They yanked The Morning Alternative
Radio sucks, it is worse then TV. On TV they don’t even pull stunts like this unless your name is FOX. However on radio they pull this too often. Too often shows get removed, added and completely revamped, maybe its just a Seattle thing. For example in the last 3 years 96.5 has changed names / formats 4 times. Yikes!
Every morning for some time now I have been listening to The Morning Alternative. Before that it was the Marconi Show (thank god they pulled that though) and prior to that it was Andy Savage. I listened to Andy Savage for the longest time and I woke up to his humor every morning during high school. Entercom wouldn’t renew his contract and so he left and went somewhere else, however during that moment I wasn’t living in the weee hours of the morning. I then started working morning shifts again (think Speakeasy) and I started listening to The Marconi Show and quickly switched my listening over to CDs, until I heard that DJ No Name switched to mornings. I quickly dropped CDs and listened to him. Soon Jennifer White joined and I was once again in radio heaven.
That dream evaporated last week when I heard that starting this Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 the new morning show will be Adam Carolla. One word: YUCK!. First off I can’t stand the guy. I hate Loveline and anything to do with syndicated shows (unless your Howard Stern), in my opinion it completely obliterates the local community. I don’t want to listen to some jackass in the morning talking about his stardom life in LA or NYC. I liked DJ No Name (realname Bob VanDyne) and Jennifer White because they were regular people who bitched about Seattle traffic and had fun doing their jobs. So now I am going back to CDs and maybe invest in an adapter for my iPod to plugin to my car radio (FM transmitters are a joke, no matter what anyone says). I sure am not going to listen to Adam Carolla. The guy is simply not funny and just frankly annoying. I guess it was fun while it lasted. Entercom’s The End has officially hit ‘The End” on my radio.
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:41 am
I’m wth you. I really miss Jennifer White and DJ No Name… I decided to give Adam a chance this morning, but got bored after 5 minutes of listening. I miss the local humor and conversation. How do we get No Name and Jennifer back?
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
No idea, unfortunately were just “listeners” in a world driven by money. It is probably cheaper to put on a syndicated show then to have two local DJs (with one being fined by the FCC multiple times).
It is an unfortunate thing. It just means I’ll be listening to pod casts and/or CDs in my car.
January 6th, 2006 at 10:15 pm
Yeah, my first thought was that this was probably a money-saving move, but this is the first time I’ve been truly disappointed about a change on the radio. The Morning Alternative was the only morning radio show that I’ve ever really liked–DJ NN and JW are witty without trying too hard to be hilarious, they are local, and you actually could hear two or three songs in a row on the show. I got into the car after vacation expecting to hear TMA and heard the unfunny, overrated Adam Carolla instead–WTF!?!?!?!
January 20th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
dj no name and jennifer white- if you’re reading this please come back to radio!! You guys ROCK!
February 4th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
I’m with you guys. Adam Corolla sucks and I have no idea what to listen to on my way to work. I’m too freaking tired to listen to people talk. I NEED music…
February 26th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Adam Crapolla is a joke. I don’t know what the people who run the end were thinking, but they gave into something that I know a majority of us don’t like, a syndicated show that isn’t even broadcast out of seattle, how are these people supposed to know us? 107.7 isn’t tuned to my car radio until after 10am.
March 9th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
TO be quite honest after DEC.16 I haven’t listened to radio I subscribed to Sirius radio.I suggest if you DJ no Name and Jennifer White you do the same…I miss them too but this has saved my life
March 18th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
http://www.freewebs.com/savethemorningalternative
not sure what we can really do now that Jennifer is off to california..
April 3rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Google pulled you up when I was running a search to try and find some information on DJ No Name and Jennifer’s current whereabouts.
After the switch to Adam Corolla, I turned The End off. (I also quit listening during the Andy Savage years, and started listening again when Noname started mornings)
If you’re looking for good music in the morning in seattle (and some of the stuff The End plays too) I suggest KEXP 90.3. Normal, non-retarded DJ, plenty of music and no commercials. Unfortunately The End lost my ears (and my buying power, sorry advertisers!) with this move.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Bob VanDyne aka DJ no name is on 710 KIRO this week form 9pm to 1am. Give him some love and give KIRO management the message that we want NO NAME on the air - even if it’s only talk radio.