Aartemio 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand You are all operating out of the premise that Clear Channel and Cumuluis are about doing good and profitable business ---- sorry, but NOT the case!
They have a clear political agenda, an agenda that includes heavily subsidizing loosers like Beck and cutting out the public's access to progressive media.
Just look around the nation. This market switch is not unique, it is a trend, a slippery dunk to the far right, a la Europe 1932.
Just as Fox is a video propaganda machine, these radio chains are the radio version.
If you want to understand their decisions, that is the place to start.
As for me and my house (as they said in the Bible) we shall follow the Good News to be found wherever progressive media can be yet gleened in the Bay Area and abandon KGO and its 5th columnist Ronn Owens (don't even get me started about their prime time weekend spot) and change my dial away from 960 as well if these changes go thru.
IF they move the current 960 line up to 910 to gain range and strength, then there me and mine shall be as well.
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Aartemio 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand PS... Thank you Bill Clinton for deregulating the media and allowing such clear economic and public service disasters as this. How many strations does Clear Channel control? Has anyone noticed any positive benefit from the re-emergence of monopolies in this or ANY industry?
It ain't just the Republicans my friends! :-(
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Rangerz 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand Well, let's add this up capitalistically: Hartmann and Miller with millions in advertising, book/CD/ticket sales, top radio awards versus Beck, who cost Fox millions and couldn't even get 500 people to show up for free to see him. Yes, in liberal SF....seems like Clearchannel learned their lessons in profitability from some book written circa 2004 about mortgage investing. Worse for them, if they keep playing games, unhappy listeners will just move to the Internet to hear the hosts they want. So much for the advertising money!
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Collapse Expand Clear Channel doesn't care if this station loses listeners. It does not care if this station loses money. All it cares about is destroying the most popular (the only?) progressive radio station that we have here in the Bay Area. I mean, come on, Glen Beck taking Stephanie Miller's time slot? It's a joke, but an horrible one.
It's unbelievable to me that this could happen in the most liberal area of the country. Then again, it's all about the money, which Clear Channel has plenty of.
I'm still really pissed off about them running KKSF off the air, but this is much worse. Green 960 with ALL of the radio hosts helped me keep my sanity in a world of right wing hate mongering and nonsense. And for this to happen in a hugely important election year is just appalling.
I hope to God that someone starts up another progressive radio station to replace this one. My God, this is the fricken' Bay Area!!! San Francisco!! Yes, we can move to the Internet to listen to progressive radio hosts, but why the hell should we have to? We have a right to have our voices heard to. I am so angry. What's next?
And we can fill this blog with thousands of comments and it won't matter, as it didn't when they took away KKSF. I just wish that there was a way for progressives to buy up a local radio station (like one of those old rock stations that seem to be EVERYWHERE) and make it into a progressive station and make it listener owned so it can't be sold out when Clear Channel comes in and throws a bunch of money at the station owners.
Anyone out there have the knowledge and experience to do this? We need an "Occupy the Airwaves" movement!!!
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