Charles Goyette moves to AIR AMERICA!!! (not surprising) (GAG alert)

http://charlesgoyette.com/ ^

[adam_az]

Thanks for your patience. Effective Monday, December 6, the Charles Goyette Show has moved to Phoenix station KXXT 1010 AM. ("...an offer I couldn't refuse!") During the transition period, which began Thanksgiving Day, we have been off the air and CharlesGoyette Dot Com as been frozen. But now we are back in business. Join the radio show weekday mornings 7 - 10 am and check the website daily, while we...

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(Phoenix, AZ) December 1, 2004 – Phoenix radio station 1010 TALK KXXT today announced the hiring of popular Phoenix personality Charles Goyette as host of its new morning drive talk show. Goyette’s new 7 – 10 am weekday morning show begins Monday, December 6.

“We looked for the most independent and outspoken talk show host we could find to anchor our new station,” said Bob Christy, KXXT General Manager.

“We were pleased to find him right here in Phoenix. Charles’ principled opposition to the Iraq war has not only been vindicated by subsequent events, but it has put him on the map nationally. We are both glad we could reach an agreement to keep providing Phoenix radio listener’s with more ‘fearless talk radio!’ ”

Goyette’s resume includes stints with KTAR and recently several years as host of Clear Channel’s KFYI afternoon drive program. His differences with Clear Channel over his objections to the Iraq war spilled out into the public with the publication of an article by Goyette called “How to Lose Your Job in Talk Radio” in the American Conservative magazine a year ago. Since then Goyette has been sought out for his views on the war and the media by journalists and broadcasters across the country and around the world. He will be featured in an upcoming segment on the PBS show “NOW with Bill Moyers.”

In addition to his opposition to the war in Iraq, Goyette is well-known to Arizona listeners for leading the charge against the Cardinal’s football stadium location near the runways of Sky Harbor International Airport, taking on “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Joe Arpaio over the potty-cams in the women’s jail, and battling Qwest Communications over what many customers believed was misuse of their private records and phone numbers.

“I’m delighted to be the new morning show host on 1010 TALK KXXT,” said Goyette. “The recklessness and instability of Bush’s foreign policy are only exceeded by his fiscal irresponsibility. 1010 TALK KXXT will become the ‘go to’ spot on the dial as people begin to recognize the unhappy consequences of both.”

[adam_az]

KXXT is AIR AMERICA in Phoenix.

I love how Charles makes it out to be that he had "ideological differences" with Clearchannel... unless you consider that Clearchannel's ideology is that they don't want hosts with crappy ratings on their station.

He wrote an article “How to Lose Your Job in Talk Radio,” which was prophetic.... though he really lost it because of crappy ratings. After being moved from drivetime to the night time slot for crappy ratings.

Then, he moved to 1100 AM. He didn't last long - his ratings were in the toilet. Now he moved to Herr America.

Guess who Charles was interviewing this morning?

Al "Bodyslam" Franken.... and Scott "Burger King" Ritter.

What a putz.

[Cyber Liberty]

Let us hope his idiotic conspiracy theories do the same thing for KXXT's ratings that it did for KFYI's.

[rabidralph]

Air America is also coming to Washington, DC's airwaves on WRC's AM-1260. The story is in today's Post.

[OwnershipSociety]

Ha, haaa!

When Goyette left KFYI they went to #1 in the ratings in the state of Az!

Another useless idiot.

[repentant_pundit]

I used to like him...he once referred to McCain as a "commie"

[adam_az]

Liddy and Hill, who Goyette calls "frick and frack," took over his timeslot and took it to #1.

Then he took the 7-10 PM slot and ran it into the dumpster.

How sad that as a so-called "libertarian" he finds the most common cause with "progressives."

[truthseeker04]

I guess they needed to hire a token Goy-ette at Air America....

[jmcclain19]

I can't think of it happening to a better guy.

My problem with Goyette wasn't his opinion on Iraq, every American has their right to voice their political opinions, it was when he turned himself into a martyr at the hands of "Big Bad" Clear Channel Radio.

Clear Channel recognized, long ago, that folks are tired of the same old same old of talk radio, and established a certain editorial vision for their talk show hosts. It's equally their right to boot Goyette on his rear for his views, as a part of their editorial views.

If a editorial writer kept writing opinions that didn't jive with what the publisher and editorial board agreed with, they'd kick him out the door. That's the wonderful ways of a free press.

But the mainstream press seized on that as another change to kick around Clear Channel, and Goyette basked in the glow. He pouted and sulked when they bumped him to night time until they showed him the door.

And like another poster said, KFYI went to No. 1 in the market in that time frame when Goyette was demoted. Big shocker. Those who were turning into KFYI to hear conservative views don't want to hear Air America Lite.

Sorry Charles, best of luck with your new gig.

[Beckwith]

Who or should I say what is a Charles Goyette?

[adam_az]

Phoenix local radio host.

[1100kfnx]

There are some distortions on the comments here. Goyette might not be a "conservative," but after listening to him for a few years I know that he is NOT a "liberal" on ECONOMICAL issues that have to do with concepts of limited government, the constitution, liberty in individualism, etc. I have heard him talk about how we should get rid of the minimal wage, eliminate welfare, cut taxation, cut government, cut regulation, and on and on. That does not parallel what liberalism is.

For ratings on KFYI, I don't have all the records to look back to see ratings, however, those that I have seen were actually good. He did not have bad ratings. If he did, then he would NOT have lasted 3.5 years on KFYI and they would NOT have extended his contract in the lead up to the war with a good increase in his salary. According to Goyette, he was moved to 7-10PM after he declined to change his view on the war with Iraq. With this said, they paid him a ratings performance bonus during this move (in accordance with his contract)! That alone proves that his ratings were not that bad after all. Goyette has admitted on his show a couple of times on KFNX that he finds it acceptable in a free-market place that he was fired on KFYI for his views, but that it was false to say that it was do to ratings. KFYI and its other hosts actively kicked down Goyette. KFYI moving to #1 overall does not give a complete picture from time frame to time frame.

Goyette was not fired on KFNX; he quit KFNX because he believes that KXXT will place him in a sold lineup reflecting a backlash against Bush's fiscal irresponsibly & problems with the war on terror, just like talk radio became a hit as a backlash against Clinton. I personally disagree with his move because I believe it will reflect badly on him, but that is his choice and I wish him luck.

Just make no mistake about it that Goyette is not a liberal. I just hope that he does not pander to them on KXXT, but so far so good because he was speaking against socialism.

[1100kfnx]

I apologize for the errors/typos/misspeaks in my last post... It is almost midnight and my eyes feel like they are going to fall off.

[adam_az]

They move Goyette from the pm drivetime slot... and move to 1st in ratings.

Goyette cries over sour grapes. Stop talking about how great his ratings were - he was never #1 except in the minds eye of the New Times before they had that mental midget Mike Newcomb to tonguebathe.

As time has gone on, he's gotten nuttier. On 1100, I heard him promulgating the theory that the 9/11 attack on the pentagon never happened.

I heard him on KXXT the other morning praising Al Franken and Scott Ritter. He lionized Ritter, a pedophile. Both guests made many, many factual errors which even the average Freeper could have pointed to articles disproving. He let it ALL go.

Call in listeners called Charles "progressive." He never challened this assertation.

I have 0 respect for the man, now. I doubt he'll be espousing libertarian economic principles on KXXT - just angling to be the Art Bell of politics and land a national Herr America show.

That said, I once enjoyed his show. Since the Iraq war, he's become more and more unlistenable.