LOL
Posted on 02/02/2009 12:44:53 PM PST by lewisglad
Liberals may want to insist on the "Fairness Doctrine" as a business strategy, since liberal talk is barely moving the ratings needle. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reported Monday that "President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not. The area's only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week."
Technically, Kurtz is wrong, excluding NPR affiliate WAMU (which airs a number of liberal talk shows and zero conservative ones) and radical Pacifica station WPFW. It would have been more accurate to say the area’s only commercial "progressive" talk station, the only one that doesn’t take our tax dollars. Kurtz continued:
Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election. But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at...conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett. Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.
This is why a "Fairness Doctrine" sounds like the Radio Recession Act in the middle of a tough economy. If conservative shows are hot (in part because liberals control Washington), why would you impose liberal talk shows that can’t be meaured by ratings meters? How are station owners supposed to keep people in their jobs with an add-losing-shows formula?
The liberals think they can compete with loyalists, by talking down the nation 24/7/365. Who is going to listen to one person after another say that we were the cause of 09/11? Who is going to listen to someone trash the War on Terrorism and our troops? Who is going to listen as one person after another talks up more welfare, and illegal immigrants owning the nation?
What this does reveal though, is that the leftists can’t even stand to listen to what they support. And that leads you to realize that they are either told or led to support what they do, or they are simply voting for people based on their skin color.
The Democrats are so conflicted.
Yup I mentioned this a couple hours back (via a link on radio-info.com ). Libs will say the station’s signal stank...
So did this station fail because of it's formatting or because it is competing with two other stations that are commercial free?
“And that leads you to realize that they are either told or led to support what they do, or they are simply voting for people based on their skin color.
The Democrats are so conflicted.”
Obama has turned the entire democrat party into a cult now. They always had ridiculous leftist/marxist agendas..but now they are nothing more than zoombie marxists....lol
Obama wants them all to have these creepy block ‘parties’ around the country to ‘inform’ their neighbors of how important it is to pass Obama’s ‘stimulus’...LOL
I was thinking of signing up to ‘host’ one. (WINK WINK)
I will have a bunch of hand-outs ready from the Heritage Foundation to pass around....lol
Yes, he’s really into that Communist block captain concept isn’t he. It would be a great idea to sign up to hold those parties, then take a pass on indoctrinating everyone. That would short-circuit the process.
I’m sure ‘the party’ elites would be on hand to make sure that didn’t happen.
“I’m sure ‘the party’ elites would be on hand to make sure that didn’t happen”
They probably only allow the ‘elites’ to host these parties anyway. I don’t think any of us can stomach pretending to be a marxist long enough to get on the ‘elite list’..lol
We could go to the creepy parties and tell everyone how creepy we think the whole thing is and then hand out real information on the porkulus bill though...LOL.
Oh yes, blame the signal strength! lol
Bolsheviks were good organizers, too!
Whenever I hear talk about the save ‘middle class’ I hear “Workers of the World Unite!”
The dumb masses complain about 80% of the wealth is in the hands of 20% of the country.
I have to ask what’s wrong with the other 80%?
All it takes is hard work. Take the risk! You, too, can be wealthy! Don’t like being a worker? Be an owner!
They don’t care if you lsten. This is not a business decision/doctrine. This is about shuting down the opposition, PERIOD.
I hope you wear your Sunday asbestos best when you do.
I cringe every time I hear the left trash the wealthy. Doesn’t everyone aspire to be wealthy? I know I do. Why would I want their wealth to be taken away bit by bit year by year? I want to become wealthy. And it very hard to do that when the government takes more and more of your ability to invest.
LOL
(After 11 days) - not exactly. They’ve had this format for quite some time now, at least since Summer ‘08.
Now you be good! ;-)
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
*So did this station fail because of it’s formatting or because it is competing with two other stations that are commercial free? *
Since government radio is everywhere it is impossible to test the question in any market. It’s such an attractive irony that the liberal dogma of susbsidy is killing their own media.
And it seems obvious.
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