Media mogul has nice-guy image (Head of Emmis Communications)

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Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan is viewed as a likable boss who breaks though barriers--

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Smulyan is a past owner of one Major League Baseball team and is prospecting to own the Dodgers while continuing to build Emmis Communications -- with assets today of about $2 billion and 21 radio stations -- some dominating top U.S. markets...

(strategy is to ).. move into a market and buy underperforming stations, spend a lot to promote them and change the formats -- attracting a lot of attention from listeners. That resulted in higher ratings and more revenue from advertisers...

Emmis is now the sixth-largest radio chain in the nation in terms of listeners and the eighth-largest by its annual revenue of about $300 million -- even though it ranks 34th in number of stations owned...

Smulyan, one of the highest-profile Democrats in Indiana, doesn't get involved with the daily content of his media operations or let his personal opinions hold sway over business...
"People who consume talk radio tend to be nonprogressive types," Smulyan explained about the lack of liberal voices in talk radio, which has vexed some of his friends.


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comment: I'll say it is vexing, his disinterest in serving any possible liberal radio market.

With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans ??

[kwolf68]

1. How does he know?

Liberals haven't been given a fair choice. I can't find ANY Liberal talk shows...EVEN IN D.C. What dial are they on? I scan AM and I get the Limbaugh show on 3 or 4 different stations.

Give us a choice and then we can figure it out.

This notion that Liberal talk has failed because they aren't any is a straw-man argument and holds no water. Who has failed? Supposedly Donohue was taken off the air DESPITE having top ratings on MSNBC and O'Reilly continues to be pandered to the masses on AM Radio DESPITE his lackluster ratings.

This mocks the integrity of the free-market, yet they suggest it is the market deciding there will be no Liberal voice. BULLSHIT. Just as in any un-regulated market...The producers in FACT can CREATE the demand as opposed to responding to it. This is what the far-right, the media minions, ideological windbags and lots of money can do.