Mile High Sports went off-air on May 21st with a "target" date of June 1st being set and stated by many of the station's on-air talent. Unfortunately, many loyal listeners have been in this situation with the station before and felt like Tommy Boy "I could shit in a box and guarantee it, but it's still just a guaranteed piece of shit!"
Myself and many fans of the station have stuck around through thick and thin because the format of the station is live and local with the callers being regular contributors and having a voice. Additionally, the station seems to be the breeding ground for some very talented voices that have gone on to bigger things often. Joel Klatt, Nate Kreckman, Peter Burns are amongst this alumni and some current talent that appear to have that level of moving up in their blood (my money is on Benjamin Allbright). The talent is a different model than any of the other stations, they pay for their air-time often through sponsors. I have to say that those sponsors are probably as irate as the on-air talent and loyal listeners because they invest money to hear their product being talked about, but when there is no one to talk to with being off-air or less people to talk to with listeners deciding to stick with 105.5 ESPN or 104.3 The Fan after being put through the gauntlet of changing call letters/radio dial, down air time, fuzzy signal and other snafus Mile High Sports has had in recent memory.
I turned on my car and again gave Mile High Sports the benefit of the doubt and scanned my radio dial and then looked to their website and other media outlets to see if I may have skipped it in commercial break. Nope, the best I got was an old message from May 21st only displayed on their radio web site (not even main website) and others wondering where they were. I often would forego listening to Howard Stern in the morning to catch Morning Mayhem with Danny William and Cello Romano and often skipped the thing I pay for in order to listen to Mile High Sports newer shows and fairly recent line-up changes, but I am finally saying why bother?
Why bother following a radio station that puts their on-air talent, sponsors and listeners through the ringer with all the issues mentioned before? If Mile High Sports seriously wants to keep all of our interest, they would do the little things like update their website, social media pages and give some up to date information at least once a day. We can't even know what station to tune-in to over a week and a half after Mile High Sports went off-air?! It simply would take paying someone like myself peanuts in order to keep people in the loop. Instead it is quiet and no news is not good news. For a station that is built around criticizing the sports teams in-town, why can they not look at themselves in the mirror and say hey sorry, we have dropped the ball here? We have heard the higher ups at Mile High Sports dog John Fox, The Monforts, the way the Nuggets are ran, talent/depth issues for every team, etc. and how they need to address these issues instead of ducking away from them, but are doing the same thing themselves. Time to step up and let your listeners, sponsors and others know what is going on or like I myself did with the Rockies mess and Avalanche after two lockouts and inept talent evaluation, I'll take my attention to other things, like another station.
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