Though WBAI has been taking hits lately incl funding drying up, broadcasting issues after Super Storm Sandy, etc.
>>Last November, progressive stations in Portland, Ore., and Seattle switched to all-sports formats.
(Because sports, and conserv talk MAKE MONEY)
>>Angry progressives claim such moves could also have a political motivation: Clear Channel is owned in part by Bain Capital, the private equity firm once run by Mitt Romney
(Thanks Mitt! Actually he ran Bain many years ago...)
(...he used Maddow, Schultz, and "popular" in same sentence?)
>>listeners who want a liberal take on the news can find it on hundreds of National Public Radio stations.
(THAT I agree with!)
There has never been one.
Nothing to talk about.
That article is a string of Liberal nutball conspiracy theories worthy of the darkest corners of the DUmmysphere.
Liberal Talk died because they weren’t selling ads. Because you can’t sell ad time to pitch to people who basically hate Capitalism.
You’ll just continue to take money out of my wallet to subsidize Liberal PUBLIC radio anyhow.
Let me guess; "noncommercial" is Libspeak for "public broadcasting".
Which is itself Libspeak for "taxpayer funded".
ooh, ooh, I know this one! Video.
Yep. Classic case of a product that sucks and nobody wants it, but **SOMEONE** thinks it is viable and being crushed by evil conservatives...:)
Incorrect. I work at a small town radio station on weekends. Our ad time is always completely sold out.
What's hard is persuading businesses to advertise on radio stations that spew hatred of free enterprise.
Librals hate, and that is not appealing. All they talk about is pitting people against each other, this person has too much, that person is greedy, another person is holding someone down. I don’t even think liberals want to tune in to listen to that every day.
Bwaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha haaaaaa!!!
Spewed coffee on laptop alert!
MUCH LARGER audiences????
Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha haaaaaa!!!
“Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered” and “Marketplace,” three public radio staples with a total audience that exceeds Limbaugh and Hannity combined.
Hahahaha, one can only laugh at their delusions.
A liberal radio star???
I didn’t know there was such a thing.
They began to speak?
They already have the other media, why do they need radio?
Conservative talk radio succeed, and still succeeds because it is an outlet for voices that are not heard in the lame stream media. Why do you need a “liberal talk radio”, when you have ABCNBCCBSCNNMSNBCPBSNPR?
Esecially NPR, it is the liberals main radio station, pretty much the same all over the country, so they can get their talking points straight while they are on the way to work if the missed the alphabet network TV shows in the morning.....
If it wasn’t for tax funded stations like NPR subsidizing left wing talk station failure, there probably wouldn’t be many libs on the radio.
NPR
Despite it slapping him in the face, this clown doesn’t notice that publicly funded NPR has driven the commercial market for liberal talkers off a cliff.
Yeah for us! Press three for English...
I was in Argosy Books last week (looking at prints) and NPR was droning on in the background providing the reassurances their progressive staff needs to feel their feelings are the correct ones.
“the steady elimination of progressive radio from the airwaves is part of a nationwide crisis “
Crisis?!?!?!
It is a nationwide BLESSING.
....,,,Liberals can find their bile on hundreds of Public Radio stations but conservatives are all dying off and conservative talk radio is an aging and dying media......
Mr. Error (I meant Errol), come on,!................these hundreds of Public Radio Stations you so merrily alude to are just a handful of votes in the senate away from summary execution!
If 2014 goes the way it very well could, Senate and house super majorities will cancel Obama’s veto and your darling NPR’s execution date will be guaranteed as this government is BROKE!
Your point on advertisers being a “hard sell” on buying time on a station that a is only listened to by perpetually unemployed people is a good one!