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2016 Postmortem

certainot

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3. rw radio is not really a representation of market demand

Reply to Kilgore (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:56 PM

Dec 2016

stoprush showed how shallow the support is
most stations are just benefitting from the fact they are the loudest around and for many of them those associations with university sports is everything.
it's mom and pop vs wall mark and they protect their monopoly.
i'll bet if just 20% were liberal the rw would have no chance - their lying depends on avoiding competition and never being challenged

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In WIS, MI, and PA, 4 universities could decide the fate of 34 Limbaugh/Trump radio stations. [View all] certainot Dec 2016 OP

It really does come down to ad revenue. Kilgore Dec 2016 #1

rw radio is not really a representation of market demand certainot Dec 2016 #3

I dont beleive you are correct Kilgore Dec 2016 #6

those stations operate to pay for themselves but what they sell is war, certainot Dec 2016 #7

those states are red states now. going with the flow dont expect colleges to resist nt msongs Dec 2016 #2

it' the students, faculty and communities that need to resist certainot Dec 2016 #5

Please shut them down. Less hate radio is a good thing. putitinD Dec 2016 #4