A few months after 1310 The Ticket won the Marconi Award for “Major Market Station of the Year,” the programming lineup will undergo a slight change. The morning drive radio trio of Craig Miller, George Dunham and Gordon Keith revealed on Monday’s edition of the program that they will be reducing their daily schedule to a three-hour show airing from 6 to 9 a.m. CST. The show had previously taken the air at 5:30 a.m. CST and broadcast for the ensuing four-and-a-half hours, concluding at 10 a.m. EST before The Invasion was live. This change occurs as The Musers begin their 32nd year on the airwaves.
As the trio was explaining the move on Monday morning, they emphasized that in order to continue doing a sports talk program in the morning, not to mention the longest show on the station, it was necessary to cut back a little bit. The program also articulated that as far as it knows, the configuration is the longest-running morning show with the same people. Part of what has effectuated the longevity, they explained, was the loyalty of the P1 listeners and those working behind the scenes. Dunham also added that the program recently had its highest-rated year in the history of the morning program.
“We’ve said it many times – we consider ourselves fortunate to have each other, to have this experience that we’ve had, and we want to keep that going,” Dunham said, “and to do so, in cooperation with our management here at The Ticket, we have made the decision to get a little more sleep and address our hours of operation on the morning Musers.”
The morning programming commences at 5:35 a.m. CST with a replay of some of their previous segments before a new edition of the show airs live 25 minutes later. Following the conclusion of The Musers, Donovan Lewis and Matt McClearin will start their show at 9 a.m. CST and broadcast a four-hour show leading into the remainder of afternoon programming. This schedule change occurs after The Ticket recently celebrated its 30th anniversary broadcasting in the sports talk radio format.
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