So, the powers that be came up with the idea of "Felon Radio". A couple of stations have hired former politicians, liberals of course, that have been convicted of felonies, to host their own programs.
I understand that the numbers aren't good, but they have connections....
Clear Channel here did a number of things over the years. They fired all of the local hosts and brought in out of towners to cover local politics in a fresh mayoral race. Hosts explicitly said they wanted no “God talk” and “no talk of bill numbers, it’s boring”.
Those hosts set up elsewhere on the dial while Clean Channel ran it into the ground (Hi, Ken Charles).
Later they took to running inhouse ads about the station trying to open a dialog “first the left... then the right”. The heavy hitter hosts (Rush/Hannity) got moved to the city’s only “news” station while the old station is populated with fake name/voice shows. And Jesse Jackson had an overnight slot in their rotation.