Idaho Radio News Etc.

I just got finished reading the Boise Weekly’s Spuds & Duds feature. Only a very few media jabs — mostly at the Statesman. Shocked.

But there’s also this:

Mancow Ousting Big J on The X

From the omniscient chair of a high power media mogul, the numbers seem to indicate that no one can compete with Bob and Tom in the morning. And from that omnipotent position on high, a decision was made to scrap the local and loved Big J and trade him in for the uber-hyped Mancow’s Morning Madhouse (alliteration, no doubt, intentional). Voted Boise’s Best radio DJ in Boise Weekly’s 2005 Best of Boise by our readers, the proof is in the pudding. Sure, you can still catch Big J doing his thing with new rock and ’90s midday (and we do still love him just the same), but in a big brat fit, Boise Weekly sends out a big dud to the absence of Big J’s voice in the morning, which once so lovingly called us from our dreamworld and shoved us straight into the shower before a long day of wordsmithing.

And since apprantely NOTHING else happened in Idaho Radio over the past year – Michael Deeds’ year-end wrap-up took on the same subject.

There were no format changes at major radio stations. If there was a trend, it was a move toward syndication, as “Mancow” took over mornings at FM rock station “The X,” and KTIK-AM replaced “The Spud Brothers” with ESPN programming.