Ainge is hands down the best radio guy in Knoxville. I like Basillio, but he gets a little too goofy with impersonations and the dead air pause.
There's been many a time during a Basilio dead air pause that I wondered if his notoriously bad remote equipment had screwed up again.
I still prefer Basilio to Ainge but I like them both. I like Terry Fair and Russell W. Smith also on WNOX's "The Drive"
I cannot listen to Tony Basilio. I love Ainge and I like Chris Treece. I stomach Swain and Rucker, more for Swain than Rucker but TSR is better than that other garbage station and if you disagree YOU NEED TO BACK UP!
Basilio is annoying to listen to. He is quirky as all get out, but I still listen. Ainge is good. He's really good.
Its been at least 10 years since I listened to Basilio; one would think that at some point he would, like, get better at radio. But apparently not.
Basilio has been winning me over. Starting to understand how he operates, and not take him too literally. Sometimes he is just passing along rumors.