In the July 2008 blog "Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block," Sean Nethery, CPR's vice president of programming, said that "in a matter of weeks, not months," the service would formally announce the expansion of its weekday news program, Colorado Matters, from thirty minutes to an hour in length. As a bonus, this supersized effort would be paired with an hour-long daily talk show that Nethery likened to a local varation on Talk of the Nation, a National Public Radio favorite
Dan Drayer won't be hosting a new Colorado Public Radio talk show anytime soon.
In the July 2008 blog "Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block," CPR vice president of programming Sean Nethery said an announcement about expanding Colorado Matters, the service's thirty-minute weekday news program, and launching a one-hour weekday talk show would be made "in a matter of weeks." But things changed, as Nethery conceded in the January blog "Colorado Public Radio Dials Back on New Talk