Take Back Radio!

[maxrandb]

It's hard to effect what is passed for "entertainment" on the thousands of radio stations nationally, but I firmly believe that it is the "local" stations that provide the platform that need to be targeted.

- If Seattle has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do)- why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Washington DC has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If New York has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Chicago has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Cleveland has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Norfolk, VA has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Detroit has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

- If Baltimore has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do) - why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now?

etc., etc., etc.,

Want to change the hatred and bigotry being spewed 24/7? Make the "local" stations pay a price for offering the platform.

Even the major advertisers pulling ads from specific shows like Rush and Savage and Hannity are not enough if they continue to advertise ON ANY PROGRAM on a Hate Radio station. I don't care if the other 21 hours are nothing but gardening shows and Unicorn Farts...if that station gives a one-second platform to Rush, or any of the other "cookie-cutter-haters", THEY ARE GUILTY OF AIDING AND ABETTING

[tabasco]

1. I listened to this kook Alex Jones for the first time while driving last week.

Holy crap, I don't see why anybody gives that seditious asshole a microphone.

[Renew Deal]

2. Because thousands of people aren't listening to most of these stations.

RW radio is mostly elderly people with nothing better to do.

[2naSalit]

4. Not in my neck o' the woods.

It's the entertainment part in between churchy programs. Whenever a decent contemporary music station arises within reception range, it is soon purchased by Rmoney types and turned into the Scammity network of tools.

[Basic LA]

6. What they do is vote.

And it's a reliable & massive right wing tilt. And I wonder if they'd listen to something else if it was offered, just to be entertained.

[maxsolomon]

8. Yes, its the elderly

but its also tradesmen, truck drivers, anyone who's on the road for significant portions of the day.

and RW radio has been successful at turning that demographic against unions and the politicians they support. even if they're still in a union!

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. I live in Sacramento, the station that spawned Limbaugh and Tom sullivan

And nobody cares. They are heroes around here. What else should they air? Radio is old school and liberal talk doesn't work. Remember Air America?

[maxrandb]

5. Yes, Radio is "old school"

but it did help create the candidacy of one Donald "Donnie Short Fingers" Trump

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Radio is dead. Podcasts have replaced it.

[maxsolomon]

9. Not amongst the working class

If you drive a truck around town, you're unlikely to be listening to podcasts.

[Erose999]

11. You'd be surprised how popular audiobooks are with truckers. My dad lives near a truckstop and they

have a sizable selection. And if my arse was in a truck seat all day I'd spring for satellite. No commercials, no station signals fading out.

[maxsolomon]

14. I guess i'm thinking of the local guys driving dumptrucks, auto parts delivery, beer delivery, etc.

Driving company trucks with AM radios only. The guys that might call into sports radio. I think they've been listening to RW radio for decades.

The guys you saw in the UIC Trump-rally videos wearing baseball caps and chewing gum. Real Americans.

[Erose999]

16. I did auto parts delivery and the company truck I used had AM/FM. Not that FM is that much more

compelling than hate radio but there was usually something on worth listening to. I'm pretty sure all fleet vehicles come with AM/FM radios at the very lowest level nowadays.

[maxsolomon]

18. haha i'm stuck in the 80s

last time I drove a truck

[Erose999]

10. Radio is mostly dead as people are getting music and entertainment on their phones and computers now

RW hate radio exists for bosses to pipe it in at construction/trades jobsites to brainwash their workers, or for people to get a dose of racism coupled with traffic and weather info on their commutes. Very few people are actually listening to that shite of their own accord.

Anyone on the left whose serious about radio probably has one of the satellite subscription services. There are several dem/progressive options there (in addition to RW bullshit).

[Erose999]

12. I have a 62 Ford with an AM radio. Its fun to see what sorts of far away stations I can dial in at

night. I'm in GA and I can usually get AM stations from Louisville, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Cleveland on a clear night. It's too bad they're mostly RW hate radio stations, but way she goes.

[KamaAina]

13. If San Francisco has a "local" station that broadcasts nothing but hate (and they do)

why aren't a thousand people marching outside that stations office right now? Savage Weiner's home base, in fact.

http://www.ksfo.com/

Hot Talk 560 KSFO Radio
750 Battery Street 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

edit: The cross street is Broadway. It's about three blocks from the Embarcadero streetcar line.

[tk2kewl]

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[Erose999]

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