What do the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker have in common? Eventually, they’ll all be in the same satellite-radio boat.
Some voices who got famous elsewhere but now host their own radio shows: Deepak Chopra, Mark Cuban, Richard Simmons, Mojo Nixon and Martha Stewart, all on Sirius Satellite.
XM Satellite, with 170 channels, has programs hosted by Bob Dylan, Snoop Dogg, Cal Ripken Jr. and James Carville.
Oprah Winfrey has gone them one better with her own XM channel, “Oprah & Friends,” featuring Gayle King and Maya Angelou, among others.
And in mid-September, Whoopi Goldberg made her debut with a morning chat-and-music show on the rebuilt KMGG 95.7-FM.
We can get famous, too. Clear Channel, Jones Radio Networks and the Center for American Progress are seeking wannabes for a nationally syndicated weekend show. Audition tapes and CDs, no more than 10 minutes long, need to be in the hands of Jerry Bell at Clear Channel, 4695 S. Monaco St., by today.
Sirius is looking for hosts, “allowing them to say whatever they want, completely commercial-free and uncensored,” for its weekly “D.I.Y. Radio” that debuted Sept. 24. Sign up at
radiofaction.com.
Now, if only we had something worthwhile to say.
Weekend highlights
Today
“Battlestar Galactica” comes back with the further adventures of the evil Cylons, not quite vanquished (7 p.m., Sci Fi Channel).
Saturday
Kids play the darndest things on “The Music in Me,” when youngsters, including a jazz flutist, a trumpeter and a 7-year-old Zydeco accordionist, prove the future of music is in good hands (5 p.m., HBO).
Sunday
“Casanova,” that naughty boy, is played young (David Tennant) and old (Peter O’Toole) for adults only on “Masterpiece Theater” (9 p.m., KRMA-Channel 6). Second half airs next Sunday.
Around the dial
Hip-hip-hooray to Kelly, Jonathan and Mudflap of KYGO 98.5-FM, named the Major Market Broadcast Personality of the Year by the Country Music Association. They pick up their prize Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn. … “Radical Geometry” celebrates this weekend’s opening of the radical annex of the Denver Art Museum (9 p.m. Saturday, KBDI-Channel 12) … Four orchestras play for dancing at the “Battle of the Big Bands,” KEZW 1430-AM’s fund raiser 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Lakewood Elks Lodge 1777. It’s a benefit for the Colorado Freedom Memorial. Tickets, 303-238-1307 … School safety is among the topics under discussion on “Colorado State of Mind,” hosted by Greg Dobbs (7:30 tonight, Channel 6). Among the panelists is Dan Haley, Post editorial writer … Quotable: “Talk radio is not democracy in action, but democracy run amok.” – NBC reporter Bob Faw
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
