Ok, call this a bit of whining, but since moving back to St. Louis I can’t seem to get settled with a morning radio drive time program I like. Since I grew up here, you’d think I’d just return to my favorite station and be happy with what’s on. Since my return I can’t seem to get comfortable with a morning program.
Since I left St. Louis, I’ve lived in a variety of cities and countries, and in each place I had managed to find morning drive time radio I could settle into.
Sometimes there wasn’t much choice. In China and P.R. there was only one station that could remotely be called English speaking, CRI in China played top 40 western hits, and at the top of the hour would do news in various languages, one hour would be English, next German, next French, etc. In Puerto Rico there was “Hits FM” that broadcast in English, or an Armed Forces radio station if you were close enough to the old air force base.
Los Angeles had a wide variety of choices, but I normally settled into Mark and Brian, a comedy duo on KLOS 95.5 Classic Rock that puts on a good show, or KNX 1070 which is an all news station, and had frequent traffic reports if I had to make the twice weekly commute from Simi Valley to Mira Loma.
Even east Tennessee had some choices I could settle in with, John Boy and Billy, a humorous with a side of classic rock syndicated radio show received out of a Knoxville station, or the local Morristown AM station, for local news and talk and a folksy atmosphere.
But for some reason, can’t seem to get comfortable with a morning program in St. Louis.
Trying KMOX, “the Voice of St. Louis” but just not relating to the content. Maybe it’s the time span I”m listening, basically starting around 6:40 a.m. for about 20 minutes. Or maybe it’s just not very entertaining in between commercials. Plus the intro to the Happy Birthday segment, where some guy yells “It’s My Birthday” is totally annoying – makes even my fillings rattle. Some of the other shows,I’ve tried, Bob and Tom on KSHE 94.7, but it doesn’t have the “local” feel I’m looking for. NPR? Not in the mood for in depth news at that hour.
What happened to the old morning drive time shows of old, where you got some humor, entertainment, traffic, music every once in a while? The type of shows where when you got in the car in the morning you felt like you were listening to an old friend on the radio, and not being hit on the head with political opinion, Mark Klose, J.C. Corcoran (in between suspensions and firings) a few others that have slipped my mind.
Maybe it’s because of my short drive to work, really only about a 20 minute drive if that long I’ve not settled into a morning show, or maybe my tastes in music have changed. Maybe it’s the state of corporate radio these days stifling the creativity of DJ’s in general, and morning DJ’s in particular.
Anyone can come up with some good suggestions, “I’m all ears”
