Castner, Out!

[Radio] This just in: Michael Castner, host of KSL Newsradio's Nightside Project since its inception over a year ago, is no longer with the evening team--which now boasts about as many original members as Night Ranger at the Peppermill in Wendover. From MichaelCastner.com:

"I will no longer be hosting the Nightside Project as of today. More news coming. Thanks for your support. Feel free to drop me an e-mail! I could not be prouder of the team I worked with and the show that I helped create. We had a great time and these guys--Paul, Ethan, Paul, Chase and Alex (not ever in the same order! lol)--have become like brothers. And of course Matt and Chelsea were part of our family. Nothing will ever change that."

Conspicuously absent from the note is is his original Nightside wingman Jon Dunn, who left KSL earlier this year--where's the love? (Bill Frost)

Where are the "Nightside" Chicas?

[Media] Any of you follow KSL Radio's Nightside Project? Even a little?

I listen pretty often. Even wrote a cover feature for City Weekly last summer about the show. Lately though, Nightside has lacked a certain something: Estrogen.

Its only female staff members, reporters Chelsea Hedquist and Sarah Jane Burr, are no more. It seems like an eternity since I've heard a voice in the higher octave range. Hedquist did mostly bread and butter news stories; Burr, however, gave up some insightful social commentary, especially from the point of view of an "older" single woman in Zion (I mean, she's practically an old maid ... 28!).

The show's ombudsman, Paul McHardy, responded to my "where are the women?" e-mail with a personnel update. Hedquist, who was preggers when I interviewed her, has decided to stay home as a full-time mom. Burr has taken a public relations job.

"We're aware of our lack of estrogen," McHardy wrote. "Hope to balance things out in the future!"

I look forward to it. The show is starting to sound like an East High School locker room. What do the rest of you think? (Holly Mullen)