Spring/Summer 2023 updates
Jeremy Levy back with you to write more about some more Colorado radio changes.
The Colorado Avalanche were in the playoffs again this year, but they were swept in the second round of the playoffs. They just didn’t have the depth this year. I am looking forward to next year. In April, when the Avs were playing the Kraken of Seattle, I e-mailed Dick Fain who is one of the sports hosts on KJR 93.3 radio in Seattle, and he said that the Kraken were a hungrier bunch. They needed to play a complete game if they had a chance of winning. Luck would have it, that is what happened. The Avs lost and the Kraken won.
After the Nuggets won the NBA trophy, I found a video on you tube with the announcer of the Nuggets Jason Cosmitsky. This was from channel 9. Kim Christiansen asked him if he knew what he was going to say when the Nuggets won the trophy. He said that he wrote it all out. He didn’t want to mess it up.
Mike Evans (morning show host of KKFN radio’s morning show) was very confident about the Nuggets being successful in the playoffs. If you would like to check this out, there is an article about it on Barrett’s sports media.
One of the podcasts I listen to, the Audio Theatre Central Podcast, has a couple of openings on the Audio Drama Alliance. They are looking for sound designers, and some composers for their audio dramas. If you are interested, you can go to the website Audio Drama Alliance.com, and fill out the form. They will get back to you. I have found the Audio Theatre Central Podcast to be a great podcast over the years. This is hosted by J. D. Sutter. On the podcast they said that you don’t have to have vast experience.
For those of you in The Colorado Springs area, you might remember a TV multi-media journalist named Chandler Jordan. After leaving KRDO TV news, he moved to Texas for a couple of years. Now he is moving to South Carolina to WIS TV in South Carolina. Good luck to him. He graduated from a school in North Carolina, so he is closer to where he graduated.
Tyler Gunter has taken over some radio stations in Elco Co. Tyler is in charge of 5 T LLC. He has acquired Elco broadcasting from Paul and Ketra Gardener. These stations are KELK, Jack Fm, KRJC, KLKO, and Fox sports KEAU radio. This is exciting for him. He was previously with the company a few years ago. He owned a real estate company before.
KDZA returns to Pueblo. Mountain radio group has shifted Variety hits (101.9 the lake) to KDZA radio station. This would be classic hits. It is a great move for them.
Shawn Lucero has left KILO and KRXP radio in Colorado Springs. He has moved to Denver to become program director of 102.3 the sound in Denver. This is a public radio station that plays Colorado music. Congratulations to him.
In April, IHeart media went through some re-structuring. This affected Colorado as Mike Rice and Susan Whitken have left KOA radio. Mike Rice was let go. Perhaps he might resurface again when the Bronco’s season gets going again. Susan Whitken has retired. Good luck to the both of them. I will miss them. Haley Mae has taken over doing news for the Mandy Connell show. At the beginning of June Mandy Connell had throat surgery and was off the air until July 7, 2023. Krista Kafer, Mary Walter, Ross Kaminsky, Jon Caldara, and Ryan Schueling have been filling in for her. Good wishes go out to her.
The weekend of July 15, Jon Caldara of the independence institute, participated again in the Courage Classic bike ride for Children’s hospital. This is always a great supportive event for Children’s hospital. Jon was on the Dan Caplis show the week before and mentioned if people can support the cause at the Independence Institute website. I have donated to this in past years, and I would encourage you to do the same.
Good wishes go out to Michael Brown of 630 KHOW radio. He had some back surgery and Ryan Schueling was his fill in on the days that he was gone.
Speaking of talk radio stations, 710 KNUS has been having some changes in their programming. Matt Dunn, who hosts Back Bone radio on Sunday nights was off the air in April and May. He came back in the middle of May and explained his absence from the station saying that his wife had cancer. He had to take care of his kids while she was going through treatment. It is great having him back on Sundays. When Matt Dunn was taking care of that, Randy Corporon was a fill in for him some Sundays. After Matt came back, Matt has been filling in on Randy’s show on Saturday evenings from 5-8. The reason is Randy’s wife, Tonya, passed away. She had been having some medical issues. If you would like to read the obituary of Randy’s wife, you can do this at https://www.dignitymemorial.com
The Colorado radio blog sends its condolences to the whole Corporon family. I found out last Saturday that Randy will be back the 28th of July.
Craig Carton has left WFAN radio to do some TV work for FSN. If you remember in past blogs, Craig started in Colorado with 950 KKFN radio, and spent a little time at KBPI radio as well. Good luck to Craig. If you are looking for a couple of podcasts to listen to, I have a couple of new ones to check out. The first one is about the newer episodes of Adventures in Odyssey which is an audio drama that I really enjoy. This podcast is called All Things Adventures in Odyssey and is hosted by clint. The link is
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-things-adventures-in-odyssey-an-unofficial-podcast/id1693273384
The second podcast is called Hot Mike with Scott Hastings and Andy Lindahl. I didn’t know that Andy and Scott Hastings did a podcast until recently. I listened to the most recent episode and they talked about some good things. They were talking with people on the phone instead of texting people to talk to them before they started getting into Colorado sports. You can find this podcast at
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hot-mic-with-hastings-lindahl/id1493146377
Thanks for tuning in.