Starting about now, you can pretty much be sure that the regular hosts will be taking time off. When we reconvene, Dr Dean Edell will be completely gone and Dr Laura Schlessenger will be on Sirius/XM. Mike Smerconish will be gone from mornings, probably replaced by Mancow talking about show business.
Back after Christmas 2004, a deadly tsunami struck Asia killing an estimated 230,000 people. The events of that day was why I started the process of demoting shows when the regular host is on vacation and has a guest host or “best of” show. My memory is that Dennis Prager was the only host doing a live show between Christmas and New Years.
So the point of this is… There is little point in trying to test shows for the next two weeks. Expect a lot of “wrong” stuff in January while stations play musical chairs with which station gets which show.
So during that period, when you can’t find Rush, Beck, Hannity… try looking at the bottom of the list – but don’t be surprised when you hear Jeffrey Kuhner or Mark Steyn.
I have to tell you that I use this site about half the time to listen to Rush, since some of the “bottom of the list” stations here stream better than my local station (all technical errors on their part by their own admission).
So keep up the good work Art.