Oh come on.
Nothing quite like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
As far as I can see, paid programming like XM/Sirius, is not going to be subject to the "fairness" doctrine if the RATs ever manage to resurrect that. And if Obama wins in November, look for it to be back less than 12 weeks after the coronation.
The article said they were going to set aside the channels. Big whoop. They will still be able to charge something for them. Or, even if bad comes to worse, and they have to give away the airtime for free, they don't have to subsidize the content.
No one listened when it was free, and no one is going to pay to listen to cr@p. Without a subsidy for content, liberals, community groups, and "underrepresented" groups are going to have a hard time competing.
Plus, one of the big reasons talk radio is so successful is that radio is the medium for people with jobs. The mindless unemployed watch TV, those with something worthwhile to do listen driving to work or sometimes at work. This is not a liberal audience.
If the price of having conservative pay radio is that they also carry liberal channels no one will listen to, that is the price and I am willing to pay it.
>>If the price of having conservative pay radio is that they also carry liberal channels no one will listen to, that is the price and I am willing to pay it.
But...if politicians were successful in shaping content in the past.....why not in the future?
If no one listens to the lib channel - they just close down the conservative channel.
It’s why the NRA goes after even the smallest attacks on the 2nd amendment.