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When Talk Radio actually represented the people - not the rich

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joshzz

Do you remember when talk radio actually represented the voice of the people as opposed to the voice of the largest most corrupt corporations/interests in the world?

Watch these video segment of Irv Homer from the archives of WWDB. The funny thing is the topic of his program remains a big problem.

For some of you this will be your first taste of real talk radio. I remember when WWDB brought in the syndicated program of Rush Limbaugh. It was a sad day for many.


http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Irv

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Because rich people, who have unlimited sums of money at their disposal to spend
on their own entertainment, spend their free time scanning the AM radio dial for talk shows? ???
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Because rich people, who have unlimited sums of money at their disposal to spend
on their own entertainment, spend their free time scanning the AM radio dial for talk shows? ???
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It never ceases to amaze me how many different ways we can lay this same argument about talk radio on the butchers table and try to find a new set of names for the different steaks and roasts that always look the same as the time before, no matter what we call them. ;D

My experience tells me that it is not rich people who are spending their free time scanning the AM radio dial for talk shows. I'm not sure rich people even know what a radio is. You don't get rich sitting around listening to radio.... of any kind!

For the sake of discussion, for just a moment, forget about trying to prove that either conservatism or liberalism is better than the other. For a few moments, think about who is listening to Talk Radio, what do they do for a living, what are the prospects that 5 or 10 years from now their "pigeon hole" in the big-sorting-box-of-life is going to be a whole lot different than it is today.

Go back and read the classic play, "Death of a Salesman". The majority of Talk Radio listeners today have to be clones of Willie Loman.
 
I don't say he's a great man. Goat Rodeo Cowboy never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. -Linda Loman :eek:
 
josh said:
The truth is, many of these talk listeners are Christians, and are going down the wrong path. There is nothing this format offers for Christians as Christians have hope in the Lord and should be filled with joy helping others and doing God's work. Instead we have a bunch of grumpy people complaining and complaining, never being thankful for the great gifts God has bestowed upon them.
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ProducerGuy said:
Talk radio never represented anything more than the views of the host and whatever views he allowed to be heard on his show.
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Some of us have a few extra miles on our chassis that others.

I did Talk Radio in the late 1960s. I looked around for role models and there was Larry King and Joe Pyne. We had the "Fairness Doctrine" hanging around our neck like and albatross. I may be one of the few people hanging out here that would not shed tears if the Fairness Doctrine or some modernized cousin existed today. At night via skywave, out in the midwest I could hear a few folks doing their thing from northeastern markets along the Atlantic coast and I referred to them as "the mad-dogs of radio" and they were falling by the wayside.

In what may have been a poor business decision, when I lost my gig at the end of 1969, I decided there wasn't a future in the genre so I did not pursue find a new place in the world of Talk Radio.

In what may have been a wise business decision, at the end of 1969, I didn't have to spend the next 25 years of my life wrestling with my conscience and my basic character on when to bail out of what became a genre of programming that has no morality, no "socially redeeming qualities".

Even what we were doing in the late 60s caused the pastor of my church to take me aside one day and remark to me: "On any day of the week, there is enough ignorance on your radio station to 'ignorance the entire world' ". (with a snarl that only someone from Western Kentucky could put voice to)

Your description fits what we call Talk Radio today. But you err when you say Talk Radio was ALWAYS what it is today.
 
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Goat,

You might remember yet another right wing ego-maniac, a popular local character in the Northeast corridor, Allan Burke. Burke eventually moved "up" to local TV, where his on-screen mascot was a real-life lion. He more or less retired to radio in the Florida market, though he did return to The Big Apple as an occasional substitute radio host in the '80s. As I recall, his sit-in slots were for WABC's Bob Grant.
 
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