Reply #14: Day to Day and Tavis [View All]

Sorry for the delayed response, AP. The network has been out.

"Day To Day" is the new midday show that is a coproduction of NPR and Microsoft's Slate. If that's not enough to make you feel icky about the whole venture, there's this scathing review from the Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/20/DD277990.DTL

Since it's hard to clear five hours of radio time for a new show, Program Directors around the country will likely be choosing between Day to Day and Tavis. Or, Day to Day and the second hour of Talk of the Nation. Day to Day premiered on over 50 stations. That's a lot for a daily show nobody had heard. It certainly seems that NPR is putting the heavy push behind D2D and leaving Tavis on his own. That's just my perception. I have no actual information.

Day to Day is the first program out of the west coast studios and it is trying to have a more youthful edge. I am pretty young (28, a mere infant in the public radio market), and I think this is a fine goal, but I don't think that back to back features on "The OC" is the way to achieve this. (That's what I heard on the show when I turned it on most recently.)

Just so you know, this post contains no inside information, and I don't represent the station in any way. I'm just a public radio fan.