Kansas City talk radio changes
- Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 11:52 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Starting Monday, July 31:
710 KCMO: Laura Ingraham 9-11 am and Michael Savage 5-8 pm (both live, and moving over from 980 KMBZ).
980 KMBZ: Mark Levin, 7-10 pm; Neil Boortz, 10 pm-1 am (times are not confirmed). Boortz was on KCMO several years ago but hasn't been in the Kansas City market recently.
KC Star article on the KCMO side of the move is here.
All in all, improvements almost all the way around. Boortz is an unreconstructed libertarian. Laura Ingraham is one of my favorites and a definite upgrade from the moribund "Brian & The Judge" show (that replaced Tony Snow when he went to the White House). I'm looking forward to hearing more from Mark Levin. The only move that isn't (in my humble opinion) an upgrade is KCMO's bumping of hilariously funny nutcase Glenn Beck for dreadfully unfunny nutcase Savage, who is simply unlistenable most of the time.
Also, KCSP 610 and KMBZ 980 are swapping Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers sports broadcasts, with the Jayhawks going to Sports Talk 610 and the Tigers to Newsradio 980 KMBZ. Both KCSP and KMBZ are Entercom stations.
710 KCMO: Laura Ingraham 9-11 am and Michael Savage 5-8 pm (both live, and moving over from 980 KMBZ).
980 KMBZ: Mark Levin, 7-10 pm; Neil Boortz, 10 pm-1 am (times are not confirmed). Boortz was on KCMO several years ago but hasn't been in the Kansas City market recently.
KC Star article on the KCMO side of the move is here.
All in all, improvements almost all the way around. Boortz is an unreconstructed libertarian. Laura Ingraham is one of my favorites and a definite upgrade from the moribund "Brian & The Judge" show (that replaced Tony Snow when he went to the White House). I'm looking forward to hearing more from Mark Levin. The only move that isn't (in my humble opinion) an upgrade is KCMO's bumping of hilariously funny nutcase Glenn Beck for dreadfully unfunny nutcase Savage, who is simply unlistenable most of the time.
Also, KCSP 610 and KMBZ 980 are swapping Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers sports broadcasts, with the Jayhawks going to Sports Talk 610 and the Tigers to Newsradio 980 KMBZ. Both KCSP and KMBZ are Entercom stations.