It has been a month (actually 32 days but who is counting?) since Mile High Sports Radio went off the air. On that date, May 21st, the Radio tab of their website provided this message:
"Mile High Sports Radio is making changes!
In the coming days, we will be announcing where you’ll be able to find all of your favorite shows. The new version of MHSR will be bigger and better than ever!
We appreciate the support of our loyal listeners and sponsors, and look forward to continuing to provide Colorado sports fans with the best live and local sports talk in Denver.
Stay tuned!"
The note clearly states that in the coming days they would be announcing something. Last I checked, days is usually within a week and not over a month with no word or update. I had the Owl Post carry an email to me (yes I just went Harry Potter) that was shared with the station on-air talent. In that e-mail, dated June 4, 2015, the radio launch date was targeted to be June 29th on AM1340. Two and a half weeks later the station is still mum on changes publicly. I know there is a lot of behind the scenes stuff that can't be shared, but no news is not better than simply providing some simple updates without giving any information that is private and not for public consumption would be a good thing. Not providing listeners and some sponsors information can be worse than providing information that is not certain yet, as evident by the questioning and disappointment I have seen voiced from listeners and on-air talent alike.
Mile High Sports Radio provided the most live and local shows, but to keep the consumers in the dark is not the correct way to keep their loyalty. It is unfortunate things have gone down like this, since Mile High Sports had found the right mixture of a radio line-up before suddenly going off-air with little to no notice.
Danny and Cello Mayhem Mafia had grown in masses from their old 9-11 am to 2-4 pm to 4-6 pm drive home to 7-9 a.m. drive-to-work changes over the last couple years and had listeners choosing to have their ears bleed listening to the awful radio on 104.3 FM The Fan with Mike Evans and Nate Lundy that is only saved by Vic Lombardi's greatness. If Vic wasn't in, I for one, wouldn't even tune-in to The Fan. Yes, us less cerebral group has grown even to the bewilderment of a blogger whose own site has made an eerily similar disappearance since MHSR went off-air.
Then from 9 a.m. to Noon, Brandon Spano had molded his craft into a very solid show after me having some initial issues with his daytime slot he had really come into his own. Additionally, his website BSNDENVER has blown up and became a very solid read with some talented writers covering Denver sports. It also was nice having a local option during the late morning, since both 105.5 FM ESPN and The Fan are national syndication during that timeframe.
The Geezers two hours of power between Gil Whiteley from Noon-1 pm and Old Timers Irv and Joe from 1-2 pm allowed the old listeners an old friend to keep the two hours they were awake in between naps. I would tune in to get a change of pace from the much more solid shows that Cecil Lammey provides on ESPN and Sandy Clough and Scott Hastings on The Fan during that timeframe.
The 2-4 timeframe brought on The Big Show. Between the group of them, they were good sports fodder when I couldn't get into what was going on in the other shows. They had more of my time than when they first started out.
From 4-6 p.m. I was torn. I have always been an Eric Goodman fan but he has rarely been partnered with the right co-host. After years of pulling dead weight, Zac Fogg showed to be a very good sidekick and actually had me switching back and forth between MHSR and Denver radio gold in 105.5 ESPN's Nate Kreckman. Side note: If you listen to 104.3 The Fan from 3-6 p.m. you might as well do meth to kill your brain since that is what Big Al and D-Mac do to it.
After 6 p.m. the abyss of Denver Sports Radio has only been saved occasionally by ESPN Denver when they allow guys like Drew Spevak, Rob Wagner and others to be on-air in the evening. You can listen to cut up versions of that meth like show as well after 6 p.m.
After 6 p.m. Mile High Sports gave you a 1-hour lap dance of the genius of Renaud Notaro (even when he had foul mouthed, over egotistical scooter boy, Colin Daniels, on-air and I hope I didn't exceed his quota of commas in this blog). After Renaud, you got an hour of CU history with the unlistenable Don Brenner before he handed off to one of the best and most underutilized shows in Last Call with Benjamin Allbright and Joe Morgan. These two are entertaining, knowledgeable and a good late night fix like Taco Bell was for you in college.
Unfortunately, this talented line-up and sports entertainment has been off-air for a month with little to no information provided by the station. Instead we are left to wonder, will we actually hear Mile High Sports back on-air on June 29th or will the station's silence continue?
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