is with the AM radio band full of open bandwidth what is to stop a startup liberal talk radio station from getting on the band? E.g. using 1600 or maybe FM here in VA for instance, nothing’s stopping them… Or is there? Why not just use the radio station that is already established to pay for you e.g. 630 WMAL VA/DC?MD? Just another thought to throw into the arguement.

Lastly, I really need to read up on the process of starting a new radio station especially on the AM band.

would some successful conservative station have to swap 12 hours of hosts with some loser liberal station? Swap Sean for Randi for example?

Seems completely fair. How can anyone argue with that? (*eyes roll*)

are so hot for the un”fairness” doctrine. They cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas so they have to stack the deck.

Now THAT’S how you do an interview.

Now that they only control 94% instead of 95% of the media they are
screaming fascism!

The liberal world view is such a flimsy, contrived canard it can’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

…that unlike TV and newspapers, where a challenge to their ideas and thoughts must come several hours or days later by e-mail or letter, which the paper or TV are under no obligation to print, on talk radio the host must answer the question right then and there.

In other words, liberals can’t make it on Talk Radio because they are immediately challenged by people with a better understanding of economics and individual liberty than they have.

Conservatives like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh (and Libertarians like Glenn Beck and Neal Boortz) understand economics and individual freedom. They are challenged by liberal callers and win. Liberal talk show hosts are challenged by conservative callers and lose.

The Democrat party is a coalition of Leftist special interests who are only unified under the Democrat banner because of their opposition to Conservatism.
Liberalism lacks a core set of immutable principles that the entire Liberal base can rally around and from which all their beliefs extend.
Without a core set of principles what is there to attract a radio audience?
Can you imagine pro-amnesty supporters listening to a disposition on the need to cut back on population because of the threat of global warming? I don’t understand why these groups aren’t already at each others throats.
Liberal talk is doomed to failure simply because of the nature of the Dem party as a loose coalition joined in the common cause of opposition.

to listen to Jerry Klein when he was on WMAL. I really tried to listen to some liberal on a station out of Baltimore. I have tried to listen to liberal talk radio. It sucks. There is no other way the describe it other than … it sucks. It sucks the joy out of you. It sucks the optimism out of you. It sucks the sensibility out of sensible arguments. I just end up with something akin to a Slurpee brain freeze trying to follow the alogical arguments, ad hominem attacks and diversions.

I know a guy who has a public access show who is on the liberal side of the political spectrum. Twice in the past few years he was proud to say “It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy” when certain events transpired. Those events events were the deaths of Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell.

How can I listen to broadcasters who find joy in the deaths of others? Maybe that is why they can’t maintain an audience.

I heard this explained some time ago and it hits the nail on the head.

Conservatives listen to conservative talk radio to hear like-mined people discuss concepts that affirm their world view. There’s no other media venue that allows conservatives to do this. Conservatives are a vast untapped market that has been ignored by the liberal media for decades.

Liberals have their world view affirmed every time they listen to CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, Hollywood movies, etc. Most of the stories and features run on CNN paint the military as bad, religious people as drooling Luddites, big business as evil, etc. Liberal talk radio is not competing with conservative talk radio, it’s competing with all those other outlets for liberal thought.

That, my brothers and sisters, is why liberal talk radio will always fail.

…you break it, you buy it…

…RedState Radio Network, anyone?

It speaks volumes, pardon the pun, that the Left’s inner fascist emerges whenever it can’t control a small sliver of media. A conservative’s first instinct when Tom or Katie or whatever moron starts babbling nonsense is to switch the channel or cut off the set. A leftist’s first response when some conservative talker does well is to have the government pull the plug on them. Therein lies the difference between the ideologies.

The left tries to shut down or shout down conservative opinion anywhere. Watch them on the crosstalk television shows. See them protest conservative speakers invited to public venues or college campuses. Observe as they steal and/or deface copies of fliers announcing conservative meetings or speakers.

The only different thing about talk radio is it is the one area where they haven’t succeeded in blocking the discussion of ideas they oppose.

Even if you look at the underlying philosophies of modern day liberals (they are not liberals in the classic sense of the word) they are based on Utopianism. They are based on a world view that ignores the basic realities of human nature. Marxism fails because it treats human beings like ants and not individuals. “When everybody owns everything, nobody takes care of anything.”

There are few liberals who are willing to have this debate. Instead you have a faker like Bill Press or Ed Schultz yelling and screaming or making fraudulent arguments that side step the real issues. The only people stopping Liberal Talk Radio are liberals.

One of the claims made by advocates of the “fairness doctrine” is that big corporations own most of the radio stations in the country and won’t allow left-wing talk on the air, or if they do they put it on low-wattage stations that can’t reach an audience of any notable size.

At the risk of being told to take my furs and literal interpretations to the other side of the river, I decided to check this out, looking at the stations and signal strength of everyone who carried Nova M programming, and wrote about it on my organization’s blog: http://www.campaignfreedom.org/blog/id.819/blog_detail.asp

The short version: roughly half of the stations carrying Nova M programming were 5,000 watt or better, with enough juice to cover the major metro areas they broadcast from. And of the rest, most were small-town stations where 5,000 watts would be dramatic overkill – Astoria, OR and Brattleboro, VT come to mind.

And of course, several of these stations were owned by Clear Chanell, CBS Radio, or Entercom, some of the biggest radio conglomerates in the country.

So much for the myth that left-wing talk can’t survive because they’re on weak stations.

Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
www.campaignfreedom.org
sparnell@campaignfreedom.org