Can't believe I ever doubted.

Dale and Jim Ed,

No matter what you do, you are two of the hippest guys on the air. Keep doing what you are doing. We love ya.

Jim Ed and Dale,

Not being hip is what IS hip...I think.
No matter. You guys will be great! You are so loved in this community and this community is in such need of a station like this. I think it will work out to be a match made in...well...think of someplace "hip", not Vegas, someplace with more lasting potential...
Anyway, it will be great! So very excited for ALL of it!

Come to think of it, this is has the potential to create some very odd cross-pollenations. If Dale and Jim Ed are going to have even more variety to their musical selections, that means the out-staters are going to suddenly get hit with some good, new, local music...and perhaps create some demand for KCMP to be broadcast in their areas.

Hmm.

I hope the signal will be boosted when the new programing starts. As it is we cannot receive 89.3 in our home. I love the Morning Show, but not enough to have breakfast in the driveway.

Thanks!

e

I would just like to know the new website of the new radio station? If anyone could email me it I would be so thankful!

Christopher

When I heard that the Morning Show was moving, I was a bit worried. Of course, people generally hate change, and I am sure you have received your share of complaints from people concerned they are not going to be able to get decent reception of the new station.

More concerning, however, is the current Morning Show format and its compatibility with the new station. As it stands now, I have always seen the Morning Show as a decent compromise between the Classic Station and your typical morning show (italics). It seems to me, however, that its current demographics are probably much older than what will be typical for the new station. I think the question is good, Dale, are you hip enough? I think you and Jim are great, but then I am clinging to the top end of the age-scale…

My favorite things in Twin Cities radio are all falling together - Jim Ed/Dale, Mary Lucia... And of course Mike Pengra has done a great job and deserves complements :) (Hi Mike). Jim Ed/Dale - you are hip as can be in my book. If I were facing the hippest locals and turned around, there you would be.

How many odd ducks like me are there that dig Grandpaboy as much as Lou and Peter Berryman? Only time will tell...

REQUEST: When the new programming starts, could you possibly post a list of all the new songs you are playing on your website? Some stations list their top 20 singles of the week, of course we know you will be playing MUCH more than 20 new singles & a complete list would be a great resource for us music fans. 105's website lists just THREE new songs & has awkward functionality for viewing songs played more than 1 hour in the past. If you need more help w/ your website (or any other aspect of the station), I'd be glad to volunteer my time.

The concept seems so pure. Just airing things the public wants to hear not what a corp-se-ration has to sell. You guys should consider having a sign-up night at Bryant Lake Bowl (or Turf Club ?) to record local "newbies" that haven't made the jump to regular gigs. - Once every two months. You cold even have categories that change everytime - all male bands, all white-collar employees, all reggae....
Quit worrying about your hips - do yoga!

I agree with Tom above. It would be VERY cool if old playlists were available from every show. The main reason I am so excited about this new station is the change to finally hear some music I haven't heard before on the radio regularly. That's not worth much if I never find out who's music it is. Here's one more vote for a website with playlists.

I'd second having past shows and playlists available. KEXP in Seattle does this-- www.kexp.org

From what it sounds like, KCMP will have a lot in common with its Seattle sister station.
(BTW, that's where Kevin Cole is right now.)

One thing I like about WOXY, somafm, and Radio Paradise is, if I'm listening on the web & hear a song I like, I can pop up iTunes or Winamp and quickly see the name of the song & the artist. This is a really nice feature. I know somafm has it both for their MP3 & aacPlus streams.

KEXP has something similar, but it requires that you bring up their web site, and, because of a refresh delay, quite often you won't see the name of the song that's currently playing. Instead, you'll see the name of the previous song, but there's no way to know unless you sit & stare for awhile.

This new development has me a bit concerned. Frankly, I don't currently listen to the Morning Show because I've always found it to be too cornball and precious. Somehow I don't think those concerns are going to be assuaged simply because Mark Wheat tells them which Fall song to play.

What's that you say? You won't be playing the Fall? Oh, Mark - the spirit of John Peel is worried.

Dale, you and Jim Ed are consistantly the hippest thing on the Twin Cities airwaves. Variety and eclecticism are hip, and the ability to mix Cab Calloway, The Beatles, Throat Culture, Jimmy Durante, and the latest in Japanese ukelele hits puts you well beyond the rest of the known universe. I'm just hoping that this move means that the rest of your station will be as eclectic as you are!

I moved to wcal after listening to ksjn since about 1970
because I preferred classical music to the ksjn program as it
had become. The current one is even less to my taste. Where
do I go for classical music during wake-up hours?

As a listner and supporter of mpr since about 1970, I got tired
of the morrning program several years ago and moved to
wcal, where now can I find classical wake-up programming?

I'm afraid it's KSJN or nothing if you live in the Twin Cities.

Yes, Drew, that's correct. When the new station is launched, classical music in the morning will be broadcast on KSJN, 99.5 in the Twin Cities, hosted by Craig Curtis. Right now, you can hear classical music in the morning on 89.3, but this will change to 99.5, making 99.5 classical all day.

I would really like to hear a part of each day dedicated to Bluegrass... don't know if that is possible, but for me, it would be WONDERFUL

Well, I for one am not worried about changes in format, degrees of hipness, or whether the compromise between classical and ... what you do mostly will remain pure. What I am worried about is whether I can hear the show. I live in Central Minneapolis and have always gotten horrible reception. What am I to do?

It seems to me that the move of the Morning Show to 89.3 is NOT a move for the benefit of the listeners who have diligently and regularly listened to the show! But the people "upstairs" who make these kind of decisions haven't revealed the "true" reason for the move. It surely is NOT a listener benefit!!

Errr. Why not? KSJN wants all classical - they give it to them, except outstate where they get the Morning Show. Twin Cities people get the Morning Show on 89.3, because it's a proven commodity in this market. What am I missing that isn't some fluoride-induced imbecility about MPR being The Man?

Hey - don't get me wrong...MPR programmers screw up as much as anyone - maybe more, considering their recent choices with weekend programming.

But the simple fact is that they are programming to bring in listeners - they need members to maintain their seven-month, two-week, six-day pledge drives of Gary Eichten-induced DOOM. So anything they do has to be for the benefit of The Listener. Granted, any one programming choice may not be specifically you, or me, or Nelly down the street.

For example, I don't particularly care for their classical music selection at KSJN, but hey - I've got classical that I like at home, in my car, and at work. You probably do, too. What I don't have at my quick disposal is a greater breadth of music, which the Morning Show has and the new station is promising, or the amount of news that I get from KNOW. So, that's certainly programming to This Listener.

None of us get exactly what we want. If we did, The Twin Cities would get my favorite indie rockers from Chicago and New York, and I would have a pony.

I have been a rabid fan of The Morning Show for 15 years and I am fortunate that I can listen at work. I cannot get 89.3 on my radio at work. There is a large area in the twin cities that can't pull it in either. I am afraid many listeners will have to give up The Morning Show habit. Maybe they have finally found a way to get the show off the air. Half its fans will no longer be able to listen because the signal is lousy. Then they can pull it because listenership is declining.
Sorry to be so cynical.

Forgot to add: I do pledge to MPR because of The Morning Show. If I can't hear it, I won't be pledging.

reading these [true] comments made me cry!

Iconoclastic eclecticism. Sounds like a really good philosophy to live by! Thanks for your view on the change beyond reminding us to change our presets.

Will Leigh Kamman be staying on KNOW, or does he get moved to 89.3, too?

Those of us ex-Minnesotans and Morning Show addicts who live outside ANY of MPR's broadcast areas (central Iowa in my case) have always had to deal with "no reception" issue. If it wasn't for online broadcasting I'd either not be able to hear my favorite radio program or else be forced to purchase a Sherpa SUV with an antenna tall enough to catch the show.

Unfortunately, my employer not only frowns on but blocks using bandwidth for listening to radio.

Recommended song for first day on new station: "What is Hip," by Tower of Power.

Good luck with the changes, guys. I'll be listening.

I am also a big fan of the Morning Show. I guess this means I will be flipping between WCAL for the morning.... once it is over it is over to the news channel til I leave to go home...
and over again to John Birge on the drive home!

I am hoping I will be able to recieve WCAL...

Dale and Jim Ed....
I don't care if you are hip or not... you make me wake up in the morning... and my dog and cat think you are amazing!!!

While I remain a fan of the Morning Show and will track you to WCAL (previously one of my favorite stations - particulary their Sunday morning show which I miss terribly) I have to say that the play list the week of Jan. 10th has been very enjoyable, what with guest hosts bringing their favorite tunes. Please no more "Waltzing with Bears".

I was 17 years old when my dad first told me, "guess what, honey? They have Irish music on this one station in the morning! You should listen!" I did, mesmerized to hear not just Irish/Celtic music, but African drumming, world music, local music, anything music. I plunked down the bare minimum to be a member (having just started college, I was broke but wanted to still support the causes I care about). 10 years later, I'm now the president of New Folk Collective, a folk group that supports local artists. I cannot thank the Morning Show enough for all of the interviews they've conducted with our artists and playing all of their songs. And playing my goofy songs that I request for myself and others, including "Hot Frogs on the Loose" and "Easter Island Heads" and Loreena McKennitt songs.

I can understand people being miffed by change. Change can be tough. I'd be in tears if the Morning Show went off the air, for example. But the Morning Show is simply NOT replacable! And I will volunteer for fund drives and pay my membership to clearly state how much it means to me.

Thank you, Dale and Jim Ed (and YAY to Mike Pengra too!!)-you've been a very important part of my life every weekday for nearly 10 years!

I'm looking forward to the new programming, but I still hope it won't all be locally produced. I used to listen to WCBE Columbus (live, not on the web) with shows like World Cafe and Echoes. I miss programming like that and hope that I will hear it again on the new KCMP!

Oh, and of course I will be listening every morning to Dale and Tom, er Jim Ed...

i'm sorry, but i am not a fan of the morning show with dale and jim ed. i was dissapointed to learn that the morning show will be moving to the new station. though i look foreward to much of the programing to come, i will not be listening in the morning, and i don't think that show will be much of a draw to 20 and 30 somthings. you'll still find me over on the am dial kickin it with the K.

Wow! 5am? That's awesome! I leave for work at 5:30am and am sad that the morning show isn't on yet. Usually when I get to work I am so busy I rarely have time to listen. This will be great!

I've been a fan of your show for almost 10 years; I found the eclectic programming excellent indeed. Unfortunately in the past few years I've noticed that there has been a bigger tendency to play insufferably repetetive "Celtic" music; while rising rising in the rising in the while rising in the rising while rising in the morning it's very difficult morning it's morning very difficult to listen to the fiddle drilling the fiddle to listen to the listen to the fiddle drilling a tune that sounds like it was already played that sounds like that sounds like it was already played 10 minutes before.

I really like you guys; your producer could use some fresh air, it's beginning to rob yours.

Hello, I've been listening to the morning show for only a couple of years and love to listen to the Irish music from the local muscians in MN to others who are comming to town. In addition to the Celtic music that is played you have incorporated stuff from the 20's 30's 40's and so on. Most of the early stuff I have never even heard before. Too many radio stations play the same songs and nothing different.
I hope the morning show will do ok on 89.3 and does not change too much. Since, your still working on the schedule for 89.3- When is Fiona Ritchie and the Thistles and Shamrock to be on again in MN? From looking at the list of States where it is played most of them have it on more than once a week and different stations compared to MN which no longer has it on.
Since it's now Jan 16 I trust a new schedule will be out soon and hopefully showing "The celtic hours" with Fiona and some of the local musicians like the Tim Malloys or the Kells. St Pats day is just around the corner.
:)

i grew up in Lexington, KY. the npr affiliate there, WUKY, changed its format from "Jazz, Blues, and NPR News" to "Progressive Music" in 2000. i used to love the older format, and had high hopes for the change, but "progressive music" ended up being a commercial free version of a Cities 97 type of station--nothing wrong with it, but nothing special, either. i really hope that KCMP will not be that sort of a station, but will actually try to fill a void here in Minnesota that other stations don't.

for the record, i loved WCAL, particularly Sing for Joy and the Sunday morning broadcast from Central Lutheran, and am extremely sad to see those programs go. Please continue carrying the Thistle and Shamrock. and please, for the morning show: no more Waltzing with Bears. Please.

I've loved The Morning Show for many years. If the rest of the new station's programming has some of The Morning Show's ingredients, it should be great; but if it's another version of Cities 97 or Drive 105. . . well, they do it without needing new help. How about programming plenty of Americana and the eclectic stuff we've liked on The Morning Show? Hip, schmipp! Just play good stuff!

Bring back "Dale Connelly's Not Neccessarily the News"!!;->

I've been listening to The Morning Show since I was in college -- way back when the hosts were Jim Ed and that guy who never says his own name on the air.

Cornball? Precious? Hip? Who cares?

So I don't much care for Maria Schneider, the yodeling Australian. And quite frankly, some of the folk music makes me want to comb the fleas out of my beard. (Psst -- hey buddy. I don't have a beard.)

The Morning Show has introduced me to many of the artists who are now cherished members of my music collection -- Eva Cassidy, The Nuclear Whales, Corky Siegel, Karryn Allyson . . . . My ultra-hip teenagers (and their mega-cool cousins and meta-happening friends) love head-banging in the car to "Easter Island Head".

Where else could I learn that chiasmus is the actual term for what I've always thought of as Welsh rhetoric?

The Morning Show and The Daily Show (okay, The Onion too) are my main sources for news and information. Sometimes I'm surprised by how well-informed (comparatively speaking) I seem to be.

The Morning Show just IS. Kind of the same way milk and gas just are. Don't ask me how much I paid last week for a gallon of gas or a gallon of milk. I don't pay much attention. We need it, so I get it. Period.

KSJN vs. KCMP? Who cares?

XO,

Janet

So, loyal members/listeners are advised to eat breakfast in the office and listen on the computer or hold an antenna in one hand while they butter their toast with the other in the kitchen.

It will soon be time to renew and if I can't get the morning show in my home by the time the reminder arrives, MPR loses a member.

we recently moved from minneapolis to the mankato area and am confused by where i will find the morning show: still on the classical stations OUTSIDE of the metro? and starting at 6 not 5? would that be on tuesdays and thursdays, or just when it is sunny out? i've been a loyal fan of the morning show for more than ten years and will find a way to keep listening, but if i can't, i will not renew my membership to MPR and will be steering my money to the local public radio station here instead, which is a member of a group called independent public radio. interestingly, the station here sounds oddly similar to what i see the current will be playing, plus I get to hear the world cafe, which i could never find in minneapolis...

with all that said: good luck to everyone. i do love good music and i do love public radio, so it would seem that somehow this should all work out.

ps: is this why i've been hearing the jayhawks and bob mould on the morning show over the past couple of weeks? mary lucia was already getting to you!

Dale and Jim Ed,
I'd follow you guys anywhere! What I love about you two is that you are not cool or hip at all. You can laugh at yourselves and we respectfully laugh along with you. Good luck. I'll be listening!

I will follow you.
Follow you wherever you will go.
There isn't an ocean too deep, a mountain too steep that will keep, keep me away, away from your great morning program.

I hope your program will influence the rest of the programming on 89.3.

If anyone can pull it off . . . it's you guys.

All the best in the new adventure!

dj

With THREE metro stations could you please find time to bring back Thistle & Shamrock.

I agree. 3 stations and no Thistle and Shamrock, World Cafe, or Hearts of Space. I guess you have to make room for more Morrisey.

I'm pleased that your show has found a new home and that you'll be free to offer your great program. I'm not pleased with daily resetting my radios in my home between the two stations. I hope that 89.3 will see the success of your format and value your mix of eclectic music ranging from folk, accoustic, jazz, blues, and even new age. Your studio interviews with guests, your radio sketches, and the unique format have been excellent. I wish you the best and I hope, as well as many others, that we don't find you replaced with the likes of Tom Barnard.

I was delighted to see that Dr. Larry Kyle and Genway's Produce Dept were included in The Morning Show move. Can Tony Bennett be far behind? BUT where is Writer's Almanac? Dale's selections wld. often accord wonderfully with Garrison's poetry. I hope the Powers That Be have not decreed that W.A. is insufficiently "current". Linda (KCCM listener)

I have moved with the morning show & now find I don't have to immediately turn off the radio at 9 am, like I used to do. I love the new station and have listened for hours, now it's hard to turn off! On the Morning Show I do miss the news breaks, both national & local. For me, beside getting me up to speed before I get out of bed on what big is happening in the state and the world, it also help me to track the time (like another half hour went by) & I would know when to get up. Please bring your morning news breaks back like there were before the move.

Thanks for the great air play over many years!!

Jim & Dale:

Your show has not been archived for the last couple of days, since you moved: the archives are of the old station, i.e., of classical music. If I wanted to hear classical music I know where to find it. Your shtick is much rarer.

While you're at it, something is messed up with the link for last Friday's archive (1/21/5). I emailed the network yesterday about these problems, but have not heard back, and the problems are not yet fixed. So, in spirit of, "If the czar only knew, I am trying to go right to the top by posting to this blog.

I listen to your show at work (here in NH - and yes, I joined last summer, once the station started archiving the shows, so I could hear them during the day).

Thanks,
Paul

I have to say I am pleasantly relieved to not hear all the BAD NEWS right at 6am every morning.
I need a little time before I want to hear all about what is wrong with the world. If you have to reintroduce the news on the program, could you hold off until maybe 7am?
And hey you super-hipsters, you could teach those youngsters at the Current something!

Thanks for the daily dose of morning inspiration.
And thanks for your new 5am start time!
Woo-Hoo...
-- an avid listener across the border

Hi! I think it's so cool that you guys are on here. I was once on your show with Dave Ray. Please announce if you wanna. Thanks!

For Immediate Release: Contact: Charles Lawson
651-644-7176


The Swamp Twisters (featuring Charles & Ed Play Blues with John Knuckles) will perform this Saturday January 29th @ the Eagles Club in The Nest at 25th & 25th in Seward, Minneapolis from 7:30 to 12:00pm.

The Swamp Twisters will play the Blues of Louisiana, Chicago, Texas, Minnesota and other types of music in a Maxwell Street style. The Eagles Club is located at 2507 E. 25th St. in Minneapolis. 612-729-4469.

-Please include in your listings-


Of course you can still hear Charles & Ed at the Viking Bar
on the West Bank EVERY Thursday for eternity 7-9pm

Please include us in your calendar!

Photo upon request.

I hope MPR starts selling the radios that allow us to hear the Morning Show. I'm waking up every morning to irritation rather than the show I love. I've tried moving all my radios to every position in the house, have turned them upside down and backwards, extended and crunched up the cord, but just hear muffled voices. I think this would be a sellers market.

Hey guys, I can live with the reset on my radios, but don't change anything else. It seems like I'm hearing more music and less Dale and Jim Ed, that's not good, you only have to do that on commercial radio, I like to hear Dale and Jim Ed between the music.

Dear, dear Dale & Ed,
Yikes! I'm in withdrawal! Help! Though the reception is VERY scratchy at the new call numbers (I live in Mendota Heights),
I thought, no problem, I'll stream. (I've been listening to the Morning Show TWICE a day, at least!) However, I can't find the archive! I'm ready to chant "I want my MAYPO!" as "I want my MORNING SHOW!" thank you

My mantra is "change is good, I can do change." However, I am not adapting too well to the new call numbers for the MORNING SHOW because I have no reception at the new call numbers (I live north of St.Paul in Pine City in outstate MN).
I realize the Metro area has trouble accepting the reality of people actually existing (much less living) out side of the Metro boundaries. I had hoped MPR wouldn't totally succumb to the Metro Only mentality by moving established, listener appreciated shows to boost market shares but alas I have errored in my judgment.
The MORNING SHOW is why I made my pledge to MPR every year. I really miss my daily dose of Dale, Jim Ed and the rest of the gang. My $$$ suppport will go somewhere else thanks to this change:(
A former listener of the MORNING SHOW

I've foresaken the weak signal from WPR here on the western Wisco borderlands for The Current. Love it. Dale Connolly sounds a lot like Michael Feldman ... hmmm.

The Current at 89.3 is a great concept and will undoubtably be successful.The real question is whether 89.3 is the place for the Morning Show. Is this what the people who actually pledge wanted? I'm very sad about the loss of the Morning Show and the programming that we have known. It simply isn't the same great show since the move. It will be interesting to see what happens when the next pledge drive rolls around. My money is going to a new CD player that can start at 5:45 am.

I'm thirty years old and I've been getting ready for school/work to the Morning Show for the past...25 years (since Garrison's days). The two best things about the Morning Show? 1) Dale and Jim Ed's banter and 2)the eclectic music.

While I used to listen to Rev105 and appreciate the new and local music, "The Current" is NOT playing eclectic music as advertised. I hope Dale and Jim Ed will lend some of their albums to the other hosts....

I hope the other DJs will soon become as hip as Dale and Jim Ed!

Dear Dale and Jim Ed, etc.: I would follow you guys anywhere - I have been a fan since long ago. However, I question the execs choice (?) of the move. I have been listening, as always, to The Morning Show all this week but cannot change the station quickly enough, back to KSJN, at 9:01. I have tuned in to "The Current" a few times during the day to check out the programming and have the same reaction - "change back to KSJN!". Is it a good match for your show? I am not so sure. AND I would hope you would not lose the opportunity of getting new fans of the Morning Show that tune into KSJN in the early morning. They would not get the chance to enjoy a remarkable experience.

All the hype about the move was only about the change of position on the dial. What I wasn't prepared for was the change in format. Please bring back the Morning Show I've loved for the 20 years I've listened to it. What made it great was that it was unique. Now it's the same as everything else on 89.3. I'm close to giving up my daily start the day with the Morning Show and close to giving up my financial support, too. A number of years ago MPR tried to get rid of the Morning Show. Is this move/format change another attempt at that?

Please don't let your bosses deny you the freedom to program your show the way you always have. Your show is the only real outlet for folk music in the area and you complement that with lots of other interesting stuff. I like it just the way it is and I don't want to hear a bunch of melody deficient "hip" music.

Please please please REMEMBER that we OLD PEOPLE really LIKE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE! Your show has always had a wonderful personality and if you try to be too hip you'll ruin a great thing. I love the idea of a whole station playing an eclectic mix of music but you two need to keep up the banel pratter, the memory loss segments, the farflung, eccentric, sometimes stretching it to play a request musical selections. Please Please Please don't be too hip!!!!!

Yes, I agree with Mary's post- please DO NOT get caught up in that ironic, cynical hipster world. I am 32 yrs old and and can already find plenty of my Duluth peers listening to Low, wearing hip 70's fashions and truckers caps, being "cool" at local bars. I love the unique, pure, earnest and corny vibe of the Morning Show the way it has been for the past few years. I nearly fell out of my chair this morning when I heard the Morning Show playing Low- I agree that Low should get radio play, but NOT during this more folky show, please!!

I'm a devoted Duluth listener, and I say keep things the way they are for the Morning Show, and go crazy with the other Current stuff for the cities listeners- just don't make Jim and Ed get more hip!

It sounds like you have a big fan base, many of whom are not happy with the move, or the idea of you making any changes to your format. Maybe you should reconsider the switch and start another morning program that is a better fit. Not ironic or cynical, just sensible.

Jim and Ed. You are being assimilated.

Dale

Your assimilation has begun.

Assimilation?????

Something about "Resistance is Futile"?????

Guys...I do listen to the show, have been a long time listener. I do not listen to 89.3 for much of anything else..... however, after your show went off the air at 9 on KSJN, I would switch over to the News and info station on 91.1...So it is not a judgement of what I think about the new station. Of course my car was tuned to KSJN because I enjoy listening to John Birge...

If anything... at least for me, it doesn't sound like you guys are having a lot of fun at your new location... I don't know... you sound a bit tentative. I think of the song on the current Keepers cd about the universe and lightening up...

You guys are doing a great job... I am sure it will get better as time goes on....

Best wishes,
Bear And Patty

I'm easy to please. As long as I hear Cajun music a few times a week, I'm good. But now that I've started writing, it occurs to me that I would love to hear Dale and Jim Ed interview dark and brooding, tatooed and pierced local or national musicians. How cool would it be to hear Dale swapping knock knock jokes with the Shins?

But what do I know?

I'm just a caveman.

You think Dale & Jim Ed shouldn't be playing songs like "Worthy" by Ani diFranco? I think I'd have to agree... I was a bit frightened this morning, listening to Ani growl out this tune, when I realized "The Morning Show" may now be too hip for ME. Just after Ani was finished, some fabulous bluegrass kicked in, making me smile-but then it faded out (almost immediately) as "The Morning Show" ended. Why is it that "Worthy" is worthy of being played in its entirety, while the great local/folksy/homegrown stuff we LOVE gets segue status? I'm excited about "The Current," I think it has TONS of potential. But with all of the "hip" stuff being played the rest of the day, does the 'hipness' really need to be seeping into "The Morning Show?" STOP THE LEAK! I WANT MY MORNING SHOW BACK!!

I'd like the old morining show back too. Is the new show to mod to play a polka or Rachmanov? Besides, what happened to the Writers Almanic and the 6:00 News?

I think the new channel is wonderful and a fitting place for the amazingly hip Morning Show I have loved for so long. I am thrilled by this new adventure. Kudos to Dale, Jim Ed and Minnesota Public Radio!

Dale and Jim Ed/Tom -

Glad to see you guys are still keeping the hits and the almost-hits and the not-likely-to-ever-be-but-still-great-to-listen-to hits coming on the TCs airways. I was in Minnesota visiting last summer but didn't hear your show then; I could kick myself for not getting up at least one morning early to listen. Anyway, I was taking just a few minutes to check out the Net between grading papers and preparing for English classes I teach here at Kaua'i Community College in Hawai'i (this is my 12th year here), and came across the MPR web site and, voila, there you two are. Hope all is well at your new station. If the college here ever gets computers that can hear music (or if I ever actually spend some money to buy a computer for my home...), maybe I can hear your voices again.

Best wishes to you both for success and, perhaps, even a little sleep now and then.

Aloha.

Brian C

Does Captain Billy know Captain Feathersword?

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Love the Morning Show. Now I can listen to unique music all day.

30 years! It has been a wonderful, sometimes magical relationship. But recently you've changed. I know you are under pressure from your bosses and that change is good but I really miss the old you. So I'm going back home, back to where it all started, KSJN. If you decide you don't care for your new life please come back too cause I will be there waiting for you.

i have the luxury of still listening to KSJN up here north of little falls. please, don't change anything. what i think i am hearing is you guys perhaps trying too hard to please someone who might be a new listener. maybe too much gratuitous giggling? instead, please keep being who and what you have been for lo these many years. let any new guys who happen to wander in listen to the TRUE morning show.i would hate to see the special appeal of your ecentricities dulled by becoming too common and trying to emulate other morning show attempts on stations that shall remain nameless. thank you so much.

Emily Dickinson wrote

The Props assist the House
Until the house is built
And then the Props withdraw
And adquate, erect,
The House supports itself . . .

The Morning Show (TMS) is a prop assisting the new station--best wishes to it. I envision TMS stepping out of The Current some day, back to the classical music station, and I'll step right back with them.

No, Jim Ed and Dale don't sound happy playing Ani diFranco (or the singer who complains of "pesticides on the brain") any more than they'd be happy playing Yanni. Nevertheless, they're team players, gamers, ones willing to take one for the MPR team.

I'll keep listening as long as the infusion of new, edgier music continues to be administered in small doses. Heck, Peter Mayer is edgy enough for most of us in the morning.

I'm still all ears, MPR.

DC & JEP are fine, but the music selections don't match the rest of the day's programming. I have tried many times to stay with the morning show during commute time, but constantly find myself moving away and trying again with the same frustration. I really enjoy streaming during the workday and in the evenings, but the morning show selections are not keeping me engaged.

Love "The Morning Show," always have. Love it even more that I can keep my radio tuned to 89.3 morning, noon and night. Gives me (age 50) and my daughter (24) something in common! Can't get the signal in my office, so I audio stream there; in the car the signal comes in fine most everywhere I go in the St. Paul area. Keep your eclecticism. It's a great mix, just like The Current!

I also miss Writer's Almanac. Surely 5 minutes cld. be spared at TM's beginning (6 a.m. outstate) to set the tone for the show. Besides, sometimes WA is decidedly "edgy"

After listening to the programming other than your time slot, I was wondering if you guys could work 24 hours a day. The occasional song with a melody is not enough to keep me listening on a regular basis. Please use your influence and try to spread your eclectic playlist around beyond your 4 hours a day. I'm not trying to eliminate the indie, alternative, techno whatever you call it music...I just want it to be just a part of the whole music spectrum. It does not merit the dominate position it is holding at the present time.

I too miss the Writer's Almanac and the old Morning Show. There was nothing wrong with the old Morning Show. It was the start of my day and the #1 reason I contribute to MPR! 6-9 is just too early to be that cool! We need to work our way into it all.

Yesterday morning, the Morning Show guys were playing music by the George Maurer group when my Bose radio alarm went off... What a great way to wake up!! Anyway, loved the music and heard them talking about them being in St Cloud on Friday night (2/18)but I didn't catch where they would be- or what time. (raising money to fund a new van- I did read their story about the fire on their website!) Would love to go hear them! Could you email me where they will be? Their calendar on their website didn't have anything on it about Friday night...

Thanks,
Mary Carlsen

Jim Ed & Dale,

My vote is for you two -- all day, all the time --sorry no breaks!

A big fan, James Nash

P.S. More signal please...

I'm going to copy the first reply: "can't believe I ever doubted."

Your morning show is diverse and therefore valuable. However, you don't take the time to update the Songs Recently Played list which is really lame.

I'm not a fan of the morning show. Gave it a try for a couple of weeks, but I find myself tuning out because of the music selection and the fact that I don't find the hosts that humorous or humorous. Especially don't like the dedications--reminds me of the terrible radio I was stuck with growing up in a small town. Otherwise love the station and tune in/stream all other shows whenever I can throughout the day and night. Just wish you would get a new morning show.

I really like what the morning show is trying to strive to be. Funny and folksy. However, I am not a fan of folk or novelty songs. I can survive the occassional song of that ilk, but more than a few drives me to other stations. I want to listen to THIS station. The diversity of the music played at almost any other time is greater than what is played on the morning show. Please increase the range of styles being played in the morning...I really don't want to listen to KFAN in the morning.

This morning you proved yourself the coolest, hippest and most interesting Morning Show in the city, and possibly the country, when you played the Arrogant Worms. I never expected to hear them on the radio.

I've been thoroughly enjoying your show and its eclectic playlist.

I turn my dial away from 89.3 between the hours of 5 and 9 am. I couldn't take it, I almost wanted to listen to sports talk. please just play music & don't try to be funny. then again I guess i'll never know, i'll be down the dial somewhere. yeah...bow tie....oh, so hip!

Hi Jim Ed/Dale,

I never really heard your show while it was on 99.5 since I used to listen to 91.1 in the morning for my dose of gross reality.

Now that the current exists I leave your show on most mornings and leave my radio on after for the current most of the day.

So I guess you picked up a new fan... I don't understand what all these older listeners are so mad about, your show is most definitely not "selling out" - you are wayyyy more eclectic than even 89.3 is. I heard a song by Alan Sherman one morning you played that made me laugh out loud in my car it was so odd.

Don't listen to the haters, your show is just fine the way it is.

If I ever renew my membership to MPR it will be only for the Morning Show. It's perfection.
I'm disappointed that MPR stopped carrying Whaddya Know? I wouldn't be surprised if Car Talk is being edged out. Those Saturday money and finance shows are a snooze. They made me lose interest in subscribing. Dale and Jim Ed are the only people who could woo me back. I sure am glad I can pick up the station and hope that things are improved so more fans can still hear your show.

When I said "I hope things are improved" I meant signal strength. Nothing else about the Morning Show needs improvement.

How much could it hurt your program manager to air The Writer's Almanac at 6:00am as a great lead into your morning show? The short five-minute segment usually would end with a funny, candid, or thought provoking poem. And you guys were great at segueing a few music pieces that related to the poem. It was a great concept. So what's the problem? Aren't the new 89.3 listeners literate enough to benefit from a poem? Too much of a risk? Why not start something new. Cite poems from new and existing regional poets.
Get out of your box. Come on. Feed us!

Yes, bring back the 6 a.m. Writer's Almanac and I will reconsider my decision not to renew my MPR membership (reluctantly made after losing Saturday's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" and concluding I'm insufficiently hip for much of 89.3)

Some days you are the nicest folks I run into all day. Thanks for what you do!

I'll be brief.
1)Every preset in my car is on MN public radio stations so there is no mistakes.
2)Morning show rules.
3)Morning show is hip and in the class of its own.
4)My whole family is a "supporting member".
5)List OF THE MORNING SHOW WUSIC WOULD BE SO GREAT- ESPECIALLY IF TIME WHEN SONG WAS PLAYED WAS ATTACHED- it is hard to take notes in the car.
Thank You, Pawel.

I had never listened to this morning show before it moved to the Current, and now it's a fairly regular stop on my radio dial. While I think it is distinctly different than the other Current programming, it does not feel out of place. For demographic study purposes, note that I'm 34, not 64!

Also, I personally like the dedications, and can't help but picture the person receiving the dedication, and how charmed they must be by your delivery. You play an eclectic mix of music intermixed with what I feel is good humor. My only request is maybe to funk it up a little more on occasion, you know, maybe James Brown, Curtis Mayfield...or Tower of Power "What is Hip"!?!

I've enjoyed The Morning Show for years. It 's one of the most unique and authentic radio programs aired and has been respected because of its programming integrity. The music offered is eclectic, varied, and even schizophrenic. It deserves to be aired on The Current.

Too bad KSJN hasn’t offered a similar variety in their classical musical offerings. How many times can one listen to a Straus waltz in a week? Those who loved the former WCAL are the losers. The programming at WCAL was excellent and authentic. Unfortunately KSJN just doesn’t get it. Canned programming with its top 100 classical playlist just won’t succeed at KSJN classical station much longer. Kudos for The Current. Their listeners are lucky. May The Morning Show continue to strive and expose new and varied music, not only to classical music listeners, but also to the young and eager followers of The Current. We can all share, learn, and enjoy the best of all music.

This all seems quite simple to me. With the exception of a couple of new fans, the vast majority of posters on this blog appear to be long-time listeners of the Morning Show who love it and don't want any changes. Great--glad it has a following and to each their own. My guess is that most new listeners like me who don't like it and don't think it's a good fit for the new station don't care enough to submit feedback and are just tuning out, or they aren't brave enough to post amongst the die-hard fans. So, just move the Morning Show elsewhere and change it back to the way it was, and give us a new, more fitting morning show on the Current, and most everybody should be happy.

I agree. Please send the Morning Show back to KSJN and give us back the old Morning Show. The only time I tune to 89.3 is for the Morning Show, and I'm starting to listen to KSJN in the morning because the Morning Show I loved for so many years has changed. Give the listeners who like 89.3 something they like in that time slot.

Play more bagpipe music.

I cannot believe that there are people out there who do not think that Dale and Jim Ed are the hippest thing on the air. The fact that I can listen and be continually amazed and entertained and never insulted is incredible! The Morning Show reminds us that we are all human, and Dale and Jim Ed are dinosaurs that still make us laugh. Thank you!