'LSD Rally part II

[SDRadio]

8)

There is another grass roots rally at Clear Channel on Friday morning -- to show support for KLSD.

7:30 to 9.

This is not station driven; listener driven. Some of the advertisers are on board.

Stay Tuned!

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[Jacmac]

Does it really matter if every KLSD listener shows up? The problem is that they don't have enough of them, a rally at this point isn't going to drum up new listeners, so why would the management change their minds at this late date? If anything, the management probably loves these rallys for any free publicity they might get out of them, maybe people will check out the new sports station as a result...

 

[Bob_Hudson]

8)

There is another grass roots rally at Clear Channel on Friday morning -- to show support for KLSD.

7:30 to 9.

This is not station driven; listener driven. Some of the advertisers are on board.

Stay Tuned!

:

Does CC have you on the payroll now for all this PR work you do?


All together now, in unison, we will sing the company song:

This is not station driven...it is certainly listener driven.
:-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Let the format not be riven from the town where we be livin'!

 

[Snarkin USA]

Hunger for quality journalism isn't diminishing thanks to SDRadio.net.

 

[Reggiefan1945]

If they had the needed advertisers they would not be changing. My question is if sports...Why? Will there support?

 

[sdwulfdawg]

8)

There is another grass roots rally at Clear Channel on Friday morning -- to show support for KLSD.

7:30 to 9.

This is not station driven; listener driven. Some of the advertisers are on board.

Stay Tuned!

:

So does anyone here know what happened to the 'LSD rally -- "Part deux" ?

 

[Jacmac]

Jon Monday as saveklsd.com says:

The potential for KLSD to be commercially successful is substantial; it just needs to be developed. The biggest factor in limiting its success so far has been the weak signal, which doesn’t reach much of the county. In fact, I would make the argument that San Diego’s potential is perhaps the largest untapped market for Clear Channel in the country, since KLSD has both a large potential audience and no competition. Progressives, Activists, and Democrats have come together in an unprecedented way, in just a short time, to show our support for the station and their sponsors

Is the signal likely to be the biggest limiting factor here? What if KLSD had the strongest signal in San Diego, would it's numbers be up in the top ten? He states that KLSD has no competition, but it appears to me that KLSD has so much competition that they can't make it profitable.

 

[vonrollskyway1]

clear channel is guilty of flippin formats to something nobody cares to listen to.take a example,kbig this morning flipped to my 1043.does it sound familiar?it didnt last long here.

 

[Ben Shaton]

Since there is a limitation of frequencies that can be on the AM and FM bands, the number of stations owned by anyone in a market should be limited as well. What we have now are a few like-minded non local companies dominating our airwaves, with Clear Channel as the 800 lb gorilla here. The consolidation of the industry following deregulation has been responsible for the deterioration of competition and quality of radio over the last decade. I think there is merit to restricting company ownership of stations to one AM and one FM frequency per market, and ensuring that at least half of the stations are locally owned. That means CC can have Star & KOGO, but they own many more stations than they can pay close enough attention to for quality programming on all of them. Clear Channel is about as committed to having liberal talk radio succeed as Microsoft has been committed to WebTV. Can anyone name any market in the whole country where Clear Channel has given a liberal talk station the same promotion and signal as the one they carry Rush on?

 

[Bob_Hudson]

Can anyone name any market in the whole country where Clear Channel has given a liberal talk station the same promotion and signal as the one they carry Rush on?

Bad radio on a more powerful signal is still bad radio. Air America and KLSD garnered tons of free publicity in the beginning, but it was a narrowcasting format that just is not going to appeal to many people. If CC thought it could make some serious coin they'd sure as heck milk it for all it's worth: this is not a company driven by principle or politics.

 

[ABQTom]

Can anyone name any market in the whole country where Clear Channel has given a liberal talk station the same promotion and signal as the one they carry Rush on?

Bad radio on a more powerful signal is still bad radio. Air America and KLSD garnered tons of free publicity in the beginning, but it was a narrowcasting format that just is not going to appeal to many people. If CC thought it could make some serious coin they'd sure as heck milk it for all it's worth: this is not a company driven by principle or politics.

Absolutely.

Nobody listened to people 2-3 years ago, who worked for hosts competing with Air America, and who kept trying to say that most listeners to traditional AM Talk are CONSERVATIVE.

Air America appeals to the fringe left. The right will turn off hosts within minutes, like Rachel Maddow, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes.

Look at KGO in San Francisco - They get huge ratings and are even more moderate than Air America. Bernie Ward, Ronn Owens, John Rothmann, do not even compare to Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, and Mike Malloy. Yes, KGO has Karel and Talliaferro, but they fill niche audiences in overnight and weekend dayparts.

And, you've got to foster listeners and callers from Right Wingers. You'll hear right wingers call all the time on Big Ed, Alan Colmes/Jay Diamond, Doug Basham, Thom Hartmann, and Peter B. Collins.

If 1360 KLSD or any liberal station wants to MAKE MONEY, they could delay Rhodes and take Collins off the sattelite, put Colmes on LIVE, and make a deal with Doug Basham in Vegas. That will compensate for any weak signal issues.

I'm a *HUGE* fan of Talliaferro, Karel, Malloy, but they won't work outside of niche markets. Moderate liberals can go into any market, but Air America insisted on pushing far left liberals without success.

-albuquerqueTOM

 

[Bob_Hudson]

Can anyone name any market in the whole country where Clear Channel has given a liberal talk station the same promotion and signal as the one they carry Rush on?

Bad radio on a more powerful signal is still bad radio. Air America and KLSD garnered tons of free publicity in the beginning, but it was a narrowcasting format that just is not going to appeal to many people. If CC thought it could make some serious coin they'd sure as heck milk it for all it's worth: this is not a company driven by principle or politics.

Absolutely.

Nobody listened to people 2-3 years ago, who worked for hosts competing with Air America, and who kept trying to say that most listeners to traditional AM Talk are CONSERVATIVE.

Air America appeals to the fringe left. The right will turn off hosts within minutes, like Rachel Maddow, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes.

It's not just the "right" that will turn them off - most Democrats will do likewise (as the ratings have shown). Anyone who calls themselves "a liberal" or "a progressive" is on the "far left" and will fail to recognize that a Rush Limbaugh is much closer to the nation's political center than he is to any "radical right" (which is an even smaller niche than the far left). I would dare say that many people who vote Democrat would describe themselves as conservative and it is often fine nuance which tips their vote one way or the other on election day. Certainly we have seen that a Democrat controlled Congress does not act much differently than a Republican one.


Really from my standpoint, the problem, if there is one, is that folks rallying for support of KLSD as an "alternative" to the preponderance of "conservative" talk radio don't realize that Rush, Roger and their ilk are mainstream radio, espousing ideas that most informed American adults think make sense.