[GulliverSwift]

The left has been trying to target talk radio at the political level but also at the business level. Add that to the radio industry itself collapsing and it's not good for conservative talk.

[a fool in paradise]

There are 4 local stations in Houston all on AM radio each with so-called conservative (not really) hosts.

If one or two were to drop out of such programming, the overall audience shares would rise.

[A CA Guy]

People are more on the computer, but cars still listen to radio more than anything else IMO.

[oh8eleven]

But Hannity and Limbaugh really have little to do with this disturbing trend. Talk would be much worse off without them.
Can't agree - neither has said anything new or provocative since January 2009. It's been all (anti) Øbama, all the time.
No, IIRC, Rush did have a "slut" comment that the Left used to great advantage.
Time for both of them to get out from behind the mikes and run for office.

[Bullish]

I’m about 40 miles from LA. Rush used to come in crystal clear on KFI640. This year he has moved to KEIB-1150 and none of my AM radios can get decent reception from that weak little station. So after listening to Rush for 22 years or so it’s over for me. And no more Hannity either since he follows Rush on that same dumb little station. I guess Rush didn’t care about losing thousands and thousands of listeners.

[GeronL]

Citadel-Cumulus doing what they can to consolidate and kill conservative talk radio

[Flintlock]

Weekends were a great ‘farm team’ for talk show wannabes. No more. It’s ALL infomercials now.
Shortsighted stupidity I call it.

[SoFloFreeper]

...politics has played a big role, as well: rather than incorporate an overt Fairness Doctrine, the Obama Administration has relied on behind-the-scenes pressure to undermine the format.

Big time.

[fishtank]

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[Biggirl]

Everything is going to computer/satilite format.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Interesting that WPGB was mentioned. That station was near the top of the ratings in Steel Town, but the bottom fell out in the last ratings book, months after they dumped Quinn & Rose from their lineup.

FWIW, Quinn & Rose kept that station at the top of the ratings heap in Pittsburgh and were a perfect lead in to Rush Limbaugh.

I don’t think Clear Channel or even Cumulus for that matter, are trying to kill talk radio, I think station program directors are.

[chris37]

Truth of the matter is that, outside of Mark Levin, none of it matters at all.

It’s a complete waste of time.

There are not two parties, voting does not matter, thus talk radio does not matter, and neither does Fox News.

It’s all just a bunch of blah, blah, blah.

The reason Mark Levin matters is that he educates those who are still capable of being educated.

[exit82]

Personally, I got tired of listening to Rush, Hannty, et al., after doing so for close to 25 years.

why?

Nothing changed.

For all the talk, there was no leadership and precious little action.

And commercials all the time. Even Fox News is alike one constant commercial. Even Rush’s show has a lot of time spent on commercials for his books and even tea, during the non broadcast commercial part of the show.

And not just one minute like the old days of TV. No, now it is four to five minutes straight.

Besides I get more news AND better analysis right here on FR.

And FR has done more political action than anybody since our first venture in October, 1998 at the March for Justice.

Our nation is at the point where talk is not going to be enough.

There has to be organization and actions to mobilize people to our point of view, or it will die out.

And all Rush or Hannity will do, is comment away on its demise.

They have made their millions. After the 2012 election, we have seen the steady march of the Communist Democrats since 1992, and in the most important election of our lifetimes, we blew it.

Now, the spectre of a regional MidEast war has passed from theory to reality, with a Muslim homosexual who hates America as our leader.

And no one, in either party is about to stop or thwart him.

The time for talk is about done.

[COBOL2Java]

Wish I could understand why posters don’t use the “snip” feature when cutting and pasting from an article. There’s a whole lot of the article before what appears here. Free Republic isn’t Readers Digest...

[reefdiver]

If it folded, I think Rush would move to Sirius.

[gop4lyf]

I listen to my local sports station because of the few commercial breaks. The breaks that they do have almost always coincide with non-commercial time on a local AM news station.

[Jay Redhawk]

The problem with talk radio is that it is just talk. People are tired of listening to other people talk, and are ready for some leadership that will actually do something that will lead them to some kind of positive action. Rush and others have done a great job of identifying the issues and the culprits, but now it is time act.

[ctdonath2]

Word is auto makers are planning to stop including AM/FM radios in cars altogether within a very few years, replacing them with internet/bluetooth content “browsers”.

I’ve given up on AM/FM altogether, using a streaming “radio” app thru my iPhone and Bluetooth-based car stereo. Only exception is the occasional audiobook on CD, because it’s less hassle to play that on disc than transfer it to the “cloud” (IF it’s not already on the library’s streaming content app).

[LonePalm]

If it weren't for Conservative Talk Radio I would have no reason to turn on the radio at all.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Fledermaus]

Our local afternoon host on WTN 99.7 our of Nashville is Phil Valentine. He’s pretty good. He’s syndicated some but has no podcast.

[Vermont Lt]

Left wing radio doesn’t work because people listen to radio when....wait for it...they are working or driving to or from work.

If I am not working, I can watch TV.