[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday December 26, 2007 at 8:50am]
Lineup changes
It's time to shuffle my talk radio deck for 2008. Too many shows, too little time.
Rush 24/7 stays, that's a given. He's still the best and sets the pace. But I'm not renewing my subscriptions to Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly.
I added O'Reilly when Dennis Prager lost his battle and his premium web site with Salem. But while it's well done technically, something I always admire, too often it's either a promo for the TV Factor that evening or a recap of the previous show. I recently started recording the TV Factor on the DVR and found that covers most of his perspective.
I do feel somewhat bad about dropping Ingraham, in that it used to be a better program than it is now. The production values have suffered and the show has largely lost its niche. It has given up far too many of the cultural segments I enjoyed to get immigration or the war rehashed. The value add is largely gone.
By the way, I tracked the attendance records, how many live shows out of each host personally performed. Ingraham won at 224 out of 255 days (88%), though maybe I should knock that down a little for being late to work from time to time. Rush was live 218 days, and O'Reilly 212 days (83%).
This will free up considerable time, part of which I'll spend listening to Dennis Prager on Townhall. I hear Dennis on the weekends sometimes, and I still miss it. Maybe I'll have to try to get the podcast feed to work again. I had no luck with or without iTunes last time I tried.
Most of that time, however goes back to Old Time Radio, which I enjoyed much too little in 2007. This year will be different - the Shadow knows!
Rush 24/7 stays, that's a given. He's still the best and sets the pace. But I'm not renewing my subscriptions to Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly.
I added O'Reilly when Dennis Prager lost his battle and his premium web site with Salem. But while it's well done technically, something I always admire, too often it's either a promo for the TV Factor that evening or a recap of the previous show. I recently started recording the TV Factor on the DVR and found that covers most of his perspective.
I do feel somewhat bad about dropping Ingraham, in that it used to be a better program than it is now. The production values have suffered and the show has largely lost its niche. It has given up far too many of the cultural segments I enjoyed to get immigration or the war rehashed. The value add is largely gone.
By the way, I tracked the attendance records, how many live shows out of each host personally performed. Ingraham won at 224 out of 255 days (88%), though maybe I should knock that down a little for being late to work from time to time. Rush was live 218 days, and O'Reilly 212 days (83%).
This will free up considerable time, part of which I'll spend listening to Dennis Prager on Townhall. I hear Dennis on the weekends sometimes, and I still miss it. Maybe I'll have to try to get the podcast feed to work again. I had no luck with or without iTunes last time I tried.
Most of that time, however goes back to Old Time Radio, which I enjoyed much too little in 2007. This year will be different - the Shadow knows!