Posted on 08/16/2015 6:50:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
I will tell you that a very senior talk radio executive, somebody with responsibility for a large number of talk radio stations, expressed to me just this week his concern that talk radio as we know it could be largely gone in five years….”
So spoke Randall Bloomquist, “a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media ” as identified here in a Daily Beast article from back in 2011 - almost, yes, five years ago. (And Bloomquist wasn't alone in expressing the "talk radio is dying" sentiment, either.) As of this moment, with only another six months to run, talk radio is not only not “largely gone” - it is the subject of another story line altogether.
Over here at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes has written a considerable paper with this title:
“They Don’t Give a Damn About Governing”: Conservative Media’s Influence on the Republican Party.
The paper says, among other things, that talk radio is now so powerful it is setting a competing agenda to that of the Republican Establishment - a competing agenda that in fact keeps the GOP from that beloved Establishment goal - “governing.” Ohhhhhhhh nooooooooooooo!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Whats the saying?”If wishes were horses, beggars would ride”.
yeah, but the flip side is...it’s Jeffrey Lord again writing something for the express purpose of getting the big kahuna to read it on the air. Which he probably will.
Well, I would say that is true. As a Conservative, I have no interest in fedzilla governing every aspect of my fellow citizen's life. I am only interested in a uniform currency, weights and measures, a fair and impartial justice system, and the need to fight wars and defend the border. Otherwise I already have a State and Local government to address more granular concerns such as grating licenses to utilities, zoning, speed limits, etc.
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“yeah, but the flip side is...it’s Jeffrey Lord again writing something for the express purpose of getting the big kahuna to read it on the air. Which he probably will.”
Maybe so, but Rush and Mark should read it. Because as any conservative knows, it is Talk Radio that has been our ONLY, as Rush would say, “bulwark” against the Washington Cartel.
Thank God for conservative talk radio. Without it the American Republic would have been dead and buried long ago.
So, does conservative talk radio have a bigger audience today than it did 5 years ago or not? Whatever the case, these are people that will probably take the time to actually get out and vote.
Rush’s ratings have been severely dented, he is not as big as he was 10-20 years ago for sure.
Oh, I love conservative talk radio...heard Rush from day 2 or 3 of his first week nationally....literally.
“Talk Radio” as a format is under pressure for sure,
the physical infrastructure that is.
The Content Providers are reaching more and more people every day. I listen to Rush, on my schedule, through my 24/7 subscription.
There are also so many other voices/messages to learn about. Read a book years ago “Behind the Lines” about information in the old Soviet Union. One had to put together 10 story lines to get the real picture. A piece here, matches a piece there, matches a piece there and you eventually distill a picture of the truth.
Same thing today. The Internet makes EVERYONE a content provider. Piece together what you need to find the truth.
Marshall McCluhan, if he were still alive, might explain it this way:
Radio is a single-sense medium. When seeking information, conservatives like to be isolated within one, and only one mode of perception at a time. Conservatives are more apt to be readers for the same reason.
Liberals “feel”, thus they trust only a simulsensory inquiry. Radio is “incomplete” for them.
Though capable of a-priori reasoning, liberals always allow their feelings to overrule. The marketplace tells us that, for liberals, the experience of sitting and listening to someone on the radio, even someone espousing and reinforcing their own beliefs, is a very tedious experience. We see just the opposite for those whose preferred mode of interacting is one sense at a time.
This is why liberal content cannot possibly thrive in radio.
In print, liberals can wallow within the sensory mosaic of newsprint, but not the non-fiction book, for the same reasons.
Haven’t quite figured out yet why liberals seem to like reading comic books more than conservatives, and conservatives have a higher propensity to want to collect them.
Sorry, Rush: STICK TO THE ISSUES!!!
Many make the same demand of Trump.
Rush’s ratings have been severely dented, he is not as big as he was 10-20 years ago for sure.
srbfl
He has a lot more competition than ever before as well.
I think he lost a lot of listeners since his rehab days & hearing loss.
FM now has to compete with Pandora, iHeart, Spotify, Apple Radio, SiriusXM, etc. etc.
Though capable of a-priori reasoning, liberals always allow their feelings to overrule. The marketplace tells us that, for liberals, the experience of sitting and listening to someone on the radio, even someone espousing and reinforcing their own beliefs, is a very tedious experience. We see just the opposite for those whose preferred mode of interacting is one sense at a time.
Libs not limbs. Damned spellcheck!
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