Geoausch

When I launched this blog back at the end of July, I began with a post blasting the Dallas ESPN radio affiliate. Looking back, I may have been a little too harsh. I even elicited a response from one of their on-air personalities, who turned out to be a pretty good guy, just from a different generation of radio.

In that same post, I offered praise for Dallas’ other “sports talk” radio station, KTCK 1310 AM, The Ticket.

I love The Ticket; I listen it to at work pretty much all day, every day, especially during football season. I’ve never considered them a “perfect” station–the Bert & Ernie sounding morning show annoys me and you feel like you need to attend a session of Gamblers Anonymous after listening to Norm Hitzges, but for the most part they offer entertaining radio.

I do find it very ironic; however, that Program Director, Jeff Catlin, and Hardline replacement, Corby Davidson, spent so much time building up an on-air characters that defied the stereotypes of the Dallas douchebag, yet now both of them pander to the douche-iest of the Douche Bags, doing spots for Audi and BMW. You can’t really be a rebel and drive an Audi or BMW, yet you can be a douche.  Further proof they need a Greggo-like character back on their show.

Don’t get me wrong, I won’t be switching the dial over to ESPN 1033.3 anytime soon, but I felt it was time to come back and offer a little more balanced view of The Ticket, so here it is, great concept for a radio station–”guy talk”, that for the most part is entertaining. However, in the end, they are commercial driven radio and the end it’s about the almighty dollar and even the most hard core on-air character can turn into a Philistine in the blink of an eye.