[Halfmanhalfamazing]

LOL Once I read that very first line I knew it was a drive by hit piece. These people are so scared of the competition they are getting from talk radio.

Let us not forget that it was the NY Times which was downgraded to junk by S&P.

When will we see the liberal media ask if newspapers can save themselves? We won't. How about asking if broadcast news can save itself? We won't.

[Coldwater Creek]

Rush just said that the IEB company is stronger than ever.

More lefty propaganda!

[trumandogz]

Radio advertising was down 10 percent last month from October 2007, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau, the 18th consecutive month of declines.

Radio is simply another Dinosaur Media that is circling the drain along with network TV and newspapers.

[SolidWood]

From the dying NYT no less!

[DaveyB]

Not all radio stations can be subsidized like NPR - some actually need good programming to survive!

[pabianice]

[FrankR]

"CAN radio save itself?"

Radio will be around long after the NYT (already in junk bond status)is gone.

[reefdiver]

Air America, No Content, Bad Angry Jock = No Listeners = No Revenue.

Same Business plan of newspapers across the country

[B-Chan]

AM talk stations in the DFW market are almost unlistenable. The programming consists of endless political call-in shows — but don’t expect to hear weighty affairs of state discussed by witty, erudite savants. Instead, it’s hour after hour of semi-literate drywall contractors from East Jesus, Alabama, calling in and spouting the same old regurgitated 1988-era crap, call after call.

The braying of these yokels is interrupted every five minutes with a break for traffic, weather, and sports, followed by ten minutes of ads for stay-hard creams, used car lots, and cheap auto insurance.

And FM is even worse. The only station around here I can listen to without screaming is WRR-FM, 101.1 mHz — a station owned and operated by the City of Dallas, if you can believe that.

We got rid of our TV some time ago, and I haven’t missed having it since. “Mega-dittos” for broadcast radio as it exists today as well — if every station on the air here in North Texas vanished tomorrow, I wouldn’t shed a tear. I mostly listen to our local EWTN affiliate (KATH-AM, 910kHz) or Internet radio now, anyway.

Corporate radio deserves to die. Bring back locally-focused radio, and the expert broadcasters who produced it.

[freekitty]

Rush talked about this today and his revenues are just fine and no radio is not dead.

[MayflowerMadam]

Lies and wishful thinking. (Nice try, though!)

[Wingy]

Something to consider...During October our 50,000 watt blowtorch WRVA was consumed by political ads. Our morning host, Jimmy Barrett complained that not only was he forced, by law, to run the ads, but that the politico's got the cheapest rate offered by the station, also by law. This is the highest rated morning show in the area, but he had to charge a rate as if it were a Sunday morning infomercial. Do you think this might have something to do with radio's October to October drop in revenues?

Just a thought...

[CharacterCounts]

Radio’s Revenue Falls Even as Audience Grows

Revenue always drops in a recession. The key here is, unlike news papers and television news, the audience is growing.