{"id":3906,"date":"2008-12-31T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:22:33","slug":"now-ill-need-sleeping-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3906","title":{"rendered":"Now I&#8217;ll Need Sleeping Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WCCO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/braublog\/2008\/12\/31\/5539\/end-of-year-cuts_hit_city_pages_wcco-am\">tubes Al Malmberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Malmberg &#8211; the Good Neighbor&#8217;s long-time graveyard host and one of the most somnolent radio personalities since Marconi first tickled an oscillator &#8211; falls victim to hard ad times.\u00a0 Brauer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over at the Good Neighbor, having a nationwide wee-hours clear channel signal apparently isn&#8217;t what it used to be. I haven&#8217;t confirmed the details with WCCO management, but new station boss Mick Anselmo is under orders to slice costs \u2014 top talent was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/davidbrauer\/2008\/11\/25\/4863\/wcco_radio_asks_big_names_to_take_a_pay_cut\" target=\"_self\">asked<\/a> to take a 10 percent pay cut, and two news reporters were recently <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs2.startribune.com\/blogs\/justin\/2008\/12\/18\/more-shakeups-in-local-radio-kstp-and\/\" target=\"_blank\">let go<\/a> \u2014 so low-revenue overnights was probably a tempting target.<\/p>\n<p>One tipster told me the station will shift to a syndicated show out of St. Louis on Monday; I haven&#8217;t pinned down its identity yet. Another tipster says the station that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wccoradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">advertises<\/a> itself as &#8220;NewsRadio 830&#8221; is so short-staffed that it now runs recorded weekend morning newscasts in the afternoon; also unconfirmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t Mischke be a great fit, huh?<\/p>\n<p>(Well, that&#8217;s the rumor that&#8217;s bouncing around Twitter&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WCCO tubes Al Malmberg. Malmberg &#8211; the Good Neighbor&#8217;s long-time graveyard host and one of the most somnolent radio personalities since Marconi first tickled an oscillator &#8211; falls victim to hard ad times.\u00a0 Brauer: Over at the Good Neighbor, having a nationwide wee-hours clear channel signal apparently isn&#8217;t what it used to be. I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}