Posted on 12/09/2004 9:36:27 AM PST by adam_az
Thanks for your patience. Effective Monday, December 6, the Charles Goyette Show has moved to Phoenix station KXXT 1010 AM. ("...an offer I couldn't refuse!") During the transition period, which began Thanksgiving Day, we have been off the air and CharlesGoyette Dot Com as been frozen. But now we are back in business. Join the radio show weekday mornings 7 - 10 am and check the website daily, while we...
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(Phoenix, AZ) December 1, 2004 Phoenix radio station 1010 TALK KXXT today announced the hiring of popular Phoenix personality Charles Goyette as host of its new morning drive talk show. Goyettes new 7 10 am weekday morning show begins Monday, December 6.
We looked for the most independent and outspoken talk show host we could find to anchor our new station, said Bob Christy, KXXT General Manager.
We were pleased to find him right here in Phoenix. Charles principled opposition to the Iraq war has not only been vindicated by subsequent events, but it has put him on the map nationally. We are both glad we could reach an agreement to keep providing Phoenix radio listeners with more fearless talk radio!
Goyettes resume includes stints with KTAR and recently several years as host of Clear Channels KFYI afternoon drive program. His differences with Clear Channel over his objections to the Iraq war spilled out into the public with the publication of an article by Goyette called How to Lose Your Job in Talk Radio in the American Conservative magazine a year ago. Since then Goyette has been sought out for his views on the war and the media by journalists and broadcasters across the country and around the world. He will be featured in an upcoming segment on the PBS show NOW with Bill Moyers.
In addition to his opposition to the war in Iraq, Goyette is well-known to Arizona listeners for leading the charge against the Cardinals football stadium location near the runways of Sky Harbor International Airport, taking on Americas Toughest Sheriff, Joe Arpaio over the potty-cams in the womens jail, and battling Qwest Communications over what many customers believed was misuse of their private records and phone numbers.
Im delighted to be the new morning show host on 1010 TALK KXXT, said Goyette. The recklessness and instability of Bushs foreign policy are only exceeded by his fiscal irresponsibility. 1010 TALK KXXT will become the go to spot on the dial as people begin to recognize the unhappy consequences of both.
I love how Charles makes it out to be that he had "ideological differences" with Clearchannel... unless you consider that Clearchannel's ideology is that they don't want hosts with crappy ratings on their station.
He wrote an article How to Lose Your Job in Talk Radio, which was prophetic.... though he really lost it because of crappy ratings. After being moved from drivetime to the night time slot for crappy ratings.
Then, he moved to 1100 AM. He didn't last long - his ratings were in the toilet. Now he moved to Herr America.
Guess who Charles was interviewing this morning?
Al "Bodyslam" Franken.... and Scott "Burger King" Ritter.
What a putz.
Let us hope his idiotic conspiracy theories do the same thing for KXXT's ratings that it did for KFYI's.
Ha, haaa!
When Goyette left KFYI they went to #1 in the ratings in the state of Az!
Another useless idiot.
I used to like him...he once referred to McCain as a "commie"
Liddy and Hill, who Goyette calls "frick and frack," took over his timeslot and took it to #1.
Then he took the 7-10 PM slot and ran it into the dumpster.
How sad that as a so-called "libertarian" he finds the most common cause with "progressives."
I guess they needed to hire a token Goy-ette at Air America....
Who or should I say what is a Charles Goyette?
Phoenix local radio host.
I apologize for the errors/typos/misspeaks in my last post... It is almost midnight and my eyes feel like they are going to fall off.
They move Goyette from the pm drivetime slot... and move to 1st in ratings.
Goyette cries over sour grapes. Stop talking about how great his ratings were - he was never #1 except in the minds eye of the New Times before they had that mental midget Mike Newcomb to tonguebathe.
As time has gone on, he's gotten nuttier. On 1100, I heard him promulgating the theory that the 9/11 attack on the pentagon never happened.
I heard him on KXXT the other morning praising Al Franken and Scott Ritter. He lionized Ritter, a pedophile. Both guests made many, many factual errors which even the average Freeper could have pointed to articles disproving. He let it ALL go.
Call in listeners called Charles "progressive." He never challened this assertation.
I have 0 respect for the man, now. I doubt he'll be espousing libertarian economic principles on KXXT - just angling to be the Art Bell of politics and land a national Herr America show.
That said, I once enjoyed his show. Since the Iraq war, he's become more and more unlistenable.
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