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Cleita

(75,480 posts) Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:33 PM Feb 2013

I'm pissed. This sucks. I keep my car radio tuned to our local progressive radio

station and lately I'm getting strange voices on it with right wing views. I decided to research what was going on and this is all I could find on one facebook page with little other information:

http://www.facebook.com/FormerKGOListeners/posts/379138492181457

Another PROGRESSIVE Station bites the Talk Radio Dust!!!

~ Mapleton Shifts KYNS, San Luis Obispo from Progressive Talk to All-News. Mapleton’s KYNS, San Luis Obispo has been a progressive talk outlet since the days of Air America but now the signal is airing an all-news format under the brand “SLO Radio News 1340.” The station is using the long-form news blocks from America’s Radio News Network.
~ http://talkers.com/

This station with bad reception was the only liberal station in my area. Yet, it was where we could get Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy. Poof! They are gone! I can still get Stephanie on Current TV, Thom on FSTV and Randi and Mike nowhere without paying for it.

No wonder I have to listen to shit at the gym like I did yesterday about rich people creating jobs, and charities and churches should take care of the destitute and blah, blah. Anybody got any ideas about what we can do? Would it be possible to go before the County Board of Supervisors (pretty much morons but all we got) and try to make the case that hearing only one side of a message creates totalitarian states. I can point to Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Castro's Cuba, today's China, etc., etc.? Should I try to find out who posted the FB page and ask if there are others on board to doing something?

I'm really unfamiliar with pushing local political deities to do the right thing. Any advice? This is not good for San Luis Obispo, California or democracy.

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I'm pissed. This sucks. I keep my car radio tuned to our local progressive radio (Original Post) Cleita Feb 2013 OP

Picket the station riverbendviewgal Feb 2013 #1

Good idea about boycotting sponsors. Cleita Feb 2013 #4

It just occurred to me that I could go to those merchants, the local ones, and tell them that Cleita Feb 2013 #5

Talk radio strange7 Feb 2013 #2

I do have alternatives, but as I explained elsewhere, Cleita Feb 2013 #3

riverbendviewgal

(4,252 posts)

1. Picket the station

Reply to Cleita (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:34 PM

Feb 2013

and boycott their sponsers.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

4. Good idea about boycotting sponsors.

Reply to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 06:50 PM

Feb 2013

It's too far away to picket considering the cost of gas these days.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

5. It just occurred to me that I could go to those merchants, the local ones, and tell them that

Reply to riverbendviewgal (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:07 PM

Feb 2013

although I don't intend to boycott them I won't be listening to that station anymore. If enough people say this, maybe they will figure out that their advertising dollars should be spent elsewhere.

strange7

(16 posts)

2. Talk radio

Reply to Cleita (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 06:32 PM

Feb 2013

I live in Arizona but, I listen to iheartradio on the net and get 960am Knew
I get Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy all of them on the internet free. follow@960knew
I hope this helps I know I would really miss not being able to listen to my favorites.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)

3. I do have alternatives, but as I explained elsewhere,

Reply to strange7 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 06:49 PM

Feb 2013

many of us like to listen to the radio while driving and since there is a lot of driving where I live because things are spread out, it helps to pass the time. I also liked to take my battery operated radio outdoors to listen to when I was gardening. I can't really do that with other electronic devices without added expense and I am on a fixed income.

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