The Making of a Pirate

A radio buccaneer blames politics for turning him into a fugitive from the FCC.

A A A Comments By Michael Roberts Thursday, Oct 4 2001

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Yet not everything has changed. That same release asks reporters to use the press-office pager "only when there is an urgent need for airport information unavailable through other sources" -- implying that staffmembers may still get cranky if awakened in the middle of the night for reasons they don't feel are important enough. Furthermore, the release was sent to Westword not by DIA, but by mayoral mouthpiece Andrew Hudson.

Who's clearly doing a better job of spreading the word than anyone at the airport.

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A tangled Net: When talk-show host Jimmy Lakey purchased DenverRadio.net ("As the Web Turns," August 16), visitors to this invaluable site were evenly split between surfers who thought he was a savior and folks fearful that the end was near. Now even the first group has something to worry about: On September 18, Lakey was pink-slipped by KNUS, the low-rated AM station where he worked, in favor of syndicated yakker Dennis Prager. E-mails to Lakey prompt an auto-reply in which he thanks listeners for their loyalty; provides phone numbers at KNUS and Salem Media, which owns the station, for those eager to complain; and suggests that people visit his personal Web site, jimmylakey.com, over the next several weeks for updates about his future.

And the future of DenverRadio.net? Lakey's auto-reply doesn't even mention the site.

The crap returns:A sign that local TV news is getting back to normal? The September 30 edition of Channel 31's late news led off by teasing a story about training cats to use a toilet instead of a litter box.

That's the kind of scoop we've come to expect.