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WRKO, The Only Talk Station!

stevensonair said:
You are aware of the demographic issues facing that style of talk, I'm assuming.
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Yes, but demographics haven't caught up completely, not just yet. They can get a few more good years out of conservative talk. And maybe more, if people in this country start waking up to the nightmare we are truly in! But I digress ...
 
maybe he won't last 2 yrs in this market because within that time he could go national (and who knows if RKO would have room for him...) But you never know
 
So if people were more "awake" - they would spend more of the future tuning in to have their opinions fed to them or verified by a generously paid talk jock?

Interesting.
 
Kuhner gives his opinions, all right, but it's all based in fact. Read his weekly columns for the Washington Times, he deals with reality, not utopian fantasy like our government and the majority of the sheep in this nation are. Let's ban those nasty assault weapons, as if the Newtown tragedy would have been any less tragic than if the nut had shot those kids with handguns, or carved them up with knives (which, btw, happened the very day before at a school in China.) Anyway, it doesn't matter for the purposes of this conversation, he's an excellent host who appeals to his target audience. That's what makes Jeff Kuhner succeed.
 
Retro said:
This just showed up on my Facebook page and I went to check it out. WRKO is now positioning themselves as the only talk station in Boston. I wonder how long that will last for?
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...except for WBUR & WGBH. They do have call-in shows during much of their day, and I hear that many radios now come with access to the new Frequency Modulation band ::).
 
stevensonair said:
You are aware of the demographic issues facing that style of talk, I'm assuming.
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What are you so impressed with? He bizarre speech pattern or the fact that he keeps saying America is no longer the America he grew up in even though he was born and raised in Canada?

250,,000 people attended Capital Pride in Washington DC last year but somehow Crazy Kuhner was able to be at the same spot that he claims Barney Frank was at with his shirt off and getting a massage from his partner. Just like his claim that he would always see Senator Kennedy at bars seated at a table with several woman and bottles of wine. When in fact, by the Kuhner arrived in DC, Kennedy had gotten married stopped drinking and going out. I could go on with the lies and misinformation that is heard on his "Report" but I can't spend the rest of the day on this site.

There was a day when having a Syndicated show was impressive now anyone with access to a Satellite can be a nationally syndicated talk host.

B-1 Bomber Bob Dornan, Armstrong Williams and Roger Hedgehog all filled in for Rush on a regular basis whatever happened to them?
 
Speaking of Rush, Former Tea Party leader and House Majority Leader Dick Armey admitted that his group paid large sums of money to Limbaugh and Beck to say nice things about the Tea Party. The Pay for Say scheme is common for Beck who took also took large sums of money from shady Gold Brokers to tell listeners during his program not during advertisements to buy Gold.

From a Media Matters interview with Dick Armey

"The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck." - Dick Armey, adding to Media Matters that the payment to Beck was a "mistake" as FreedomWorks only took in $1.3M from the deal and from a similar arrangement with Rush Limbaugh. Armey left FreedomWorks last month with an $8M golden parachute.
 
Speaking of Rush, Former Tea Party leader and House Majority Leader Dick Armey admitted that his group paid large sums of money to Limbaugh and Beck to say nice things about the Tea Party.

I'm not sure the Tea Party folks needed Limbaugh and Beck, and it seems that Armey, in hindsight, believes the same.

Appropos of nothing in particular, but speaking of payoffs, $500 mil in Middle Eastern oil money to Algore & Co for an obscure cable television network worth less than my wife's Rav4 (although, I must admit in full disclosure, it is a really nice Rav4) seems to make the payoffs to Beck and Limbaugh look like chump change. I wonder who Al had to say nice things about?

Any idea when the Media Matters sleuths will be on this one? (only kidding, on this last part.)

Regards.
TSB
 
Yes! Agreed about the Gore deal and the Left can feel good knowing taxpayer funding to public
tv and radio continues. Rush has to deal with making money fro
m ad $, not "taxpayers like you".
 
TSBench said:
Speaking of Rush, Former Tea Party leader and House Majority Leader Dick Armey admitted that his group paid large sums of money to Limbaugh and Beck to say nice things about the Tea Party.

I'm not sure the Tea Party folks needed Limbaugh and Beck, and it seems that Armey, in hindsight, believes the same.

Appropos of nothing in particular, but speaking of payoffs, $500 mil in Middle Eastern oil money to Algore & Co for an obscure cable television network worth less than my wife's Rav4 (although, I must admit in full disclosure, it is a really nice Rav4) seems to make the payoffs to Beck and Limbaugh look like chump change. I wonder who Al had to say nice things about?

Any idea when the Media Matters sleuths will be on this one? (only kidding, on this last part.)


Regards.
TSB
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What is there to investigate? As far as I can see everything was disclosed unlike the backroom payoffs made to Limo and Beck. Considering where the Tea party is today I would say they need every friend they can get. The value in Current TV was its infrastructure and carriage agreements with CATV Systems. I for one am looking forward to watching Al Jazerra for the same reason i listen to Conservative Wing Nut Radio, I like to hear what the opposition has to say. You can already watch them online so what's the big deal. Conservatives are always banging on a free market capitalism and corporations should be able to do what ever they like without any regulation in the name of the almighty but when a liberal cashes in it is a different story.

Yes! Agreed about the Gore deal and the Left can feel good knowing taxpayer funding to public
tv and radio continues. Rush has to deal with making money fro
m ad $, not "taxpayers like you".

Raccoon, I thought you stepped off your public radio soap box after I pointed out that my tax dollars allow you to play amateur radio disk jockey every weekend on a state funded college radio station.
 
TSBench said:
Speaking of Rush, Former Tea Party leader and House Majority Leader Dick Armey admitted that his group paid large sums of money to Limbaugh and Beck to say nice things about the Tea Party.

I'm not sure the Tea Party folks needed Limbaugh and Beck, and it seems that Armey, in hindsight, believes the same.

Appropos of nothing in particular, but speaking of payoffs, $500 mil in Middle Eastern oil money to Algore & Co for an obscure cable television network worth less than my wife's Rav4 (although, I must admit in full disclosure, it is a really nice Rav4) seems to make the payoffs to Beck and Limbaugh look like chump change. I wonder who Al had to say nice things about?
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Agreed.
 
SUCKER ;D

I'm not sure the Tea Party folks needed Limbaugh and Beck, and it seems that Armey, in hindsight, believes the same.

Appropos of nothing in particular, but speaking of payoffs, $500 mil in Middle Eastern oil money to Algore & Co for an obscure cable television network worth less than my wife's Rav4 (although, I must admit in full disclosure, it is a really nice Rav4) seems to make the payoffs to Beck and Limbaugh look like chump change. I wonder who Al had to say nice things about?

Any idea when the Media Matters sleuths will be on this one? (only kidding, on this last part.)


Regards.
TSB
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What is there to investigate? As far as I can see everything was disclosed unlike the backroom payoffs made to Limo and Beck. Considering where the Tea party is today I would say they need every friend they can get. The value in Current TV was its infrastructure and carriage agreements with CATV Systems. I for one am looking forward to watching Al Jazerra for the same reason i listen to Conservative Wing Nut Radio, I like to hear what the opposition has to say. You can already watch them online so what's the big deal. Conservatives are always banging on a free market capitalism and corporations should be able to do what ever they like without any regulation in the name of the almighty but when a liberal cashes in it is a different story.

Yes! Agreed about the Gore deal and the Left can feel good knowing taxpayer funding to public
tv and radio continues. Rush has to deal with making money fro
m ad $, not "taxpayers like you".

Raccoon, I thought you stepped off your public radio soap box after I pointed out that my tax dollars allow you to play amateur radio disk jockey every weekend on a state funded college radio station.

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Funny, this amateur DJ at a 130 watt station got a nice interview (streamcasting though) out of Donna Halper the other day, with compliments from her and from many other people...

>>And for those who didn't hear my interview yesterday, and I had the privilege of being on with Bob Nelson on WMWM, talking Rush, local radio, women in broadcasting, etc. He was as always a genial host. ---Donna L. Halper, PHD (Facebook)

Tracey Thompson: " Haha awesome!! I'm listening to this right now!! Yeah you're still young and cute Donna
Tim Davisson: "Loved the interview, Donna. Bob's a buddy of mine. Heard you on the air at MMS (I'm from Akron). We all wish radio in general was a lot better these days. Sure used to be."


"Limo" -ha good nickname. Rush's humble abode in Florida, which probably burns about
as much energy if not more than Gore's.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/rush-limbaughs-house/view/?service=1

>>when a liberal cashes in it is a different story.

Oil money. Also Gore, Edwards etc have huge mansions and big cars that probably waste a lot of
energy. As do Rush and prob Howie too (though he has yet to set up his own "Southern
Command". Maybe in late '14 when he can jump to FM...hey wait, why is 96.9 playing
Usher instead of running Smerconish? :) :) )

WMWM receives no funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (student activity fees, yes though) --and for the record our Sean Hayes plays 3 hours worth of progressive talk every week.

>>Radio Free North Shore (Progressive Talk)
When
Thu, January 10, 6pm – 9pm
Where
WMWM 91.7FM Salem, MA (map)
Description
Progressive (prerecorded) talk radio programming - hosted by Shaun Hayes

If we had the Fairness Doctrine we'd have to run 3 hours of conservative talk in response :)
 
I have known Donna for over 30 years. She is very nice and extremely knowledgeable. I am glad you were able to bring her insights to your listeners but she not exactly a hard person to schedule for an appearance. She'll talk to anyone who will talk to her.

I never said WMWM received CPB funds but State tax dollars were used to build the station, buy the equipment and the station gets free rent on State property. You don't go to Salem State anymore yet student fees and state subsidies allow you to pursue your hobby on someone else's dime. Which is fine, a lot of community people keep college radio going. I would love to do a show on my former College station, WERS, but that is not possible. I find in hypocritical that you constantly criticize the extremely tiny amount of tax dollars that go to the CPB which is used to produce some of the most informative and listenable programs on radio.
In my opinion it is one of the best returns on my tax money.
 
Kuhner can dish it out but her certainly can't take it. I was listening to his 11 o'clock report this morning while driving home from the Cape. He began the program by claiming that the President suffered from several mental health issues and his plan was to drive the country into total socialism and nationalize everything.

Earlier in the day he was singing the praises of Alex Jones the guy who believes Glenn Beck is a CIA Agent and Popular Mechanics magazine is secretly published by the CIA.

The 11'o'clock hour continued with a steady stream of his daily callers who spout wild conspiracy theories and call for the impeachment of the President.

Just before noon a caller called in and asked if Kuhner is now or has ever been under Psychiatric care because he thought Kuhner sounded like a lunatic. Kuhner became unhinged and began to call the caller stupid an idiot a lunatic and some other words that had do be bleeped by the producer. I can only assume they were explicatives. After calling the caller several names he said "See that is all Liberals can do is call me names and insult me"

If he is radio next superstar the format is in bigger trouble than reported.
 
What is there to investigate?

Ummm…where to start. Glen Beck offered to buy Current TV, and Gore refused, citing ‘philosophical’ differences with Beck. Instead, he turns around and sells Current to the propaganda arm of the most illiberal, intolerant, and misogynistic collection of despots on the planet, which I can only infer means he doesn’t have meaningful ‘philosophical’ differences with them, or at least not enough to keep him, Mr Green, from personally repatriating 100 million petrodollars into his own checking account. Now, just because you can connect the dots doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a picture, but this could make for a couple of interesting lines of inquiry. I’m not holding my breath waiting for Soros allocating any resources to investigating his pals, but I’m curious as to why you’re incurious.

As far as I can see everything was disclosed

And I’ll submit that you have no way of knowing if everything was disclosed. But because of the players involved, you don’t really want to know. But if that’s true, it will be the only half-billion dollar deal in history to be conducted completely in the open.

unlike the backroom payoffs made to Limo and Beck.

Paying Limbaugh and Beck to say nice things about the Tea Party seems akin to bribing someone to say complimentary things about his mother. Armey might have decided to hedge his bet, but I think we can be certain that Limbaugh and Beck were simpatico from jump street. And, Media Matters didn’t exactly have to rip out Armey’s fingernails to get him to fess up, probably because nobody cares. This was pretty close to a dog-bites-man story.

The value in Current TV was its infrastructure and carriage agreements with CATV Systems.

Fiddlesticks. Current TVs infrastructure is equivalent to that of a high school CATV operation, and Current was already about to be dropped by TW, due to failure to meet rating floors. You’d think that half a billion bucks, the most anyone ever paid for a flop cable channel, would get you more than that, especially when the carriage agreements they currently have are pretty shaky and, if they are written the way the TW deal was, are ephemeral at best. Of course, I think the interesting story is Gore getting in bed with the Qataris.

You can already watch them online so what's the big deal.

I couldn’t care less about what is on your cable or satellite service or what anyone watches. But that isn’t the point.

Conservatives are always banging on a free market capitalism and corporations should be able to do what ever they like without any regulation in the name of the almighty but when a liberal cashes in it is a different story.

Run this disingenuous BS by someone else. When a liberal who campaigns to make almost everything I buy more expensive in the name of saving the environment sells out to the folks whose main, and only, products are smoke and pollution, my hypocrisy detector goes to the stops. You talk like Al Gore is just some non-politically connected cable tv wildcatter who got lucky. Get real.

Raccoon, I thought you stepped off your public radio soap box after I pointed out that my tax dollars allow you to play amateur radio disk jockey every weekend on a state funded college radio station.

Raccoon’s tax dollars are also in the pot at the state funded radio station, and Raccoon’s radio program costs the Commonwealth a net extra, give or take a sawbuck, zero. Al Gore, environmentalist and Green guru, cris-crosses the country on chartered Gulfstreams to one motorcade after another, and then returns home to an estate with the carbon footprint of a Missouri lead smelter, while preaching a philosophy which would cost the US rate payers and consumers a gazillion dollars, give or take a jillion.

I believe there should be no government funding of any broadcaster, except for VOA. Public broadcasting reached its 'sell thru' date about 30 years ago.

My problem with Raccoon concerns the relentless posting of information-free and apostle-of-the-obvious missives, which drives me to distraction. But, in terms of lesser economic damage and lesser hypocrisy, I’ll go with Raccoon’s vanity radio show every time. In terms of hypocrisy and promoting economic silliness, Gore is in a league all his own.

Regards,
TSB
 
CC keeping up talk on WTAG incl 2 local hosts (580, 94.9)...and ha, @bostonradio wondered if Evolution might die out in a few months and they could try talk again, this time on the well-it-
reaches-within-the-128-belt 101.7. Maybe not but CC does get to clear some of its non-Rush
shows via WTAG, WGIR, and WHJJ, surrounding Boston and that would bring them even closer. Now that 96.9 is gone, etc., it's a VERY slight possibility. Maybe Evolution will do well, but what do they try if it flops? Does their ship dock in the Harbor again?

>>Mr Green
Saving the planet, or "The Color Of Money"?

>>Current was already about to be dropped by TW, due to failure to meet rating floors

I have Comcast and you needed to subscribe to a diff. tier to get it. How many cable
systems will pick up Al-Jazzera?

>>cris-crosses the country on chartered Gulfstreams
Bernard Goldberg brought that up in one of his books when he mentioned big money
progressives like Laura David who preach conservation but do the opposite. Hannity
interviewed Arianna Huffington and when he mentioned her using gas guzzling
private planes she said "but they are the planes that are already going there
dahling". (OK, I made up the dahling...Eva Gabor sound alike)

>>I believe there should be no government funding of any broadcaster, except for VOA

Some money from student activity fees of the university students. Hopefully some of the
students will listen to us, or even take part. (But yes I get the point) Any non-comm (college, religious, public) stations may get funding sources like foundations, corporations, private donations, and yes the relatively small CPB allotment. Personally I think the non-comm deal should be changed. Allow stations to run ads. "Car Talk" is back after this message from Fram Auto Filters.

As for my info I always give my sources and if I'm wrong it's because they were wrong.
Usually they are not.
 
>>I never said WMWM received CPB funds but State tax dollars were used to build the station, buy the equipment and the station gets free rent on State property. You don't go to Salem State anymore yet student fees and state subsidies allow you to pursue your hobby on someone else's dime.

Yes as well as many current SSU students, of course. We do have some donorship announcements
(Salem Beer Works for example).

>>Which is fine, a lot of community people keep college radio going. I would love to do a show on my former College station, WERS, but that is not possible. I find in hypocritical that you constantly criticize the extremely tiny amount of tax dollars that go to the CPB which is used to produce some of the most informative and listenable programs on radio.
In my opinion it is one of the best returns on my tax money.

Well I like to rag on the "how many conservative shows do they run" deal. I still say let em
be allowed to run ads. I am not crazy about subsidizing public broadcasting, etc. in principle.
But at least it isn't like the UK, is it, where you have to pay a "licence (as they spell it) fee"
for your radio or TV to subsidize it.

Emerson, WERS; I don't know when you were there but I visited there once at the invitation of
Stanley Arno, Bluesology DJ. I was quite impressed with the station and facilities, etc. But IIRC
you had very limited opportunities to get on air (senior year only? Then you were out?) and
that's sad.

At least unlike Donna we were not prevented (at first) from getting on because of our gender!

Donna is great etc. and I know what you mean, though I think in most cases she would appear on a talk show not music as mine is. But who knows. Having her on for a half hour was just fine as she was fascinating.
 
<<If he is radio next superstar the format is in bigger trouble than reported.

And if he's a flash in the pan (I haven't heard his show lately) maybe RKO will announce the
Jim and Margery show, coming soon.
 
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