{"id":3731,"date":"2009-04-06T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2009-04-06T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:47:06","slug":"state-of-kpoj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/04\/06\/state-of-kpoj\/","title":{"rendered":"state of KPOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enough shifts have taken place in the perpetually shifting line-up — largely out of their control — that it is worthwhile for me to take stock of the state of KPOJ 610 — “Portland’s Progressive Talk”.\u00c2\u00a0 We are awasy from their original incarnation five years ago — a bastion of rank radio amateurs, British voice-overs, and advertisements hawking bad commercial projects<\/a>, and a certain flavor of over-done insurgent rebellion that didn’t quite match.\u00c2\u00a0 Notable today is that KPOJ didn’t float that commerical campaign regarding their anniversary — “They said we wouldn’t make it, etc., but we’re still here” — but perhaps that’s just because KPOJ’s hired voice talent recently passed away.\u00c2\u00a0 (Note, for instance, that their new 3 pm program is introduced with a generic introduction that does not mention the name Nancy Skinard.)\u00c2\u00a0 Also apparently gone is the most recent incarnation where they seemed to stuff every syndicated liberal programming out there somewhere in the line-up — notably Stephanie Miller is now back on 970 AM weekdays 6 am to 9 am, her Saturday\u00c2\u00a0slot here\u00c2\u00a0replaced by 3 hours of Rachel Maddow’s\u00c2\u00a0MSNBC rejiggled to radio program\u00c2\u00a0— a good freeing for both of them, I suggest.<\/p>\n

So, to blast through this.\u00c2\u00a0 Bill Press is on at 3 am to 6 am.\u00c2\u00a0 Like him?\u00c2\u00a0 Not particularly, but it’s 3 in the goddamned morning.\u00c2\u00a0 6 am to 9 am: Carl Wolfson.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not like the woman who replaced Heidi Tauber — annoying yes – cheerlead “yay”s that to hear makes one cringe.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than that, decent bastion for a variety of media editors and politicans — hence, worth flicking past, turning on and off, changing the station around, and etc.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thom Hartmann…\u00c2\u00a0 Ed Schultz is still on 12 pm to 3 pm… the last man standing from the original line-up.\u00c2\u00a0 As terrible as ever, I presume.\u00c2\u00a0 Does this guy blow or what.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, anyway, he’s got himself an MSNBC program — the cable network’s Fox News counter-program prime-time line-up of Keither Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and I guess Chris Matthews counts if you must.<\/p>\n

Nancy Skinner replaces Randi Rhodes, and — OHMYGOSH — Randi Rhodes has been blotted away and thrown off like a bad fungi infection!\u00c2\u00a0 Though, I guess, that’s a bad thing… she was a stablizer here, for all my negatives opinions of her.\u00c2\u00a0 Nancy Skinner, I have no strong opinion toward.\u00c2\u00a0 Competent enough, and preferrable to 6 pm to 8 pm’s Ron Reagan — and I gather you get slotted to the front of the line if you’re the sone of the former president and want a talk show gig.\u00c2\u00a0 I find him only slightly tedious.<\/p>\n

Mike Malloy remains a god-send… 8 pm to 11 pm.\u00c2\u00a0 Air America kicked him off, Nova M busted apart, something replaced Nova M for roughly 15 minutes and then fell apart too.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Malloy is the personality that would bravely self-distribute where your Randi Rhodes wouldn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, Malloy veers toward a bizarro- Glen Beck, but I guess that’s a necessary antidote.<\/p>\n

There’s some guy named Jon Elliot who sort of tells the story: this is all beginning to be trangely indistinguishable.<\/p>\n

Peter B Collins used to be on weekends at 4 pm , but has disappeared — I assume his show no longer exists because I doubt re-runs of Ron Reagan count for much.\u00c2\u00a0 But anything you can get from\u00c2\u00a0Peter B Collins\u00c2\u00a0you can get from\u00c2\u00a0a few websites, so I don’t suppose I’m missing much from him.\u00c2\u00a0 Lionel followed at 7 pm and remains, and he’s either great or horrible depending on the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 I think they were trying to farm him out to other radio stations, unsuccessfully.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve slotted a Ron Kuby on Sunday mornings at 10 AM, and he is pretty horrible.<\/p>\n

How much of it can be placed on the background?\u00c2\u00a0 Much of it.\u00c2\u00a0 How much of it is worth tuning in on?\u00c2\u00a0 A lot less than much of it.\u00c2\u00a0 How much should be shunned at all costs?\u00c2\u00a0 Not too much of it.\u00c2\u00a0 What I want to know is:\u00c2\u00a0 Who should be the next voice-over, and how uncomfortable a transition would that re-imaging have to be?\u00c2\u00a0 (The voice-over was there for 2 formats ago, for Pete’s sake.) \u00c2\u00a0The general manager is shifting through the tapes now, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enough shifts have taken place in the perpetually shifting line-up — largely out of their control — that it is worthwhile for me to take stock of the state of KPOJ 610 — “Portland’s Progressive Talk”.\u00c2\u00a0 We are awasy from their original incarnation five years ago — a bastion of rank radio amateurs, British voice-overs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}