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As I’ve pointed out to libs if Fairness Doctrine means equal time etc expect to have a lot of conservative hosts, etc...on _NPR_...”Fair is Fair”. Do we have government agencies screening the political opinions of newspapers and magazines? No, and they shouldn’t be doing the same for radio/TV.

Pro abortion groups on a Catholic station.
A KKK show on a black one.
And why stop there, why not have the fed govt step in regarding formats? I believe they do up in Canada. Of course every time a libtalk station changes to something else—for monetary reasons, they say complain to the FCC about it
and I tell them don’t bother. The FCC does not step in regarding format, so any attempt to get them to step in
to bring back prog talk to LA, San Fran, NY, etc., is futile.

If a prog talk station in Buffalo decides running ESPN is
more profitable, they do so. If Clear Channel decides to get rid of prog talk, they can do so. And hey lefties, there IS always NPR, complete with government subsidies and the likes of Soros hiring reporters...

Yes we can protest and demand too; but we don't. We have to work while JFK, LBJ, Carter, BJ, and Obama hire shills like Acorn, et al. to do the deeds.

"You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."

As reported by Fred Friendly in his book appropriately entitled The Good Guys, the Bad Guys, and the First Amendment, this was part of a "massive strategy . . . to challenge and harass the right-wing broadcasters and hope that the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited, and decide it was too expensive to continue." This strategy was said to have been successful in almost all respects.

Curtis was set to do a TV simulcast on Ch 9 too

http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/87245/curtis-kuby-return-to-wabc/

>>Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby, who hosted mornings on WABC from 2000 until 2007 will return to the station to host the 12pm to 3pm slot going up against Limbaugh on WOR according to the New York Times. Sliwa had been hosting two programs daily on Salem’s “970 The Answer” WNYM; mornings solo and afternoons with former New York Governor David Patterson. The morning show was set to begin a one hour simulcast on “My 9” WWOR-TV on Monday, January 6. No word on the status of any of those programs yet.