{"id":1814,"date":"2007-06-05T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/swickard-no-longer-part-of-the-morning-show\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:42:00","slug":"swickard-no-longer-part-of-the-morning-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/swickard-no-longer-part-of-the-morning-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Swickard no longer part of The Morning Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swickard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Swickard<\/a> and Radio Las Cruces have parted ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Effective immediately, The Morning Show on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksnm570.am\/\" target=\"_blank\">KSNM-AM 570<\/a> won\u2019t be hosted by Michael Swickard, both Swickard and the radio station\u2019s parent company confirmed today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard said the decision was mutual. Ernesto Garcia, operations manager for Radio Las Cruces, said Swickard \u201cdecided to end his participation with the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Morning Show will continue, Garcia said, adding that Radio Las Cruces \u201chopes to have a new host soon.\u201d The show focuses on the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> area and has regular interviews with guests on topics ranging from politics to sports to special events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard, who was named Division 2 talk show host of the year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmexicobroadcasters.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Broadcaster\u2019s Association<\/a> three times, is generally a conservative, but sometimes took a viewpoint on his show that shocked those on the right. When interviewing guests, he built a reputation for being fair and friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard\u2019s last show was this morning. Podcasts of some of his recent interviews with guests are <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.ksnm570.am\/\" target=\"_blank\">still online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard has been and will remain a regular columnist for Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics. And I\u2019ll remain a regular guest on The Morning Show. My next appearance will be at 8 a.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With Swickard as host, the show was on from 6-10 a.m. A change on the site as of today says it\u2019s from 6-9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that Swickard was twice named talk show host of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Swickard and Radio Las Cruces have parted ways. Effective immediately, The Morning Show on KSNM-AM 570 won\u2019t be hosted by Michael Swickard, both Swickard and the radio station\u2019s parent company confirmed today. Swickard said the decision was mutual. Ernesto Garcia, operations manager for Radio Las Cruces, said Swickard \u201cdecided to end his participation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swickard-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}