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Will the "Rush Radio" wave hit Cleveland-area CC stations?

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berlin201

Clear Channel has done it again! They are forming a series of talk-formatted stations known as "Rush [Limbaugh] Radio." Supposedly, in January 2010, WGBT 94.5 (currently a Spanish station on the La Preciosa network) in Greensboro, NC and WRDU 106.1 (a country station known as 106.1 RDU Country) in Raleigh will both flip to this new format. Wonder if any CC stations in this area (i.e. WTAM) follow suit?
 
Who and Why would CC blow up on FM to move WTAM to FM and why move to FM when WTAM is Non Directional 50kw station. plus they have Rush already on WTAM, in Canton-Akron they have Rush on WHLO and who would they blow up on FM To move him there plus the fact if they dont listen on WHLO to rush they get the 50KW Signal of WTAM, in YOungstown Rush is on WKBN, who in Youngstown on FM would CC blow up to move Rush to FM, besides another market that gets the 50kw signal of WTAM. the only Way i see CC Putting Rush on FM's is markets that they dont have Rush on one of their Stations already and there yanking it off of a competitor like in Carolina and in Minneapolis and Pittsburgh a few years ago. Thus in Ohio Rush will Stay on WKBN, WHLO, WTAM, WTVN, WKRC and WSPD in Toledo
 
I agree with Mike. We don't need anymore Rush in this area. I think that CC is using Limbaugh's renewed notoriety, and trying to ride on his coattails. Having the Democrats in power could be a huge shot in the arm to both.
 
What CC is doing right now with "Rush Radio" is having their stations acquiring the rights to Rush's show from non-CC outlets, some of which carried them from the beginning. It started with KDKA (to WPGB), then WWL AM/FM (to the first "Rush Radio" WRNO-FM) and now Curtis Radio's WPTF; (which is losing both Rush and Hannity to WRDU). So it's an apples and oranges argument.
 
dannykewl said:
We have enough of Rush and the Right. What we need is more of the Left on the airwaves! Like this: ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBycDNiOxR8

Enjoy! This used to get played on WIXY-1260 in the Spring of 1967, charted on WIXY at number 30-something. It's not my YouTube posting.
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Apparently, you forgot about when Akron's 1350 was "Radio Free Ohio" with the likes of Bill Press, Stephanie Miller and Ed Schultz. The Dial Global hosts are still on the air--just not in Ohio.
 
I still can't figure out how a guy who is on something like 600 stations, in some areas--like NE Ohio--on two or three receivable signals at once, complains about the dominance and control of "the mainstream media". By the numbers, does he not have the #1 radio show in the USA? Yet he still carries on the shtick that he is somehow David against the Goliath of a media which is completely liberal controlled. Rush, Hannity and Beck are the biggest radio acts. Fox News is #1 on cable. The NY Daily News is the #1 paper in New York.

Now. even more 100% right-wing radio services, named in his honor yet!

Seems like HE is the Goliath.
 
I agree with you HHH. As far as I am concerned Rush, Beck and Hannity have become the mainstream media. They control the talk radio business. In my area here in Florida we have three, thats right THREE stations within our listening are that have those three on. Talk about controlling the media.
 
Let's see how bad poor little Rush is being outdone by the "big bad liberals". I should do a radio dial scan Monday to back this up, but last time I scanned my AM radio dial here's what I could receive at my location in Cleveland, who all had the same Rush show on simultaneously:

WKBN 570, WTVN 610, WHLO 640, ?WEOL 930? (I think), WWJ 950, WFUN 970, WTAM 1100, WSPD 1370, and maybe one in the 1400 KHz range, maybe 1440, 1450? Does WHBC 1480 carry Rush? So potentially 7 to 10 stations receivable right here in Cleveland. I don't think WAKR carries him?

Liberal talk shows that I know of: 0

I know 1350 in Akron had Air America for a while, and that's gone. What the hell is Rush complaining about, just like HHH said, Rush and his clones are the Goliath! An unneeded monopoly of the airwaves.
 
WAKR carried Rush from 1991 to 1994, when the current local owners bought WAKR (and WONE) and booted Rush off.

WHBC in Canton also carried Limbaugh at one time.
 
AM 930 WEOL has never had Rush Limbaugh. They have advice talk on from noon 'til 3pm with Clark Howard.

Yes, you can find liberal talk. WJMO, now at AM1300 has Al Sharpton's show. I think he's on in the afternoon. During hot political seasons, turn on the morning and afternoon drive shows on WZAK 93.1 FM. They often talk about politics, and it's usually on the so-called liberal side of things.

As for a discussion about who is the "mainstream", the view is that most TV networks, and most newspapers lean left so the only balances are talk radio and Fox News. My belief is that during news segments (not opinion based talk shows), both CNN and Fox News try to be "fair and balanced".
 
johnbasalla said:
AM 930 WEOL has never had Rush Limbaugh. They have advice talk on from noon 'til 3pm with Clark Howard.

Yes, you can find liberal talk. WJMO, now at AM1300 has Al Sharpton's show. I think he's on in the afternoon. During hot political seasons, turn on the morning and afternoon drive shows on WZAK 93.1 FM. They often talk about politics, and it's usually on the so-called liberal side of things.

As for a discussion about who is the "mainstream", the view is that most TV networks, and most newspapers lean left so the only balances are talk radio and Fox News. My belief is that during news segments (not opinion based talk shows), both CNN and Fox News try to be "fair and balanced".
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Utter bollocks. Sharpton is on WERE 1490, not WJMO 1300. Name one other "liberal" show on the airwaves ANYWHERE in Ohio. Go ahead - name one. And "most TV networks, and most newspapers lean left?" Give me a break. The right wing propaganda machine has the media so cowed that they lean to the right just because they are so afraid of being called liberal. The right has demonized the word "liberal" just like they have "France," "San Francisco," and "intellectual."
 
I've not listened to Sharpton's show in a while, and the last time I did, it was on 1300, so it would be reasonable for them to have moved it over to the actual talk station. I believe that they had it on 1300 due to the better coverage.

I do think it's too bad that liberal talk didn't make it on 1350.
There are a number of liberal opinions on NPR stations.

I don't agree that conservative sources have any "pull" on other sources, although I agree that over time "The Right" has managed to demonize the word "liberal". However they had some help from far-left individuals with some of their thoughts and policies.
 
Rusty Blades said:
johnbasalla said:
AM 930 WEOL has never had Rush Limbaugh. They have advice talk on from noon 'til 3pm with Clark Howard.

Yes, you can find liberal talk. WJMO, now at AM1300 has Al Sharpton's show. I think he's on in the afternoon. During hot political seasons, turn on the morning and afternoon drive shows on WZAK 93.1 FM. They often talk about politics, and it's usually on the so-called liberal side of things.

As for a discussion about who is the "mainstream", the view is that most TV networks, and most newspapers lean left so the only balances are talk radio and Fox News. My belief is that during news segments (not opinion based talk shows), both CNN and Fox News try to be "fair and balanced".
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Utter bollocks. Sharpton is on WERE 1490, not WJMO 1300. Name one other "liberal" show on the airwaves ANYWHERE in Ohio. Go ahead - name one. And "most TV networks, and most newspapers lean left?" Give me a break. The right wing propaganda machine has the media so cowed that they lean to the right just because they are so afraid of being called liberal. The right has demonized the word "liberal" just like they have "France," "San Francisco," and "intellectual."
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Give John a break... Radio One's bounced Sharpton from WERE/1300 - which became WERE/1490 with the signal/callsign swap in June 2007 with WJMO. Then the show was bumped over to WJMO/1300 early in 2008 for reasons I can't explain - then quietly went back to WERE/1490 with zero publicity.
 
In addition, WERE features morning host Bashir Jones and liberal-leaning lawyer Warren Ballentine in middays. Plus the brokered-time "America's Workforce" with Ed "Flash" Ferenc at 4 p.m. Bashir's probably the best new local talent out there... in fact, he's the ONLY local talk talent out there.
 
Thank you, Nate. It's a "feather in your cap", and a tribute to your knowledge and knowledge gathering abilities that, with zero publicity, you somehow knew about the move of Sharpton back to 1490AM. Congrats.

I learned over a year ago how one could get things wrong, even when sure it's right. I was on-air at WBWC and got a call from "Gilly"... and I knew from the voice that it was him ... He told me he was going to fill-in on WTAM. Well, it turned out not to be true as Chuck Galeti filled in. A week or so later, Gilmore called back and said he was set to go on, but then something (unexplained to me) occurred. So, I sat there with egg on my face, but chose not to explain anything about it on-line because I was concerned that if there was too much talking about it on-line, maybe the radio station might be unhappy about it, and that might hurt his chances to fill-in or become a regular again.
 
Speaker of Truth said:
Air America has failed to capture an audience because 1) its on lousy AM sticks and 2) its hosts for the most part are boring..I know liberals who won't listen to it..

Air America has been bankrupt at least four different times since its inception...it has never made money, and it won't make money, period...if you want Air America, buy a goddamn XM Sirius unit where its carried 24 hours a day and stop complaining...

Limbaugh, Beck et al do two things very well..entertain their target audience and make money..I understand for most liberals that anyone who actually suceeds in America and makes a decent living is an Enemy of The State and must be eliminated..profitability is just something some of you might learn to deal with.
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You're out of date, Speaker. Dial Global has taken over as the leading syndicator of liberal talk with Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press on its roster along with conservatives Neal Boortz and Michael Smerconish.

Interestingly, two more popular liberal talkers are syndicated by outfits that are otherwise conservative: Premiere Radio Network's Randi Rhodes (yes, the same syndicator as Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity) and Fox News Radio's Alan Colmes (FNR also with ties, like Premiere, to Clear Channel).

The only Air America talker with some degree of success is Lionel, formerly syndicated by WOR. He's not on the actual AAR network feed but distributed by AAR's syndication unit. If, however, he replaced the morning re-feeds of Rachel Maddow, that would be news to me.

Nonetheless...with the addition of Ed Schultz' senior legal analyst, Norman Goldman, to the list of liberal talkers (syndicated by Compass Media Networks), a PD thinking about counterprogramming with liberal talk can do so with live talkers from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. without relying on Air America at all.
 
The change here has begun...

WRDU has officially dropped its country format and is now playing an all-Christmas format as a lead-in to the formal format change which is slated for after New Year's. No word on WGBT; the website still points to their current Spanish format, although there is a separate website for the new station, with a link to the webstream to be added later once the change becomes official.
 
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