Posted on 11/26/2005 4:24:00 PM PST by chuckpez
In radio, there's perhaps no greater insult than to be told your program helps elderly listeners nod off at night. Talk shows are supposed to keep people awake, not serve as a sleep aid.
In addition, because advertisers demand audiences primarily between the ages of 25 and 54, stations usually try to aim in that direction, without completely chasing away listeners older than 55.
With that, I'm not sure if Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Gordy Holt meant to dig extremist KIRO/Seattle host Mike Webb, but the result was one of the most devastating verdicts ever levelled against a radio program:
(Excerpt) Read more at radioequalizer.blogspot.com ...
"Don't you think maybe now the Democrats will get off their hind ends and do something for the rest of us?"
A perfect synopis of the liberal mind.
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