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Radio network: Boston doesn't have enough conservative talk-show hosts
By adamg on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 7:56am
The Herald confirms a report by Boston Radio Watch that Clear Channel, the owner of WXKS-AM, wants to turn 1200 into a "news/talk" station, in part by figuring out how to get out of its contract with WRKO and get Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck over to the right side of the dial.
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ugh
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
No one is forcing you to
No one is forcing you to listen to it. Listen to something else and don't whine about things you don't like that other people may like. I don't listen to the loony left radio, but I'm not all "ugh, ima gonna throw up" about it. I just don't listen to it. Thats the difference about the left and the right. The left only likes free speech when it in their viewpoint. If it's not, then ban ban ban or ugh, im gonna puke... The right doesn't care. We just won't listen to it and we find something worth listening to.
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You had two years to craft a response to this comment and that is what you came up with? Weak.
Yes, that's exactly what your response to a two-years-dead post indicates.
I don't understand why the
I don't understand why the rumors mention WXKS-AM, which is a low powered station serving Everett. The station CC would use for the talk format would amost certainly be WKOX 1200 AM, which they upgraded to 50,000 watts last year.
It is 1200, they're just
It is 1200, they're just putting the WXKS call letters there. The AM signal is a lot better now
Wouldn't it be cheaper
...to find someone loudly talking to themselves on a bus or on the Common, and give them a show?
Cheaper, and more connected to reality than some of those other expensive madmen?
it is with a great sense of irony and sarcasm that I exclaim...
Damn that liberal media!
The WXKS call letters are
The WXKS call letters are moving to 1200 which has a good signal by day, OK by night. News Talk 1200 will debut on 4/1 and no doubt will have Beck, Rush (when RKO contract expires), Hannity, etc. Dennis Miller
(now on WRKO, a weekend best of) would be nice--conservative on most issues, liberal on some ("I don't mind
if Larry marries Steve but I would object to an Islamofascist firebombing their wedding"). Maybe Coast to
Coast, Mark Levin--oh, and they're planning to do a morning drive local show.
When Clear Channel put Air America & Jones prog. talk on 1200 and 1430 (for a little over 2 years) it didn't do too well though some say signals, promotion, and lack of a daily local show hurt the effort. Now Jeff
Santos is buying time to put the likes of Stephanie Miller, etc., on AM 1510.
Conservative talk generally does better because it targets the white, male, suburban audience...Howie Carr
and Jay Severin among others have done fairly well in the ratings.
So at this point for conservative talk there would be WRKO, WTKK, "WXKS 1200", and WBZ (Dan Rea). Not all
hosts are necessarily to the right (Eagan and Braude, for example). If RKO loses Rush would they stay
conservative talk? Would declining ratings on WTKK lead Greater Media to flip their format?