Not at all. They control talk radio. No one stops them from being heard. Conservatives have the #1 cable channel.
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Opposition to Univision sale
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Not at all. They control talk radio. No one stops them from being heard. Conservatives have the #1 cable channel.
I was a long time listener to Ecos del Torbes in the 70s. I think that's how I learned Spanish. The other stations of Grupo Gonzales are apparently intact. On their Facebook there's a two-year-old announcement soliciting donations from "Los Venezolanos en el exterior" to get a new transmitter. Right now. Ecos del Torbes lives on online (once I caught the English language ID they used to use on medium wave and shortwave).
There's literally no way conservatives aren't heard, and that includes Twitter and Facebook. Now if your friends mute you, that I can't help.
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I am on neither Facebook nor Twitter. And my friends enjoy talking politics with me because I can discuss them with both my conservative and liberal friends enjoyably as the conversation is always respectful.
Here is what the Cuban press is doing for amusement and agony over the possible demise of WAQI:
One should never forget that he was a Nazi collaborator.
Not true, according to Snopes.
No, George Soros Wasn't a Nazi or Nazi Collaborator During WWII
Soros was all of 13 years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, his home country, and 14 when World War II ended.
www.snopes.com
So we could have called it Radio Koch?Not true, according to Snopes.
No, George Soros Wasn't a Nazi or Nazi Collaborator During WWII
Soros was all of 13 years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, his home country, and 14 when World War II ended.
I find the new title of this Discussion Thread interesting. It seems to align with the personal viewpoint of the moderator and only a select group of folks from one particular ethnic group, being vocal about the sale of 1 particular station in 1 particular city.
To provide some balance, see below an opinion piece from the Miami Herald. Note that I've provided the link via Google, as this article on the actual Herald website is behind a paywall:
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To provide some balance, see below an opinion piece from the Miami Herald. Note that I've provided the link via Google, as this article on the actual Herald website is behind a paywall:
What’s the matter, Florida GOP? Scared of losing radio outlets that repeat your lies? | Opinion
What’s the matter, Florida GOP? Scared of losing radio outlets that repeat your lies? | Opinion
An informed community — one that not only flaunts the word “freedom” but actually practices its most basic component, free speech — shouldn’t be a threat to anyone.
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Most of the other stations in the group have no audience. The 1 particular station has a pretty substantial audience (especially for an AM station). But it's not the only conservative Spanish talker in Miami. And there's really no indication that the station will change formats, other than the hosts have said they will not accept any money from George Soros.
Moderator note: This thread was moved from Los Angeles to National by both moderators because it had acquired a focus on a transaction that affected properties in 6 states. The fact that the protests involve one station does not change the corporate and national aspect of the thread.
This was a decision in consult between both of us; one of the positive aspects of this site's moderation is that there is representation of both the blue and red perspective and we try to keep discussions about radio from going down rabbit holes on the extremes of either side.
In this case, the WAQI protests have made the NYT, WaPo, the LA Times, the WSJ as well as everything online from HuffPost to Breitbart. This is one of the bigger radio stories of the year; it's indeed national.
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There was a statement initially that the new group would "work to achieve balance". In the case of conservative "anti-castrista" WAQI, that is, indeed, a change of format.
There is no one who will be "pro-castrista." As the Herald column truthfully states, no one will be taking the side of the Cuban government. So that's just totally false. I'd expect any "balance" would be the kind of thing that doesn't even apply specifically to Miami.
The issue is that South Florida Cuban-Americans fear the loss of their premier voice against hemisphere socialist governments like Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. There are 61 stations in the Miami MSA and the defenders of the Radio Mambí programming do not want to loose that single voice.
Between Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan political refugees as well as those who escaped the communist guerilla violence in Colombia and the new wave of Peruvian refugees, there are over a million people in South Florida who escaped those regimes and who do not want to "let it rest".
The current administration openly talked about reopening oil negotiations with Venezuela, a poster child nation for a socialist autocracy. That is what much of the fear is based on; opening doors to tyrants or tyrannical regimes is dangerous and never works out for the US.
That's an issue to take up with the current administration. LMN isn't part of the current administration.
But when their initial statement involved "working to achieve balance" that means a change towards the policies of that current administration. And that is precisely what the refugee community of over a million people in Miami want to avoid. And if the new owners have to "work" to achieve "balance" that indicates that they find changes to be required.
No it doesn't. It simply means not referring to the current president as a socialist or communist. Which is what they're doing now.
Conservative media pushes this idea that NBC or CBS is an arm of the federal government. That isn't true. They are also reporting on inflation and gas prices and everything else that's negative right now. Achieving "balance" does not mean becoming a tool of the government. Balance means you include the good with the bad. Remember "fair and balanced?" Who used to say that?
Here is an example of balance, as presented by Inside Radio. The article includes a quote from a Republican and a Democrat. This is how journalism used to be done, when it presented both sides. "We report, you decide." That's how it's supposed to be done.
www.insideradio.com
In Miami, Blowback To LMN’s Purchase Of 18 Radio Stations From TelevisaUnivision.
The sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations by TelevisaUnivision to the newly formed Latino Media Network has caused an uproar in South Florida. The worry is that LMN, whose founders
What has to be realized is that the perspective on political terminology changes if you have lived under or are a refugee of a dictatorial socialist regime. That means a basic distrust of big government because, to us, big government is prone to abuse of power.
I have never, ever seen this perspective in my assortment of news sources ranging from HuffPost and the NYT to Fox and the BBC.
Of course it is not.
That is a positioning statement and about as absolute as “playing all your favorites.”
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