TALK 1300

Love 1300 Talk radio. I listen all the time. Paul in the morning is like an old friend as I have heard his voice in this slot for it seems like forever. I have listened to him for about 20 years on different stations. Melody Burns is a GREAT Lady Patriot who tells it like it is! Al Roney is always interesting and full of off beat topics and ideas. Al and all love 1300! Keep up the great work Paul. Thank you 1300

When you hear a guy on the radio say that guns make great Christmas presents, you just have to keep listening, hoping for another aural trainwreck.
This AM, right-​wing talk radio station is inadvertently hilarious, especially when enduring a hangover. The nasal morning guy yammers about his dog and granddaughter, spends the first couple hours talking about famous people born that day, then segues into how the Carpenters, Chicago and Queen are the greatest musicians ever. You’re ready to shove sharpened pencils in your ears when he talks politics from his whiny, parochial and reified point of view. Some mornings he does his show from the Amtrak station and giddily prattles over how many people are boarding trains.
There’s an amazing number of technical foul-​ups, dead air and advertising spots heard on top of the talk-​show hosts. The bumpers are frequently so loud that they overpower the news, which I think is primarily culled from faxed press releases sent by Republican office holders and shorter Times Union articles about the latest shooting or home invasion, preferably in Albany or Schenectady.
As an added treat, the mayor of Albany has a call-​in show on Friday: imagine Rodney Dangerfield without the schtick.
UPDATE ⁴⁄₁₇: Co-​owners of the station were just snagged overdipping in a retirement system.
This station is the best!