Comments on An Open Letter to KIRO

I'd care if I actually cared enough to listen to talk radio. But you know, I do not care.

Anyho, I tried to listen to the local Air America station and totally hate it. (and I am a lefty liberal!)

Let talk radio die, and die off quickly.

cate, local talk radio offers stuff that national talk (even Air America) doesn't offer. If it's not your cup of tea then fine, don't listen, but why wish death for it when others like it?

also, for those of you experiencing deja vu... Yes, dan made this exact same post two days ago.

Dan - offer to co-host and I'll sign.

It's wank, and Goldy & The Stranger have enough forums for wank as it stands. People who listen to talk radio have basically made up their minds about where they stand, and typically listen to programs that agree with their worldview. So the marginal impact of talk radio is about zero.

I had just started listening to the show, and really liked it. Even though I live in the 'Quah and a lot of the issues didn't really effect me. It was a running joke in our house because every Saturday night I would want to listen to it, and my 7 and 10 year olds couldn't imagine sitting listening to local politics for an hour. I'll be signing the petition.

Actually, that's not true Gomez. People haven't all made up their minds. I'd fill-in for Dave Ross, who is more centrist, and for Frank Shiers, who was a conservative, and I'd get the same ratio of callers agreeing and disagreeing with me as I did on my show. Hell, when I used to be a frequent guest on KVI, I'd get callers that agree with me.

You leave local talk radio to the likes of Dori Monson, Kirby Wilber and John Carlson, and they will persuade folks, and with nobody on the other side offering an alternative view.

I tried listening to Goldy a few times. But the blaring commercials and previews of other shows made my ears bleed. You'd tune in at 7, and then the blaring crap would start, and you think it's only going to be one or two minutes, but it goes on and on for 10, 15 minutes. Finally Goldy comes on to say his show is about to start. Then more commercials. Then the actual show comes on, but only for a brief moment before the commercials start again.

Am I exaggerating? I swear that thing is less than 50% show, more than 50% crap. And don't even try to get KVI's webcast to work.

So if Goldy ended up as a podcast instead of old media radio, I might actually listen to it.

Yes, elenchos, you are exaggerating. At the top of the hour is there a brief national news update and some commercials. You can always to plan to skip that chunk since it's always there. But to say that the top-of-the-hour "crap" goes on for 15 minutes before you hear the host (Goldy in your case) is just not true.

What's talk radio?

Is that some kind of thing that neocons listen to?

gee, goldy, without your whiny voice we on the left are just sol?

just count the personal pronouns in your post above.

you rode that eyman horse into the sunset of your blog.

maybe that's enough.

elenchos - I recorded the audio of stream of each show. I started my recordings at 7 minutes after the hour because before that is news, weather and traffic. So firstly you started listening to early in the hour.

But you're right, the show, after commercials were stripped was typically only a little over 35 minutes long.

However, KIRO did provide podcasts of the show that were commercial free, so you always had that option.

Wanna save a radio show? Don't circulate a petition - rdio is a business. Instead go to the places that advertise during Goldy's hour, buy something, and tell them you heard about them because you tune in to KIRO ONLY to listen to Goldy. (Probably to late for this guy, but it applies to the next radio show you love.)

Adam - we actually care to save this guy's show.