Our local radio station dropped ALL talk radio. Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, etc and went ESPN Sports all day. YUK! I see Michael Savage is now on Clear Channel Premier. I sure hope Laura gets on there. I rather enjoyed her.
Actually Savage went to Cumulus (Imus, Geraldo, Huckabee, Levin, Red Eye Radio)
As for sports taking over stations—companies feel they can make more money with sports. Currently there are 5 major
sports networks:
ESPN/ESPN Deportes
CBS Sports (in assoc. with Cumulus)
NBC Sports (in assoc. with Dial Global)
Fox Sports (synd. by Clear Channel-Premiere)
Yahoo! Sports
Recent format changes:
KPOJ Portland, owned by Clear Channel—
from progressive talk to Fox Sports
(Clear Channel deep in debt by the way, cutting jobs..)
KFNQ Seattle, owned by CBS
Prob will go from prog. talk to CBS sports
(moonbats upset about both)
WXKS Boston, owned by Clear Channel—
from Conservative talk to all comedy (Rush was on
there; he went back to the more powerful WRKO owned
by Entercom)
Anyway many stations are now going into sports because
of the big money and these companies are flipping formats...
in some cases they feel sports is a broader demo, age-wise etc. They feel more people care more about football
than Benghazi. Political talk radio is supposedly for
people growing older—and a “less desirable demo”
They want to reach younger people who want sports talk.
It’s business and this is the bottom line. (Naturally the libs feel it’s all political. “Bain-Romney-Clear Channel!”
KPOJ, see above, changed mere days after the election. Ironically enough the first thing they went to was a ballgame where one coach was Moochelle Obama’s brother.
IT’S A CONSPIRACY!