Posted on 12/01/2012 7:43:42 PM PST by raccoonradio
Conservative talk host Laura Ingraham expects to be back on the air “in the next several days.” When she does return, the program may be unfamiliar to some listeners. She’s not offering many specifics, but in an interview with a Houston station, Ingraham hints it will be more of an entertainment-based show than what’s she’s done for the past 11 years.
“It’s time for a new show and it’s time for a new focus that really embraces the culture and expands the conservative reach,” Ingraham told KSEV host Edd Hendee during an appearance yesterday on his morning show. Ingraham thinks conservatives have “left a vacuum” in popular culture that may be turning off some people to the traditional talk radio format. “Crusading on the radio is sometimes not entertaining,” she conceded. That’s a sentiment quietly echoed by some talk radio programmers who worry that while the genre remains stable, the move to FM by many stations hasn’t always been accompanied by changes needed to freshen the format. Arbitron says a majority of news-talk radio’s audience is at least 55 years old, and the format has aged with Baby Boomers. “Everyone wants to be entertained and they want to learn something at the same time,” Ingraham said. “But we all need laughter too and that’s what I will bring to the radio — we’ll have a slightly different focus and I think people are going to like it.”
Ingraham told Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly last night that she informed TRN “a couple of months ago” that she was leaving the network. “I’m close to signing a new deal,” she said. “I’ll be back on the air probably in the next several days.”
I think I’ll stay with the Mother Ship and listen to Herman Cain when the Talkmaster retires.
I hope she’s not gonna sing.
I never thought of her as helping RINOS...but, if you are a Mitt hater, you might....
She did EVERYTHING in her show to ridicule, downplay and derail every conservative candidate, try to knock them out one by one, all the while fawning support for her favorite from the beginning, MITT ROMNEY as the most electable.
When she did that I never listened to her again. And never will.
RINO File.
No kidding.
Did you see her snicker and sneer at Sarah Palin with Ann Coulter last year?
They’re both East Coast RINO types after acceptance with the cool kids while running with their conservatism schtick as far as they can fake it.
No....I did not see that.
The female Bill O’Reilly returns to radio. I find her unbearable, unlistenable, and undeserving of a minute of my time in any medium.
I like listening to Laura because she is conservative, especially on the social issues. She is entertaining, as well as informative. Let’s hope she doesn’t become too silly, as most people like to listen to talk radio to get information.
“December 3, 2012
GOP should call Obama’s bluff
Posted by Laura”
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