So here’s some good news for conservatives…

Louisiana’s premiere statewide radio host will be heard on the air in New Orleans for the first time since his show launched three decades ago.

Currently, Moon Griffon can be heard across the state of Louisiana, and at the beginning of 2023, he returned to Baton Rouge when he was re-signed with Talk 107.3. But, as Griffon himself has repeatedly said, he’s been trying to get into New Orleans as long as he’s been doing statewide radio.

On Monday, the “Voice of Louisiana” announced he would be heard from 9 to 11 a.m. WGSO 990 AM starting Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The move puts Griffon in every major market in the state and completes his takeover of statewide political commentary on the radio.

“It will be a different kind of radio than New Orleans is used to,” Griffon said with a laugh. “It’s an awesome feeling to get there after 28 years. My knuckles are bleeding after knocking on the door for so long.”

Griffon has done more than just statewide talk, however. He’s interviewed national figures, including former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, former vice president Mike Pence, Congressmen and Senators from Washington D.C.

He has also done national radio, having filled in for the nationally syndicated Dan Bongino on more than one occasion.

WGSO is a radio station licensed to New Orleans, Louisiana. It is currently owned by Northshore Radio, LLC.

It is a news-talk format station featuring local programming, with shows like Ringside Politics and The Kristian Garic Show. It also runs syndicated content, including American Ground Radio and The Mark Levin Show.

Griffon’s show is based in Lafayette, Louisiana, with NewsTalk 96.5 KPEL serving as his flagship station.

WGSO is what you’d call the conservative talk station in New Orleans. WRNO is the iHeart station which carries a bunch of nationally syndicated shows, and…then there’s WWL, which is a very strange bird in that it’s a left-wing talk station. It’s so bad that Newell Normand is actually billed as a conservative talk host. All Normand does is bash Republicans and defend the old Huey Long status quo when he’s not griping about criminals. That’s supposed to pass for “conservative.”

Moon going into that market will make for a change, that’s for sure. It’s been a while since there was a major radio figure, outside of Jeff Crouere, that is, operating in New Orleans who was legitimately conservative and talked about state or local things.

And Moon’s characterization of a whole lot of the local pols in that city will ruffle some feathers – especially if he’s on the air in New Orleans.

For example, wait until people listening to the radio in New Orleans start hearing that Cameron Henry, the Senate president who represents Old Metairie, is “half-ass Henry” owing to his weak performance in shepherding conservative legislation through that body. Nobody has ever criticized Henry on the right in that city. Plenty have done it from the left, and it seems to have had an effect.

We’re interested to see how this plays in the Big Easy. There ought to be a sizable niche that Griffon fills with an enthusiastic audience. But you never know. New Orleans has always held a disdainful view of the rest of the state (and vice versa), and Moon’s perspective is absolutely that of the rest of the state. If he’s a hit in New Orleans it’ll be an indication that those old assumptions don’t hold much anymore.