Portland OR Radio: KNRK Reunites Daria and Gustav

Circa 2000

Daria and Gustav are back together where it all began, on Alternative KNRK 94.7 FM.

"Alternative Afternoons" will air weekdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. starting Monday.

Program Director Mark Hamilton told OregonLive he's happy to get Daria, who was one of his first hires, back on the alternative airwaves. "Daria and I have known each other for 20 years," he said.

"Daria has always been fondly regarded by the 94.7 listeners," he added. "We thought it would be a good idea to freshen things up and welcome her home."

Up until recently, Daria was on "Daria, Mitch and Ted," an afternoon show on Entercom's co-owned KRSK 105.1 FM The Buzz with Mitch Elliott and Ted Douglass. That show disbanded. Now, Ted is gone and Mitch has his own show in the same time slot.

Daria told us over the phone Thursday that the program change happened "quite last minute." We've reached out to The Buzz for more information on what happened with the original show.

When asked how this program will be different than their early 2000s collaboration, Daria said, "I have no idea but I'm excited to find out."

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For his part, Gustav said over that phone that he's "super excited."

"It's been just me in the afternoons since summer of 2005," he said. "To be honest sometimes it gets lonely. It will be nice to have someone to interact with and I think the listeners will be brought into that excitement as well."