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Posted on 12/01/2012 11:10:11 AM PST by MovementConservative
Many see a right-wing conspiracy in the death of Portland’s commercial progressive talk-radio station. But Bain didn’t act alone.
Carl Wolfson’s last show on KPOJ-AM 620 sounded like victory. For the past six years, Wolfson, a former standup comedian, hosted a three-hour morning drive-time show that had turned into a radio clubhouse for Portland liberals.
Wolfson—laser-fast with a quip and constantly in defense of Democrats—spent the weeks before the Nov. 6 election boosting liberal candidates and puncturing Mitt Romney.
“Romney has zero foreign-policy experience,” Wolfson liked to say during the campaign. “He was asked about the Middle East, and his only response was that Donald Trump’s hair should return to its pre-1967 borders.”
The days following the election were celebratory, with President Barack Obama’s re-election, and with Democrats triumphant in all Oregon statewide races and in control of the Oregon House.
When he signed off the air Nov. 9, Wolfson was giddy with momentum. Then his Clear Channel boss walked into the KPOJ studio.
“‘Man, what great shows this week,” Wolfson recalls telling Chris Sargent, operations manager for the station’s owner, Clear Channel.
But Sargent had an executioner’s grimace. “I looked at his face,” Wolfson says, “and I knew.”
Sargent then dropped the ax—not just on Wolfson, but on the only commercial left-wing political talk station in this overwhelmingly blue city. By 5:30 that evening, KPOJ—what many Portland liberals believed was their own megaphone—had become Fox Sports Radio 620, the city’s third all-sports radio station.
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$641,024 in fed taxes for KOPB ‘09.
KBOO doesn’t get direct tax funding. Indirect funding comes from the tax monies channeled into Democracy Now.
Because Barack Obama’s pro-Islamist, pro-Communist, anti-Allies foreign policy agenda has been SO successful... < /sarc >
Doesn’t Portland have soccer as well as basketball? I like to listen to actual games on the radio at least college football & basketball and pro baseball. But I can’t stand listening to blather on pre game or post game shows except in historic circumstances (no hitters, scoring records, etc.) And I never listen to sports talk radio. Rush & Mark Levin are the best. Lars is the best Oregon has. I would tune in to KPOJ for laughs once in a while. Hard to imagine these people are in the majority in Portland and Seattle. Hard to live with.
“I only wish this assclown was replaced with live Rush Limbaugh or even Mark Levin rebroadcasts.”
Sports is the only way they could go.
We, already, have live Rush, Hannity, Levin, Larsen, etc.
Rush is on AM and FM.
Basketball, soccer and ice hockey.
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