Washington Times has hired Melanie Morgan to co-host their morning news show. The Washington Times is a significantly Conservative publication (they also publish Insight Magazine).
Melanie Morgan used to co-host the morning show in KSFO with Lee Morgan, but was let go for budget reasons.
KSFO is carrying the show this morning. WTNT-AM, which is supposed to be the “flagship” station is streaming Mancow. That might just be a technical problem – anyone within listening range of D.C. that can confirm if its on “over the air”?
Melanie is going to have a hard time keeping this a “straight news” program. Her Conservative politics took about 3 minutes to show up :) But that’s a good thing – we need a louder Conservative voice in the morning. Bill Bennett is a nice guy, but other than getting people to read books, but he isn’t going to get anyone under 50 years old excited.
Several stations converted to News/Talk just to be able to carry this show, but I’m going to admit I was unprepared for today. If you hear the show on any other stations, please let me know.
Sounds like they are trying to mimic Fox TV News…. lots of “Swooshing” sounds and “breaking news”