You know, I was OK with the fact that KBND — Bend’s only decent local radio news source — had seven hours of conservative talk radio on during the week days (between Rush, Lars, and Bill) because I generally wasn’t listening to it anyway as I was at work. I was even OK when they replaced the CBS radio news and replaced it with FOX news. I was still OK when they mixed up the content and syndicated bites they had interspersed in their news hours.
However, I quite enjoyed listening to Clark Howard on my drive home from Sunriver. And he’s been taken off the air during the week and replaced by another conservative talk show host, Sean Hannity. So that basically means from 6AM to Midnight (an 18 hour time span), half of that is taken up by conservative talk show hosts, according to their on air schedule.
And unfortunately, my car stereo and its antenna suck, so I can’t get KRDM (whose site is down) out of Redmond, which would at least get me a little balance in political commentary.
Now don’t get me wrong — I’m not a right winger, but I’m certainly not a left-winger, either. I’m a moderate in every sense of the word, and I agree a bit with both sides on different issues, so I’d like to hear from both sides of the issues — you don’t generally get that with those talk show hosts, and I listened to Clark Howard because he avoids politics and shows us how we can save a bunch of money. Now that’s always a good thing, right?
So other than the bit of news I’ll listen to on the drive home at the end of the afternoon news hour, I’ll be turning it back to ESPN 940 or NPR.
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KRDM is an all spanish station now — not actually sure what their content is, as I don’t speak the spanish.
I was wondering why that knucklehead Hannity was on the air myself. You know, even if I was a hardline righty, I think I’d be completely exhausted after listening to Rush, Lars, Bill and Sean rant on for 12 or 18 hours at a stretch. Quite a shame to lose Clark.
I had to admit to the djs at horizon this morning that i had no idea what kelly clarkson sounds like. I don’t listen to the radio in the car therefore, I have no idea what popular music is out there. I felt like an idiot, it was so embarrassing.
Hey. I’ll be moving to Bend in approximately 2 years… hopefully you won’t hate me for that. =) Just wanted to post and say I am enjoying your blog, it’s a cool page for info about what life is really like in Bend, via the blogging scene. Anyway, to your point… they probably got rid of Clark because he wasn’t pulling in the listeners. The stations need controversial views for that, and moderates generally are not controversial. I think that as soon as the Democrats get their message together, a lot of us moderates (me included) will be tuning in closely. I expect this to happen after they take back Congress in 2006, which will give them the boost they need.
Podcasts rule. Radio sucks!
I usually listen to NPR, myself. Otherwise, I can’t stand talk radio and conservative or liberal commentaters, who simply march to a party line. Most of the radio stations I have programmed into my car (besides NPR) are talk-radio free.
Scooter: KRDM used be English talk radio, but I didn’t know it changed as I could never pick it up on my car stereo.
Mrs. H: Don’t feel bad, I wouldn’t be able to tell, either.
Andrew: So why exactly are you moving here in two years? I’d get here and buy a house now, otherwise the house you want in two years will be twice as much.
Aaron: If I had an iPod, I’d be all over it — but unless somebody has one they want to give me, it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
Jake: I’m actually coming up in about 2 weeks with my girlfriend to choose a house. She’s buying it, but we won’t be actually moving to Bend for 2 years because of a tax rule affecting real estate.
Essentially, we need to rent out the house for 2 years before we can live there because it’s being paid for with the proceeds of another rental property. She has her sh1t together, which makes me a very lucky man.
We both work for the same corporation in Los Angeles, and we want to disconnect from that horrid Rat Race and live less “competitive” lives in Bend. I want to be a novelist and she wants to start a local business. We’re kinda hoping that we can meet some nice folks who won’t mind that we want to be part of Bend, and live there for a long time (permanently, if it all works out). We’re not showing up to leech or flip real estate, but to live a better life and find ways to contribute to the community.
PS @ Jake: I’m also a guitarist/studio dude who’s heavily into recording. I see you’re a drummer. Hopefully you’ll still be around when I get up there, we may have quite a few things in common. (I also work at a dot-com in the software QA dept, so maybe we have some common ground in the tech area as well.)
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