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Date Posted: 10:39:20 06/16/03 Mon
Author: Freddy
Subject: ditto
In reply to: Rockford 's message, "The Radio Is In the Hands of Such A Lot of Fools" on 07:48:06 06/16/03 Mon

Once again, you have demonstrated how deregulation has led to conglomerates buying up entire markets as a tool to sell their wares at the cost of meaningful radio. I read Surf's article and it merely confirmed something I instinctively knew anyway.

The easiest confirmation that talk radio is garbage though is listening to the product itself. It is simply boring and repitive to the point of tears.

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[> Irv did tons on infomercials at WWDB, so he hardly took what I would call "a noble stand" on infomercials. As a matter of fact, he still does them on WBCB. Most hosts, here and across the country, have guns put to their heads (pointed by management) when it comes to infomercials. -- Jay, 08:35:51 06/17/03 Tue


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[> [> Perhaps we hear different stations, but Philly's the only market where I've heard the first-string day-to-day hosts forced to do infomercials during their normal timeslots. But if you're correct, then the current, steady growth of talk-radio is short-lived indeed. These hosts need to realize that, long-term, they're selling themselves right out of a job and guaranteeing their stations will flip to country oldies or whatever passes for AM music radio today. -- "Vince From Villanova" (All hail the "king," baby.), 13:28:24 06/17/03 Tue


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