Wasn’t Tom Leykis originally billed as “the Left’s Answer to Limbaugh”?
It’s telling when they interview a radio personality that no one cares for...
Rest in Pieces Liberal Radio :p
Correct.
Leykis once mistook his wife for a Duraflame log, as Boston’s Howie Carr says. (Dom. violence incident in
Boston. Leykis later went to the West Coast. “Blow me up, Tom!”)
In Boston someone has to pay to put liberal radio on—WWZN 1510 got Jeff Santos to buy time to put his own local show on as well as the likes of Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, and Thom Hartmann. Recently the syndie shows disappeared and Santos said “we’re having technical problems”. The problem is that his money started drying up. The latest is that the station will probably run the new NBC Sports Network instead.
In Boston Clear Channel took Rush and Coast 2 Coast away from WRKO 680 where it did well and started “Rush Radio 1200” (later “Talk 1200”) with those two shows plus
Beck, Hannity, Levin, and 2 local hosts—Jeff Katz and
Jay Severin. Last week the word came out: the local hosts were laid off. Rush and Coast were going back to WRKO.
And 1200 is now ALL COMEDY.
Yikes. Hopefully conservative talk is doing well where you are. But liberal talk radio flops—in BOSTON.
If "leykis" sounds like the name of a social disease, that's because it is.