Randall Bloomquist is a radio consultant type guy. I don’t know much about him other than a vague memory of reading something he wrote and not thinking much of it – it was a lot of spin that was fact free<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/09\/glenn-beck-sean-hannity-ratings-drop-right-wing-talk-is-dying.html<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere are a lot of program directors whose radio \u2018spider-sense\u2019 is tingling,\u201d says Randall Bloomquist, a long-time radio executive and president of Talk Frontier Media. \u201cThey’re thinking \u2018this conservative thing is kind of running its course. We’re saying the same things from morning ’til night and yes, we’ve got a very loyal core audience\u2014but if we ever want to grow, if we want to expand, we’ve got to be doing more than 18 hours a day of \u2018Obama is a socialist.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To be clear, his job was to supervise the national syndication and the local PDs in the Cumulus News\/Talk stations. He was the boss of Michael Savage, Mark Levin and the Red Eye Radio guys.<\/p>\n
He was on the phone last year when the KGO\/KSFO program director keeled over dead. He was surely involved in the decision at KABC to fire Larry Elder and replace him with Dr Drew, and letting Sean Hannity escape.<\/p>\n
I just hope after Clear Channel and Cumulus self destruct, there is some new saplings ready to replace the smoldering old growth forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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