tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post9133786389749598150..comments2023-10-23T16:12:01.685-05:00Comments on LTR - Watching Alternative Media for Five Years: WINZ flip coming mid-April, to become 6th area sports talk stationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-76286327617054815742009-04-09T13:34:00.000-05:002009-04-09T13:34:00.000-05:00I will deeply miss Air America in South Florida an...I will deeply miss Air America in South Florida and I agree with most comments. The corporate owners of Clear Channel and the other massive media outlets gain more from deregulation and conservative government than by high ratings. Rupert Murdoch has been buying up papers and losing money on them. A sixth sports station here won't make money, but it could stem the tide towards re-establishing Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15595383279786700239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-24612064952206772322009-04-02T10:44:00.000-05:002009-04-02T10:44:00.000-05:00radio-info.com reports the flip to sports will hap...radio-info.com reports the flip to sports will happen Friday morning<BR/>Apr 3raccoonradiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097464094942935414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-61245650799827586302009-03-31T23:59:00.000-05:002009-03-31T23:59:00.000-05:00I think it's time to get ACTIVE!PLEASE cut and pas...I think it's time to get ACTIVE!<BR/>PLEASE cut and paste into outgoing email box:<BR/>greyes@ccmiami.com, <BR/>KCerenzia@ccmiami.com, <BR/>kencharles@clearchannel.com<BR/><BR/>Please do this! It's INSANE that an area of 6 MILLION people will be stuck with NOTHING but oxyRU$Hitler shmit-talk radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!Lu Cifer, @Lu666Ciferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750113265440115612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-52364472300999188572009-03-30T13:04:00.000-05:002009-03-30T13:04:00.000-05:00Just curious, FSL - have you ever worked in broadc...Just curious, FSL - have you ever worked in broadcasting?ltrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543747185734895102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-24195186495123120382009-03-29T16:09:00.000-05:002009-03-29T16:09:00.000-05:00i really don't care that randi rhodes and thom har...i really don't care that randi rhodes and thom hartmann are/were employed by clear channel at the local level. i really don't care that clear channel owns the majority of progtalk stations. clear channel is extremely bad for the format. they don't care about it, and no amounts of pointing out that they own the most progtalk stations will convince me otherwise. <BR/><BR/>how can you employ thectkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18381637336704572436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-6635796460558078342009-03-29T14:29:00.000-05:002009-03-29T14:29:00.000-05:00I never said "blacklist." You did. Apparently, y...I never said "blacklist." You did. Apparently, you'd rather quibble over semantics than deal with the basic issue. Which is: There is a mindset, among some advertisers and even among some broadcasters, that liberal talk is "controversial" while conservative talk is not. <BR/><BR/>The list (whatever label you apply to it) lists advertisers who regularly and frequently run spots on Rush, et al,FSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167237852531711768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-67749483366797188832009-03-28T15:55:00.000-05:002009-03-28T15:55:00.000-05:00I can't believe that people still believe all that...I can't believe that people still believe all that nonsense about the supposed ABC 'blacklist'. I thought I had already debunked it:<BR/><BR/>http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2006/12/calling-mythbusters-ltr-debunks-top.html<BR/><BR/>It wasn't a blacklist, it was a traffic list. Anyone who has ever been employed in the broadcast industry or knows anything about it should know this. Right, FSL?ltrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06543747185734895102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-65340962577553346322009-03-28T12:29:00.000-05:002009-03-28T12:29:00.000-05:00A Clear Channel subsidiary owns Fox Sports Radio (...A Clear Channel subsidiary owns Fox Sports Radio (which has no corporate connection to Rupert & Co.), so I suspect this decision was made at the corporate level: CC is trying to prop up FSR as a credible alternative to ESPN Radio. In order to do so, they need FSR outlets in as many major markets as they can. <BR/><BR/>They probably don't care what the Miami ratings are, or what the jvwalthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16429002956258312544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-83065351487572801502009-03-27T16:32:00.000-05:002009-03-27T16:32:00.000-05:00The crazy people are the advertisers. Stations ca...The crazy people are the advertisers. Stations can sell sports even when hardly anybody is listening. Clear Channel says they are in the advertising sales business. All commercial stations are but at least Clear Channel admits it. <BR/><BR/>In much the same way advertisers will buy right-wing talk but won't buy progressive talk, supposedly because it's too "controversial." Remember that listFSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167237852531711768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-62288583474363530362009-03-27T05:14:00.000-05:002009-03-27T05:14:00.000-05:00DEATH to Crap Channel!!! And I'll answer the l...DEATH to Crap Channel!!! And I'll answer the last line of the article: not only are radio station owners Nazis and crazy (especially CC aka SS Radio: Sig Heil Y'all) most y'all in print media SUCK too! And don't tell me CC is just so great cuz they have so many liberal talk stations, blah blah blah, look at WINZ not even A MONTH after 9/11 and the Nazi bastards flipped from (Lu Cifer, @Lu666Ciferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750113265440115612noreply@blogger.com