http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,285933,00.html

“There’s this crazy thing called the market,” Bozell said. “It’s not to

say liberal talk radio has not been in existence. It’s been tried over

and over again, whether it’s … Mario Cuomo or Doug Wilder or Jim

Hightower or Air America and Al Franken and every single time, it’s a

miserable failure because there’s no market appetite.”

Air America — the liberals’ most prominent effort to counter

conservative talk radio, called “talk radio for progressive patriots” —

has featured big names like Al Franken and Jeanine Garofalo. But that

venture filed for bankruptcy last fall in an effort to reorganize. It

was officially taken over by Green Family Media in March and then could

be heard on 70 affiliates reaching a weekly audience of 1.7 million

listeners, according to its Web site. It was producing 19 hours of

original programming daily.

It recently revamped its voice and relaunched Air America 2.0, saying

the likes of Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama would be just a few

of its celebrity guests.

Some of the bigger liberal voices on the airwaves in general include:

Thom Hartmann from “The Thom Hartmann Show;” Stephanie Miller of Jones

Radio Networks; Karen Hunter of WWRL in New York; FOX News’ Alan Colmes;

and Steve Malzberg of WABC in New York.

But in many major markets at the local level, Bozell said, progressives

are put on the air after liberals raise a ruckus their viewpoint isn’t

being heard. But more often than not, he said, “It absolutely bombs and

that’s why they’re not on the air.”

He added: “Look at Air America. What more can I say?”

The Center for American Progress released a report Thursday that

identified 75 talk show hosts as either conservative or progressive

(liberal). Of those 75, 53 were identified as conservative (71 percent),

while 22 (29 percent), were identified as progressive.

“The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio” confirmed that talk

radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is

dominated by conservatives. It also raised questions about whether

public radio broadcasts are serving the listening needs of Americans.

And if Gore won like Bush did, we’d have demanded a new election.

You ought to be slamming the liberals for selling to the conservatives. Liberals are free to buy and run stations just like conservaties do. Then they can devote all the time they want to liberal programming. Wonder what’s stopping em? Maybe the hope that they can use the government to force other stations to give them time? You know, what’s yours is mine and all that. ;)

Don’t worry TPs #1 trash mouth is done in this thread. He chimes in to insult people the runs to other threads to do more of TP’s dirty work.

I don’t consider it to be an insult but it would make your life alot easier if you wouldn’t assume.

Well shane could put “shane the girl”….couldn’t she? I remember her telling someone that they were basically stupid for assuming she was a man because of her screen name. It’s real easy….don’t assume.

Absolutely! I am just getting tired of many here painting Democrats as saints. They are as dirty as they come.

If you live in the city or Ithica NY, you have a choice, other wise it’s Right talk radio or NPR

Ed Schultz doesn’t represent liberals. Come one. I can’t even stand to listen to him. Can we defend someone worth defending?

I live in Southern California and spent the past ten years traveling the Dakota’s and mid west on business.

I had no idea he broadcasted from Moorehead/Fargo.

I took a lotta shit up there, in awierd way I respect and understand them more now….because of Ed.

We all are American, I don’t want to kill Indians and Arabs like those I visited, but I get it.

Comment by Tundra — June 22, 2007 @ 1:51 pm

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Sorry I’m so late to this convo … Tundra probably posted what many people think is correct. However, the FACTS regarding airing of liberal/progressive vs. neocon/conservative programming shows completely the opposite except in a few cases with (gasp!) ClearChannel which has recognized the tremendous desire for and ability of progressive talk to bring in audiences and revenue. Ed is spot on. And a big kudos to the Center.

In market after market where progressive/liberal talk has beaten Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc., the corporatacry, conservatives, and religious wrong (sic) CAN’T STAND another voice, the voice of truth and fact, and have shut down stations offering liberal/progressive voices, often buying up stations, so I guess it is ‘revenues,’ per se but not in advertising shares, audience share, etc.

So in Phoenix, for example, the prior liberal/progressive station was taken over by a FIFTH conservative religious station in that market. (These people must be on the fast track to hell, huh?) Many other markets have been taken over by yet another sports talk station. The local community in Phoenix fought back (as they did in Madison) to bring progressive/liberal talk back at KPHX. And what about Boston? They’re isn’t a liberal market in beantown? Are you effing kidding me?

And who has the story about the station in Ohio where the staff of the progressive station actually were LOCKED OUT by some conservative insider while the station was up and running AirAmerica?

And if you missed it, during Friday’s show, Schultz apparently had a call to go onto H&C that evening but when he found out that Hannity wasn’t going to be on he told his producer to call back the show and reschedule for when the “A Team” would be on–otherwise, it was a no-go. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve always thought the combo for that show should be Hannity and (James) Carvel–we could watch their veins pop and heads explode in that (ahem) tete-a-tete. Talk about entertainment!

When the right wing attacks it’s nice to know we have people like you.

I guess you didn’t want to hear Harry Reid, Wes Clark, John Sweeny, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, or Russ Feingold this last week.

We are fighting the same fight; quit being a hater for hater’s sake.

This may have been discussed earlier in this thread, but after reading a few waste-of-time posts from trolls, I had to give up reading any other comments… many, I’m sure, were worthwhile.