Posted on 12/23/2009 9:59:17 AM PST by raccoonradio
A little more than a year ago, Dave Clifton, president and co-owner of Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial), told Sam that his left-leaning station would be a success, no doubt about it: "More than half of the people who vote are on my side of the political fence, and they have very little to support their views on the radio." But that was before what Clifton now calls "The Great Bank Heist" of 2008 and '09 -- before, as he puts it this morning, "radio stations lost a lot of their value because the advertisers quit advertising."
Clifton, who has been leasing the frequency from New York City-based Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc., says this morning he could no longer afford the lease, which the company has turned over to another broadcaster.
"I'm out of money, and I have other investors now," says the Austin-based Clifton. "They haven't invested yet, but are willing to fund it. They made a counteroffer on my behalf, and Multicultural got a better offer from I still don't know who. The bottom line is on January 1 we're losing the stick."
Cliifton says Rational Radio will, for now, continue to broadcast over the Internet with most of its current lineup, which includes Richard Hunter and Pugs & Kelly. Jack E. Jett said last night, via e-mail, that he will not be returning: "It was a labor of love to try and bring an alternative voice to Dallas. I am saddened and bummed yet ready move on." Clifton says he'll try to convince Jett to stay during a conference call scheduled for this morning.
Multicultural does have another frequency in Dallas: La Ponderosa (540 AM), which broadcasts Spanish-language religious programming. Clifton says he's fairly certain 1360 will follow suit: "I suspect we may be hearing Hindustani music in the near future."
While he considers other options, including the hopes of getting free studio space in a downtown Dallas high-rise, Clifton says he's looking forward to the move to the Web.
"Richard Hunter's quite excited about that," Clifton says. "He thinks it's the wave of the future. I do too. I just don't think it's here yet."
First comment: "Liberal radio even bores liberals" The station had started April 1--what a joke.
Good news, libs: those illegal aliens you love will have another station to tune to.
Key word in this sentence is.....FREE. In fact that may be the key word in the whole darn story.
From a web search:
>>Rational Radio Progress Forum
at Lakewood Theater, 1825 Abrams Parkway, Dallas,
12:30-1:30 p.m. Daybreak author and afterdowningstreet.org co-founder David Swanson debates the resolution: “George W. Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes” broadcast live on KMNY 1360 Rational Radio from the Lakewood Theater.
Another comment from the article:
>>Almost every person I know who is left leaning chooses to either listen to music stations, their mp3 player or NPR when they are in the car. Meanwhile, almost everyone who leans to the right listens to either conservative talk radio, sports talk, or music. This means that this station never stood a chance, IMO.
Whew, I bet Rush, Beck, and Hannity are breathing a sigh of relief now that this Liberal powerhouse threat to their ratings is going off the air.
>>”radio stations lost a lot of their value because the advertisers quit advertising.”
Then why is conservative talk still alive? Hmm.
the nature of the talk radio format forces one to engage in an intellectual process, which pretty much leaves most screaming libs out
Didn’t he realize his Democrapic is either too hip, too needy, or too insane to be worth an advertisers money?
I gotta say it again: in liberal Boston, it was off air for a couple years due to low ratings and then one guy bought time on a sports station to put it on. That’s right, he had to buy time because no station wanted to try the format. Now the station has the usual libtalk suspects and it still doesn’t show in the ratings...last night for the heck of it I tuned it to see what typical lib things they were saying:
“This country is being run by a corporate-ocracy... the media
is controlled by the Right. People like Fox News and
Limbaugh” (the guy kept pronouncing it “Lim-boww”)
Yeah all those TV networks, papers like the NY Times,
magazines, movies, definitely a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. The host was also a bit down on Obama and health care;
more of the “this wasn’t what we voted for” from the Left...
They were calling him a sellout to corporate interests.
“If any President were to NOT do that, I though it would be him...”
After a minute or so I switched off...
I remember some other curious sampling of this stuff,
like a couple days after the 2004 election when Franken
had people on talking about how it was stolen. They
sounded either bored or half-asleep (..past noon...)
Even the name “Rational Radio” is a lie. Rush is right: liberals lie all the time.
One of their now doomed programs:
http://rationalbroadcasting.com/index.php/Programming/Shows/Cindy-Sheehans-Soapbox.html
>>What happens when you give a well known Troublemaker for Peace her own radio show? A LOT!
>>Cindy Sheehan is best known as the ‘Peace Mom’ who protested against the Iraq War and gained media attention by camping outside President Bush’s Crawford Texas ranch at a site she designated ‘Camp Casey’ in memory of her son Casey who lost his life while serving in Iraq.
Since that time, Cindy has travelled the world and spread the same message that war - legal or illegal - is not the answer. Cindy’s books, talks, protests and even her run for Congress echo the same message now as they did then in 2005. Nothing has changed it seems as she still sees the same wars continuing and even escalating.
>>Join Cindy every Sunday from 3-4pm on Rational Radio 1360am as she interviews guests from the realms of activism, TV, film, music, journalism, academia, and international and national organizations who are dedicated to achieving peace through strategies of non-violence.
>>told Sam that his left-leaning station would be a success, no doubt about it:
Another failed prediction: Jon Sinton, then with Air America, told the Boston Globe in ‘04 or ‘05 that “in five years, we’ll be on 600 stations”. Last I checked it was maybe 60?
He has always been an arrogant, vile prick...even liberals couldn't stand him. The guy has failed and its everyone else’s fault....just like when he got his butt booted off sports radio. He is now simply a punchline from time to time. He is where all liberals should be...smoking a joint in his mom's basement playing video games.
Ah that explains the “BDH” abbreviation...
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