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bigmoney wrote:Beig somewhat still fresh from dfw, my faith in finding a decent show has apparently just been smashed. W&J were the closest choice, but got old rather quick. Though I haven't heard of some of these others yet. And if the station plays bad music i'm likely to smash the radio in a wake up state. I so need to find a solution to get the Russ Martin show on an alarm set up. I've really been pretty disappointed with the radio stations in general down here, but I'll have to give some of these other suggestions a try.

i moved from the Houston area to Lubbock in 2004 and listened to W&J prior to that, after i moved back down here in '08 i couldn't believe how political the show had gotten. i guess they'd always talked politics to an extent, but it just got pathetic during the presidential campaigning and especially after the election. i told my wife that i'd play a game with the radio in the morning, i'd put it on the W&J show until i hear them say "Obama" and i'd change the station or put in a CD. i don't think i ever made it more than 2 or 3 miles from the house before having to change the station.

gregthehand wrote:I usually tune to Rush on 740 until Micheal Berry come on 950 at 2 pm. I don't think he turns things into race issues but instead just points out how much others do. The fact that it takes up so much time is a sad sign.

i guess that's more what i meant.. not so much that Michael Berry makes everything about race, but that so much of the material covered on his show has to do with others who make a living playing the race card. i do enjoy listening to him though, it's nice to get some local politics mixed in with the national stuff so i know at least a little bit about what's going on around town. and i LOVE the parodies, especially the ones involving our esteemed CongresswomAAAAAAAAAAAn!

i do have the iheartradio app on my blackberry, but for some reason when i'm at work i can't get a strong enough data connection to run the app. it plays for about 5 minutes then freezes, i have to close it out, start it back up, then another 5 minutes do the same. i finally picked up a cheapo AM/FM pocket radio on ebay and can pick up AM stations pretty well.

esxmarkc wrote: I practically second everything you just stated. As far as Dean & Rog I don't mind their banter but they don't play enough music and when they do I'm afraid I have had my lifetime fill of Billy Joel.

Michael Berry can be pretty fun to listen to but I cant stomach a full day of the rest of the 950am lineup.

about the only two things i remember from the Dean & Rog show (it's been a while since i listened) are the birthday scam (do they still do that?) and Redneck Roy. i do enjoy listening to Michael Berry but somehow he ends up making nearly everything a race issue, which is exactly what he complains most about... people who constantly play the race card. i've tried listening to that guy in the morning on 950 (Joe something or other) but he was even worse than Rod Ryan on 94.5, and i didn't think that was possible. and although he does have some valid points, Michael Savage seems to suffer from a severe case of dementia, or some other mental illness. my wife is a dietitian and during grad school one of her internship rounds was at the psych ward at Ben Taub, she listened to Michael Savage one day and said he sounded like half the people in the psych ward.

i guess i'll give Howard Stern a try. we have sirius in my wife's car, my dad told me i should be able to listen online with that account to so i'll look into that

for those of you living in the Houston area that listen to talk radio in the mornings, what show(s) do you listen to? i'm a younger guy so throughout the day i tend to split my time between 94.5 and 93.7 when i listen to music on the radio, but the morning host on 94.5 (the dude with 2 first names) is extremely annoying. i've tried listening to Walton & Johnson on 93.7 and can take them in small doses, but their constant whining/complaining about Obama just gets old. i used to listen to Dean & Rog (sp?) back in the day, i hear they're on 107.5 now but haven't really listened to them lately. i like to listen to Michael Berry in the afternoon on 950 am but that's about it. anyone have recommendations on a good morning talk radio show?