If there was a way to make a buck doing that, it would be on the air.
The market drives the radio business, not nostalgia or feelings or legislation.
That's as it should be.
If Franken could get ratings, WRKO in Boston would be running him instead of Rush. The quote I always use on radio messageboards--when a format gets changed, or people rant about liberal talk not getting ratings, is from the first episode of WKRP in Cincinnatti. Young Andy Travis has changed the format of the sleepy station to raucous rock, and the owner Mrs. Carlson, who has placed her son Arthur as the
general manager, comes down, demanding an explanation.
MRS. CARLSON: "Young man, this radio station is a business.
It is not here for your personal listening pleasure."
ANDY: "Ma'am, I know it's a business, and that's why I
had to change the format."
Yes, they're BOTH right. Radio IS a business, and those
who embrace the likes of Air America are heading straight
to bankruptcy! As the Kinks once put it, "Give the people...what they want!"