As blather emanating from the statehouse skews ever more conservative, it was only a matter of time before blather on our local airwaves started bending the other way. Frustrated liberal listener, Gary Richards has come to set you free.
The Euclid radio veteran is set to launch WABQ-AM 1460, a progressive talk station due to ramp up next Monday, August 1.
This article appears in Jul 20-26, 2011.
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DUMB ASS
There already is a liberal network with powerful signals and it’s taxpayer funded: NPR
How can I get in touch with Mr Richards if I’m interested in volunteering?
NPR is neither liberal or conservative. It just appears liberal to some listeners as a result of reporting on reality and not through the NewsCorp goggles
NPR USED to be unbiased. it is brutally liberal now. and we pay for it. liberal talk will fail. it always does. people get blasted from liberalism from every other medium. bring on your garbage liberal talk radio. no one listens because no one wants to listen to your whining and crying about how terrible the world is and how you shoudnt have to work and have govt welfare support everything you do. did it ever occur to any leftys that most people listen to talk radio at work or going to/ coming from work in your car. DUH! no one wants to listen to how the money you earn will be stolen from you and given to someone else who didnt earn it meanwhile your actually sitting there earning it.
and who is going to buy advertising on this POS ?
Liberal talk radio always fails. When you can get the same message from ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,MSNBC, nearly any daily newspaper excluding the Wall Street Journal editorial page, all weekly, and monthly periodicals, high school and university teachers, professors and culture not to mention, TV and screen productions (that’s movies, for those of you who attended public school), what’s the novelty?. In fact, it should be quite clear that if one made the tiniest of efforts, you could lead a conservative free viewpoint existence, very easily. By Thanksgiving, Mr. Richards will be looking for other employment.
Hey goomba. Have you ever heard of air america? Do you have the slightest clue what a market-driven economy does? It is the evolutionary equivalent to survial of the fittest in nature. Rush is on 10 stations because there are listeners there. And advertising. And MONEY. There has NEVER been an audience big enough to support one liberal talk show. The only reason NPR survives is they pretend to be something ther are not — they lie.
I wish you luck, but as far as I see it, you will simply accelerate the ridiculous message s coming from liberals on the planet which will spped your demise. The liberal talking points make no sense on any issue of importance when the true data is applied to their statements. Its like global warming – all lies and smoke and intimidation with a compliant media . . . but if you can sell advertising on that — take your shot. The more the message gets out, the sooner it will be exposed for the fraud it is.
Any of you geniuses remember Air America, a national liberal talk network with Al Franken from a few years back? It tanked, like liberal talk radio always does. You people don’t get it. Rush et al. found a niche on the AM band because it was abandoned, since the libs controlled the mainstream media. Conservatives listeners using the free market (which you people don’t understand) revived the AM medium by making it their own. Anyway, go ahead and keep trying, this station will also tank. It’ll be gone by New Years, and in the meantime, no one will notice it’s there.
I wish him luck,but if he lasts past New Years,he’ll be lucky.The audience just ain’t there.
Oh.and to Justin S….ask Juan Williams how fair,balanced,and oh so tolerant NPR is. Peace,Brotha!
Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann consistently beat out right wing talkers in markets where they have the signal to compete. Rush is the king of talk, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for other ideas than his. As Ohio’s Republican-controlled government strips union rights and goes after public workers’ pensions, teachers, fire fighters and cops, it seems likely that some of those folks would be interested in a differing viewpoint.
Best of luck Gary! Columbus misses you and your efforts on behalf of progressive radio. Cleveland is lucky to have you!