"It's tragic to see what was once a great radio group, ABC, destroyed by a corporate pillager...I was offered an insultingly low salary to extend my contract, which I rejected...I harbor no hostility toward the local management of KSFO/KGO; they were simply doing as ordered," Rodgers said. "They built the stations up; Citadel is tearing them down."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=57679
They knew they couldn't re-institute the Fairness Doctrine. Their only hope was to infiltrate right-wing media and break it up from within, at any cost.
Sure, Rush and Hannity, and maybe Levin, are "safe" for now, but all (and I mean ALL) local talent who were the mortar that held the national bricks of conservative talk radio together have been eliminated.
I hope others are waking up to it today.
-PJ