Every once in a while, wishes come true.
Here in East Tennessee, we don’t always get all the information that’s coming out of Nashville. And when I say Nashville, I mean the halls and committee rooms, the back rooms and the House floor. Most often in East Tennessee, or at least the Knoxville market, we get the scrubbed down, incumbent protection version of events.

No longer, my friends. We have a choice. We have competition. We have more information. We have Steve Gill hitting the airwaves with statewide coverage.
So often in our Knoxville market, political reality is a version of life in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village. We’re told what’s important. We’re not given information. We are denied stories that are run statewide.

With a statewide show coming to town, the chances of such architected filtration are greatly diminished.

With the arrival of Gill, I expect other media to step up to meet the challenge. But in the meantime, expect a lot of nervous Nellies to tune in with bitten fingernails wondering what information Mr. Gill will deliver to our market.
Congratulations Mr. Gill! I look forward to tuning in!

From Gill:

NewsRadio 1510 WLAC today announced the return of radio talk host and television political analyst Steve Gill. Gill served as morning co-host on WLAC from April 1998 to December 2000 and returns to launch “The Steve Gill Show” statewide on 15 stations across Tennessee on Saturday, August 12th at 8am Central Time. “The Steve Gill Show” will add weekdays beginning October 2, 2006 in the 8am to 11am Central Time timeslot. WLAC will serve as Gill’s statewide Flagship station” for his new program.