Posted on 09/08/2014 2:28:45 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
Cumulus, which merged with Citadel Communications (which itself had absorbed ABC Radio) a few years back, has made peculiar choices searching for “the next Rush Limbaugh”, with an ill-fated push to syndicate moderate Mike Huckabee, which ended up a disaster. From the left, it tried to do the same with Geraldo Rivera, but that fared even worse.
That might not matter if not for the fact that it owns the nation’s biggest news/talkers (WABC, WLS, WBAP, KGO, KSFO, WJR, sad-sack KABC and more), legendary outlets it has seemingly worked tirelessly to run into the ground.
But Hannity and Limbaugh really have little to do with this disturbing trend. Talk would be much worse off without them. Instead, corporate befuddlement at how to program stations combined with a shortsighted refusal to develop promising new talent (they might leave for the competitor!) has led to its potential downfall.
And politics has played a big role, as well: rather than incorporate an overt Fairness Doctrine, the Obama Administration has relied on behind-the-scenes pressure to undermine the format.
It’s similar to what was predicted by longtime industry executive Brian Jennings in his 2009 book Censorship: The Threat To Silence Talk Radio. Jennings maintained that backdoor approaches would accomplish just as much destruction without generating a public backlash.
And that’s exactly what is occurring: undermine it, weaken it further, let it slowly fade. But conservatives have been unsurprisingly asleep at the wheel.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaequalizer.com ...
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This is about the numbers, genius, not what they say.
I’m in OC. I listen to him on a San Diego Station, 600 KOGO.
You can always go to “I Heart Radio” on the Net.
I live even further from major markets (75 to 125 miles) and AM reception was always good to fair at best from a number of different stations. I've owned several of the big, bulky GE Superradios.
But now all my listening is over the computer, or tablet or smart phone. I listen to mostly the same stations as in the past, just no longer their broadcast signal. A significant improvement for me since I now always have better sound than from broadcast signals.
And, I expect you know, you can listen to most any station of any size in the US over the internet.
I live in SF Bay Area
I can’t find Rush anymore
Thanks for reply....
I can’t use internet because I’m not by computer and my phone which is a nice 4gLTE w/ verizon only seems to receive sporadic reception when listening to internet radio like iheart and pandora. it makes listening impossible and frustrating.
I’ve been trying to beef up my reception through a select-a-tenna and doesn’t work good enough on any of my radios in the house. I do still get KIEB it in my car and truck though.
I’m not buying no $100 AM radio so I can keep listening to Rush..... He left me, I didn’t leave him. I wrote him an E-mail a while back telling him all about it and how disappointed I am in the new station, but of course, he didn’t respond at all.
Talk radio has lost its appeal to me as well.
They do get some info out there but when I want real news and information FR is my first choice.
With the News Breaks, Advertising and the “on air” Commercials that Rush does himself “Lifelock, The Tax Defender Guys and the Home Security Guys”, the Three Hours a Day is more like Two Hours a Day.
Doesn’t matter though, he is still the best in the business.
Rush use to be entertaining, not just politics. Did some funny stuff during the Clintons...Use to be a do not miss show, now its an if I am on the computer I’ll listen to it in the background..
The problem with talk radio is that it is just talk. People are tired of listening to other people talk, and are ready for some leadership that will actually do something that will lead them to some kind of positive action. Rush and others have done a great job of identifying the issues and the culprits, but now it is time act.
Can you get 790 AM out of Lubbock or 550 AM from Midland? Also 1070 AM or 107.1 FM from Midland?
I’m in Rapid City, near the Black Hills. We’re supposed to get some rain or snow on Thursday too. Have lived in SD since Nov. 2010.
Word is auto makers are planning to stop including AM/FM radios in cars altogether within a very few years, replacing them with internet/bluetooth content “browsers”.
I’ve given up on AM/FM altogether, using a streaming “radio” app thru my iPhone and Bluetooth-based car stereo. Only exception is the occasional audiobook on CD, because it’s less hassle to play that on disc than transfer it to the “cloud” (IF it’s not already on the library’s streaming content app).
910AM and 93.7 FM in Roswell and I think 990 AM in Artesia.
The AM radios in modern cars are definitely inferior to the old analog radios of decades past where you could tune with some finesse.
I should have looked at Limbaugh’s website first since he has a station locator.
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Ha ha...funny how they use the Bureau of Labor’s/Labor Depts (cooked) numbers, for this BS article.
Real unemployment numbers have yet to be used...by this admin, or by the MSM, since 0bola has taken office.
The only thing that’s saved 0’s overall economic numbers is all of the oil drilling (N Dakota) and the economies of red states, like Texas.
” The AM radios in modern cars are definitely inferior to the old analog radios of decades past where you could tune with some finesse”
YEP. Those eight tracks were also better than cd’s
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