Posted on 07/19/2007 1:28:56 AM PDT by goldstategop
Feel free to steal it!
People forget that radio was on the ropes after the surge of Television in the Fifties. Stations were losing revenue at such a pace that many were in danger of closing—and there were hardly any local FM stations at all.
And programming? There was none other than top 50 music and sports. The few national talk shows were a joke and there were very few local talk shows.
After the ‘Fairness” doctrine was killed at the behest of the stations, the advent of opinionated talk radio changed the landscape—and the profit line—of broadcasting.
Bite your tongue, boy.
Do us all a favor here and dry up.
I’ve wondered why that station runs his show, maybe some other Houstonians can explain it; they’re more plugged-in to the local AM radio story than I am.
Pinging some Houston/Galveston-area conservatives for possible interest and info.”
As far as I can tell Ed Schultz is not on any station in Houston. According to his website, he is only on in Lampasas and Austin. And I have never heard him here.
The AM station that first brought Rush to Houston (he’s on another one now) and still carries Mike Savage and Mark Levin and others, runs Ed Schultz’s show in the evenings.”
And as far as this, the station you are referring to above is not the station that brought Rush to Houston.
That was Dan Patrick and KSEV 700 AM. This was so successful for Dan that he later bought KPRC 950, the dominant station in the area and moved Rush there because the coverage was better. For a while Dan ran Rush live at 11am on KPRC and then replayed him at 4pm on KSEV. That was great!
Later, Clear Channel, which owned KTRH, the 2nd big AM talk station in Houston, made Dan an offer he couldn’t refuse, and he sold them KSEV and KPRC and stayed on as a executive.
They later sold off KSEV, I believe, because they had too many stations here.
Dan later left Clear Channel, apparently, after many disagreements over programming and management.
He then leased back KSEV from its new owners and went back on the air with many of his all team. Unfortunately since Rush has a longtime contract with Clear Channel, he stayed behind.
KPRC recently moved Rush to KTRH 740 where he still is. But since KTRH also runs the Astro’s games, they move Rush back to KPRC during these day games.
Dan Patrick has once again made KSEV a voice to be reckoned with. He recently bought another station in the Dallas area and running on his conservative and Christian values, was recently elected to the Texas State Senate, winning with over 70% in a four-way race without a runoff. And one of his opponents was an incumbent!
... and what they hear is that they're not alone in thinking the way they do -- that they're not crazy or weird for thinking things are getting out of hand with blatantly biased mainstream media.
OOOooooh! POW! Right in the kisser! Excellent punch! Because it's true.
Another sexually inappropriate comment from this self-satisfied jerk.
Oh, puh-LEEEZE! Lighten up, fruity!
The righteous anger makes them so blind that they think a fence is going to make a dime's worth of difference in keeping out people who can come here and find:
a) A minimum-wage job that pays the equivalent of a solid middle-class wage or better compared to where they come from, and their American competition consists mostly of ill-educated youths with no career direction or sense of work ethic.
b) A marketplace where heavy-handed government regulations have made it not only tempting, but sometimes necessary for businesses to shirk employment laws in order to stay profitable.
c) A "free" social system filled with government entitlements in education, welfare, and medical care
Republicans can get red in the face and scream all they want, but their anger blinds them to the real causes of what they're screaming at. Republicans must turn away from anger and face the truth that really hurts: the immigration problem is chiefly economic and the result of liberal government policies.
Fighting the policies is a lot harder, but will be a lot more useful, than building a stupid fence.
Yes! The comforting drone of "Morning Edition." Now that you mention it, it was a lot like a Sesame Street news show for adults!
Very well said.
I would contend that there has never been a liberal Rush because subsidies available to liberal talk radio, governmental and otherwise, have made it possible for liberals to be on the radio without treating it like a business. NPR will remain on the air, no matter how boring it gets, because the taxpayer is footing the bill.
Much like disgruntled DMV employees, or public school teachers it doesn't matter how much you suck. You will always have a job.
Having said that, there is another factor at work here which even Rush and Sean have acknowledged. The media market is so saturated with liberal, left wing, progressive propaganda that there is a fertile market for Conservative thought.
Like good capitalists, they see the opportunity and provide the service to meet the market demand. That's not good for Communists.
A brilliant (and factual) analysis!
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