Mark Levin Is Going To Save Sesame Street.

[reelyreal]

Here's what we'll do, wadio: We'll send all of your tax dollars to fund the war in Afghanistan, and they can send my dollars to PBS. You're no longer paying for it!

Problem solved.

 

[recto101]

If Mark Levin Takes over PBS or NPR it has to mean one thing. NPR and PBS must act like Fox News if Mark Levin, GLenn Beck, Rush and Hannity runs the Network.

 

[Bongwater]

Big Bird will learn something about competing in the free market. Big Bird will learn something about individualism and supporting yourself. Big Bird will learn that if you work hard you usually won't need "free stuff" from the government. Further, Big Bird will learn that there is no such thing as "free-stuff"... everything has to be paid for by someone. Big Bird will learn that if you're going to cut the deficit, you have to cut spending and every little bit counts. PBS is over 26 years old, and is big and strong enough to take care of itself. In learning these, and other lessons, Big Bird will be a better bird for our children.

In other words, Big Bird will learn to be more like Oscar the Grouch, right?

 

[DToTheJ]

Levin himself sounds a little like The Grouch. ;D

 

[MC]

levin looks like a muppet as well...I bet the fur will fly with this new Savage deal...they are always going at it Levin v Savage, but I guess they are in different time slots now??

 

[DToTheJ]

Maybe Levin should cut to the chase and just sue PBS. ;D
http://www.examiner.com/article/talk-radio-superstar-sues-obama-s-epa-federal-court

 

[ropertex]

Unlike Limbaugh, Hannity, and other talkers, Levin is the President of an legal advocacy organization (Landmark Legal) with a specific mandate to eliminate teachers unions, Teamsters, AFL/CIO, environmental regulation, the parks and wildlife service and the forest service. They are supported by the Koch Brothers and the Scaife family and Exxon-Mobil. And those entities make more money if they can timber and drill on public lands without environmental regulations, not have to pay union wages to the people who work in oil refining and transporting of oil and timber products. And they certainly support taxpayers providing them vouchers to they can educate their kids at home or in private academies to keep the away from having to associate with those corruptive dark-skinned children.

It's curious that they don't have to BUY their airtime. Even more curious that a number of Hannity affiliates were told unless they carried Levin's show -- live -- their rights to carry Hannity would be ended. FCC regulations in place since 1941 bans networks and program suppliers from trying to force carriage of programs by withholding popular programs as a "carrot and stick." Local station managers are responsible for programming decisons -- and even O&O stations sometimes refuse to clear certain programs at all or only on tape delay to carry a program of "greater public interest in their community." The networks are not happy of course, but they can offer the program to another station in that market.

Where was all the outrage about "agendas" Or from the radio execs who claimed every show has to stand on its own merits, not drag on the coat tails of an existing successful show?

 

[TheBigA]

Even more curious that a number of Hannity affiliates were told unless they carried Levin's show -- live -- their rights to carry Hannity would be ended.

Levin and Hannity are syndicated by competing companies, so what you say isn't possible.

 

[DToTheJ]

The Great Hannity/Levin Cramdown Of 2008 was shortly around or before the time Premiere came on board as a co-manager of Hannity's show.

 

[recto101]

Now that President Obama Won. Mark Levin does not have to "rescue Sesame Street"

 

[umfan]

Levin and Hannity are syndicated by competing companies, so what you say isn't possible.

Not entirely true. When Levin started, Hannity was syndicated by ABC Radio Networks, the successor of which syndicates Levin. The successor company, Cumulus Media, shares the syndication duties for Hannity's show so a relationship still exists there.

 

[TheBigA]

When Levin started, Hannity was syndicated by ABC Radio Networks, the successor of which syndicates Levin. The successor company, Cumulus Media, shares the syndication duties for Hannity's show so a relationship still exists there.

Only for Cumulus stations. The official syndicator is Premiere. So Cumulus is in no position to use Hannity to force stations to carry Levin, except on Cumulus owned stations. Premiere would have an issue with that.

 

[DToTheJ]

Now that President Obama won, Mark Levin does not have to "rescue Sesame Street".

Nope - but Obama managed to rescue conservative talk radio for another four years!