Wow. I was never a fan of Marty Kaplan's "So What Else Is News?" - the one-hour speedbump between Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo/Sam Seder - but I almost felt sorry for him as Janeane and Randi celebrated the new back-to-back scheduling of their shows, saying that it's what they should have done from the beginning. Almost.
But they're right. Kaplan's show was a momentum killer at best. The network has some real daily forward motion now with Garofalo/Seder now immediately following Randi at 7pm ET, and Mike Malloy following them...whenever their show ends.
Y'see, while Air America's getting their on-air act together, their website is hideously out of sync with all this, so we don't know WHEN Malloy's show starts.
By the way, can Garofalo/Seder ditch that college-radio-produced show open and get something a little more y'know - professional? Man, they still have to untether themselves from the NPR production values.
Onward and upward.
