Progressive Talker Randi Rhodes started her journey in South Florida and going through the Air America mess and wound up back on Premiere in “syndication”
She creates the show from 3-6 PM, but most of the ten affiliates that I know of air the show later in the evening after AM stations reduce power after the sun goes down.
Her contract is up at the end of the year and it sounds like a divorce is likely (per Tom Taylor). There is some suspicion that she’ll wind up on Cumulus after the acquisition of Westwood One and Dial Global is complete.
That brings back the question of what Cumulus and the Dickey Brothers are going to do with the Progressive talk lineup. They have one driving priority because of their debt – cutting costs and increasing revenue. The Progressive talk lineup is not on any Cumulus stations. It seems unlikely Cumulus will change formats of their existing stations to pick up their shows that are anti-business and hate corporations that make profits. Stay tuned.
Art: Have you listened to local WBT, with a real radio on your table yet ? maybe you will do a review of them ? I can only pick them up at night, on a radio.
They are not cumu-lost are they ?
parrott
Briefly on my car radio.
WBT used to be owned by an insurance company (Jefferson Pilot) that was acquired by Lincoln Financial that wanted the insurance business, but not the radio stations. WBT was sold to Greater Media which owns stations mainly around Boston.
I’ll never forget the time I was listening on a real table top radio (it has been a while) to Rhodes on WJNO. She called Rush a schmuck and tried to make the case in some bizarre Terry McAuliffe accounting way that statistically she was more successful than Rush in radio. She suffers from Bush derangement syndrome and several variations of the same.
She’s #1 among the 50+ South Florida retired teacher lesbian demographic!
Does Janet Reno listen?
She listens Religiously.
I had listened to her a few times because I like to learn and understand different positions that people have on issues. I don’t agree with Rush on many issues but find him listenable and entertaining, especially with his sense of humor and occasional funny parody songs.
I found I could not listen to Rhodes past a few shows. Even when I found a subject that I agreed with her on (Bush pretending Iraq was behind 9-11, for example), her shows were nothing other than constant complaining and mean spiritedness.
She is a big advocate of straw men.
As in the VA Gov. race, the ‘libertarian’? I got a hoot out of the liberals and communists who are offended by that TX race with Dave Wilson but giggle and titter at the libertarian straw men. No principles, no values – the liberals guiding rule is, “If we like it, it is good.” Morons.
You Got That right Hpaws !!
Thanks, HPaws. I didn’t know a thing about this interesting story until I read your post:
http://www.khou.com/news/local/White-guy-wins-after-leading-voters-to-believe-hes-black-231222981.html
Perhaps a Recount will happen, but if that fails why do I sense a Recall effort? He only won by 26 votes.
Anyway, I take the point of the story to heart, we really do have a rather immense number of low information voters.