On a similar subject I’ve been trying to keep track of leftist radio but in the past few years there’s been very little mention of it anywhere. Even the sites that tracked it are either gone or went inactive.
Had to look up Randi Rhodes, the womyn who was supposed to unseat Rush. Since Clear Channel picked up her show for some unknown reason, she’s on in 19 states but only seven with more than one station, for a total of 32 affiliates.
There seem to be fewer and fewer of these “progressive talk” (commercial) stations. Even in liberal Boston—none (save for NPR, allegedly non-commercial):
—2004, Clear Channel puts prog talk on 1200/1430. Al Franken was in town on election night to host the party for “President Kerry”. Google “Kerry party turns to tears,
bitterness” report from CNS News Service.
—2006, CC takes it off due to poor ratings and earnings
—Later a man named Jeff Santos buys time on AM 1510, including local and national shows. It too flops and now he can boast of one hour on stations with microscopic signals.
To the best of my knowledge in all of New England the only all prog talk stations are one in Brattleboro VT, and one in Bangor ME (owned by Stephen King).
Cons talk has taken its lumps lately too, but even in liberal Boston _commercial_ lefty talk other than NPR
is just about non-existant, wonder why.