Hammer Time

Up, up and away with Denver's most entertaining traffic reporter.

A A A Comments By Michael Roberts Thursday, Oct 7 1999

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Jonathan Castner

Wing tips: Plane-spoken radio traffic reporter Sam Hammer.

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Finally, the move of Dave Otto from the Fan to Jammin' Oldies 92.5 predicted here two weeks back has come to pass. The number of callers to his October 4 debut who welcomed him back to the area (he was a big Denver ratings-getter back in the Eighties) was an indication of just how few people heard him doing drive time since last year on the Fan, which replaced Otto with intelligent but long-winded veteran yakker Sandy Clough. (Considering that Clough flopped in this slot prior to Otto's arrival, the move is probably a temporary, stopgap one.) As for Craig Carton, Otto's panties-sniffing partner at the Fan, he's been hired to work mornings at hard-rocking KBPI starting October 11 alongside dimunitive sports updater Mark Stout --meaning that conversation about Godsmack and Creed is apt to play second fiddle to more pissing and moaning about the Broncos. What metalhead wouldn't love to pump his fist to that?

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