August 25, 2008 11:19 AM

Oil & Water On Radio Row

The Pepsi Center's concourse level you'll find something called Radio Row. It's basically long card tables, folding chairs and local and national radio hosts from all over the country broadcasting live. This is where I've been hanging out with AM760's Jay Marvin and his producer John Turk, and when we go to commercial, we've been (like high school kids) cracking jokes about the jackasses right nearby.

For instance, while everyone else is sitting and broadcasting, check out the picture above. Jay is the guy sitting (like every other host), and right behind him is a right-wing radio host from WMAL named Chris Plante standing up and screaming his entire broadcast. - utterly unconcerned that he may be disturbing the scores of other hosts also broadcasting. Then there's Steve Roberts - one of the loudest, most offensive elitists the American media has to offer. At 4:30am this morning, I was in the security line with him, and he made a point of loudly telling everyone around that "I've got to be on air in 5 minutes." Now he's here running from radio station to radio station as a guest - most likely peddling his propaganda.

So while there may be a Big Sort in the public, at radio row, the progressive and conservative world is mixing all together. It seems funny now - but I wonder what the mood will be like after 4 days of all these people together. I'm guessing by that time, some nerves will be rubbed raw - especially at that Guy Smiley-looking WMAL guy continuing to scream in everyone's ear.