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Republican presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing back against President Barack Obama for making fun of the Republican field after the third Republican debate last week. Obama ridiculed the pack for complaining about the CNBC moderators during the debate, saying they couldn't handle them. Cruz, in response, said the president is afraid of what he called "real journalists" on conservative radio."It's not surprising that President Obama is taking cheap shots," Cruz said on WTMJ, Milwaukee. The president is the "worst negotiator in the history of the world for the United States.""Every [Republican] goes on lefty journalist shows...

Clear Channel, the largest radio station operator in the U.S., says it has renamed itself iHeartMedia to reflect its transformation into a multi-platform media company that includes iHeartRadio, its digital radio service. […] The name change reflects the company’s shifting focus to its digital brand as it faces competition from popular music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify. …

If you’ve ever tried to call into the mega-popular Rush Limbaugh Show you’ve had the pleasure of talking, however briefly, to “Bo Snerdley,” whose real name is James Golden. In addition to producing the Rush Limbaugh Show and screening calls, he’s also a frequent guest. One day Limbaugh announced, “I have, just this morning, named a new position here on the staff that is the Official Obama Criticizer. The EIB Network now has an Official Obama Criticizer. He is Bo Snerdley.” In the New York Times, Zev Chafets noted that Snerdley introduced himself as an“African-American-in-good-standing-and-certified-black-enough-to-criticize-Obama guy.” I had the pleasure...

Whether we like it or not – and we don’t – there’s a significant chance that Chris Christie will be the 2016 Republican nominee. Perhaps he can use a few helpful hints from the GOP’s Tea Party/Constitutional Conservative/Actual Conservative wing. Let’s start by establishing a baseline: We don’t like you and we don’t trust you. Now, that’s not a deal breaker. You feel the same way about us. There is nothing that says we conservatives can’t grow to like and/or trust you. Maybe we just got off on the wrong foot. So, in that spirit, let’s share our feelings. We...

Conservative talk hosts Jim Quinn and Rose Tennent are no longer part of Clear Channel's WPGB 104.7 FM morning programming. The duo finished its run in Pittsburgh at the end of last week.

After reading an open letter by our local talk radio station manager, outlining the assault this small station has undergone from Media Matters minions around the country, I decided to send him the following email to encourage him to stand strong in supporting free speech. The libs have this down to a science and we have to provide a counter-balance! Please take five minutes and call or email your local talk radio station and tell them to support free speech! Dear Sir, I read your open letter this morning (while I was logging on to listen to Rush) and just...

Soldier One Radio Hour...Join the Battle and take back America!! Soldier One--a.k.a. Greg Halvorson founder of Soldiers Without Boots.--will let er rip on traditional values American exceptionalism the disease of liberalism and how to fight back against the Chi-town Freak Show currently occupying Americas House.

A petition to the Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) to investigate popular conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh for purported "hate speech" has caused a stir among Catholic circles after it was revealed that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) communications office is backing the initiative. One conservative commentator has even cited evidence that the religious coalition behind the petition, of which the USCCB communications office is a part, may be affiliated with the federal government's recent campaign against conservative media. "So We Might See," a group billing itself as a national interfaith coalition against hate speech in media,...

Media Bias: Not long after pro football welcomed a convicted felon back on the playing field, Rush Limbaugh is dropped for his opinions from a group seeking to buy an NFL franchise. Won't someone throw a flag? When even Keith Olbermann says back off, you know the politically correct critics of the conservative icon and megaradio talk host's proposed part ownership of the St. Louis Rams are guilty of piling on. The prospect of the leading conservative voice in America participating in the purchase of a football team sent the liberal elites into cardiac arrest and into a frenzied campaign...

Boston's two largest talk radio stations have responded to Ted Kennedy's passing by dumping their usual conservative programming and replacing it with local liberal supporters of the late senator. WRKO-AM withheld its standard midmorning and early afternoon lineup of Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh, replacing it with a special show hosted by convicted felon / former House Speaker Tom Finneran, a Democrat best known for circumventing a voter-approved cut in the state income tax. Known as "Tommy Taxes" for that legislative maneuver, Finneran is normally heard in morning drive. A choked-up Finneran told listeners that Kennedy's passing was much more...

Our late colleague Jim Boulet last year unearthed the facts here and here and here on how the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) ‘localism' schemes could shut down or inhibit talk radio. Last Thursday, Ishmael Jones, nom de plume of a former officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) clandestine service, gave his take on the danger radio ‘localism' poses to free political speech in his American Thinker article "What the CIA's Censors Can Teach Us about Plans to Muzzle Talk Radio" here. Here is Ishmael Jones on this Administration and their possible ‘localism' approach to shutting down political speech on...

The clip of interest (click on link) is 2 minutes 7 seconds long. Senator Bingaman (D-NM) Comments on the Fairness Doctrine. October 21, 2008 From the site: NEW MEXICO SENATOR JEFF BINGAMAN COMMENTS ON THE JIM VILLANUCCI SHOW ABOUT THE FAIRNESS DOCTORINE AND HOW IT COULD AFFECT YOUR LISTENING AT 770 KKOB.

A Los Angeles man is suing conservative Talker KRLA-AM/Los Angeles claiming the station, and parent Salem Communications, misrepresented their broadcast license by serving the interest of the Republican Party rather than the public reports the Glendale News Press. David Birke filed the complaint on August 27 against seven talk hosts, Salem and Salem President/CEO Ed Atsinger, claiming that they use the public airwaves to push a Republican agenda. Syndicated hosts Laura Ingraham, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Miller, Mike Gallagher and Kevin James are listed as defendants. According to the complaint, "Salem Entities and Atsinger had no intention...

IFI Media Watch It's a cold dark day. A group of stern-looking men and women sit in a conference room and decide what their countrymen should hear and what they shouldn't. "This isn't reflective of the people's wishes," says one member of the panel. "Yes, we'll have to make room for what our leader thinks," says another without batting an eye. Now you might be thinking I'm describing an event in Iran or the former Soviet Union. Perhaps it's an historical description of a meeting of the Communist Bloc in Mao Tse Tung's China. Sadly, it is none of the...

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Dan Patrick, whose years as a conservative radio pundit helped him win a Republican state Senate nomination, is expanding the reach of his voice with the purchase of a Dallas-area radio station. By Labor Day, Dallas-area residents will be able to hear Patrick on station KMGS-AM (1160), based in the enclave city of Highland Park. Patrick, who announced the deal Thursday during his afternoon drive-time show on Houston-based KSEV-AM (700), says he plans to duplicate KSEV's conservative talk format on the North Texas station. Patrick owns and manages KSEV through Houston Broadcasting, a limited partnership. Patrick said the radio station...

The term “Fairness Doctrine” exemplifies what George Orwell called “Newspeak”: it uses language to mask the deleterious effects of its purported meaning. The Fairness Doctrine itself was in effect from 1949 until 1987. It required that radio broadcasts devote a reasonable amount of time to the discussion of controversial issues of public importance, and that the broadcaster do that fairly by offering reasonable opportunity for opposing viewpoints to be heard. If the Federal Communications Commission found a radio station in repeated violation of this Doctrine, it could take away the station’s license—a business form of capital punishment. One famous victim...

Please post links here in reply if you know of websites that offer streaming replays of certain talk radio programs, especially late at night. I have certain radio shows I love, but can't often catch during the day while I'm working. I'd love to listen at night on the Internet. So, if you know of any radio stations that have streaming broadcasts at odd hours, please post a link here, along with the hours and time zones when I can catch those shows. Thanks in advance.

Just read this on a Clinton/Jennings thread, from a Freeper: "Back in August of 1988, a new voice came on the radio, the lovable little fuzzball - el Rushbo. Prior to then, I avoided politics and editorials, because I thought I was alone in my views. I voted conservatively and privately. Then Rush gave a voice to conservative thought." And it made me think of something I've been meaning to post for a while...

Does anyone know of a web site or guide that would list the times and stations that conservative talkers are broadcast on short wave radio? Does anyone know if Sean Hannity will be available on another south east Florida radio satation (non short wave?) Is Laura Inghram, Michael Savage, or Tony Snow heard on any south east Florida radio stations?