One morning, I turned on the radio to find out that a show that was going national was suddenly off the air. The replacement was some bush-league talent who calls himself "Bloom Daddy."
Yeah, just what we needed: yet another station bellyaching about how the Steelers won or blew their last game. The ratings are so poor, that I now hear advertising for how you can win a $50,000 grand prize just for listening. So, they now have to bribe people to listen to the damn replacement show in addition to having most of their audience leave?
This is NOT a business move, people. No way in hell.
Interesting. Thanks for posting. A friend of mine keeps talking about a similar incident about a station that he likes in Northern Michigan. I’ll pass this along to him at work tomorrow.
What you describe is what we will get if the FCC starts deciding what listeners are allowed to hear. Some talk shows are already getting pressure from the FCC but so far most have not backed down.
There are some national radio talk shows that are available on the Internet and more will be coming on line. I heard that you can also obtain them with an IPHONE and IPAD but haven’t checked that out as well using the computer and Internet.
You can hear some great Saturday talk shows with hosts Doc Thompson, Jay Severin, Chris Salcido, Buck Sexton and Joe Pags on Internet at
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/themes/TheBlaze/blaze_radio/player/