{"id":210,"date":"2010-06-12T22:43:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T05:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T05:43:23","slug":"dr-demento-off-the-airwaves-for-good-as-of-this-weekend-to-become-web-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/dr-demento-off-the-airwaves-for-good-as-of-this-weekend-to-become-web-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Demento Off the Airwaves for Good as of this Weekend, to Become Web-Only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thus passes geeky greatness. Friends and I in college were HUGE fans: a Sunday night ritual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/dr-demento-radio-show-over\/\">Dr. Demento Off the Airwaves for Good as of this Weekend, to Become Web-Only<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/dr-demento-radio-show-over\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"doctor-demento\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geekosystem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dr_demento_bath1976-220x222.jpg?resize=178%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Barrett Eugene Hansen, otherwise known as <strong>Dr. Demento<\/strong>, announced on Monday that he will be closing the doors of his near 40-year old radio show this weekend in favor of producing shows for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DrDemento.com\">DrDemento.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heartened to hear that he is not retiring from all media, his departure from radio is a shame, and has an ironic twist to it; He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame only this past November.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among other accomplishments, Dr. Demento\u00c2\u00a0is responsible for bringing <strong>Weird Al Yankovic<\/strong> to worldwide attention (who, incidentally, puts on a great live show.) Losing him on the airwaves is a big loss, but knowing that the Doctor will still be around online helps ease the pain of his fans. As he wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drdemento.com\/\">his site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>THE GOOD NEWS \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dr. Demento intends to continue producing new shows every week for www.drdemento.com for the foreseeable future. A new one will be available Saturday morning, June 12, and more new shows will be posted every Saturday thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Also\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6if you live in or around Amarillo, TX, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in luck\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6by special agreement and due to contractual considerations, a version of the internet show will be heard weekly on KACV-FM there, at least through the summer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime, check out this oldie from one of Weird Al\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tours. Best of luck, Doctor.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/06\/08\/0032233\/The-End-of-the-Dr-Demento-Show-On-Radio\">Slashdot<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\">Geekosystem<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus passes geeky greatness. Friends and I in college were HUGE fans: a Sunday night ritual. Dr. Demento Off the Airwaves for Good as of this Weekend, to Become Web-Only: &#8220; Barrett Eugene Hansen, otherwise known as Dr. Demento, announced on Monday that he will be closing the doors of his near 40-year old radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-whimsical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}