RIP the Tony Kornheiser Show?

Let me tell you, he can't get back soon enough. I have been running out of things to listen to.

 

If you need a Mr. Tony fix, he's on Simmons' latest podcast.

 

Maybe it's just me but Simmons is such a preening shmoe and predictable that he's not interesting anymore

 

Finally listened to the Simmons podcast with Mr. Tony. Pretty good stuff, I thought.

Also, right toward the end, Mr. Tony's phone starts beeping because it's running out of juice. He then says "Karril's telling me to go upstairs and use the land line."

So I guess that mystery is solved.

 

Glad to have Mr. Tony back. Other than not really playing any music (which I assume is a rights thing), no real difference. Perhaps a bit more self-referential and explanatory at times, but that's for the Simmons crowd I guess.

 

Has anyone tried watching the new Bayless-Sharpe show?

 

I wonder how many podcasts are daily M-F shows? Nice show and as it progresses it should be fairly seamless between radio and podcast. But they'll be without the things that a radio station pays for like music. Can Tony just read the Washington Post and AP headlines as news without paying? I'd think the weather channel or whatever source they use, besides Kip Sheeman, would like to be paid too. The little things you don't think about.

 

NWS data can't be copyrighted, so they're clear on that front. And if newspapers sued every time some talk show hack read straight copy, they wouldn't be losing money.

 

The Simmons-Tony podcast was one of the best listens in a long time. Highly recommend.

 

That was the most open I've heard Kornheiser perhaps ever.

I listened to the first day yesterday. Why does this have to be a podcast? Other than 980 not willing to pay him sufficiently. I'm surprised 106.7 wouldn't have offered him more to bring him over there. (Yes, old guy radio, but still gets a lot of listeners.)

 

As Webster and some others have suggested, I think it's so Tony's son Michael (who is exec producer of the podcast) will have something to do, a family business Tony can pass down, so to speak.

 

Did he give up his teaching job?