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WBT's Keith Larson

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What a pleasure it was to listen to ISDN host Doug Kellett sitting in for Keith Larson today.  Someone who had done some show prep and didn't ramble on endlessly seemingly without direction as Larson so often does. 

Larson spends way too much time talking with his producer who's off-mic and is heard faintly in the background.  Larson, too often, asks questions of the guy that should be asked off the air, if at all.  Seems to me if the two of them would sit down and actually plan a show ahead of time, the questions and on air discussions wouldn't be necessary at all.  If the producer's roll on the air is as big as it seems - give the guy a mic for cryin' out loud!

Some days when I venture to listen, I wonder if the Program Director or GM ever listen or critique the show.  In fact, I wonder if Larson himself has ever listened to tapes of his show.

Yeah, I know...that's why radios have an on off switch and a tuning knob.  I guess my expectations of a 50KW blowtorch, the "great colossus of the south" are higher than what I hear between 9 and noon.
 
I hear what you are saying...
at the same time Larson nailed Kaye Hagan in one of the better interviews of a politician I've heard
in a long time. Last Friday I think, check the podcast.
 
AMEN!!! Keith's ramblings about absolutely nothing drives me insane. And what's up with the Channel 3 love fest???? Oh, I know. Because you don't have anything else to say, you just drag in somebody walking the halls. Doug was way more informing in one day than Larson can be in a week!!!!!
 
fitzy95 said:
I hear what you are saying...
at the same time Larson nailed Kaye Hagan in one of the better interviews of a politician I've heard
in a long time. Last Friday I think, check the podcast.
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Yeah, Larson's not bashful! He nails them pretty good, huh? The problem with his "slash & burn" interview style is that eventually he runs out of guests. Witness - Mel Watt, Pat McCrory, The DA and several others who will no longer agree to appear on his show.

Instead, he has to resort to, as Dirty Diana points out, the TV folks down the hall (Does Molly Grantham live there?), "My Sharona" Thorsland (?), Terri Bennnett, silly rants and long bumper music selections that seem to be pleasing to his taste if very few others.
 
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