On Tuesday students at 87 universities can protest right on campus

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— without traveling to capitals etc.

For over 60 years the University of Colorado broadcast football games on AM 850 KOA, the loudest radio station CO. After Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 KOA became a ‘Limbaugh station’ and CU, in a situation common to at least 87 other universities, kept renewing that relationship.

In September 2019 KOA demoted Limbaugh to minor station AM 760. Instead of being associated with the Broncos, Rockies, and Buffaloes, he’s moving in with Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and a guy named Buck Sexton.

There has been low level activism to get CU off KOA for many years. If CU told the radio station it was feeling increased pressure and protests were coming and didn’t want the issue to get too visible it might have told KOA it was going to have to start looking for alternatives to broadcast football on.

In another situation, the University of New Mexico actually broadcasts recruiting advertisements on the loudest Limbaugh station in NM, 770 KKOB, along with football and basketball. A UNM regent told me he was very 'certain' there was no chance to reverse that because it would cause a huge uproar from the right.

That is one of the reasons those 87 universities are the best places to protest and start a cascade that will force the GOP to cut Trump loose.

Denver’s KOA would have realized the implications caused by media attention stimulated by protests at the university. CU would look like it was crapping on its mission statement. The Broncos and Rockies would be drawn into a discussion of black athletes being used to support pro-Trump and racist talk shows.

Advertisers would head for the hills.

KOA would have to choose. Buffaloes, Broncos, and Rockies — or Rush Limbaugh.

That could happen for more than 260 Republican radio stations before the senate trial.

Cascade:

1 Protest at university with possible AI-enhanced boycotts of the associated stations (it doesn’t matter what the university administration does or can do)

2 Local GOP and RW talk radio notices, freaks out

3 Media notices

4 Protests at more universities

5 Advertisers and advertising industry notice

6 In order to be able to use those very loud radio stations the ad industry finally applies market demand to the 20-1 monopoly and it collapses as radio stations have to alter programming or offer balance

If protests began to pop up at those universities, the advertising industry would quickly realize the potential disaster. There are at least 87 other universities and many pro sports teams that could do the same as CU. There are also many other RW radio stations, both featuring Limbaugh and not, in similar parasitic relationships with schools not on the list.

It doesn’t really matter how the school deals with the situation. If media notices so would the GOP and its ‘think’ tanks and the Republican politicians who have depended heavily on those radio stations for 30 years would freak out, yell “FREE SPEECH” and make it worse.

The ad industry wants and needs those radio stations. They want the tens of millions of ears those radio stations reach every day. They know they’ve been propping up a lot of those talk stations by offering discounts and bulk rates so they can bundle and rotate clients onto shows like Limbaugh’s. They know many radio advertisers, especially in areas that aren’t deep red, are not going to support those stations if they get that kind of publicity. They know many of those clients have been detached from the real content and believed for years that the blowhards are just conservatives being controversial to attract listeners. The advertising industry doesn’t want to have to start asking clients if they want their companies and products associated with global warming denial, Trump, attacks on Greta Thunberg, and excuses for putting immigrant kids in cages.

And they won’t want a Stoprush x 100 because artificial intelligence makes it so much easier and cheaper now to transcribe talk radio, list advertisers, and associate them directly with the hate, racism, ignorance, lies, and global warming denial.

Most republican politicians know how important that radio monopoly has been in 40 states with 80 senators. Without it they know they’re going to have to start cooperating with Democrats. Many of them will see it as sudden freedom to be bipartisan, something they could not do with Lmbaugh keeping them in line.

Georgia and Wisconsin Republicans just purged hundreds of thousands of voters - and 4 universities in those states have been endorsing that crap on 17 Limbaugh stations for years. The perfect places to protest - direct offense.
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
WISCONSIN 3 Wisconsin 3

What the fuck?

Democrats need offense and this should be a no-brainer for student and community activists around those universities.

Here are those 87 universities, quantified for their value to Republicans and Trump at $1000/hr, endorsing, supporting, keeping 260 Lmbaugh stations alive.

WHAT IS REPUBLICON RADIO WORTH?
If the GOP would pay $1000 for a 1 hour infomercial:
x 15 hours/day = $15,000/station/day
x 5 days = $75,000/station/week

ALABAMA 8 $600,000 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 1 $75,000 Arizona St. 1
ARKANSAS 3 $225,000 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 $375,000 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 $150,000 Air Force 2, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 $75,000 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 $1,500,000 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 $1,050,000 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 $525,000 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 $525,000 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 $825,000 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 $375,000 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 $300,000 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 $225,000 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 $225,000 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 $150,000 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 $75,000 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 $1,425,000 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 $300,000 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 $450,000 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 $450,000 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 $450,000 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 $75,000 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 $150,000 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 $225,000 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 $525,000 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 $1,200,000 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 $750,000 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 $375,000 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 $900,000 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 $1,050,000 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 $300,000 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 $525,000 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 $1,200,000 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 $75,000 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 $450,000 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 $450,000 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 $150,000 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 3 $225,000 Wisconsin 3

WHAT IS REPUBLICON RADIO WORTH?
If the GOP would pay $1000 for a 1 hour infomercial:
x 15 hours/day = $15,000/station/day
x 5 days = $75,000/station/week
x 52 weeks =$3.9MIL/station/year
x 1200 stations = $18MIL/DAY
x 5 days/week = $90MIL/WEEK
x 52 weeks = $4.68BIL/YEAR

FREE and paid for by national and local advertisers who need to get the message to abandon Trump/Kremlin ASAP, before the planet burns.

[Cetacea]

1. Radio is most certainly not dead. 260 million listeners a lot of voters. Big blind spot of the Left

Thank you for your ongoing diligence, tenacity, and efforts to spread awareness of this problem.

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2. thanks