WCOA News Talk

Talk radio lives or dies on the host, and WCOA's lineup leans toward the conversational end of the dial rather than the shout-fest. You'll get the day's national stories, local phone-ins, weather that actually matters, and traffic updates timed for people already late for work. The politics is opinionated, closer in spirit to commercial talk than to NPR's Morning Edition, but the pacing is better than expected: fewer ads per hour than most commercial talkers in the United States, and segments that let a caller finish a sentence. Mornings run news-heavy and a little dry. No surprise there. Afte…