This doesn’t smell quite right - Beck isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I don’t see that many folks who won’t listen to Beck that will listen to Gallagher.
You're right. I suspect that there is a bit of "information engineering" going on here. "You'll only listen to that which we feel is good for you" type thinking.
The first time I had ever heard Gallager was when I was visiting my folks during Thanksgiving several years ago. The local station was airing his show and he was SUPPORTING Janet Reno in removal of Elien Gonzalez from his American relatives. I refuse to ever listen to or support this Marxist tool.
It isn’t a conspiracy. It’s the fact that radio programming is not an exact science. It’s as much by guess and by golly as it is numbers. The other problem is that sometimes the programmer for the station, whether or not it is ACTUALLY the program director, are often young or early middle-age types who do not understand the entire audience. They may discover that Gallagher’s numbers are far worse than Beck’s. The question at that point is whether or not they’re willing to put Beck on the air or take a chance on another program. To paraphrase Bugs Bunny, “Wadio Programmers is the cwaaaaziest people.”
I haven't heard Gallagher on the radio in my area for years, but for as funny as Beck can be, he can be awfully preachy.
Gallagher tended towards more current subjects, however frivolous.
IIRC, the first time I heard of that Westboro "Baptist" church, it
was because Gallagher had the pastor on to "discuss" the "God
Hates..." website. That probably around the end of the
last Millennium.
His radio show really has gone to pot.
I live in NYC as used to enjoy his show - now its HORRIBLE.
I’m wondering if these moves aren’t part of a gradual shift in talk radio programming away from syndicated shows and back to local hosts. It’s got to be much cheaper to do it with local hosts than with some of these nationally syndicated hosts.
Of course it does not smell right. This is more about the Fairness Doctrine than anything else.