So if you're in Lima Ohio, you keep the part timer and fire Rush.
You raise a good point by mentioning Lima, OH. This tangent began when JaR made the contention that a local host could beat the syndicated hosts by doing a show about local topics. He said "you do need to have a metro of more then 5000". The discussion was about local owners of local stations programming local programs for the local markets, which carries an implication of small to medium markets, not mega markets like Chicago or San Francisco. And, it was about whether or not a local show that concentrated on "local politics, issues and interests", as opposed to someone who talked about the same things Rush and the other syndicated hosts talked about.
Maybe the owner of an independent station or cluster in a mega-market can afford talent good enough to beat Limbaugh head-to-head. That doesn't address the issue of local owners in small and medium markets being able to afford similarly gifted talent.
Then there is the issue of issues. Maybe a megaopolis like Chicago or San Francisco has enough going on locally to provide enough grist for a local talk mill. Does that mean that markets like Lima, or Poughkeepsie, or Bangor, or Sheboygan have enough local politics, issues, and interests to enable some bargain-basement priced talk show host to successfully take on Limbaugh head-to-head.
Then there's the actual topic of this thread, which is how a station owner would program a station if a new Fairness Doctrine, Rev 2 were to be enacted. I can guarantee you that in all but a tiny handful of markets, a new Fairness Doctrine, Rev 2, will put a bullet into any sort of programming that is the least little bit controversial or partisan.
