Sorry Noe, you are sporting some old facts. Not that I disagree with the content. There is no longer any local morning show in San Antonio on KTKR. It is all national. That has been the case for several months. The afternoon show has been careening around the airwaves for what may seem an eternity, but what may actually be a couple of years now. Any and all problems that have ensued, content-wise, (I am rendering my opinion now) are a result of KTKR lobbing these shows to individuals who are willing to be low-paid, and are left, solely, with the tasks of arriving to work on time, and managing their own format. Therefore, witless is as witless does. For example, Steve Czaban cracks me up, laugh out loud, in the early AMs on this station. KTKR relies upon his national feed to cover a particular, early morning time slot. The guys in the afternoon however, Walter and Jeff, crack THEMSELVES up, and the phone calls that they get in support of their stream are, in many cases, embarrassing to listen to. Truly, I blame it on the station. I don't think that anyone of importance really pays any attention to the shit that goes on. Personally, I have always had the feeling that Greg Popovich was being nice, in his "sarcastic way", by even putting up with their stupid ass questions during his show, and their tomfoolery otherwise. Whatever decisions that have just been rendered, regarding Pop's distancing himself from this station, is the OTHER shoe that I have been waiting to drop for quite a while.
As far as the Astros brosdcasts are concerned, this station is the sole broadcast system for the San Antonio area. My beef with them is that they pick and choose what games they will deliver to this city of 1.5 million. There are many times when they will skip a day game in order to deliver one of theses crapped-out local shows. As a person who is on the road several days out of the month, this lack of allegiance to the Stros and the absence of certain daytime broadcasts irks me more than the tripe that is served up as day-to-day fare.
Shit, I can listen to Bjork if I don't want to hear Jeff and Walter, but I can't conjure up an Astros game on my own. You could hear tenfold more Astro broadcasts on the radio in 1967, in tenfold more geographical locations, than you can find these days. That's progress..................I know XM radio.
The Iverson "skit" thing was a typical event as far as this show goes. There have been other faux-interviews that were just as foolish, unlistenable, with poor-taste being the most abundant feature. We are
talking about a poorly run station allowing a few low-grade, and, I emphasize, underpaid(they must be), hosts to schedule, script, and moniter their own eminent demise as if it were a some sort of lark. Someone should have told them that the gun that that they have been playing with for the last couple of years has always been loaded.
