Early summer 2024 colorado Radio, TV, and Podcast news
eremy Levy back with you with some Radio, Podcast, and TV news. I am really looking forward to the summer. I am hoping all of my readers are as well.
Scott Ginsburg the owner of Chansler Media who had some stations in Colorado including Kool 105 ,KALC( in the 1990’s), KIMN radio, and KRRF radio 1280 in the late 1990’s has passed away. Chansler Media had many stations across the United States. Scott was in his 70’s. I remember many fun times in the late 1990’s listening to Kool 105, and 1280 KRRF radio.
Switching to a lighter note, good wishes go out to Jon Caldara. During the week of the 16th of June, on that Tuesday, Jon wasn’t feeling well, and it turns out he had a heart attack. He was in the hospital for 2 or 3 days. I have been listening to him since the early 2000’s, and I am glad that he was back on the radio Saturday the 22nd of June. He said he is really happy to be with the listeners on Saturday.
A quick KNUS note also, I found out that Leroy Daughenbaugh who was a producer on 710 KNUS radio passed away in April of 2024. He passed away in his sleep. He was a truck driver, but he also was a producer for several radio stations including 710 KNUS radio. I remember him producing for the Steffan Tubbs show and Wake Up with Randy Corporon. I will remember him the best as one of the Mike Boyle Restaurant show producers. He did a great job producing for that show. Condolences go out to his family. He is survived by his 3 sons, and many nieces, and nephews.
On Memorial day, 104.3 the Fan had a good fill in show for the morning hosted usually by Mike Evans, and Mark Schlereth. Matt Smith and Kyle Reese were on. They are normally the hosts on Sunday mornings on 104.3 the Fan. They are a good team together. They were talking about the Bronco’s, the Nuggets, and the Avalanche. They were also on for Josh Dover and Brandon Stokley.
On 850 KOA radio, Grant Smith did a great interview that aired on the Taking it for Granted podcast. His interview was with Dave Logan. You can find the podcast by searching for Taking it for Granted on the KOA website or by clicking here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taking-it-for-granted-ep-162-dave-logan/id1548380354?i=1000652786441.
Andy Lindahl was doing a show in the middle of the Nuggets and Avalanche run in the playoffs. This was a classic show hosted by Andy because he had 3 different co-hosts. For the first hour, he had Jason Cosmitsky on as a co-host. Then in the second hour Connor Mcgahee was the co-host for the second hour, and Jeff Legwald from ESPN was on for the last hour talking about the Bronco’s and the draft.
Speaking of the Nate Kreckman and Andy Lindahl show, one day at the beginning of June Nate was not on for an hour and a half because of some water that was coming out of a pipe at his home. Andy Lindahl did a great job hosting for that hour and a half. Nate learned an important but funny lesson. The room where this room was located didn’t have a name for the room. He learned that his wife, and him needed to come up with a name for that room so they would both know what they were talking about.
I found out on the Mike Boyle restaurant show that Louis Gonzales, the Sunday producer of the Mike Boyle Restaurant show, has moved to Florida. He got married. I will really miss him producing for the Mike Boyle Restaurant show. The one memory I have is one Sunday when Mike was on vacation, Louis Gonzales was the fill in for him. This was a fun show. He talked about different sandwich places. Good luck to Louis. I will miss you. You were a great addition to the weekend programming on the station.
850 KOA radio Ben Lasiter is no longer with 850 KOA radio. He is moving on from that station. He said on the air that he really enjoyed doing the news for Mandy’s show. He also really enjoyed the Of the Day segment. He did pretty well. On his last day he lost in the jeopardy round by one point. We will have to see who fills that position. I am personally hoping it will be someone who can do a better voice for of the day.
The Avalanche, and the Denver Nuggets were in the playoffs this year, but neither made it out of the second round. The Nuggets lost to the Timber Wolves, and the Avalanche lost to the Stars. Dave Logan said on the Dave Logan podcast that the Nuggets needed to be tougher against the Timber Wolves. It was fun having both these teams in the playoffs. Perhaps next year they will get further.
Speaking of Sports, there is a new documentary coming out called Receiver. This documentary is about some of the receivers that are in the National Football League. There was an article about this documentary from the Barrett’s sports media blog about Mark Schlereth’s thoughts about this documentary. Matt Smith who was filling in for Mike Evans on Friday June 14 asked Mark Schlereth would he watch this documentary? Mark Schlereth said no. He wouldn’t watch it. He watched the first one called Quarterback. He thought it was boring. At the end of the segment Smith asked Schlereth if he would watch a documentary that was called Offensive Line? Schlereth said he wouldn’t. He had played that position and wouldn’t want to re-live this experience. He thinks that his life as an offensive lineman in the NFL was boring. My thought on this is that I don’t think so, and I am maybe looking forward to doing an interview with Schlereth sometime down the road. I think he would be an interesting person to interview. If you would like to read the article, you can find this at the sports radio news of the Barrett’s sports media blog. You can also find the podcast of this on the KKFN radio podcasts or by clicking here https://barrettsportsmedia.com/.
The Rockies have had a slow start to the season, but I enjoy listening to Jack Corrigan and Jerry Schemel. Not having the Nuggets and the Avalanche in the playoffs has given me a chance to listen to podcasts as well.
Some podcasting news. The audio theatre Central podcast celebrated its 200th episode at the beginning of June. It’s hard to believe it has been around that long. It was a wonderful episode filled with industry guests that I was familiar with, and others that I wasn’t so familiar with that I would like to check out. A couple of the guests I was familiar with were Katie Leigh, Phill Loller, Paul McCusker, and Marshall Younger. One of the guests I wasn’t as familiar with was Jason from Marquail productions. I will have to check some of the shows when I have an opportunity. Also in this episode, J.D. had listeners call into the voice mail line to tell him their congratulations. I did this, and my voice was featured on this special 200th episode of the podcast. This was really special for me, and I think it was special for J.D. . You can find this episode at Audiotheatrecentralpodcast/200.
One other podcast note that I would like to mention is that the For Fawkes Sake podcast episodes in their episode 221 of the podcast they had a question for the listeners to respond to. This question was should Harry Potter have put in the luck potion into Ron’s drink. How should Hermione should have handled this when she found out that Harry faked putting in the luck potion? They asked listeners to call into the voice mail line for them to hear the listeners thoughts on this were. I did this, and my voice was featured in the 222 episode of the podcast. It was hard for me to think what the right decision would be. It was fun calling into the podcast voice mail line. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-222-drama-drama-drama/id1485908641?i=1000658968098
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