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TheBigA said:
But as I said, it didn't affect the 2024 election. The listeners and some staff just moved to another radio station.
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But it was a political move. Maybe they thought it was time for a new approach, but whatever the reasoning, it was wrong.
TheBigA said:
People like what people like. That's the same regardless of the programming. Music or talk.
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In this case, the new CEOs, both of Mexican heritage, just did not understand programming to a community that had seen friends, family and relatives killed or imprisoned by the Castro regime.

Every Cuban refugee I worked with over the years in Miami told me such stories, and they carried them heavily in their hearts.
 
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It really wasn't a political move. The station was demonized by the Soros name. Not by any programming.
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Neutralizing the ultra conservative Radio Martí voice and trying to make it “imparcial” or “balanced” destroyed the station. It was only after that happened that the blame was strongly put on Soros.

There were people on the Martí staff that I actually hired or interviewed as part of hiring. I go back with Martí to around 1996 so I know its story very deeply. As I have said about a half dozen times, I was even a member of the Asociation of Cuban Journalists in Exile.
 
davideduardo said:
Neutralizing the ultra conservative Radio Martí voice and trying to make it “imparcial” or “balanced” destroyed the station. It was only after that happened that the blame was strongly put on Soros.
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The controversy and the staff resignations happened when the sale was announced, and blamed on Soros, before any changes happened. The public way the resignations happened caused the audience to leave. It was all documented in real time on this message board. It made no difference because the staff and the listeners quickly found another station.


The same politicians who opposed this sale in 2022 will oppose any applications made by Audacy. Except now they're in power.
 
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