No more Curtis and Kuby?
What's this about Ron Kuby getting pushed out of WABC for Don Imus?
Damn.
Before relocating to California, I was a semi-regular Curtis & Kuby listener. The show was kind of a morning drive-time Hannity & Colmes, except the liberal guy, Ron Kuby, wasn't an ineffectual idiot.
I thought it was great radio. Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby were perfect foils for each other, and the show had all the, erm... liveliness of talk radio... while also challenging listeners' points of view. (And despite the fact that WABC's mostly conservative audience wanted Kuby dead at first, he quickly won their respect.)
AP sez the show "garnered a bigger Big Apple audience than the one Imus left behind after his April firing at WFAN-AM," but apparently Imus has "the buzz" for national syndication.
Do New Yorkers out there know if there's any chance that Curtis & Kuby will take their act to another station? Or will they just go their separate ways? I imagine Kuby could get a gig elsewhere if he wanted to, and Sliwa stays on at WABC. But the genius of the show was really in the combo.
Sorry, I've never listened to it. I'll see if the local papers say anything.
Hard to find good radio these days. Bit of a lost art...
I'm actually enthusiastic about this new show on NPR, called the Bryant Park Project. Been meaning to write a post about it.
December 1, 2007 7:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm actually enthusiastic about this new show on NPR, called the Bryant Park Project.
Oh, looks like they have a podcast of the full show. I'll have to check it out.
My favorite political talk show is WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, although it's not "talk radio" in the sense of a genre defined by highly partisan bombastic hosts... I guess that's not my favorite kind of radio, when it comes down it. But still, C & K were great at it.
December 1, 2007 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink