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Isn't this the time for a Hispanic Personality doing a Talk Show....?
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Jack is Italian.
As for the prospect of new hosts on talk radio, the question is where. The number of hours of local talk is dwindling in San Antonio. It seems like each passing year brings news that a station is reducing its hours of local talk. In the BMP ownership thread, there is speculation that ESPN 1250 could be forced by ratings and economic reality to eliminate all of its hours of local sports talk.
Not counting the Ricci Ware Sunday-night-out-to-pasture show, KTSA has reduced by 15 the number of local talk hours per week it has on its air since I moved here in '02.
WOAI hands over 9am to 5pm to syndicated fare, bookending those hours with its only weekday hours of local talk.
As for the prospect of new hosts on talk radio, the question is where. The number of hours of local talk is dwindling in San Antonio. It seems like each passing year brings news that a station is reducing its hours of local talk. In the BMP ownership thread, there is speculation that ESPN 1250 could be forced by ratings and economic reality to eliminate all of its hours of local sports talk.
Not counting the Ricci Ware Sunday-night-out-to-pasture show, KTSA has reduced by 15 the number of local talk hours per week it has on its air since I moved here in '02.
WOAI hands over 9am to 5pm to syndicated fare, bookending those hours with its only weekday hours of local talk.
and the race of a person matters because??????? its thinking like this that holds this country back. people wanna focus on a trivial issues such as skin color instead of real issues.
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What real issues? All they seem to do is repeat articles from the internet or endlessly continue the 'discussion' of some previous spectacular 'breaking' news story. Besides, why should one group get all the airtime? Where's all this so called 'diversity' and equal opportunity? If you listen to 'their' choice of topics or tearjerking appeals for donations for someone's tragedy, it always involves their same group. No one else matters but them, no one of interest lives south of loop 410/1604, etc. But we can't offer any dissenting opinion or observation, because we'll be labelled as complainers. They think it doesn't exist because its illegal, but they never experience it because they're like the American Express check, they're accepted everywhere. Its being blind to reality that holds this country back.
Why just hispanic? How about "talented" "well read" and "compelling"? That would be nice! Who cares if they're male, female, hispanic, white, blonde, black or green? If there is a talented, well read, compelling and entertaining anyone out there - I'd think they'd already be working or at least attempting to get a job. Nobody will hand it to you on a silver platter... no matter the color of your skin.
Hispanic's dominate San Antonio.. Seems natural that someone of Hispanic descent would have a Talk Show here. Is that to hard to fathom..? Might be nice to hear their take on illegal immigrants, bilingualism, affirmative action...etc... All I really hear is, well you know, the Ditto Clones...
MINDonDAradio247 said:
Since "Hispanic" is a culture, not a race, it does make some kind of sense to have that cultural point of view on the radio.
Logs4Less said:
exactly! who gives a damn if this city is mostly "whatever". putting someone on air just cause they are hispanic vs someone who fits the desciption of what LOGS4LESS described would be downright foolish.
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This morning's JR show on 550KTSA provided a perfect example of how lack of diversity effects programming. One of today's topics was reverse discrimination regarding a non-minority small town coach wrongfully dismissed in order to hire a minority coach. Only calls from non-minorities and their sympathizers were accepted and aired. I attempted to respond to that teacher complaining about not being able to be hired due to the recruiting fairs/employment offices being staffed by 'non-anglos'. She also said that she felt like a foreigner in her own country, because any store she shopped at were staffed by 'non-anglos'. If she had bothered to look above the checkstands she would see the photos of her kind, those overpaid and underworked overseers who never soil themselves by working or walking the sales floor, where most of the lower payscale 'non-anglos' toil. How would this topic been presented by a 'non-anglo' host? How many 'non-anglo' calls would have made it through the call screener? Mine didn't and I'm sure many others didn't either. But we're not supposed to complain, it doesn't exist anymore.
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That's What I'm Talkin' About.. My roomate is black and a Republican. I get a perspective that I would never know from hearing his stories. We really need different voices to be heard. I think one of these Tejano Stations should devote airtime to a Hispanic based talk. Do it in English Please...
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