Do you remember WIOQ in the '80s? It was awesome. I heard artists like Elvis Costello, Joan Armatrading and Cheap Trick for the very first time on IOQ. David Dye was my hero even way back then.
Fast forward two decades to WXPN — where most of WIOQ's devotees migrated in the late '80s — and I still love radio, and David Dye, as much now as I did then. I don't even have a CD (or tape) player in my car. Just a radio.
For years now, I've loved listening to David during his "live" time in the afternoons on XPN from 4pm-7pm even more than his taped show World Cafe (probably because it feels more real to hear him live, plus you know it's local and just for us Philadelphians, not every listener from here to Seattle). So when they recently announced that he would be replaced 4 days a week by the guy who had been hosting the evening show Y-Rock, I was nervous. Very.
Turns out no need. Jim McGuinn, that Y-Rock guy, uh, rocks. He's by far the best new voice on XPN in years. The other newer DJs on XPN are alright ... but in my mind they are just fillers between David, Michaela Majoun and Helen Leicht. But Jim fits right in with the veterans.
He's natural and easy-going on the air. He doesn't have a put-on on-air voice, and he never talks down to the listeners, or tries too hard to be funny/smart/clever, or sounds self conscious. Talking into a mic seems as natural to him as talking to a friend over coffee or a beer. It's very refreshing!
Let's hope he sticks around. Tune in and check him out.
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