We have learned friend-of-the-site Trish Gazall is leaving her post on 550AM as John Brown’s sidekick on the midday show The Mindset.

Efforts to get a comment from Trish have returned nothing so far, but we do know that she is leaving on her terms and it was believed she is leaving because she was looking for a job a bit more musically inclined rather than the talk-focused KTRS job.

Update! Here’s the audio from my visit to The Mindset:

Mike Visits “The Mindset” on KTRS 550AM

Original Post:

Our illustrious and crazy awesome editor, Mike Flynn, will be on KTRS 550 am’s The Mindset with John Brown and Trish Gazall today at 2:40pm talking about Facebook, Twitter and the new Google Buzz.

Take a listen and see how many times he can plug this website without Charles Jaco busting in from the lunch room and trying to choke him live on the air.

The bad acid-trip of a website you see below is that of former KTRS “shock jock” Kramer.

How can you not love a website that not only will make you go blind from looking directly at it’s 1990’s Geocities-hosted greatness, but also features just awesome stuff as “What is Kramer licking?”, “Kramer Kourt” or “The Lunatic Fringe Kramer Show”?

What the hell is it that this guy does these days exactly?  Anyone?  Holding “Kramer Kourt” can’t be paying the bills can it?

Honestly, we have never listened to a second of Kramer and still don’t know the guy, but good god this website is horrible.  All its missing is one of those email links where the “mail” orbits around the “e” that everyone had on their site in 1994.

You know what?  Here, take this one:

Update x3 below!

Breaking news reported first by PunchingKitty.com!

So much for the reunion of Vic and Trish on The Big 550 AM, as of today Vic has been let go as well as Frank  Brian Kelly in the news room. 

Although this seems sudden, there has been a steady dose of fear running through the 550 office all week, that finally culminated today.  There was no mention of a specific reason for the chopping other than “Radio doesn’t make any money these days.”  

Apparently the vibe the staff has been getting, even after the loss of Vic and Kelly, has been bad enough that the our sources say many employee feel that “its not if I’ll be let go, but when.”

Good luck to those that survived this cut at 550.

If we hear any more we will be sure to pass it along…and if you hear anything, be sure to let us know as well via our tip email (tips@punchingkitty.com) where all tips are posted anonymously.

Update #1:

The RFT did some digging and found out this:

The station is going to have to reshuffle its line-up, but general manager Tim Dorsey won’t give up the details just yet. Dorsey tells me Cindy Collins (who normally filled in when Porcelli was out) and Trish Gazall will do the early morning show next week; McGraw Milhaven will do his regular 9 – 11:45 a.m. show.

They are also reporting Brian Kelly was fired, not Frank as we originally reported from our source.  Since they have the 550 GM on the record, we are going to go with them.

Thanks guys!

Update #2:

STLog now has heard from a source that Milhaven could move to the mornings followed by John Brown and then Frank O. Pinion in his current slot.  Though, they are still trying to figure out what to do with the 10a-11a slot.

Update #3:

For those that have asked, we have heard word that Trish (of Vic and Trish) is staying on and will be now paired with John Brown in mid-days.