Stephanie Miller deserves the MSNBC morning slot! Let's try to make that happen!

[Radio_Lady]

I saw Stephanie Miller for the first time Monday on MSNBC, and I was just blown away. Today she was even better. Stephanie and her two-man crew are amazingly talented. Apparently, she will only be on MSNBC for one more day (Wednesday, May 2) in an early AM timeslot. On the West Coast, that's 3 AM to 6 AM -- please adjust for other time zones -- tape the show if you can.)

We should do something to help this talented woman get a real chance to take over the simulcast spot that opened up last month.

If you have never seen her or heard her, go to her web site: http://www.stephaniemiller.com or read about her on Wikipedia. She was voted as one of the top 100 radio hosts by "Talkers" magazine.





Liberallynn started a thread on this a few days ago:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6452998

Here's the email I just sent to Stephanie, Jim and Chris:

Hello all you fabulous radio talents -- but regrettably temporary -- TV personalities...

Are you kidding? MSNBC is taking you off after Wednesday 5/2/07? This is just an audition? You can't be serious! Crap. You don't want to live in Secaucus, and I can't say that I blame you. But as a former Manhattan resident (worked with founding talk father figure Barry Gray at WMCA, and then at NBC and WPIX-TV), there are so many other digs. For lots of cold, hard cash -- and celebrity, of course -- would you at least consider it?

SO, HOW CAN WE GET YOU ON MSNBC, PERMANENTLY?

I'm willing to fight for your talk show rights, but you have to really want this gig! If I weren't going to Europe with my husband in a couple of days, I'd try to get to Dan Abrams personally, but I will just have to figure out a way to do it via email before I go to Paris next week! I'm posting this on the Democratic Underground. How about a sign on the Eiffel Tower? How do you say, "You're hired, Stephanie" in French????

Your TV shows are wonderful. People at the DemocraticUnderground.com have been raving about your radio show. I saw Michael whatever on MSNBC last week... oh, he's OK, but no big deal.

On Monday, I didn't sleep well -- got up at 5 AM and caught your last hour! Wonderful stuff! Hubby recorded all three hours from 3 AM and 6 AM PT and I'm smiling through the day. YOU DESERVE THAT SPOT!

I am one of the pioneer liberal talk show radio hosts in Miami and Boston -- around Sally Jesse Raphael's age (whatever happened to her?) -- now retired and living in Portland Oregon. I'm going to be 68 years old -- but I'm still doing some broadcasting via SAP and the Internet. No call-ins anymore, thank you very much, just movie reviews and author interviews, and my own journal:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Radio_Lady

First of all, I've been hoping they would take Don Imus off before he expired or exploded, but now it's been done. Now I don't feel that way about Larry King because I once dated him in the 1950s (long story). He was a disk jockey in his 20s working at WAHR -- a very talented fellow, really, despite what anyone thinks of him today. I had a children's TV show in the 1950s -- he was five years older than me, a nice Jewish boy...

I met up with him again in 1971, when I was the divorced mother of two small children. He was divorced from one or two wives, and I met his daughter, Chaia, who was just a little kid maybe three years old -- his mother, Jenny, and his brother, Marty. I came over to the North Bay Causeway radio station WIOD because he wanted coffee and some sweet treats. I was not paid for this work, but Larry made me laugh, so I kept dropping by. I screened his telephone calls, and produced cassette tapes to cover the 4 AM - 5 AM hour so everybody could go home to sleep.

Guess who took over his all-night radio program after he was arrested a few days before Christmas! Here is his mugshot the day he was arrested.:



The charge was about a money exchange and was dropped subsequently. Here is Larry and his family today.


The rest is history -- I was hired as an "interim host" while they searched for a male for the all-night hours. Meanwhile, Boston's WEEI was looking for a woman for a 10 AM to 2 PM slot. I got the job and the rest is history. Been in and around broadcasting for many decades. I was going to college in 1961 when you were born -- a 1962 University of Miami graduate in Radio-TV-Film!

Good luck, sweetheart! Let me know if I can help in any way! Seriously.

Radio Lady/Ellen
(plus my real name and contact information)

[matcom]

1. one problem

she doesn't want it.

[Radio_Lady]

2. Are you sure? If so, what motivated her to do the stint at MSNBC?

Hard to believe, but I can accept that. I'm not getting that vibe from her.

Are you a regular listener? If so, what radio station do you hear her on in Boston? I can't even find a Boston radio outlet for her.

Or is your comment based on the things she is saying on MSNBC this week?

Just curious.

Thanks for your comment.


PS. Matcom, are you still on-line?

[matcom]

3. MSNBC today

she said stop calling requesting her full time. she likes her life in California

[Radio_Lady]

4. Randi Rhodes said that in Florida before she moved to AAR.

She is a single woman, born in 1961, with a fabulous radio talent, fast and funny, no regionalisms in her speech even though she's from Buffalo, NY. This would give her an important national stage.

You don't think she would accept this job if offered? What's holding her in California -- the weather, her dogs., her own comfort zone, a lover? So, she'd visit California and maybe even spend half a year out there!

Didn't Imus go to New Mexico for months at a time?

My take: She's at least as good as Keith Olbermann -- maybe better. Her two cohorts are very attractive talents. Stephanie has better speech patterns than Randi Rhodes -- and she is a good interviewer. She can be serious, sparkly, or lightweight -- and that woman has a champion brain. You could get used to it, even if you're a man!

I spent about years in New York television, including working with talent selection for NBC's "Tonight Show." Sorry, but I think if she is "drafted" - she would accept.

[matcom]

5. don't know her

:shrug:

[Radio_Lady]

6. OK, that's fair. Neither do I. There have been various posts about her, but I can't search because

that feature is turned off tonight.

[Radio_Lady]

7. Either I'm alone here tonight or you folks don't care about this...

Whatever. Big news day. Packing for Europe.