Clear Channel taunts "liberal radio fans" as it get ready to kill Air Ameirca ...

[Botany]

.... and Progressive shows from it's Columbus station.

Real Nice touch.

Sounds of a heart monitor and then a beeeeeeeeeeeeep! Followed up
w/ an announcer saying the end is coming.

I talked to the general manger and he said it was because progressive radio
never could get a following in central Ohio. This from a station w/ a poor
signal, no p.r. (the G.M said they spent $1,000 once @ remote broadcast),
and no marketing of ad time.

The AM station will now feature right wing talk & sports both of which already
saturate the airwaves here.

This is not about marketing but a planned execution of a "voice" that the right
wing wants to shut down.

[cdnwannabe]

1. If amerikans still believe any of the crap the RW talking heads spew....

they do so at their peril. If you don't have the sense to seek out the truth elsewhere, then you get what you deserve.

[POAS]

2. Suggest to them that in the spirit of

the promotion they put up a gallows outside the station.

Do I need this---:sarcasm:

[democraticinsurgent]

3. I heard this too last night

...just about drove off the road. These people suck.

[GOTV]

4. Did Clear Channel recently buy the station? Or did they own it when it went Prog? n/t

[democraticinsurgent]

5. they already owned it n/t

[GOTV]

6. If Clear Channel was more message focused than money focused....

... they wouldn't have gone prog in the first place.

I guess you could say they got scared by the election results and now feel a need to kill progressive voices but that seems like a more tenuous argument.

To me this seems like a short term economic decision. They're not interested in *building* a progressive audience. They're just thinking they tried prog talk radio and it's not making as much money as other programming they have available.