D.C. Station Dumps Its Failing Liberal 'Obama 1260' Talk Format

[bijou]

Liberals may want to insist on the "Fairness Doctrine" as a business strategy, since liberal talk is barely moving the ratings needle. The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reported Monday that "President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not. The area's only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week."

Technically, Kurtz is wrong, excluding NPR affiliate WAMU (which airs a number of liberal talk shows and zero conservative ones) and radical Pacifica station WPFW. It would have been more accurate to say the area’s only commercial "progressive" talk station, the only one that doesn’t take our tax dollars. Kurtz continued:

Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election. But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at...conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett. Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.


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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/02/02/d-c-station-dumps-its-failing-liberal-obama-1260-talk-format

Heh.

[Redstatecka]

Imagine that. The real marketplace rejects Obama.

Of course, the Democrats, liberals and leftists being as hip and intelligent as they are, will never understand that hot empty air really doesn't appeal to most people--or, at least, people who can still think for themsevles.

[Lord Undies]

Liberalism is like a balloon.  Put one hole in it and the whole thing is destroyed. 

Liberal radio cannot prosper because liberals are comfortable only when their ridiculous ideology is alone inside their heads.  They don't want to have to confront it pouring from audio speakers.  To hear their ridiculous lies and hate spewed back at them in real time is more than they can handle.  It's not confirmation of universal ideas and truths, like conservative radio.  It's a reminder of the intellectual laziness, dishonesty, and denial/vacancy of human nature with which they must live.