{"id":4609,"date":"2009-04-20T05:20:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2009-04-19T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T21:41:55","slug":"4609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Earth Stood Kibitzing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time has been standing still as the world wonders – will Michele Tafoya take the noon-3PM slot at WCCO-AM?\u00a0 Or will she not?<\/p>\n

David Brauer captures the breathless anticipation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thursday, I wrote<\/a> that Michele Tafoya was “likely” to be named WCCO-AM’s noon-3 p.m. host next week. Today, C.J. casts some doubt<\/a> on the hiring, noting the Good Neighbor’s announcement had been delayed amid “insider” speculation that money and Tafoya’s Monday Night Football committment are the snags.<\/p>\n

That might be right \u2014 I’m relying on insiders, too, which is not definitive. However, I have a couple of additional data points that could explain the hold-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK – I lied.\u00a0 The only people who care are <\/em>local media wonks.<\/p>\n

Among the rest of us, the only real question is this: given that Michele Tafoya is a TV personality (and that TV personalities make almost universally terrible talk radio hosts) who is doing yet another mushy general interest show on a mushy general interest station that has in a generation fallen from market dominance to weak also-ran status, is Tafoya’s show going to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Smell, and get tubed at the end of Tafoya’s contract.<\/li>\n
  2. Reek to high heaven, and get blitzed for trumped-up cause within a year.<\/li>\n
  3. Suck chunks through a straw and cause the once-great Good Neighbor to “go dark” (which is, for the benefit of all of you leftybloggers, a broadcasting term for “shut off its transmitter for good”, not a racist jape).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Time has been standing still as the world wonders – will Michele Tafoya take the noon-3PM slot at WCCO-AM?\u00a0 Or will she not? David Brauer captures the breathless anticipation: Thursday, I wrote that Michele Tafoya was “likely” to be named WCCO-AM’s noon-3 p.m. host next week. Today, C.J. casts some doubt on the hiring, noting […]<\/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-4609","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\/4609","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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}