[HN Gopher] A minor memorial for Leo Laporte on terrestrial AM r...
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A minor memorial for Leo Laporte on terrestrial AM radio
Author : classichasclass
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-12-18 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
| rmason wrote:
| I had only known Leo from TV and the web. I was on vacation and
| during a long drive and found him on AM radio in the car and was
| delighted. Forget Howard Stern, Leo LaPorte is the King of all
| media.
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| Until COVID I was in the Valley almost yearly. I have family in
| Marin and it's still on my bucket list to be an audience member
| on Leo's show some day. I have a close friend here in Michigan
| who has done it and she told me not to question whether it would
| be worth it or not.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| AM radio doesn't consume very much of the radio spectrum but I
| wonder how much longer it is going to keep going. When I lived in
| California in the 90s, I'd often listen to whatever KFI was
| playing while driving up and down the coast multiple times a
| week. If I lived there today, I'd probably end up listening to
| audiobooks or podcasts rather than terrestrial radio. Wonder how
| much the market for AM can shrink before it can't cover the
| bills.
| todd3834 wrote:
| I listened to this week in tech for years. Then it got a little
| too political for my personal preference. I would take a break
| and come back but sure enough it just went deeper down the
| political podcast category than I felt like listening too.
| Calling Tucker Carlson a nazi was an interesting one. I don't
| watch his show but this just reeked of a left talking point
| instead of addressing anything specific he said. I consider
| myself middle of the isle libertarian leaning... I see a lot of
| good and bad from both sides. Sometimes I love a good political
| debate. Just wasn't interested in it from TWiT. His show though.
| He had a right to talk about anything he wants. I did try to
| email them just to discuss as a long term fan. Someone, his wife
| I think, made it pretty clear my input was not wanted. fair
| enough but that's when I stopped listening.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| Petaluma is 17% Republican, which is probably high for the Bay
| Area. While I also dislike when politics leak into a show
| that's subject based (not general interest nor specifically
| political), he keeps his shows from having much in the way of
| dead air and some of that requires filling in with whatever
| topic is on the top of the head of the host. For the Bay Area,
| that's often going to be about how some conservative is bad. I
| used to watch lots of TWIT shows but these days I pretty much
| only watch 'Security Now' and even that only once in a while,
| but for what it's worth, I don't recall too much political
| content, at least not content unrelated to security, during
| that show.
| perardi wrote:
| Bit tangential, but hey, the theme is nostalgia...
|
| I don't believe I ever heard Leo Laporte before podcasts--can't
| recall _Tech Guy Show_ being syndicated where I grew up in
| central Illinois.
|
| But this prompted to see if Kim Komando is still on the air, and,
| yup!
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| https://www.komando.com/the-show/
|
| The idea of a call-in radio show for computer help seems
| impossibly quaint nowadays, but in the old days, before you kids
| had your TikToks and your broadbands, these really were valuable
| resources.
| deaddodo wrote:
| > I don't believe I ever heard Leo Laporte before podcasts--
| can't recall Tech Guy Show being syndicated where I grew up in
| central Illinois.
|
| Did you not have TechTV in your area? That's probably _by far_
| what he was most known for and was a good decade and a half
| before podcasts.
| photoGrant wrote:
| Leo, Dick & Steve are some of the most personable and
| knowledgable hosts I ever had the privilege of listening to. I'll
| also forever be a fan for calling out Calacanis
| classichasclass wrote:
| (author) It's also a very kind show. I think the folks he gets
| (or got) on the radio are a different audience than those who
| might call into an Internet streaming show. I suspect the
| experience on the new show will lack some of that variety even
| though it'll still be the same great people, unfortunately.
| ravenstine wrote:
| Wow, this is the end of an era. Leo's been on KFI in LA for as
| long as I remember.
|
| As much as I like the guy, I think this is for the best. I
| haven't listened to his podcasts, but I think podcasts and online
| content creation have a greater potential for a better quality
| audience.
|
| Not gonna lie, one of the reasons I've listened to "The Tech Guy"
| a lot less than I used to is that most of the people calling in
| these days need to get their printer to work or simply have
| someone listen to them. That's all well and good, but it doesn't
| make for nearly as good of listening as back in the heyday when
| computer tech was hot and people under the age of 60 were calling
| in. _Just sayin '._ I don't want to be ageist, but I also cannot
| avoid it here. When I'm in the car on the weekend, I'll tune into
| KFI and Leo's talking to a guest who's totally clueless about
| basic computer skills in _2022_. It 's good that Leo's been there
| for these people, but it's more cringe than entertaining.
|
| On the other hand, Leo's an older guy himself, and I'm usually
| impressed with how he's kept up his general tech knowledge. Other
| hosts might get too comfortable over the years, but I can usually
| tell that Leo's been reading things that are relevant.
|
| Leo actually got me into Linux. I remember a show back in 2006
| where he was recommending someone try out Ubuntu to give new life
| to an old computer, so that's how I learned about Ubuntu.
| classichasclass wrote:
| (author) Dick DiBartolo once joked recently he was looking
| forward to Leo's hard hitting review of the Atari 800.
| RF_Enthusiast wrote:
| I agree on everything you said.
|
| The pitch to potential TWIT advertisers is that they can reach
| a highly engaged, influential (and affluent) tech-savvy
| audience. The syndicated terrestrial radio show hurts that
| positioning more than the wider exposure helps.
|
| I listened not for the advice, but for the "how will Leo answer
| this one" factor. He's very patient!
|
| He would end up spending 5-10 minutes explaining to someone how
| to recycle power to a router or demystifying the basics of OTA
| television.
| teddyh wrote:
| Clickbait: He's not dead. Yes, the article says so in the first
| sentence, but a clickbait title is a clickbait title.
| birdymcbird wrote:
| meltyness wrote:
| TSS was a sensation for adolescent me.
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