Hmmmm? I wonder if this has anything to do with Air America. They picked it up in several cities. I glanced through the article - but I didn't see anything.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the advertisers' boycott of Rush and other conservative hosts. The ads Rush draws in my market (ATL) are mostly public service ones.
The new management said "No God talk" and "no bill numbers, they are boring". So mindless trivia and bitching is okay but nothing concrete and don't make waves.
Current management has already said that a liberal Houston CC talk radio show could go on the air "soon" if a station frees up.
I will boycott XM radio for their ties to CC. Sirius is the way I would go if I went digital. Also I hold a grudge that CC is dropping "white guy" rock stations for spanish language FM broadcast (even in DC); I believe under the theory that "white folk" have more disposable income and will pay $10 to listen to radio. Better to open those broadcast frequencies to new demographics. More insulting was the motto "Latino and PROUD" that they use in advertising (try "Anglo and PROUD" sometime). I even heard an inhouse promotions clip on the streamcast talkradio station where they advertised the revamped 101FM and a hispanic male boasted how "We're the majority now, man!". Good, then give up those set asides and give them to the new minority on the block.
Such racial balkanizing does no one any good. Certainly not as corporate identity.