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As usual their few listeners are complaining about it on the facebook page (KTLK, to be KEIB) which may wind up being wiped clean to start again in two days.

>>I’m going to assume that the owners (probably new owners) figure they can make more $ putting on overweight, misogynists and giving them access to even more public air. OK. But, I just blew you off my “Favorites,” moved on and found another progressive radio station.
(Not new owners. Clear Channel.)

>>The repugnant Republican’ts are gearing up for 2014 in L.A. We HAD only ONE progressive talk radio station, KTLK AM 1150, operated by Clear Channel which is owned by Mitt Romney.

(Wrong.)

>>I just listened to KTLK playing several “The Patriot” promos over a Bill Maher monologue. How useless. I’m guessing master control consists of one employee trying to run all of Clear Channel’s L.A. stations at once. Can’t wait to delete 1150 from every one of my radios on New Year’s Day!

>>I will not listen after the second of January

BUT:
>>I’m really excited for the new lineup next year.

>>OUTSTANDING!! I’m looking forward to the new lineup.

And going back to the lefties, Kimberley Edwards says:

>>KTLK will now become yet another one of the thousands of right wing propaganda outlets in this country. You can hear Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ed Schultz and others you haven’t even heard yet by downloading a free I Heart Radio app on both computers and smartphones. Randi is on I Heart Radio, Stephanie and others can be heard on “The Revolution” (great progressive station) out of Asheville via I heart Radio. We have to make this leap and abandon AM entirely. They’re insisting on forcing Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity on the audiences of both liberal LA and SF, so let the fossils choke on it - time to shift to internet radio now. And don’t forget to “unlike” KTLK. May “The Hateriot - Diseased American Values” go down with a wimper as soon as it starts.

It was really funny reading the DU thread on this topic yesterday. They have only the dimmest understanding of basic economics, so they were trying to sort out how and why this happened. The theories mostly consisted of the Koch Brothers, Mitt Romney, corporatists, and I forget now who else deciding that "progressive" talk radio was going to be eliminated.

One of the funnier parts was them telling each other various websites and podcasts where they could catch these broadcasts, and then whistling past the graveyard by saying that broadcast radio is a dying medium, and that everyone will be going to Sirius or the web for their media soon. Uh huh.

It’s funny how the liberals say that they are forcing Rush, Hannity,etc. on everyone.

But if they get good ratings, and it’s profitable to carry these programs, then the stations will do well with talkers such as Rush.

Air America went out of business. Air America had just a small fraction of the audience gained by Rush, Hannity, et.al.

Could it be that middle America just doesn’t want to listen to ranting of Randi Rhodes and Ed Schulz types??? Could it be that middle America wants to hear reasoned honest discussions of the issues of the day?

I heard Randi Rhodes once, continually saying Bush was the “worst......president......ever”, without any reasoning behind her opinion. If liberal talk is just mindless bumper sticker statements, without any discussion of why people have these opinions, then I can see why liberal talk has failed.