Petros Papadakis Update

So it turns out that all around bad guy Roger Nadel, KMPC 1540 The Ticket General Manager, became irrate after the Friday September 29 show when Petros engaged in a conversation with a caller about the bleek outlook at 1540 The Ticket. It is no secret that the Ticket is a piece of crap, and that the station is 2 steps from being completely off the air. Let's face it, Tony Bruno and his lap dog Mark Willard will be moved to whatever station picks up the Sporting News Radio contract, as will Dave Smith. The only thing that made 1540 attractive was that it had the "P," and was host to the only original show in the market. Having lost USC football this season, the Ticket had resorted to becoming your average play-by-play radio station with football games of teams an L.A. sports fan could care less about.

With the impending sale of the station, the future was awfully bleek for the Ticket and the "P." Nadel, always the radio executive that runs the station much like the worst run high school in South Los Angeles, is a typical overreactor that is more concerned with his own ass then with providing "great sports talk" to the city. He is from the Ray Calusa mold of general manager, who while at KSPN 710 decided to run Fat Joe McDonald and Doug Krekorian from the station and replacing them with the unlistenable pair of dildos that currently inhabit the time slot. I beleive they are Mason and Ireland at this point, but I am sure that there have been a fair share of turn over in the slot. For Fat Joe's part, all he has done is get picked up over at XTRA 570, who I guess decided to go back to a sports talk format by dumping Mancow and that other idiot Phil Hendrie. Regardless, NEXTRA is still pretty unlistenable as well even with Jim Rome still in the rotation. And to all those Rome fans, that stuff was funny in like 1996.

The Ticket is pretty much worthless at this point. Bruno and the lap dog are your typical morning sports duo that have nothing new to offer the sports talk landscape. Dave Smith, when he is not telling the story about being sent to county jail, is busy pushing boxing down our throats, and the 2 Live Stews are, well, I won't get into their act. In short, Petros was all the station had and now he is gone and with him goes probably the freshest and most charasmatic voice on the Los Angeles radio dial. Where else could you hear about PAC-10 football, Michigan updates with freshman Lincoln Baum, and get advice on how to pick up drunk breezies at the Clipper game? I guess it's back to Air America on the XM for me.