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Descanso 89.1 progress

radio-darn said:
Or at least a grown up
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That was good for a ;D or ;D ;D

I looked at the website, and aside from some cute placard-carrying cartoon characters ready to sing cumbaya, I don't quite get what the purpose of the organization is. They are big on solidarity and protest, but don't seem to have a platform of what they are for.
 
These people need to put the bong down, and get a reality check. They have no purpose for their organization except to protest. So I can only assume that they are a glorified version of the protestors that are for hire in front of Carmax and other places. So I guess that they will make money with "dollar a holler" protesting.

Why cant hippies like this stick to their medical Mary Jane, tie dye tee shirts, their love-ins, and their crappy music at the coffee shops. Why cant they leave radio to the professionals??

If you want to protest something, go to Popeyes chicken and protest the high prices for cheap chicken!!
 
600kogo said:
These people need to put the bong down, and get a reality check. They have no purpose for their organization except to protest. So I can only assume that they are a glorified version of the protestors that are for hire in front of Carmax and other places. So I guess that they will make money with "dollar a holler" protesting.

Why cant hippies like this stick to their medical Mary Jane, tie dye tee shirts, their love-ins, and their crappy music at the coffee shops. Why cant they leave radio to the professionals??

If you want to protest something, go to Popeyes chicken and protest the high prices for cheap chicken!!
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I theoreticallly agree with you, but San Diego radio is dominated by right wing/Republican talking point radio. Having something that presents another point of view would be quite welcome.
 
KPBS-FM is a very left wing organization. The reason the talk stations are conservative, is that they get ratings and make money. The moment that they dont.... Adios conservative talk and hello to more hispanic formats on AM. KLSD was a bad, bad experiment in formatics. That station had the best the libs had to offer, and it couldnt touch the ratings of KPOP and the sales were absolutely impossible to get. So at that point sports talk was an alternative, and CC went with it. But liberals dominate TV, the conservatives have AM radio. Seems like a fair trade doesnt it?? The liberals and TV and conservatives and the unwanted failing AM stations that no one wants???
 
Perhaps someone could enlighten us. I was under the impression that KLSD closely matched the KPOP ratings and maybe more importantly, that its liberal programming drew significantly higher than the sports format it has now. I don't see what is "liberal" about KPBS. I think they do not try to steer so much a "middle" course as a factual one. If facts seem liberal that pretty much shows the problem with conservatism.
 
Lopaka said:
I think they do not try to steer so much a "middle" course as a factual one. If facts seem liberal that pretty much shows the problem with conservatism.
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As a former broadcast journalist and newspaper editor and reporter, my view is that there is no "neutral" reporting. Personal and organizational biases are reflected in what stories and issues you choose cover, what facts you decide to use, and in what context. You can easily use known truths or observations to skew your coverage left, right or ostensibly toward the middle. But the "middle" looks different depending upon your personal beliefs and in fact (pun intended) an organization that hires mostly liberal-minded editors, reporters, producers, etc. will see the world through those mindsets and operate under the assumption that their view is the only sensible way to see the world and thus must be the middle ground and that those who disagree are radicals.

The same is true from the conservative viewpoint, but because of the nature of academia, you won't find too many folks coming out of journalism school with conservative views and if they do have them, they will have a hard time succeeding in most TV and print media. Even in radio - outside of talk stations - most jocks I've worked with come across as knee-jerk liberals who know little or nothing about actual politics, public affairs and government, but do know that the hip thing to do in the entertainment industry is to fall in lockstep behind the liberal trend setters in Hollywood and scorn conservatives, Christians, southerners and others who don't think the true answers to life are found in the teachings of George Clooney.

The conservative media voice is really a small one and would amount to shouting in the wind but for the fact that Hollywood, the major TV networks and major newspapers get so riled up by the conservatives that they spend huge amounts of time, energy and ink repeating what those conservative voices have said. Heck, Sarah Palin is not a product of Rush Limbaugh or newspapers such as the allegedly conservative San Diego Union: she exists as a conservative voice because of the New York Times, NBC, CBS and all other others who devote so much coverage to her: and they don't cover her to balance the news, they cover her because they think she and anyone who'd like her are wacko nuts and stories about her are always good for some giggles among liberal readers and viewers. It's like those morning jocks skewering the "right" - it's just fun for them because they can't even imagine how any right-minded person could be anything but left-minded.
 
radio-darn said:
Heck, Sarah Palin is not a product of Rush Limbaugh or newspapers such as the allegedly conservative San Diego Union: she exists as a conservative voice because of the New York Times, NBC, CBS and all other others who devote so much coverage to her: and they don't cover her to balance the news, they cover her because they think she and anyone who'd like her are wacko nuts and stories about her are always good for some giggles among liberal readers and viewers.
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Likewise, no matter where you stand about Ron Paul, he is not getting coverage by the same, Bob, for that very reason.

Gotta go, I can see a HDRadio from my front porch.
 
Where, exactly, is this liberal bias you speak of? Everywhere I tune in, it's the same old GOP talking points reported as gospel.
 
600kogo said:
KPBS-FM is a very left wing organization. The reason the talk stations are conservative, is that they get ratings and make money. The moment that they dont.... Adios conservative talk and hello to more hispanic formats on AM. KLSD was a bad, bad experiment in formatics. That station had the best the libs had to offer, and it couldnt touch the ratings of KPOP and the sales were absolutely impossible to get. So at that point sports talk was an alternative, and CC went with it. But liberals dominate TV, the conservatives have AM radio. Seems like a fair trade doesnt it?? The liberals and TV and conservatives and the unwanted failing AM stations that no one wants???
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I totally agree with you...but as someone who is really a moderate...I'm really going through conservative radio fatigue...Rush is just plain grumpy anymore, Glenn Beck (remember him?) is a whackjob, Sean Hannity is just plain boring, and Roger Hedgecock is downright dull and predictable.
 
If you're not so far from the middle whichever way you lean, there's a lot of common ground. Rush, Hannity, Beck, Savage and the rest of them are *shows*. They make a lot of money stirring shit. I know some true conservatives and I can reach agreement with them on many issues, even though I consider myself a left of Al Sharpton liberal.
 
John Hogan of CC made a statement, and he was 100% right! Rush Limbaugh saved AM radio. Before Rush came along 95 percent of the AM stations in the country were doomed...Including KOGO !!! Rush came to San Diego and turned it around for KSDO and kept her at the top for a long time until the format was flipped over to KOGO, and now he has kept San Diego's oldest commercial station on the top of the AM heap for a very long time.

Like conservative talk or hate it, it makes money!! And it is keeping historic stations like KOGO, KFMB, KFI, WBAP, KMOX, KSL, KOA, KTRH, and most of the Class 1A Clear Channels afloat. And the shows that do the best are the Premiere network shows.
 
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Activist San Diego 's in-the-works, full-power FM station. The signal will transmit out of Descanso, with a parallel Internet radio stream and studios based in City Heights.
(from latest webpage)
So, just where are they putting the main office? S/B within 20 miles from city of license, City Heights is about 28 miles...
 
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