[jwalburg]

Sounds worrisome for talk radio.

[mamelukesabre]

Our economy is a mess. THis is a symptom.

[JoJo Gunn]

For years, broadcasters have been held hostage by incompetent executive management....

No, the listeners are the ones ultimately held hostage. Then again, it's amazing how so many people willingly suffer through the decades old cookie-cutter crap that's on the dial. I've said it a zillion times before, and will say it again - if everyone would get together and turn off their sets in protest for just one day, the useless suits would panic and fling themselves out of the towers. Maybe then we'd get something worthwhile.  

[Cold Heat]

Talk radio has been hurt by the Internet, and primarily pod casting. They fought on the music side, denying Internet radio, even as they were starting to monetize it, and now most of them have nothing...

They suffer from that same over sized ego's that print newspapers have, and they are all going to go down the tubes to the toilet.

Satellite radio is suffering from the same ego and they are not going to survive either.

They need to realize that things have changed and change with them, but it seems that they cannot.

I pay a decent a amount for commercial free programs that I like and I'm willing to do that because I can listen to them when and where I wish, and also how as well. You can't beat that with a stick.

Now we just need to get rid of TV.

[ReignOfError]

Rush probably has enough money to buy every station in the Citadel portfolio — and if he doesn’t have enough in his own pocket, or doesn’t want to risk that much, he could certainly attract enough investors.

Citadel’s current market cap is about $290 million. Carve it up and split the stations between Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and George Soros, and then you’ve got a freakin’ circus on the AM dial. I don’t know how much it would illuminate the national discourse, but wouldn’t it be fun?

Of course, with dirt-cheap radio stations available, some of them would probably go Spanish or Hindi or Mandarin.

[Inyo-Mono]

Over the past year, we've seen large numbers of displaced broadcasters wonder what to do with their lives. Now, the situation has deteriorated to the point where even the most successful hosts are threatened by managerial stupidity.

I saw this coming ten years ago, which is why I got out of broadcasting. Non-talented, ignorant, management suits and "consultants" have ruined radio.

[gridlock]

Imus was a really bad, bad move. He is driving away listeners in droves. Once that dial is moved, you have a tough time moving it back.

I set my radio to 660 Sports Radio during the morning commute (Imus’ old station), because I just can’t listen to that program. At lunch time or evening drive, I hop in the car, and something other than WABC is on the radio. Usually I will flip over to Rush at noontime, but not listening to Hannity has been a real pleasure.

[Thrownatbirth]

WMAL (Wash DC Rush station) finally dropped that waffling moderate Chris Core on Friday. It’s probably not a bad thing if the RINOs get the axe.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Impeach, FYI.

Prayers up for Melanie.

[dfwgator]

Radio is all about drive time, the other 20 something hours of the day are irrelevant.