[SSAINT]

Ed just resigned from being the University's play by play announcer after several years.
Siting he needs to spend more time following his son who is in college in Texas and plays golf in the fall.
That is a big move for him and KFGO as they are tied in with a big contract with North Dakota U.
One would think that a good portion of his income with KFGO would be paid for his involvement in sports and football. Already he has begun his moves.
His new job is January 5. The studio's are being built in Fargo now and equipment to be installed this month.
As has been reported by others in here already Ed takes a ton of free time off. Hunting. Fishing.Trips all over.
Washington DC trips. He took a month off for private time in July.
And he is the operation manager at KFGO and does his news and views show.
He does this show alot from his pad
in Mott where he hunts. Calls it his western Studios. So the man came to KFGO and went on the talk show 6 years ago and he has had high ratings, alot, inherited from the station its self.
He took advantage of that and used those high ratings to do what he wants, when he wants and he answers to no one. This is what all other employees dont like about him. On his own little island.
But, now he has competition and his ratings are slipping. And no wonder, as he left his conservative position, as host of his news and views and now has become a liberal host. In the Fargo market that has bothered alot of his former listners. Most were conservative. Why would they listen to him now ,when he cuts down the President and the Governor and is a known now as a liberal wacko.
Surely the ratings will drop more and more.
With that in mind than, here he is
taking on a new full time project as a talk show host for this liberal small
network set up by Senator's Dorgan,
Conrad , Daschle and Stabenow of Michigan and her husband Tom Athens.
Tom and Ed met a year ago to start
this as Tom liked Ed and his track record and those fat ratings.
So they formed a 4 way partnership and Ed is one of the partners along with Tom who is President of newly formed Democracy Radio which wants Ed to be their entertaining liberal host for a network so far that has 11 small stations signed up. And they have raised 1.8 million. Its very tiny
compared to the big one, that the Drobnys startd and than sold. That one is called Progress Media and they are going to raise 200 million from wealthy democrats. They are building
a huge studio in the middle of Manhattan and hope to get started by Spring 2004. They ar very close to buying 5 major radio stations in the top 10 market to kick off their network. Boston, Chicago, New York, Philly, LA...all heavy liberal cities.
These stations will probaly cost them about $30 million each. Than they will sign up other stations and markets and will have Al Franken and Jane Garofale
as their two main talk show hosts.
Both are comedians and that is their
plan to have real entertainment, funny, wacky, off the wall stuff to gain listners Talk liberal but be funny. Like what we see on Sat Night Live, or Comedy Central.
They have a couple of sharp radio veterans in charge, Mark Walsh and Jon Sinton.
MEanwhile back to Ed's network, his employer Clear Channel has a division
called Premiere Radio out of California which handles all talk shows etc for their 1250 radio stations. These include Rush, M Reagan, Dr Laura etc. Its President
is K Kitchen and he turned down Ed and that network saying, it will fail and if he could see it make money ,he would jump on it right away. He said,
liberal views are way too complex to be entertaining.
So here sits Ed going for his 15 minutes with the new small network.
But he will try to keep his high paying job at KFGO and try to get by with just doing his 3 hour morning
liberal show. This now ,features more and more Democrats led by his pal Senator Dorgan. Will KFGO allow him to work two jobs and be on two payrolls?
Will they continue to pay him even though he does ess and less at the station? And is gone more and more?
He says he is going to take his network show places like in Iowa in Ja nuary...and what? be gone from his regular job and other employees filling in? How long will that last?
Or is the plan for him to announce,
he is resigning all together at end of year? THis will be interesting to watch, espicially because he has such a big ego and huge temper.
Meanwhile what strikes me as odd is just exactly who Ed Schultz is.
He really isnt that good on his show.
He thinks he is because of those ratings from the past. But, in reality
he is a former jock and TV sports anchor. He is far from being "funny"
or moreso "entertaining". He usually
is very loud ,even hollers when he talks to people. His show comes across as mean and as if he is defending himself. Rarely is there laugher or amusing humor. He simply doesnt have the make up for that. He likes to come across as the boss and watch out what you say or he will call you a dirty name and attack you and even embarass
you. He is always rude and rarely makes the person he is talking to feel comfortable.And, finally, he is not liked. 95% of the folks who live in Fargo Moorhead ,dont like him. Mainly because of that personality and that behavior. And he has stepped on a lot of peoples feet over the years and has called alot of good people names and has ruined relationships.

So with that in mind...he now tells us he is going on that network and is
going to "entertain" people from coast to coast? And be a iron man and do two talk shows a day, which all good talk show hosts will tell you is to much and it will cause burn out, frustration and mistakes will be made.
This will be interesting and fun to watch!

[Sev]

Mr Schultz lies alot, everyday, in fact. Now, that he is going national
we shall see and hear these lies alot
more. Before he was on his local show,
he lied and attacked and basically got away with stuff. No more.
Isn't interesting already, what people
that post on Free Republic, have found
about the guy ,just since he announced, he is going national?
Many lies. Weird true happenings. Name calling. Going from conservative to liberal because Dorgan and Daschle asked him to.A traitor to all of us who listen to him for several years.
Makes one sick.
He is not a very well liked man that is for sure.
Remember, when he announced he was going national he acted like he was
the Liberal Rush? He contacted MSNBC,
networks, magazines and newspapers
and said so. But, we the posters here
have found the truth about the man. And its disgusting.
Most now, don't want to talk with him or about him.
He is far far from any kind of a RUSH.
Rush is very smart and entertaining and clever. Rush started his network,
day one with 64 station's(most large markets) signed up.
Ed has 11 tiny one's. Ed said yesterday, Rush started with 2. Lie, again. In fact, after three months, Rush had 153 stations signed up. He now has 605!
I called Premiere Company that handles Laura, Reagan, and Rush and other national talk show hosts. They said, they were not interested in Mr Schulktz.They feel, he will fail and no one, will make any money off his show. He is not national. He is not entertaining. He is not connected.
But, the plan that the BIG liberal network has, Progress Media of New york City does. THey plan on buying major stations. Spending $250 million of Democratic wealthy investors money.
They have a plan and they will come on the air in the Spring, with entertaining hosts.
Mr Schultz has tried to grab a hold of their coattails in his launch. Most now have him figured out.
Honesty is very important in any business and espicially this business.