The end of summer yields disappointment, no doubt, yet brings forth two important beacons of encouragement (is that redundant?) as well.<\/p>\n
They are: football\u2026 and Tony Kornheiser.<\/p>\n
Yes, Mr. Tony has emerged from his summer holiday, yesterday launching his \u201cnew\u201d daily podcast, available wherever podcasts are sold. The new<\/i> angle of Tony\u2019s show is that it is now podcast-only, no longer a tape-delayed version of what appeared on radio. Tony\u2019s not on radio anymore, which may bring about the ultimate death knell for that medium. If a famously-Luddite geezer like Tony Kornheiser moves into cyberspace\u2026 terrestrial radio is kaput.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m happy to report The Tony Kornheiser Show<\/i> podcast is hardly distinguishable from its predecessor. I suppose it makes a difference only if you lived in the Washington, D.C., area and were home between eleven and one to listen to it live. If you were listening to it via the podcast all along, there\u2019s no difference. Same players, same guests, same roundtable discussions, same silliness masquerading as adult talk (or is it the other way around?).<\/p>\n
The reason I love The Tony Kornheiser Show<\/i> more than most programming is that it is not<\/i> rushed<\/i>, and the podcast format only reinforces that. There are no timetables, no deadlines, no engineer pointing to his watch. It\u2019s like a real conversation, one that is marked only by a logical flow, not commercial breaks.<\/p>\n
Kind of like a blog, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The end of summer yields disappointment, no doubt, yet brings forth two important beacons of encouragement (is that redundant?) as well. They are: football\u2026 and Tony Kornheiser. Yes, Mr. Tony has emerged from his summer holiday, yesterday launching his \u201cnew\u201d … Continue reading