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So that's how they do it
Host Alex Chadwick is offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the first week of NPR's new Culver City-based live midday show "Day to Day" in the Diary at Slate, the show's creative partner. He gives props to the key people making the show happen and admits to some first-week tension.
I should also mention our energetic and capable editorial intern, Tracey Chang, a graduate student from the Annenberg School at USC, especially because I snapped at her this morning about a missing script—something that wasn't her fault—and made her cry. I apologized, but I've felt pretty lousy ever since.
It's on KCRW at noon.
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It had better get better real soon. It's currently so watered down that I have found myself listening out of habit, which I'm sure won't last. The reports on it are not even glorified blogs, they're far less interesting than most bloggers.
Chadwick as a host is too amiable and fatherly to be hip and he's on a show who's target demographic is a fast-moving, plugged in urbanite. It has to; otherwise he becomes The Friendly Man, Osgood/Kuralting about the country, and he might as well broadcast from a Winnebago, and miss the kind of people who listen to NPR, even FM, entirely.
The second day was better than the first, which sounded unusually forced for a debuting show. A music story the second day was the first sign of spark, and they covered the Texas Legislature situation pretty well.
I wish them luck, but I already miss The World at midday, which is a good mix of gravitas and frippery after Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Posted by: joseph at July 30, 2003 07:21 PM