Report: 91% of talk radio is conservative

[garybeck]

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/talk_radio.pdf

THE STRUCTURAL
IMBALANCE OF
POLITICAL TALK RADIO
A Joint Report by
The Center for American Progress and Free Press
June 21, 2007

...snip...

Our analysis in the spring of 2007 of the 257 news/talk stations owned by the top
fi ve commercial station owners reveals that 91 percent of the total weekday talk
radio programming is conservative, and 9 percent is progressive.

Each weekday, 2,570 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk are broadcast on
these stations compared to 254 hours of progressive talk—10 times as much conservative
talk as progressive talk.

A separate analysis of all of the news/talk stations in the top 10 radio markets
reveals that 76 percent of the programming in these markets is conservative and
24 percent is progressive, although programming is more balanced in markets such
as New York and Chicago.

...snip...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/talk_radio.pdf

[Fresh_Start]

1. Propaganda has to be repeated frequently if its going to work

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[originalpckelly]

2. The only just way to solve this is by launching a boycott of the companies...

that support this. I don't just mean the sponsors of the program, but the media companies. We need to make our case that listening to one sided radio is not good for America.

[PassingFair]

4. Here's the problem.

I don't know about anywhere else, but in the metro-detroit area,
the only liberal radio station, 1310, is actually owned by
CLEAR CHANNEL. It has TERRIBLE reception, too.

There is not a separate advertising stratum for it.
They are GAMING it.

[originalpckelly]

10. Don't listen to it. I really honestly think talk radio with a slant in either direction is wrong.

Why do I have to listen to someone else who agrees with me? It seems the only reason that I'd tune into a liberal radio station is just so they can tell precisely the party line instead of allowing me to think for myself.

[PassingFair]

11. Um....because I get NEWS from Thom Hartman, Randi Rhodes, et al....

Why listen?

I want to know what's going on, especially in Washington.

Where the hell else am I going to get the story?

[garybeck]

12. left, right, ..... truth?

my opinion is that the "lefties" actually report the truth while the Limbaughs and ORiellys are just lying. I don't think I'm being biased. I just look at what is going on in the world and the only place I can really get the information is from the news outlets and talk shows that are labeled "liberal" but I think really they're just fact based reporting. Of course all reporting has some kind of slant but I think there is much less of it on the lefty shows.

[Bandit]

3. It is hard for Liberals to generate the hatred of Conservative talk radio

And apparently that is what sells. It sure isn't good policy or protecting the health and welfare of US Citizens that sells. It is the "in your face" excitement of confrontation.

[Cleita]

7. We aren't hateful people and not very good liars, so it would

stand to reason that conservatives hold the advantage over us on those two points.

[Freddie Stubbs]

16. Are those qualities necessary to be successful on talk radio?

:shrug:

[Cleita]

27. No, but in today's corporate run talk radio, it would seem to

determine who gets to go on the air and who doesn't. If AAR hadn't started up, we would have had no voice because people like Randi Rhodes and Thom Hartmann would have remained local and would not have been heard coast to coast.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. "It is hard for Liberals to generate the hatred..." Not so much, anymore.

[OnionPatch]

25. LOL, case in point: Mike Malloy

And I love him! Randi can spew some hatred, too but Malloy is tops. Funny how Malloy is considered "fringe" but someone like Glenn Beck, who spews even more hatred than Mike and Randi put together, is on the MSM cable news networks. Hey, now I'm starting to get pissed....:mad:

[wildbilln864]

5. I sure wish...

we could get balanced radio here in SC! Every damned day it's that junky Rush Lamebrain from noon til 3 pm! These people around here are totally brainwashed IMHO!

[garybeck]

8. we had air america in Vermont but the station sold

and now the only way to hear it is on the net.

[4nic8em]

24. I live smack in the

middle of the repugnican bible belt in central Florida, and I must say if not for XM radio and Air America, I would have completely lost my fucking mind a few years ago. You can change channels all you want on public AM radio in this area, but all you'll find is morphed and mutant variations of Rust Lumpbag and Spawn Insanity and other neonut spew.

[Cleita]

6. No kidding Sherlocks!

No study is needed to state the obvious, but I'm glad they did it anway to make it empirical. Now we have got to push our representatives to bring back the fairness doctrine.

[garybeck]

9. duh, we all know it, but studies are required to get things to change.

i applaud CFAP and FP for doing this

the study is not for us... we know it already. it's for the dirtbags who think there is a balance or liberal bias out there.

[Iris]

13. LOL! That's what I was going to say, only I would have prefaced it with

"Now I'm going to talk like one of THEM". . .

[librechik]

14. That's because even tho 70% of the population is progressive in outlook

there is NO MARKET for progressive programming.

And don't argue.

[garybeck]

20. why do you think AAR went bankrupt? I would think

it would have been a financial goldmine unless it was mishandled.

[librechik]

21. their business managers were crooks who just tooke the money and ran

Did you notice how many stations were beating Hannity and oReilly in the ratings even while they were bankrupt?

This is political. Ratings are a secondary concern for these big market media moguls.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Really? You don't say?

[garybeck]

19. there is a reason for studies like this

if you can't see it then so be it.

we all know the facts already, but sometimes studies are necessary to make the case.

[Emit]

26. I skimmed through that study just now

Thanks for posting. I'm going to bookmark to read in fuller detail later. There looks to be much more to that report. Thanks again.

[LSK]

17. I wonder what the #s were 5 years ago? 99%???

[KamaAina]

18. ...and the other 9% is on one-lung stations that are "up there by the police calls"

like Imus used to say.

Clear Channel got its name from the "clear channel" AM stations, the 50,000-watt ones with no other stations (or only low-power daytimers hundreds of miles away) on their frequencies. Guess who bought up most of them??? And if it's not them, it's some other RW conglomerate like Entercom.

Meanwhile, AAR is on 1600 in its home town of NYC, while in the third-largest market, Chicago, it's on a daytimer, far out in the 'burbs to boot. (at least I think it still is; AAR's page still shows WSMB New Orleans, which Entercom turned into a time-shifted rebroadcast of its right-wing WWL -- the city's only "clear channel"!)

http://www.airamerica.com/stations

[Wednesdays]

22. That gives the false impression that the 9% "progressive"

means "liberal," where in reality the rest is political-neutral talk, such as auto-talk shows and recipe-sharing programs.

[BikeWriter]

28. Liberal Media Bias! Hold someone accountable today!

:sarcasm:

[kurth]

29. AM radio has become pretty much a GOP mouthpiece

Boring, predictable, and obnoxious.

[EFerrari]

30. Hate radio will lose audience just as broadcast and print "news"

is losing audience.

They have a choice: short term gain or long term loss.

[suegeo]

31. Conservative? Nah, foaming at the mouth FASCIST

Not only is there 10x more nazi talk than liberal talk, but the fascist screamers also bump the hate up exponentially with their extremism.

[Gold Metal Flake]

32. kick