Miller's time over

Gary Miller’s run as an L.A. sports-talk show on KSPN-AM (710) has come to a screeching halt, a station source said Thursday. Effective Friday, D’Marco Farr flies solo (gulp) until a new permanent co-host is found for the 1-to-3 p.m. show. Suzy Shuster will sit in with Farr for the time being.
Making an abrupt switch like this in the sports-talk radio world usually comes with a plan to replace the departed talent. In this case, however, station program director Larry Gifford doesn’t seem to have anyone (such as Petros Papadakis) waiting in the wings.
There was no specific reasons given for Miller’s removal, except that sources say his TV personality (the former ESPN "SportsCenter" anchor now does sports news at KCAL Channel 9) never really came though on the radio, and it wasn’t in his personality to be opinionated.
You can't help but think that the show-long rant Miller went on Monday protesting a column written Friday by Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Bob Keisser had something to do with his departure.
Keisser ranked the best and worst sports-talk shows in L.A., and slotted Miller-Farr at the bottom of the list. Miller, whom Keisser called “bland,� spent most of Monday’s show making sarcastic references to how bad the show sounded and thanked guests for contributing to the poor quality.