RIP Jim Bohannon

[Liut]

Jim always made himself available to me as a guest to discuss breaking news, usually during morning drive after he had hosted “America in the Morning” on Westwood One.
I know most here will have disagreed with his political thoughts, but Jim was a heck of a good guy.

RIP to a Vietnam veteran and awesome broadcaster.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Jim was a great broadcaster who, I suspect, had no choice but to lean hard right as the AM talk radio landscape changed in the last 25 years. I hated it and I hated what he became, because he was one of the funniest, cerebral apolitical talk show hosts when he was doing his Saturday night show on Mutual before inheriting Larry King’s old time slot during the week.

RIP to a guy who kept me company many a night.

 

[wicked]

Him, Art Bell and the truckers show on WLW were the only good things on AM overnights. Maybe you can throw in one of the guys from WBZ.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

I used to listen to Bohannon's late-night show on the way home from work. He struck me as an entertaining, thoughtful centrist at the time. IIRC, the local station replaced him with Michael Savage. From the sublime to the ridiculous...

 

[maumann]

I was kept awake many an early morning by Larry and Jim on my paper route way back when. RIP.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Can anyone spot the error in the obituary?
Longtime DC-based national radio host Jim Bohannon dead at 78 | wusa9.com

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

It was only in the last several years that he got slipped the red pill and became overtly political. Before that he largely avoided politics and talked about other topical issues.

He was just on the air a few weeks ago. Oct. 14 was his last broadcast.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

It was only in the last several years that he got slipped the red pill and became overtly political. Before that he largely avoided politics and talked about other topical issues.

He was just on the air a few weeks ago. Oct. 14 was his last broadcast.

I tuned in a few months ago and he was talking about “loonie lefties” and I clicked off almost immediately. His fill-in guys were even more ridiculous.

 

[Vombatus]

Can anyone spot the error in the obituary?
Longtime DC-based national radio host Jim Bohannon dead at 78 | wusa9.com

Photo credit is a little weird. Unless it was a selfie.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Can anyone spot the error in the obituary?
Longtime DC-based national radio host Jim Bohannon dead at 78 | wusa9.com

If I remember correctly, one of the stations on the list was based in Baltimore, not DC.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I used to run the board during Jim’s shows back in the day. Like others said, he appeared apolitical and thoughtful. Found him again recently and noticed the hard-right turn.

 

[DanOregon]

He was a great sub for Larry King. Great set of pipes, as they say. A dang shame that the thing that contributed to his great voice, contributed to his death as well.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

If I remember correctly, one of the stations on the list was based in Baltimore, not DC.

He didn’t get King’s slot when he moved to CNN. He got the slot after King’s ill fated move to a national afternoon drive show that bombed damn near immediately.

 

[swingline]

Great voice. Hadn’t heard him in years.

 

[Liut]

I used to listen to Bohannon's late-night show on the way home from work. He struck me as an entertaining, thoughtful centrist at the time. IIRC, the local station replaced him with Michael Savage. From the sublime to the ridiculous...

I myself was once laid off to make way for Savage. About a year later, the station asked me to come back. No thanks.

 

[Liut]

I just happened to catch his final program last month after covering a high school football game. Among those that called in was Jim’s first wife. I didn’t realize his cancer was terminal until reading about him the next morning.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

23 years ago this month, I sat down to interview a local Pittsburgh talk show host for a paper I was doing for school. “Don’t get into this business,” he said. “It’s all becoming syndicated and your only options are going to be sports or political talk. No one is doing general talk anymore.” Fast forward to today and I wonder what Bohannon was thinking in the last years of his life and career. He used to be surrounded by true broadcasting professionals like King, now his own network is employing carnival barkers like Ben Shapiro.


https://www.westwoodone.com/programs/category/news-and-talk/

 

[Liut]

23 years ago this month, I sat down to interview a local Pittsburgh talk show host for a paper I was doing for school. “Don’t get into this business,” he said. “It’s all becoming syndicated and your only options are going to be sports or political talk. No one is doing general talk anymore.” Fast forward to today and I wonder what Bohannon was thinking in the last years of his life and career. He used to be surrounded by true broadcasting professionals like King, now his own network is employing carnival barkers like Ben Shapiro.


https://www.westwoodone.com/programs/category/news-and-talk/

Unlike Jim, Shapiro may have the worst voice and delivery I’ve ever heard.

 

[User 149557]

Unlike Jim, Shapiro may have the worst voice and delivery I’ve ever heard.

“What if Ted Cruz, but even squeakier?”

 

[Liut]

“What if Ted Cruz, but even squeakier?”

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Possibly take it to politics thread?