{"id":3481,"date":"2008-10-16T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2008-10-16T06:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T11:37:38","slug":"lets-see-poole-do-a-turkey-thermometer-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3481","title":{"rendered":"Let’s See Poole Do A Turkey Thermometer Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"

MPR’s venerable “The Morning Show” is closing the studio doors for good<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MPR’s “The Morning Show,” a home for eclectic, acoustic music and gentle humor for 26 years, is about to go gently into the good night.<\/p>\n

Hosts Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole (Tom Keith) announced Wednesday that the program will go off the air Dec. 11 with a live celebration at the Fitzgerald Theater, open to the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TMS was the kind of morning radio my mother would love if she lived in the Twin Cities.\u00a0 Truth be told, in my 23 years here I’ve listened to the show perhaps enough times to count on one hand, and I’m pretty sure you’d get a finger or two in change, but it seemed like the kind of show where a couple of public radio guys (and their listeners, natch) could have a lot of good clean self-referential fun while their audience sprayed each other with self-righteousness (no, really.\u00a0 Check out the comment section in the Strib piece.\u00a0 Clouds of smug are descending).<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 Like most changes for the worse in radio, it’s the result of some manager’s bright idea:<\/p>\n

Keith, who will continue to provide sound effects on “A Prairie Home Companion,” said the show was never really the same after it moved four years ago to the Current (89.3 FM), which leans toward alternative rock and a younger demographic.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t care much for a lot of the music on the station,” said Keith, who turns 62 in December. “We tried to mix in some flavor of the rest of the Current lineup, but I didn’t know the names of a lot of the bands or singers.”<\/p>\n

Connelly, 53, said he was willing to continue the program solo or with a new partner, but management told him last week that the show was going away. “I think they wanted a fresh start,” said Connelly, who will continue to work at MPR.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And by “fresh start”, I’ll betcha they meant “another show that’s oblivious to Delicious Dish<\/em>“.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But I do wish Jim Ed and Dale the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MPR’s venerable “The Morning Show” is closing the studio doors for good: MPR’s “The Morning Show,” a home for eclectic, acoustic music and gentle humor for 26 years, is about to go gently into the good night. Hosts Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole (Tom Keith) announced Wednesday that the program will go off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}