thursday June 28, 2007 at 4:43pm]
Mourning Radio
Morning radio is all but dead, at least the kind I want, the kind I used to be able to find.
Willie Clark at AM 1500 is going on two years now, still completely devoid of any content. The once content-rich (by morning drive standards) KTLK-FM morning show with Andrew and Kelly, lost Kelly, then Andrew, and recently picked up local veteran John Hines. Alas, he's pretty much following the AM 1500 all fluff all the time format, little more than an opening act for the incessant traffic report breaks.
There is the pedantic Bill Bennett on AM 1280 The Patriot, but he's little more than that, and of course there is no local content. Minnesota is flyover country to Bennett, who introduced Tim Pawlenty recently as "the best Governor in America."
I even tried NPR, boring as always from the monotone deliveries, repeating the same few headline stories with all the controversial, sometimes factual edges sanded off. Oh, but they can dwell on a local art show or bio some retiring jazz musician for several minutes.
It's enough to make you want to start reading the Star Tribune again instead.
Willie Clark at AM 1500 is going on two years now, still completely devoid of any content. The once content-rich (by morning drive standards) KTLK-FM morning show with Andrew and Kelly, lost Kelly, then Andrew, and recently picked up local veteran John Hines. Alas, he's pretty much following the AM 1500 all fluff all the time format, little more than an opening act for the incessant traffic report breaks.
There is the pedantic Bill Bennett on AM 1280 The Patriot, but he's little more than that, and of course there is no local content. Minnesota is flyover country to Bennett, who introduced Tim Pawlenty recently as "the best Governor in America."
I even tried NPR, boring as always from the monotone deliveries, repeating the same few headline stories with all the controversial, sometimes factual edges sanded off. Oh, but they can dwell on a local art show or bio some retiring jazz musician for several minutes.
It's enough to make you want to start reading the Star Tribune again instead.