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I am of two minds on the EW Radio cancellation, the first is that it is a bummer and folks like Kyle Anderson had some pretty great 2 hour blocks with cool guest stars and he really touched on a pretty good assortment of things in Pop Culture, not just spending all of his time fixated on one subject (with a few exceptions, but for the most part I think my memory of his time on EW Radio is accurate), now the other mind says yes...WAY too much focus on stuff that was either really not worth all the energy spent to cover it, or quite frankly did not need EW to pimp it (The Walking Dead, and a show I still like, Survivor comes to mind).

The shows that were just a hideous waste of time and energy to cover were stuff like those Bachelor/Bachelorette recaps that took up an entire hour or more, and only appealed to a niche audience who wanted to listen to a deep dive recap from a radio talk show. It felt like half the time I would turn on the radio and EW would be pimping The Walking Dead, Survivor, or Bachelor/Bachelorette, meaning I would promptly turn to another station to listen too. So yeah...that couldn’t be good for the EW Radio channels ratings. Sometimes EW radio was fantastic, but there were way too many times when I just switched channels, and if I was switching channels you know plenty of other listeners were doing the same.

A lot of missed opportunities to cover shows that were maybe flying underneath a lot of pop culture fans’ radar like The Magicians or The Expanse, shows that could use the free publicity from EW, but instead of trying to turn people on to The Magicians, you would tune in and hear someone recapping The Bachelor, which is just wrong and the very definition of a missed opportunity to get people more interested in something other than a trash reality tv show.

This thread reminds me that I need to cancel my subscription, also, sorry for the thread drift!!