Actually we're doomed because the majority decided they wanted Communism.
Posted on 01/02/2010 4:17:56 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
Please excuse the vanity but searched and could not find answers about this elsewhere.
My local AM Radio Station which has brought to the listeners in much of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, both Rush Limbaugh's and Sean Hannity's Radio programs for many years - has announced (but I only found out for sure yesterday) that it will no longer carry Rush's or Sean's Radio programs - as of 12/31/09.
“I haven’t heard of what other local station might carry Rush and Sean.”
Somebody will.
Absolutely. It’s a very clear, strong signal. Not sure who will be on at 6, though. Check out the weblink I posted; it may give a lineup for that time slot.
Yes, 50K daytime, although only 5K at nite.
In any case, WPTF's low frequency (680) combined with their 50K watts gives them a great daytime signal that usually can be heard easily at a range of 100+ miles -- unless your radio is inside a metal-framed buidling, in which case you may have better reception via WRDU's FM signal.
And now that more and more FM stations are carrying Rush, I wonder if he'll drop the schtick about "long-haired, dope-smoking" FM listeners!
Yes this is one of a couple stations I believe that is rebranding itself Rush Radio.
WPTF still carries Mark Levin, 3 hrs. now I believe.
WPTF is going to be in real trouble with their lineup.
Neal Boortz is still on 101.1, 10AM-1PM.
One advantage to this change.
Most ipod type players don’t pickup AM.
With this change I can work in the yard while wearing earbuds and catch Rush and Co.
>>Clear Channel Communications owns Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Limbaugh and Hannity
Clear Channel often puts Premiere shows on its stations; in New England, it owns stations in Manchester NH, Worcester MA,
and Providence RI who air shows like that. Now we hear one of its Boston AM stations is looking for sales people who have specialize in selling “news talk”, leading to speculation that one of the two AM stations it has in Boston—both now
running Spanish language—may go to news talk (Boston has Rush on the fairly powerful WRKO but Hannity and Beck aren’t on; they may opt to keep Rush on RKO and maybe
launch a news-talker to run the other shows).
The Clear Channel AM station in Providence, WHJJ, tried Air America but it flopped (”the Air America experiment is
over”, said the program director) and they now run
Beck, Hannity, Rush, Levin, etc. Probably doing much
better.
WRDU 106.1 can be heard all of the the state folks. They’ve got repeating towers all over the state.
In any case I don’t feel sorry for WPTF. They were playing both sides of the fence. Conservative talk mixed with super liberal AP news reports on the hour and half hour. I especially remember the coverage of the gay marriage issue last year in California... WPTF broadcasted the Pro Gay Pro Obama AP news without batting an eye.
Now we’ll get to listen to Glenn Beck, Rush and Sean in their entirety. I do like Bill Lumay, maybe he can move to 106.1
Technically, radio listeners aren’t customers. The radio shows are free. The actual customers of radio programs are the ADVERTISERS. They are the one’s that pay. Listeners are just the bait—the reason advertisers pay. Radio show draws listeners in order to draw advertisers.
Actually we're doomed because the majority decided they wanted Communism.
Why would Clear Channel Communications (the owner of the syndication company that carries Rush’s program - and, I suppose, Sean’s program?) try to attack and destroy WPTF (owned by Curtis Media Group)?
Business decisions happen all the time.
Rush Limbaugh to switch Triangle radio stations
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/business/rush-limbaugh-to-switch-triangle-radio-stations
One of the first radio stations to broadcast Rush Limbaugh’s talk show, WPTF AM-680, will be losing the conservative media icon after 21 years on the air.
Limbaugh’s trademark in-your-face talk show will be moving to a competitor, WRDU FM-106.1, a country music station owned by media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications. Starting January 1, WRDU will switch to an all-talk format and feature a 9-hour non-stop marathon of conservative talk by Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Curtis Media, the Raleigh-based company that owns WPTF, will fill the three hours vacated by Limbaugh with political talk that’s more centrist and moderate, said president and chief operating officer Phil Zachary. Still, losing Limbaugh is a big deal, he said.
“We were there from the beginning, which makes this more painful,” Zachary said. “We were there before Rush was arguably Rush.”
Premier Radio Networks, the syndicator that owns Limbaugh’s program, will also pull the program from a Curtis Media station that broadcasts in Winston-Salem and Greensboro and sell the broadcast rights to Clear Channel.
Clear Channel negotiated for months with Premier to win the rights to Limbaugh, said Dick Harlow, Clear Channel’s vice president and market manager for Raleigh.
“We sent a signal to Premier that we would love to have those products,” Harlow said.
Curtis Media will continue broadcasting Limbaugh on radio stations in Boone and Goldsboro.
It's understandable, with the economy continuing to contract, you want listeners accessing your network of stations for their talk radio fix and not independent stations.
Not necessarily. The new station may have a greater broadcast reach and a better sales force.
That’s what caused just such a change in the area where I live. It was for the better by far. The broadcast signal covered a far greater listening area.
Also, the station that carried Rush experienced transmission problems frequently. That cost EIB money. No reason to put up with a second rate station.
According to who, Marx?
Thanks for that added report - since I don’t read the News and Disturber.
Of course = Radio stations draw customers (listeners of whatever the radio station is providing) = who patronize (hopefully) the advertisers who, then, want to continue advertising on same radio station because of the numbers of listeners (customers)that radio station has.
Good to know that 106.1 FM has a strong signal - have never listened to it before.
WPTF did carry the ultra liberal news every half hour - but what station doesn’t?
I listen primarily to 92.5 FM Radio - which is the Bible Broadcasting Network = and even its hourly news broadcasts are from the liberal worldview!
Figured they all have to buy their national news reports from similar sources - all liberal owned - unfortunately.
Yep, thank God Mark Levin will still be on WPTF at night.
Yes, it calls itself “Rush Radio”. Good for them!
Yep - it will be 106.1 FM - a station I have never listened to before now.
Will be listening to that station going forward.
And will get Levin at night on WPTF.
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