Metro President David Bragdon is picking up where Nick Fish left off: He’ll be hosting the Outlook Portland public affairs show on KRCW while Fish is busy running for city council. It’s “the biggest news in television since settlement of the writers’ strike,” Bragdon says, and he starts this Sunday morning. (6:30 am! Set that TiVo.)

He already has guests lined up for the next few shows, including singer-songwriter Stephanie Schneiderman, a Mercy Corps relief worker just back from Uganda, Brook Muller from the U of O architecture school on the university’s new Old Town building, and developer Jim Winkler on “the restoration of the old Daisy Kingdom” into the Museum of Contemporary Craft and other art galleries on the North Park Blocks.

One last note from Bragdon. He asks: “Do you think I could look just a wee bit like Conan O’Brien? Especially if viewers are still half-asleep?”

Well, can you tell who’s who?

(P.S.—Conan O’Brien once interned for U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, says Wikipedia. Fish’s first foray into politics was working for Frank. I think that makes three degrees of separation between Bragdon and O’Brien.)