Progressive talk station in Columbus folds, blames Obama. “…we were happy to in some small way contribute to the success that the Democrats enjoyed in November. Unfortunately, it was not a two-way street, and lack of advertising support from the Obama campaign… ensured that we will be unable to continue into the new year.”
“Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.” -Hesiod
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there is no room in the socialist state for competition. CNN will not permit its listener share to be reduced by even one if they can at all help it.
The competition in a socialist state is hidden rather than overt. Who gets the sugar, like the UAW, and who gets the shaft, like the Delphi pensioners and the GM shareholders, is decided behind closed doors.
I can understand the frustration of the station manager, who watched the Obama campaign amass the largest amount of money ever spent on a Presidential campaign but didn't favor WYKO with much of it. His farewell address sounds as bitter as a jilted girlfriend because he feels that way. But, a radio station so dependent on political advertising is likely to starve to death between elections unless it can attract other advertisers. What WYKO needed wasn't Obama but blinds.com and Nature Bee, like Michael Medved, or Carbonite like Laura Ingraham. The operators of WYKO didn't learn from the failure of Air America nor will they learn from their failure this time.
What WYKO needed was someone with a few operating brain cells in charge. CLearly no one of that ilk was available.
So Air America with Franken and company (including Sergeant Schultz) was an epic failure, what did they expect? Nobody wants to listen to "all commie radio, all the time"...And Beside Planned Parenthood and maybe Ben and Jerri's, I can't think of anyone who would by commercial time on a small time progressive small town radio station.. Their Audience at it's highest would have been maybe what? 30 listeners, and half of those were related to the people who worked there....Must have been "Communist Greed" that killed them...sorry I couldn't resist...:)
Schultz was on many air America stations, but was & is outside of that organization. He's with something called Jones Radio Network.
Are there any progressive radio stations that ARE doing well?
They just don't understand how no one wants to hear what they say, or that people might find it offensive. They think everyone should think the way they do. And if people don't then people are extremists and raaaacist.
Or ignorant, gun toting, Bible clinging rednecks!
The statement in the link is hilarious. The advertisers stopped advertising and wouldn't return calls to ask why. The programming must have been just awful. Even better, the author of the statement is truly dumbfounded as to why the station failed.
Best part is the drivel is being replaced by a gospel format. That is my kind of irony.
When you have a substandard product that you are trying to sell, going out of business is normally the result.
Just think, the owners felt barry should ride in on his pale horse and save their shit radio station. From their announcement, barry must believe that capitalism works or that they (station owners) are no longer of any use to him.
Bye bye WVKO.
I'm finding it rather hard to feel sorry for WVKO's staff, looks like another bunch of useful idiots have received their just reward.
Perhaps for every yang there's a yin
The market palce rewards good ideas and punishes bad ones. Progressive WVKO was an abject failure---no audinece, no advertisers.
Basically, these stations are tampons, & are good for only 1 use.
I have to ask, why did I get a thumbs down vote?