Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cincinnati gains another right-wing talk station

How many right-wing talk stations does Cincinnati need - when it doesn't have a single left-wing talk station?

This time, the culprit is AM 1160, whose oldies format is being moved up the dial to 1480. The new talk format bears the call letters WQRT - which ironically is amateur radio lingo for "I am now leaving the air." (In the meantime, 1480 loses its historic WCIN calls in favor of WDJO.)

WQRT will air Dr. Laura, Neal Boortz, and the Washington Times - which I didn't know was a radio show until now.

ANOTHER right-wing talk station in Cincinnati??? This makes at least 3 talk stations in the market now that are all or almost all conservative.

Why is this signal even continuing to operate, if the only material it can find to broadcast is this garbage? I'd rather listen to scratched-up 45's of toilets flushing, or play-by-plays of my former high school's football team that hasn't won a single game yet in the team's existence.

How was the Telecommunications Act of 1996 not a bailout for right-wing talk radio?

(Source: http://tinyurl.com/q3n2vn)

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