New sports radio station ( Air America San Diego AMF )

Another all-sports radio station will launch in San Diego on Oct. 28, according to an internal memo sent out last night by a Clear Channel San Diego vice president. The station currently operating as KLSD-AM 1360 will become XTRA Sports 1360 and feature live and local programming each weekday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Starting Monday, Oct. 29, Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth are expected to fill the 6-10 a.m. slot, with updates from Mike Costa. At 10 a.m., Josh Rosenberg will host a two-hour show called "The Sportspage.'' At noon, Chris Ello will begin a three-hour show, while Lee Hamilton will return to the afternoon drive-time slot with a 3-7 p.m. show. Unspecified syndicated programming will fill the remainder of the time. The memo also mentions "strategic partnerships with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Shawne Merriman, Norv Turner, and (a) number of other prominent San Diego Sports figures.''

I always like to post the following boilerplate for use explaining the free market to Democrats...

I make a product: It’s “50’sDad Brand Conservative Pork and Beans.” I use a family recipe that is a hundred years old, home grown beas, only 100% American-farmed USDA pork, the leanest cuts, and smoky flavor from hours spent in a real hickory smoker. People LOVE my product. It is popular, good for you, tastes fabulous, and sells so well we can’t keep it on the shelves. It so matches what Americans know in their hearts is good, that they swear by it and are not very interested in anything else.
Another company makes a product. It’s “Liberal Brand Healthy Tofu and Bean Curd.” They use vat-gown tofu, because they know what is good for you, even if you don’t. They use bean curd that has lain in the summer sun for days, absorbing nature’s bounty and the rich, chewy bonus protein of fly larvae. It contains no meat products whatsoever, because raising meat destroys the environment; Al Gore says so. And none of that corrupt “smoky” flavor is included, because a cubic yard of wood is certainly more important than any kind of pleasure you simpletons out in the Midwest might think that you deserve when there are people starving in this world, thanks to George Bush! We mix in a variety of all the healthy vitamins that you should be getting if you actually were smart enough to feed yourself without government help. And we include just a spoonful of sharp iron filings in every can, because we read somewhere that humans need iron, and even if it hurts a little perforating your digestive track, we know better than you do, after all.
Now, the second product tastes, well, lousy. Nobody wants to buy more than the first can they try. But since the Liberal company includes a handy consumer evaluation phone number on the can, they do get plenty of marketing data to fine tune their product. “This tastes like a dead dog left by the side of the road for a week,” a mother in Nevada writes. “I was interested at first, but your product gave me painful bowel cramps,” says a student in Florida. “Who in the world would buy this?” demands a father of five in Chicago. The Liberal Company carefully examines the hours and hours of valuable customer input and makes a decision. The obvious problem with the product isn’t with the product at all…the problem is that their customers are idiots who don’t know what is really good for them. (They are probably all from Flyover states and they just don’t understand what “good” tastes like!) So, an important decision is made: They carefully soak all the old labels off the cans, and put shiny new ones on, only this time, they are labeled: “PROGRESSIVE Brand Yummy Tofu and New Improved Bean Frappee”. (It always helps to use French wording, they know. Those guys really are so much more advanced than we are.) They roll out the New Improved product.
Crash and burn time. Now, not only do people hate their beans, but they dislike the company that lied to them. The cans only move off the sales floor when they are being picked up and thrown through the windows of the few stores willing to try and unload them. For the good of the children, something has to be done!
That week, in a response to the plight of a “small business” in his home state, Senator Ted Kennedy pushes through the “Fairness in Marketing Act of 2007.” Under this legislation, for every can of Conservative beans you buy, you will be forced to purchase a can of Liberal (sorry, “Progressive”) beans as well. The less popular product will actually be welded to the side of the popular one, so you can’t get out of the store without taking it with you. Since no one in his right mind would PAY for iron filings and digestive trouble, the second can of beans is free…but of course we will need to charge three times what the good can costs and give the extra money to the Progressive Company because of the unjust nature of the marketplace. In this way, the horribly unfair tastes of you hicks in the sticks will be addressed, and you will hopefully gradually be re-educated enough to stop buying thing you want, and begin chewing and swallowing everything that the currently unpopular and persecuted Progressive Company knows is good for you.
The Libs simply do not get it. It has nothing to do with “fairness” and everything to do with what people want. Nobody wants to pay to hear whiners malign the country for three hours a day. If the only way you can get your product down the gullet of America is with legislation, the problem is not with the buying public. No amount of additional exposure will make Liberalism popular. They know this…the goal is to force the stations to cut back their Conservative talkers to the point they can still make money by allowing a handful of Liberal talking heads on as well, so that nobody can listen to them.
If the product was beans, and you tried to force people to buy something that they couldn’t stomach, we would laugh the problem out of the courts. You can’t make people actually buy and eat something they find unpleasant and repellant! But cloak it in the fabric of a 1st Amendment issue, and people’s thinking gets fuzzy.
So Libs, please, go right back to pushing your “Progressive” wares, when everybody but you knows it is secret code for “Liberal”. As long as you are so ashamed that you can’t call yourselves by your True Name, I have hope. And please remember, no matter what you put on your label, America knows that you are still selling the same old beans.

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