anyone around here rich enuf to buy some radio stations?

[orleans]

or do you know anyone who has so much money they don't know what to do with it?

thom hartmann has talked about the massive number of right wing radio stations across the country -- the ones many of the truckers (and everyone else) listen to or can only listen to b/c there isn't a choice.

a few minutes ago he commented about air america (swoon -- remember that station?), saying that he believes air america was a huge reason obama got elected b/c it was on stations in 80% of the country.

chicago area has wcpt. what are the other progressive am stations? i don't know.

anyway, it would be great if gov. j.b. pritzker would invest in this endeavor. or any other democrats that have the financial ability to help our democracy through the airwaves.

just a thought.

[onecaliberal]

1. It would be nice. The silence from leadership is NOT a good look.

[defacto7]

2. I wish.

This is one of my biggest hopes for years, that we could take over or flood the available frequencies with real news and hope. As an electronics buff, I actually built an illegal radio transmitter in the AM band and flooded our neighborhood with a whopping 8 watts of news from the Left. I think it could reach about a 3 block radius. Ha. Lotta good it did. But it was fun anyway and the neighbors never complained ... or they didn't listen.

[BannonsLiver]

3. Most of them in my red state have gone belly up or changed to swap shop formats

AM radio is well on its way to obsolescence.

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Remember that it's not just the purchase price of the station.

Whoever buys it must have deep enough pockets to withstand what can be unprofitable operations, and stick with a progressive format despite economic pressures to shift away to something different.

Look at the pathetic stock price of Salem Media Group (SALM) which blends conservative talk with Christian evangelism. Those people are really committed to pumping out their ideology despite throwing away tons of money to keep doing it.