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By Jeremy | January 17, 2007
I'm a HUGE fan of WFAN, the nation's first all-sports talk radio station. I remember discovering it in junior high school, back in its inaugural year of 1987. Uncle Torlief had picked up my cousin Steven and me from basketball practice, the Mets were in the playoffs, and Ray Knight was being interviewed -- on the car radio! Even though I was a die-hard Yankee fan, I was hooked. When mom would send me to my room to do my homework, I'd listen to my new favorite, illicit (because I wasn't supposed to do homework with the radio or t.v.) radio station.
I still enjoy WFAN's background noise in the car or as I'm surfing the web or doing relatively mindless work around the house or on the computer. So last night I logged onto WFAN's newly redesigned website to stream the audio. That's when I saw this.
It probably should not have surprised me that out of 41 pictured radio personalities, only one is black and none is hispanic or asian. But naively or hopefully, I just assumed that the on-air hosts were more ethnically and racially diverse. If ever there was a color-blind medium, the radio should be it. If there's a talk-radio subject that transcends race and ethinicity, sports is certainly it. If there has ever been an opportunity to diversify a team of staff, the last few years for WFAN should have been it, as the local ESPN radio affiliate has raided WFAN's stable of talent.
I have no idea what to do with this. I'm still a fan. But I feel -- I'm not sure what exactly. Maybe it's a feeling of being cheated. The day after Martin Luther King Day, 2007, WFAN has a long way to go towards winning the race and achieving the dream.teen video/teen movies sex video/teenie amature sex sexanal home moviemovie monster analanime movie hentaimovie malle galleries annaasain porn moviesasain sex moviesmovies asian girl Map
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