Radio Eq.: The Bill Clinton Show?

[raccoonradio]

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/
(June 16, 2005 entry. Happy Bloomsday! Also the day the Superflu in
Stephen King's THE STAND started.)

excerpt:
Will former President Bill Clinton soon take to the nation's airwaves?
This potentially earth-shattering radio industry announcement was buried in a lengthy Business Week report on the future of Clear Channel Communications, America's largest station owner and program syndicator.Reporter Tom Lowry was able to get confirmation to back up speculation that Bubba himself might be the next liberal talk radio offering for the company's stations

 

[RobertAnthony]

> http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/
> (June 16, 2005 entry. Happy Bloomsday! Also the day the
> Superflu in
> Stephen King's THE STAND started.)
>
> excerpt:
> Will former President Bill Clinton soon take to the nation's
> airwaves?
> This potentially earth-shattering radio industry
> announcement was buried in a lengthy Business Week report on
> the future of Clear Channel Communications, America's
> largest station owner and program syndicator.Reporter Tom
> Lowry was able to get confirmation to back up speculation
> that Bubba himself might be the next liberal talk radio
> offering for the company's stations
>
OH, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the man who signed Telecom 96 which has started this downward spiral that is deregulation of the media and other telecommunications.

 

[gr8oldies]

This has been floated before.

> > http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/
> > (June 16, 2005 entry. Happy Bloomsday! Also the day the
> > Superflu in
> > Stephen King's THE STAND started.)
> >
> > excerpt:
> > Will former President Bill Clinton soon take to the
> nation's
> > airwaves?
> > This potentially earth-shattering radio industry
> > announcement was buried in a lengthy Business Week report
> on
> > the future of Clear Channel Communications, America's
> > largest station owner and program syndicator.Reporter Tom
> > Lowry was able to get confirmation to back up speculation
> > that Bubba himself might be the next liberal talk radio
> > offering for the company's stations
> >
> OH, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the man who signed Telecom
> 96 which has started this downward spiral that is
> deregulation of the media and other telecommunications.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
"There ain't no reason to fight over a woman. There's two more down the street!".."Senisble Don", 700 WLW</P>

 

[dampier]

> excerpt:
> Will former President Bill Clinton soon take to the nation's
> airwaves?

> This potentially earth-shattering radio industry
> announcement was buried in a lengthy Business Week report on
> the future of Clear Channel Communications, America's
> largest station owner and program syndicator.

This is the fifth time I've heard this rumor. It's at least four years old and is dismissed as being undignified to the institution of the presidency for a former president to sit around as a talk show host.

The Radio Equalizer is the Matt Drudge of the broadcasting news world. No rumor isn't fit to print.

 

[Les]

If he were to....

> Will former President Bill Clinton soon take to the nation's
> airwaves?
> This potentially earth-shattering radio industry
> announcement was buried in a lengthy Business Week report on
> the future of Clear Channel Communications, America's
> largest station owner and program syndicator.Reporter Tom
> Lowry was able to get confirmation to back up speculation
> that Bubba himself might be the next liberal talk radio
> offering for the company's stations

Not impossible that he might take wing....

But the show would last, maybe, two weeks.

Not a popularity problem; rather an attention span
problem. He'd get bored without a never-ending
stream of new young, lovely (well, young anyway)
interns. Of course THAT might happen....sweet
young things in search of their 15-minutes of
fame!
<P ID="signature">______________

Due to underwhelming popular demand...</P>

 

[morescrapple]

>
> The Radio Equalizer is the Matt Drudge of the broadcasting
> news world. No rumor isn't fit to print.
>

Source is Business Week.

 

[radiogeek07]

Glenn Beck talked about it this morning. I think he quoted the New York Post?
Apparently, they want to put him on before Rush. Would that mean Jerry Springer is thrown out the window?

 

[raccoonradio]

Re: If he were to....

Someone on Free Republic wondered if he's take Stern's place. My reply:

Bubba Booey

 

[ajhenderson]

> Glenn Beck talked about it this morning. I think he quoted
> the New York Post?
> Apparently, they want to put him on before Rush. Would that
> mean Jerry Springer is thrown out the window?

Yes, and Beck with him.

 

[JerryStevens]

<div align="justify">"This is the fifth time I've heard this rumor. It's at least four years old"

Rumors have a way of coming back again and again even when true. How many times did we read that Apple was going to switch to Intel chips. When the rumor came back for about the tenth time, seemingly everyone dismissed it. Just when everyone decided it was B.S. Apple announced last week that it is true.

"...and is dismissed as being undignified to the institution of the presidency for a former president to sit around as a talk show host."

I think it's demeaning to talk show hosts who bust their asses learning their jobs but it is somehow assumed that any former politician with even a modicum of charm can do what they do. Seriously, Clinton probably has the innate ability but not the attention or discipline to learn to do a talk show.

And as far as it being demeaning to "The presidency" to do a talk show, I wish all of them would get jobs. Who the hell started the tradition that they would all spend the rest of their lives collecting enormous speaking fees while saying nothing of note, and polishing their "legacies" through their hideously overblown presidential libraries? George Washington returned to the military after his presidency. Calvin Coolidge served as chairman of the Railroad Commission, as honorary president of the Foundation of the Blind, as director of New York Life Insurance Company, as president of the American Antiquarian Society, and as trustee of Amherst College.

The Radio Equalizer is the Matt Drudge of the broadcasting news world. No rumor isn't fit to print.

You're being unfair to Drudge. He doesn't print that many rumors. Hell, he doesn't originate many stories. It's almost all links to big media. He does for an obscure news story what Oprah used to do for obscure authors. I think what really pisses people off about him is that 98% of his costs are for bandwith on that 39 cent website template, yet he gets more traffic than big companies spending a fortune on their websites.

In a sense, you have to hand it to Brian "The Equalizer" Maloney. He's gotten a lot of mileage with his cockamamie story about being fired by Entercom for his remarks about Dan Rather. Please. While I never worked in Seattle, I worked for Entercom and just don't believe that's the reason he no longer works there. I love the bio he publishes which says: "A talk host since 1993, Time Magazine has compared Maloney to Rush Limbaugh. " That's like saying I've been compared to Bill Gates. Yeah, he founded Microsoft and I own a computer.<P ID="signature">______________
Jerry

My passion for talk radio extends from Limbaugh to Komando to Franken. Please don't bore me with your political opinions or make commentary on what you imagine mine to be. No one cares.
</P>

 

[dampier]

> >
> > The Radio Equalizer is the Matt Drudge of the broadcasting
>
> > news world. No rumor isn't fit to print.
> >
>
> Source is Business Week.

...which is reporting it as rumor. That makes it good enough for The Equalrumorsizer to run with it. If my Aunt Candy reported it, it would be in there.

 

[Tom_]

Re: Indeed...the direct source is Business Week...

from the business week report linked to Brian's radio blog:

"And Harry Thomason, a Hollywood director and longtime friend of Bill Clinton's, confirmed to BusinessWeek that Clear Channel has had talks with the former President about his own show. "There's definitely a place for the former President on radio at some point," says Thomason."

Source of this quote:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938093_mz016.htm?chan=tc

 

[Tom_]

Re: Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof...

> OH, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the man who signed Telecom
> 96 which has started this downward spiral that is
> deregulation of the media and other telecommunications.



Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof if Clinton goes national and Hillary runs for president... Chuck is back, BTW, with high quality streaming from the Talk Star radio network...In fact I can't stand the liberals in Chuck's time slot anymore including Air America. Today I listened to Chuck's progressive perspectives on alternative energy (railroads are the most efficient!!!), dolphin intelligence with Stanton Freedman, Chuck's feeding of 30 raccoons and 20 opossums, Chuck's parrot, Chuck's proposal to improve radio evacuation alerts for homeland security, and Chuck's discussions of NAFTA, which Clinton also signed. Too bad Air America didn't hire Chuck - he's a smart and intuitive radio engineer. Chuck says he has three CP's for radio stations, two of these 50kW. I voted for Perot twice. Liberal does not equal progressive...look it up in an old dictionary. Progressive does not equal Democrat and actually implies no party affiliation since there are Progressive Independents and Progressive Republicans. Liberal describes a personality trait.

 

[drtylawndre]

I bet he can get good money from advertisers ...but as someone said he won't have the discipline to make it work in the long term..

 

[fredflintstone]

Why not? It's a natural. Radio has a lots of interns.

 

[gr8oldies]

Re: Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof...

You're not holding your breath about that, I hope. Where did Chuck Harder ever get traction?


> > OH, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the man who signed Telecom
>
> > 96 which has started this downward spiral that is
> > deregulation of the media and other telecommunications.
>
>
>
> Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof if Clinton
> goes national and Hillary runs for president... Chuck is
> back, BTW, with high quality streaming from the Talk Star
> radio network...In fact I can't stand the liberals in
> Chuck's time slot anymore including Air America. Today I
> listened to Chuck's progressive perspectives on alternative
> energy (railroads are the most efficient!!!), dolphin
> intelligence with Stanton Freedman, Chuck's feeding of 30
> raccoons and 20 opossums, Chuck's parrot, Chuck's proposal
> to improve radio evacuation alerts for homeland security,
> and Chuck's discussions of NAFTA, which Clinton also signed.
> Too bad Air America didn't hire Chuck - he's a smart and
> intuitive radio engineer. Chuck says he has three CP's for
> radio stations, two of these 50kW. I voted for Perot twice.
> Liberal does not equal progressive...look it up in an old
> dictionary. Progressive does not equal Democrat and
> actually implies no party affiliation since there are
> Progressive Independents and Progressive Republicans.
> Liberal describes a personality trait.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
"There ain't no reason to fight over a woman. There's two more down the street!".."Senisble Don", 700 WLW</P>

 

[Tom_]

Re: Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof...

> You're not holding your breath about that, I hope. Where did
> Chuck Harder ever get traction?

....Chuck is a populist and more Americans would identify with his views, in my opinion, than the viewpoints of the *current* lineup of Air America hosts...I'm always a big fan of politically neutral yet also politically unpredictable hosts such as Chuck Harder, Bob Brinker, Jeff Rense, Dave Ross, Bill Wattenburg, etc...But that's just me...I'm on the edge of my chair holding my breath waiting to see if their next point will be progressive or conservative! D-)

 

[jh]

Re: Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof...

> > You're not holding your breath about that, I hope. Where
> did
> > Chuck Harder ever get traction?
>
> ....Chuck is a populist and more Americans would identify
> with his views, in my opinion, than the viewpoints of the
> *current* lineup of Air America hosts...I'm always a big fan
> of politically neutral yet also politically unpredictable
> hosts such as Chuck Harder, Bob Brinker, Jeff Rense, Dave
> Ross, Bill Wattenburg, etc...But that's just me...I'm on the
> edge of my chair holding my breath waiting to see if their
> next point will be progressive or conservative! D-)
>

Harder has stated on occasion he's really a Republican but registered as a Democrat to vote in primaries. (Apparently not many Republicans seek office in his part of Florida.) He was also more critical of Clinton than he's been of Bush, although he basically doesn't like either party, and supported Perot at least the first time he ran. He also has supported Pat Buchannon.

Harder's show started out as a consumer advice program and slowly over the years has shifted away from that into sort of a "look out for the little guy" approach. But over the years, he's also lost most if not all of his affiliates in larger markets. I think his show would get more stations if he moved it to evenings rather than try to compete with bigger names during the daytime.

 

[gr8oldies]

Re: Chuck Harder's ratings will go through the roof...

Again, no substantial ratings anywhere that I know, and as I recall, his Sun Radio Network went belly-up a while back. Harder was buying time on WWCR shortwave at one point, may still be.




> > > You're not holding your breath about that, I hope. Where
>
> > did
> > > Chuck Harder ever get traction?
> >
> > ....Chuck is a populist and more Americans would identify
> > with his views, in my opinion, than the viewpoints of the
> > *current* lineup of Air America hosts...I'm always a big
> fan
> > of politically neutral yet also politically unpredictable
> > hosts such as Chuck Harder, Bob Brinker, Jeff Rense, Dave
> > Ross, Bill Wattenburg, etc...But that's just me...I'm on
> the
> > edge of my chair holding my breath waiting to see if their
>
> > next point will be progressive or conservative! D-)
> >
>
> Harder has stated on occasion he's really a Republican but
> registered as a Democrat to vote in primaries. (Apparently
> not many Republicans seek office in his part of Florida.)
> He was also more critical of Clinton than he's been of Bush,
> although he basically doesn't like either party, and
> supported Perot at least the first time he ran. He also has
> supported Pat Buchannon.
>
> Harder's show started out as a consumer advice program and
> slowly over the years has shifted away from that into sort
> of a "look out for the little guy" approach. But over the
> years, he's also lost most if not all of his affiliates in
> larger markets. I think his show would get more stations if
> he moved it to evenings rather than try to compete with
> bigger names during the daytime.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
"There ain't no reason to fight over a woman. There's two more down the street!".."Senisble Don", 700 WLW</P>

 

[Tom_]

Re: Chuck Harder and shortwave...

> Again, no substantial ratings anywhere that I know, and as I
> recall, his Sun Radio Network went belly-up a while back.
> Harder was buying time on WWCR shortwave at one point, may
> still be.


Chuck is no longer on WWCR last time I checked...but he might be back on, I'm not sure. Chuck is now on Talk Star Radio Network, which includes some Liberty Broadcasting hosts. What happened to Liberty? Talk star does stream Chuck's show 2p-5p eastern, with the 4 o'clock hour the re-feed of the first hour. Talk star also added liberal DC attorney/economist Mark Levine earlier this month at 7p Eastern M-F and 6p Sundays.

I agree with the "jh" who suggests Chuck as an evening host to avoid competition during the day.

The thing I like the most about Chuck's show is his discussions of alternative energy, disaster preparedness, alternative health, and radio engineering, but that's just me...someone who likes science and listens to alternatives to the mainstream conservative and liberal hosts...

BTW - as for SHORTWAVE, it may be that the Genesis network has some hosts on shortwave, perhaps Von-Kleist, Rense, Alex Jones, and others on that network...