Hey, I have no problem with Christian talk but did they have to throw out the baby with the bathwater? Ingraham and Medved are terrific and I listened to them all the time. By cancelling those two shows they are also cancelling out a lot of listeners including me.
Okay, so does anybody know when and where Laura Ingraham and Michael Medved will be reappearing in South Florida? Oh, and I hope the WKAT program manager is FIRED for his dopey programming of shutting these two out.
sounds like more of the televangelist fakery.
I would not be surprised if this is some form of stealth err amerika with christian robes.
No, this is the cornerstone of Salem's Programming. And it's money maker. Dobson et al pay Salem big bucks to air on the Salem teaching stations.
In the radio business, the type of programming that the staiton is switching to is known as "pay to pray".
If Medved and Ingraham are high rating shows they will be picked up by competing stations. In the meantime, just listen to them on the internet.
Great thread you are right on target as well.
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I'm not sure, it looks to be a good lineup to me. Calvary Satellite Network International has many radio stations across the US that have mainly Christian talk shows on each day, and they seem to be doing okay. I'm sure the parent company did some good research on this before they announced the switch. Time will tell.
Salem Communications has owned & operated Christian radio stations for decades. The change isn't so surprising.
Here in Phx we have a Christian radio station that seems to do pretty good - but we also have a conservative talk station that has most of the popular shows on it. I hope you can find your Laura and Michael - there is always XM radio if nothing else fails.
And Medved is ...gasp!...Jewish!
We can't have none o' that around here!
(NOTE: The preceeding statements are sarcasm and not intended to be taken seriously.)
OTOH, Laura is now available here on Milwaukee radio! The bad news? Her show is on at 2am - 5am.
Don't worry about Laura Ingraham. She'll return somewhere on the dial. She's got the top-ranked national show in her time slot. They dumped her from early evenings on KSFO (San Francisco) for Mark Levin because he is syndicated by ABC (like Rush and Hannity) and ABC owns KSFO, and a couple of weeks later, KNEW (where Savage moved when KSFO carried all three hours of Hannity) snatched her up, dumping Glenn Beck (unfortunately, he can't be heard in S.F. Thank goodness for Headline News).
Savage and Ingraham are still heard on WFTL 850, in the Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach area.
For more about the WKAT switch, see Radio News:
http://RadioPages.net/radio/2007newyear.html
I also think it was a dumb move. I can't begin to count how many Christian stations are already in the market.
If they can't do conservative talk profitably, they should revert back to the previous format on WKAT: classical music.
Buying a station in this "blue" market was foolish for a company like Salem. I betcha that bumpkin Tancredo would agree!!!! ;-)
Then hopefully they will have Benny Hinn, and Ted Haggard.