Watch out, Plotkin. Watch out, Kojo.

Your days of local-politics hegemony on the radio airwaves is over: Jonetta Rose Barras is returning next week with a new hourlong politics show. "D.C. Politics With Jonetta" will air Tuesdays at noon 11 a.m. on WPFW-FM, 89.3 on your radio dial.

The new show comes almost a year after WAMU-FM fired Barras from its popular "Politics Hour" program over a pay dispute. Since then, Barras says, her fans demanded her return. "It was just that I got so many people constantly asking me when I was going to get back on the air," she says.

The show, Barras says, will focus on "hot, spicy, and raw politics." And, unlike those other local politics radio shows, this one will be D.C. only. "The whole intent is to look at the news and also look behind the news," she says.

The format will include weekly guests from the government and community, as well as guest analysts. Barras says she's already set her first lineup: She'll have Attorney General Peter Nickles and community activist Phil Pannell in studio on Tuesday.

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No huge surprise here, but it's finally official: Tom Sherwood is now the resident analyst on the weekly Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi.

Since Jonetta Rose Barras left the Friday noon talk show on WAMU-FM last May over a pay dispute, the show has been rotating in guest analysts (including, now and again, yours truly). But in recent months, Sherwood, best known as a reporter for WRC-TV, has pretty much become a fixture. Nnamdi, indeed, has been referring to him as "permanent guest analyst" on recent shows.

Says Sherwood, "I've been a guest on Kojo's show occasionally over the years. I've got the highest respect for him." Late last year, he says, he was approached about doing something more permanent, and "my TV station decided to give me the time on Friday afternoons. I appreciate that they asked me."

When Barras was on the show, it was billed at the "Politics Hour With Kojo and Jonetta"; with Sherwood on board, however, the name will remain as plain-ol' "Politics Hour," says producer Diane Vogel.

Tune in to Sherwood's "resident" debut tomorrow noon at 88.5 FM---LL will be guest analysting!

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