Those of you who tune in regularly probably already know this, but WHTQ 96.5 FM recently dropped the long running syndicated morning show "The Big Show" to bring in some local DJing, namely the Birmingham, Alabama imports Richard Dixon and J. Willoughby. Dixon and Willoughby will be starting on January 2, bright and early. But for the time being, mornings on 96.5 have been just music.

Well, along with traffic reports -- so vital in Orlando and on I-4 in the a.m. -- and the obnoxious car dealer and appliance ads that make you want to renounce all electronic media forever and just hum to yourself, sure, but otherwise it's been nuthin' but tunes. No commentary. No call-ins. No cute skits or parody songs. No contests or trivia. No banter. No personalities. No one talking over the opening and closing of the songs they do manage to fit in.

I like it.

It wouldn't attract the listeners or the advertising dollars that a morning show does, and I'll admit that even though I tend to prefer Scott and Erica at MIX 105.1 part of me misses The Big Show already (ever have those days when you thought you were Billy and the rest of the world was John Boy?). But I've been arriving at work very relaxed these last few days, driving in circles around the parking lot to finish singing along with that last song before I have to bring my mobile concert to a close. Just music. Intact, not talked over, relatively uninterrupted music, one song after another.

Sigh. It'll never catch on.