Yes...I remember...I hope they didn’t burn their bridges w/Beck.
As to NO solid dedicated conservative station in the Burgh...what would then happen to the syndicated Rush & Hannity shows? Just NOT be renewed?
Now to the wx...somebody is going to some snow this weekend. Right now it doesn’t look like we get more than some snow showers...but a lot can change and most Meteos missed our “surprise” snow of last Monday that went across southern half of PA.
What would happen...unkown. 104 had a fantastic line up! They had an audience and that drew advertisers. But it seems CC wants to dominate sports. Maybe they figure there is more money there.
One of the strange things in radio is that often when you narrow your programing and lose some audience you get more profit. You are aiming for only one or two demographics.
More than likely consultants feel the younger generstions could care less about talk, especially politics. However both younger males and females are interested in sports.
Older demos also will follow sports.
So they are cutting back on traditional talk and shifting to sports oriented programing.
FWIW one of the radio talkers I enjoyed working with most was Bruce Kieden. Boxing was his thing but he was great with all sports...very intelligent...pulitzer prize winner He and I hit it off right away. He enjoyed my writing. Passed a long time ago. Miss him much.
Morning!
Mr S said he thought he heard they busted some Russian guy in Pittsburgh after finding bomb-making materials in his apartment? I read, here on FreeRepublic, about a guy in Atlanta who was burned badly when a bomb he was building went off. They found explosives in his apartment as well. That guy was muslim. Last week some time. The freeper said it only made the local news and not national. He also said the feds were there within minutes and took over the case from local law enforcement and even the news reporters were asking why they were there so fast.
Hannity is dedicating more than half of his shows to liberals now, can’t really call his show conservative. It’s becoming more and more difficult to listen to but there is nothing else on the radio.