KFI (and now WABC) becomes "local talk" . . . .
The "Fairness Doctrine".. it's ba-a-a-a-a-ck only this time it's called "Localism".
There's also the matter of self-imposed "Fairness Doctrine" where owners and hosts actually believe "experts" who say that the public is turned off by political talk and criticism of PRESIDENT! Obama.
I'll add this to my KFI comments. I guess threats against the life of Gov. Palin is a local issue in the eyes of Cumulus (owners of WABC I believe). They are keeping Imus despite this:
Don Imus show Imus behind the scenes the quote may be erased by now. This is a daily log written by his staff about the show and other things.
7:15:18 – The Boss reacts to Sarah Palin’s speech at the Billy Graham Birthday Celebration: “Is there any way that she could be put to sleep? If they put a bunch of scientist together to assemble the dumbest person in the world…they couldn’t make one more stupid than her.” An uncharacteristically measured response from the I-Man.
I recall that it was Friday November 8, 2013 show.
"Ah.. it's just Imus being Imus," some explain.
Savage BTW did the first two hours of his New Year's eve show live and asked the opinion of his listeners if he's become too mild or too tame. He says that he's not going to stop going after things political full-bore.
Levin also on Cumulus stations says that no one is going to shut him (Levin) up. Looks like the Dickey brothers' druthers are going to be ignored by Savage and Levin.
Thanks; I do know Savage fought to get out of his TalkRadioNetwork contract. Ingraham did, too (now on Courtside Entertainment)
Local, the new “fairness” doctrine.
In Boston the only fulltime talker is WRKO (Entercom) with 2 local hosts, Jeff Kuhner and Howie Carr; a brokered business news block, and Rush, Levin, Savage etc. WBZ (CBS) has local talk with Dan Rea and Bradley Jay etc. There used to be another talker on FM, WTKK with many local hosts including Michael Graham (now on several small stations) and Jay Severin (now on The Blaze Radio) but they switched to R&B.
Commercial prog talk didn’t take off here but there is NPR,
and former WTKK hosts Eagan and Braude wound up on WGBH.
Also we had a talker on AM 1200 that had Jeff Katz, Jay Severin, Rush, Hannity, etc but that’s now brokered business news from Bloomberg Radio.
More than a few talk stations have switched formats incl. quite a few prog. ones. Quite a few went to sports talk
incl the prog talk stations in Seattle and Portland, OR.
The thinking is they can get a bigger, better “demo” for advertisers with sports. The prog talker in Buffalo NY?
Now ESPN.
So CC in LA goes “local” with KFI and syndie conserv hosts go to KEIB (new call letters) 1150, bumping prog talk off.
Didn’t know Imus made that remark!