Breaking up is hard to do.
Ed Sardella’s association with KUSA-Channel 9 is finally coming to an end after 32 years.
The veteran Denver anchorman, whose face hasn’t been seen on 9News in two years, has been locked up by a no-compete contract. It expires next month and he’s very available.
“Although I will be free to work at any other TV station, chances are I won’t, at least not in news,” he says. “I think that part of my life is past.”
But he’s not ready to head for the rocker just yet. “If a station wanted to hire me to host a community-affairs, old-folks show to run at 3 a.m. on Sunday, I’d consider it.”
He did a similar program for area Channel 8 for a time, and he’s always been more inclined toward “real” issues than car wrecks and fires, even when he was an anchor.
He’s standing by at edsardella@qwest.net.
Good ol’ Mr. Rogers Michele Bartlett remembers.
Her kids are grown but “we loved ‘Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’ when they were growing up,” she writes.
It wasn’t just her kids who learned life’s little lessons from the gentle Fred Rogers, whose show was dumped by Rocky Mountain PBS (May 2).
“I learned, for the first time at 33, that people could like me just the way I am. If only I’d learned that 20 years earlier. Would have saved a lot of teenaged angst.”
KRMA-Channel 6, local outlet for RMPBS, dropped “Mister Rogers” in favor of shows more popular with today’s kids.
Never mind
Peter “To the Barricades!” Boyles halted his call for a boycott of the city’s two dailies on Thursday.
The KHOW 630-AM host thought better of it after intense discussion with publishers William Dean Singleton of The Post and John Temple at the Rocky Mountain News.
He came away convinced nothing was going to change the views of columnists who disagree with him about illegal immigration.
He concluded the boycott (really a one-day “call to action”) would hurt “the working guy who I’ve always supported.”
Around the dial
Actor Tom Hanks faces questions from host Peter Sagal for the “Not My Job” news quiz on “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” (1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, KCFR 1340-AM). … Nine finalists step to the mic for the Metropolitan Opera’s national finals auditions from New York City (11 a.m. Saturday, KVOD 90.1-FM). … It’s old radios, old radios and more old radios at the Colorado Radio Collectors Club’s Antique Radio Show and Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Adams County Fairgrounds in Brighton. … Quotable: “You have to gain their trust.” Asha Blake
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-820-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
