Good Luck Martha! My car could never pick up WDUN anyhow.
gainesvilletimes.com – Zoller leaving WDUN for new FM station
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Takaza says:
Aug 2, 2015
The first talk radio station (KABC in Los Angeles) went on the air in 1960 25-plus years beofre the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.There was already plenty of talk radio by the time it was repealed in 1987, and more stations were converting to it everyday. Satellites and FM competition stimulated talk radio, not the repeal of FD. Nobody ever went belly up because of the Fairness Doctrine, except for the one station owner who refused to let someone answer a personal attack and whose case went to the Supreme Court. In the hypothetical example you cite, why couldn’t you have had both sides in the room at the same time and let them square off? That’s how fairness was usually dealt with in those days. Talk radio arrived LONG beofre FD repeal. KABC went on in 1960, Larry King went into national syndication in 1978, and the first nationally syndicated conservative host, Ray Briem, went national in 1 9 8 2!!!Rush did not save the AM Spectrum. He saved ONE station in each market. The rest either went to sports or became the no-tell motel, selling shows by the hour. AM listening plateaued for a couple of years in the mid-90’s, then RESUMED its downward trend. Perhaps the uniformity and limited appeal of talk radio is a reason. And Obama has already come out against FD, so it’s all a red herring. A red herring resigned to rile the conservative base, and to help corporate radio, which is leading a lobbying campaign to keep from having any local programming requirements or staff requirements. Most AM talk stations are computers in closets running off satellite feeds, and the big owners want to keep it that way. Little or no local news, little or no local talk. It helps their bottom line to have conservative bloggers dressing up the FCC’ s localism proposals as a plot to silence conservatives.