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This guy getting the boot has more to do with bad ratings and an unappealing show than any Clear Channel consirpiracy. When he got moved out of drive time I was thrilled. I have a radio in my office that was pretty much stuck on KFYI for years, but after a couple of months of Goyette we had to start changing the channel in the afternoon. This guy was a bomb long before the war. He spent most of the last two years talking for 3 hours a day about the political machinations surrounding the building of a the new Phoenix Cardinals stadium. To give the guy credit he broke some major news on some of the stadium shenanigans and the subject was big in Phoenix for most of the year, but for god sakes we didn't need three hours a day 5 days a week stadium politics coverage. And he was obnoxious, pompous and a poor talker. I'd like to think he's getting the boot because of the emails that people like me wrote. Whenever I talked to other folks at his station they always got an earful about Goyette and I could tell by their reactions that they were getting that all the time. In the end he can blame Clear Channel all he wants, and his supporters can say his show was great and it's all CLear Channel politics but in reality it's all business. The KFYI lineup starts off with a morning guy Bruce Jacobs that is a likeable loudmouth libertarian conservative (imagine Michael Savage as a former sports-talk guy) followed by Barry Young ( a local icon, politically along the lines of Limbaugh), then Limbaugh, then Hannity, then Tom Liddy and Austin Hill (Liddy is a former congressional candidate and son of G. Gordon. Hill is a long time local host and voice of reason.), their show is over the top by design and pulls non-ideologues for some fun and humor during drive time. Then ending their lineup they have Goyette. He's a John McCain conservative, and a Goldwater guy like Hillary was a Goldwater girl. Most people who listened to and liked any of the previous 12 hours of KFYI would probably not like him. There are other stations for his brand of talk. Goyette on KFYI is like selling bacon at the kosher market.

You think Jacobs is a Libertarian? Did you listen to his first week? He came out spouting liberal viewpoints, crowed that he didn't know much about politics or history, or that ever read the newspaper, and the callers slaughtered him. Then he toed the line and started saying what the bosses wanted him to say. The guy is an intellectual flyweight. As for Liddy and Hill, it is cotton candy, all fluff and no structure. There really is little thought provoking stuff on the radio. What Goyette did to expose the crooks behind the stadium was magnificent. I've lived in PHX all my life and have had some dealings with these folks, there is so much corruption in this town, its like being in Chicago. Clear Channel horror stories are rife, there have been any number of first hand accounts on the radio talk boards. When KFYI was an independent radio station run by Fred Webber, it was a great thing. Brash, opinionated and intelligent talk, nowadays, its rubbish.