“Concerning nasty righies, you are correct in a few instances. M. Savage and Mark Levine come to mind. I agree with their politics and can’t stand either of them.”

Seems you have a fixed idea of who I am and what I’m like. Fine. Be wrong about me.
Grim

He is wrong. Very, very wrong.

This is surprising since he himself is an alternative.
PBS features penetrating programming featuring people such as James Burke and Wayne Dyer, and, of course, great humor.
This as compared to the latest ‘husband kills three wives and ten children, then himself’ news feature on CNBC.
…now where was I going with this….?
Sorry, Grimgold

Concerning nasty righies, you are correct in a few instances. M. Savage and Mark Levine come to mind. I agree with their politics and can’t stand either of them.
However, even Alan Combes (spelling) doesn’t seem to make a dent. He’s not terribly nice. But he isn’t making it in talk radio.

Perhaps the key is simple: teach me, entertain me, I’ll listen.
Limbaugh does both of those very well.

Concerning making your Mark with your Savage attack on all those who don’t think they are just mud, you are amusing.
Grimmy

Many reasons. Amongst them…

When Clear Channel finally broke down and aired Air America they chose stations with very low wattage. But Rush, he got the best stations and lots of patience from CC until his ratings built up in the beginning. But CC cut programming that didn’t perform if it was Left within a few months.

Program directors tend to be quite Conservative, as in: “Unwilling to try new things.” That’s why some markets have Rush three or four times, Country formats three or four times… despite the fact that having the same programming isn’t a ratings plus. They are responsible to their owners who are risk adverse… except when it comes to KRP flying turkey promo: it may have been fiction but it was an accurate portrayal. Scribe has been in radio; and was in it for many years. He knows.

To be honest, Liberal programmers often really suck at picking on-air talent. All you need to do is check out Lynn Samuels, Alex Bennett, or listen to reruns of Al Franken’s big yawn once he chased away the true on air talent: his fellow female host. Meanwhile the true talents, the Millers, the Malloys, the Hartmanns, the Wards tend to get jilted and only portion of their programs played at best. When Bernie Ward was on the old IE network program directors preempted him for every and any game: I even heard some stations playing reruns of Rush instead of honoring their contracts. Ward was really good: a bare knuckle debater. Scribe’s sure Conservative programmers (they tend to be) found him “offensive.” (But Rush’s “humor” can’t be???)

Picking a Rightie is easy. You pick the meanest, nastiest, rudest, most snotty WWF-like fighter and your market is satisfied: as long as they have a firm hand on the pot to cut out anyone who seriously challenges the host while he insults them and makes rude comments.

It’s lion meets Christian radio.

It sucks.

But it sells.

So would razor blades in apples Halloween time: if we made them legal.

There’s a lot of mental illness out there.