Thanks a Ton

[davidsirota]

KKZN Friends/Family:

Just got to my in-laws house in Lafayette, Indiana, after driving 1,118 miles from Denver in one day. Emily and my dog Monty are doing great - Monty is staying here, and Emily and I are getting ready to go off to China for our long-planned trip to visit that country with a friend of ours who was in the Peace Corps there.

Before I left, however, I just wanted to express a thank you to all of you for all of your support over the last few months. Jay Marvin's shoes are very big to try to fill - and I enjoyed doing my best to fill in. Nobody can replace Jay, but I hope the last few months with me at the helm was enjoyable, informative, entertaining - or, at least tolerable. I did my best to keep it as locally focused and topic-diversified as possible - something that I think is becoming really rare in radio.

The thing that has sustained me through the last few months has been the audience - the emails, the calls, the instant messages and the feedback has been incredibly helpful in doing the show.

Lots of you have emailed me asking me whether I want to have my own radio show. Let me say that while I certainly enjoyed hosting the show the last three and a half months, and while I certainly would be interested in having my own radio show at some point in the future, I'm not sure what the immediate future holds for me in radio. Why? For two obvious reasons: 1) We don't yet know exactly when Jay is coming back and thus there's no indication about whether there will actually be any need/slot for me in the Denver radio market and 2) I have to see what my book/writing schedule is like when I get back before knowing if I could even continue to fill in on a temporary basis.

None of that, of course, is nearly as important as the bottom line of Jay coming back. Let's all continue to hope and pray for his speedy recovery and return to the mike.

Again, thanks to everyone for all of your support - and feel free to use the comments section to offer up any feedback/criticism of my work on the radio. The more input the better.

Rock the boat,
David

P.S. As I was writing this, Westword posted a new article on Jay's health. I saw Jay before leaving for China last week - he is certainly looking better.

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword...ut_his_hea.php