Amid all the pressures on the radio industry, news-talk stations see an opportunity — and his name is Barack Obama.
After eight years of playing defense for President Bush, the conservatives who dominate talk radio are back on offense.
Hours after Mr. Obama’s election, the country’s most popular radio host, Rush Limbaugh, was talking about the “rebirth of principled opposition.”
Sean Hannity, the second highest-rated host, quickly cast his afternoon show as the home of “conservatism in exile.”
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Several of the supporting actors in this year’s Republican primary are showing interest in the medium, too. Fred Thompson, the “Law & Order” star turned presidential candidate, will begin hosting a two-hour show in March, as the syndicator Westwood One is expected to announce this week. Mr. Thompson’s show would take the place of Mr. O’Reilly’s.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and a Republican presidential candidate, had been in negotiations with Westwood One for Mr. O’Reilly’s time slot, according to two people with knowledge of the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity because a deal was not struck.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/media/22radio.html?pagewanted=1&hpGawd I hope Obama has a great administration and people stop tuning in and listening to the bullcrap of these f'ckers.