Broward may cancel deal with radio station because it airs Rush Limbaugh

Sun-Sentinel ^ | 6/13/07 | Scott Wyman

[Patriot28]

Rush Limbaugh has long been a thorn in the side of liberals, but now, because of him, some Democratic politicians don't even want to join with a local radio station to broadcast hurricane information.

Radio station WIOD, AM 610, has been the official channel for emergency information from Broward County government for the past year. The County Commission, all Democrats, balked at renewing the deal Tuesday, unable to stomach the station also being home to Limbaugh's talk show.

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart in the state Legislature before being elected to county office, cited talk shows hosted by Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD's partnership with Fox News.

The deal with WIOD would ensure that news conferences are broadcast start to finish live from the county Emergency Operations Center in Plantation. Emergency managers became concerned during hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 that radio and television stations preempted their announcements in favor of news out of Miami

[an amused spectator]

While I was at the courthouse paying the fine

I would have taken that out in trade.

[steveo]

They’re probably the strongest transmitter in the areas, too. Does anyone know how to check on that?

FCC AMQ AM Radio Database Query

[BurtSB]

Nice places to retire , Greenville SC area.

[BurtSB]

We live in Cocoa Beach its nice and conservative.
Greenville SC is nice and conservative too.
Both are alot cheaper than S FL.

[BurtSB]

We lived there ( Coral Ridge) in the early 90s and the county was slowing becoming hostile but Hurricanes Andrew changed the county demographics over night . Plus,all our nice neighbors were long time retires had died off or sold out after Andrew and the new group were aggressive rich pain in the asses.

[Inquisitive1]

sritter@broward.org

[VOA]

bump

[Fawn]

OMG...the Sun Sentinel has over 650 comments already on this story......they took the article off the main list....it must be taxing their server big time. LOL

[Fawn]

If you disagree with the politicization of emergency preparedness, please send your comments to the County Commission and the writer of this article. Let them have a full dose of the disgust that we feel.

http://www.broward.org/comments.htm

kkeechl@broward.org
jeggelletion@broward.org
sritter@broward.org
lwexler@broward.org
ilieberman@broward.org
solson@broward.org
sgunzburger@broward.org

Thanks to a poster on the SS Forum.

[Patriot28]

Drudge has it now!

[Gideon T. Reader]

If I can correctly pronounce Schlamiel, Schlamazel and Pastkunyiak, to say nothing of Trumbahnik, I believe I can handle Schlub.
Mavin?

[dennisw]

So I didn’t tell you anything you didn’t already know?

[dennisw]

Schlub is extra tricky. My father had to correct me

[Gideon T. Reader]

I was born into a family situation, residing in a melting pot community, where doors to apartments were left open and kids roamed back and forth between families; where Polish, Russian , Yiddish, French, Italian, Hebrew and Portuguese, were used as often as English. As generational family members died off and children were born a sort of comfortable lingua Franca formed. I take particular pride in being able to pronounce words in most European languages providing they are not written in cyrillic letters, or the NEW European alphabet, ARABIC.

[Osage Orange]

This is exactly mean, petty, and extremely partisan crap you can expect out of the local governments in S. Florida.

Try EVERYWHERE!!...

Not just S. Floriduh

[Redcloak]

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart in the state Legislature before being elected to county office, cited talk shows hosted by Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD's partnership with Fox News.

Never mind the blatant attempt at censorship, she should be fired for stupidity for admitting something like this in public!

[GOPJ]

Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart...

Forget freedom of speech,these people ain’t interested !!!

You're wrong. People like this will fight for the "free speech" of any and all porn peddlers or Hollywood sickos.

A state ACLU President was arrested for kiddie porn that showed young children being tortured. Do liberals want to protect that "speech". The guy was an ACLU bigshot...

Liberals are not totally against free speech. They're just against free political speech. Speech that's different than theirs... you know, totalitarian.

Are our founding fathers are spinning in their graves? Bet on it.

[skepsel]

Well I’ve been here for most of 35 years, and it wasn’t til after they built Century Village in Deerfield and some of the other high density retiree compounds like Wingate in Coconut Creek in the ‘70’s that our politics really started to change and not for the better. In any event in a couple more years I’m outta here.
Been looking at Northeastern Ohio and Southeastern/South central Michigan, it’s where I’m from and I really miss it, was just up there last month, still love it, its changed some but not like this area has.

[Charles Henrickson]

Broward/Rush ping.

[thecabal]

Broward County to local conservatives: drop dead (from a hurricane).