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He may be a bigot, but at least he's for net neutrality
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that it has busted “intermittent internet radio talk show host and blogger” Hal Turner for allegedly making murderous threats against three judges who...
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Palin bows out as Alaska Gov. Is the next step talk radio?
Sarah Palin: no more "politics as usual." Ever since John McCain made his disastrous decision to pick Sarah Palin as his running made in ’08, I’ve been saying that the winner of that election was her....
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Hannity and Limbaugh deny using parent company’s fake caller service
Relatively under the radar, the jewish lifestyle magazine Tablet reported a story on Premiere Radio Network’s Premiere On Call service which provides voice actors to call in to radio shows. Premiere...
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KCSB Revisits Controversial Sean Hannity Talk Show Circa 1989
KCSB Sign (Photo: J. Waits) As part of KCSB‘s 50th anniversary celebration, the college radio station at University of California, Santa Barbara is digging into their archives and re-broadcasting some...
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Family Radio’s WKDN Morphs into All-Hannity Radio after Sale to Merlin
Sean Hannity Replaces Family Radio on WKDN Yesterday, Camden, New Jersey radio station WKDN made a radical change in programming, switching from Family Radio to Hannity@106.9 FM Radio following the...
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Read some of the best writing about talk radio
Every weekend Slate shares a Longform-curated selection of non-fiction pieces about a common topic. This weekend the topic was talk radio, and all of these articles should be of interest to Radio...
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This comic must be about conservative talk radio
The often brilliant xkcd takes on talk radio (I’m the one suggesting it’s conservative talk radio): The post This comic must be about conservative talk radio appeared first on Radio Survivor.
View ArticleOrson Welles promotes WABC talk radio in 1982 commercial
And here’s an alternate viewpoint on AM talk radio, compared to the earlier xkcd post. It’s from 20 years ago, before consolidation and Clear Channel. Orson Welles promotes New York’s WABC talk radio:...
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iHeartRadio Talk is Clear Channel’s move to become the Google of internet radio
Clear Channel has discovered the podcast, apparently, but wants to rename it the “audiosode.” Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? But don’t be fooled by the nincompoop neologism, this is a very serious...
View ArticleIndia maxes out on radio as election approaches
If you are a politics junkie, India is the country for you. Right now 814.5 million Indian voters are qualified to cast ballots in the impending elections for India’s 543 member lower house and the...
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The Death Spiral of AM Talk Radio
Darryl Parks is the former corporate brand manager for Clear Channel talk stations and was program director for Cincinnati news/talk WLW-AM. Now independent, Parks keeps a blog where he recently has...
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Why Rush Limbaugh Is Dragging Down AM Talk Radio
Talk radio veteran Darryl Parks is a harsh critic of how the format continues to lose touch with most of the radio audience who aren’t white male baby boomers. In a new post this week he takes aim at...
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Art Bell’s Return Will Be on Terrestrial Radio, too
Last month I told you about nocturnal radio king Art Bell’s scheduled return to broadcasting. At first it looked like his show, Midnight in the Desert, would be internet-only, save a single shortwave...
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Art Bell Returns Monday Night, Possible Test Show on Sunday Night
Monday night at midnight Eastern Time is the much anticipated return of Art Bell. Though originally planned to be an online-only show on the Dark Matter network, 21 AM and FM stations and two...
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Art Bell to Expand Distribution of ‘Midnight in the Desert’ via Satellite
When Art Bell announced his return to daily broadcasting last spring the plan was to be internet-only, with just one shortwave station picking up the online feed. By the time his new show, “Midnight...
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RIP Art Bell, Who Brought Freeform Call-In Radio Nationwide
Late night talk radio innovator Art Bell has died at the age of 72. He passed away in his sleep, at home in Pahrump, Nevada on Friday, April 13. For the night owls, insomniacs, late-shift and...
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