The Two Worst Voices in Radio

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[Dr. Sivana]

If Joy Behar is still on the radio, she's at least as obnoxious as Lynn Samuels was.

I forgot about her. Samuels' voice is far worse, but I think she was a more decent person. Behar is a dishonest flack.

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FReepathon Day 55

[Windflier]

Sussman, ksfo 560 am morning drive San Francicko. Conservative but unfunny and so boring he cant be rescued by his cohost.

Sounds like he'd better not plan on making a career out of his gig at KSFO.

[Political Junkie Too]

The problem is that Sussman has been there for a long time. Even though Melanie Morgan is more experienced (first gig on the Morning Show with Lee Rodgers, then second gig as cohost for the first year of America's Morning News with John McCaslin).

Sussman is also a fill-in for Mark Levin, where I think he tries too hard.

Unfortunately, Sussman is largely responsible for turning the KSFO Morning Show from an issue-oriented interview program to a "morning zoo" format based on callers. Rodgers had a strong stable of regular weekly interviews. Sussman has "ticked off Tuesday" and "whistle-blower Wednesday." He frequently descends into scatological humor about passing gas, as well as sexist "he-man" humor about man caves and power tools (stolen from Tim Allen?).

I'm not a fan anymore, but it's the only thing local in the morning.

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Someone I DO like listening to is Inga Barks at KMJ 580 in Fresno, California. I hear her from time to time when she fills in for Mark Levin. KMJ reaches into the San Francisco bay area, so I should listen to her regular show occasionally.

-PJ

[Windflier]

Unfortunately, Sussman is largely responsible for turning the KSFO Morning Show from an issue-oriented interview program to a "morning zoo" format based on callers.

I absolutely hate that format, and will not listen to it. The early morning show on WBAP is the same format, except they do touch on important subjects of the day, here and there. When they do, they usually wind up making a joke of it all, so they're pretty useless except for traffic and weather.

[raccoonradio]

You know I did forget him—went to my car and punched some buttons and there he was on WRKO...yuk! “...My stock market heart attack report...”

[gaijin]

Rodgers prepared for his every show starting at something lke midnight, straight through the night, and by the time he did his interviews it REALLY showed —he knew the material inside out, makng for a GREAT exchange.

Now Sussman has BEER POURING sound effects —cheesy to the max and doesn’t Sussman KNOW few drink beer at 7 am...? It’s plain silly.

Now I listen to KSCO in Santa Cruz, not as bad.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yeah, what's with their obsession with the so-called "crap slapper?"

And that "Thirsty Thursday" shtick has to stop.

Also, is it just me or did Sussman cut back the guest interview time from something like the 15 minutes that Rodgers did to just about 5-10 minutes now?

-PJ