WVKO AM RUMORED TO GO SPORTS / TALK

[jakej]

   Congratulations to the fans of a liberal talk approach, who will be getting a second opportunity to hear what they want on our city's airwaves. The fans of a liberal music approach are still waiting for their first.

[Jason Roberts]

   Congratulations to the fans of a liberal talk approach, who will be getting a second opportunity to hear what they want on our city's airwaves. The fans of a liberal music approach are still waiting for their first.

I'll be respectful here.  But, if a "liberal music approach" would work, it would already be on the air.

[Radioboy989]

Liberal Music...All Streisand All The Time?

[jakej]

   Liberal is simply the opposite of conservative, which is what today's paranoid radio industry is all about. Being conservative, not taking any chances, because there's no money in the budget for research to determine if any particular chance is worth taking. The sole focus of them all is on finding ways to reduce their expenses, not on finding new ways to spend what little money they've got, and this is especially true at the many sub-2.0 stations here. And sadly and ironically, they're the ones most in need of something new and different.
   I'll be respectful here, Jason -- your cliched post stinks! Don't deal with the real issues; just skirt them with a standard put-down. Yeah, that works.

[FightingIrish]

   Congratulations to the fans of a liberal talk approach, who will be getting a second opportunity to hear what they want on our city's airwaves. The fans of a liberal music approach are still waiting for their first.

That's probably the best post in this thread.

[gabigley1]

The Columbus Distpatch editor Ann fisher has this to say about WVKO's new format:

 http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/12/03/ann03_ART_12-03-07_B1_928LGLI.html?sid=101

[zaxxons1]

> Like I said, since Air America is pinko radio, Chuck Harder and all those other talk shows were really militia radio.  He was on the Sun
> Broadcast Network out of Florida.

Believe it or not, Chuck Harder is still on the air.
He's on WPGS AM 840 down in Titusville, FL.  He's also on satellite (don't recall the location) and Internet streaming audio.  I think he may be on a half-dozen or so other AM stations in the U.S., but I don't really know.
Heard Harder yesterday afternoon ... he was talking to William Federer, a right-wing anti-Bush writer ... and Harder sounded like he was losing his voice.  I know Harder's been in a couple bad accidents, and suffered a couple strokes as well as other medical emergencies, but (and this is very significant) this is the first time I can recall him losing his ability to talk on the air.  After all, that's what talk radio is all about.  Why this is happening, I don't know ... cancer? ... heart failure? ... respiratory failure?  Who knows?  I'm not a doctor!
No doubt Harder is going off the air soon.  Is that why Lou Dobbs (who's an exact political clone of Harder, except for the UFO's, the anti-Semitism, and the violent rhetoric on the air) is ginning up a three-hour talk radio show in a few weeks?
I think so.  I don't like Dobbs at all, but in my opinion he's better than Chuck Harder.  But it'll be strange not being able to hear Harder anywhere on the air anymore, given that he's been on the radio since 1958 ... the year I was born!

[boyphenom]

No doubt Harder is going off the air soon.  Is that why Lou Dobbs (who's an exact political clone of Harder, except for the UFO's, the anti-Semitism, and the violent rhetoric on the air) is ginning up a three-hour talk radio show in a few weeks?
I think so.  I don't like Dobbs at all, but in my opinion he's better than Chuck Harder.  But it'll be strange not being able to hear Harder anywhere on the air anymore, given that he's been on the radio since 1958 ... the year I was born!

Dobbs is smoother, that's for sure.  Too smooth ..... Mitt Romney smooth.  Yes, I loved Harder's vitriole the most.  The Jews, the Tri-Lateral Commission and their control of world wealth, the New World Order and UFO's ........ IT'S A CONSPIRACY!  He was really out there in left field ..... it was a great show to listen to!

Where is the link for the on-line stream?

Do you know the name of that other guy who was the militia man's financial guru?  He was on the same network and he was flogging gold investments ...... I think he ended up going to jail for swindling investors.

[zaxxons1]

> Do you know the name of that other guy who was the militia man's financial guru?  He was on the same network and he was flogging gold > nvestments ...... I think he ended up going to jail for swindling investors.

Don't know who this guy was.  I do remember a Craig Smith, who pushed gold on Chuck Harder's show a few years ago.
I don't mean to get melodramatic here ... but if you want to get an interesting "office pool" going, ask them when Chuck Harder's last day on the air is.
I say December 21, 2007.  That's two weeks from this Friday.
What do you say?

[zaxxons1]

Listened to Chuck Harder yesterday afternoon, about 2:40 PM, and he said, in so many words, that he couldn't continue on the air, so he would go ahead and let his on-air guest do the show instead.
Wow.
Looks like this is it - the end of the "For The People" program.  In a weird sort of way, I'm gonna miss Chuck Harder.  I hated the guy's politics, if you could call the abject nonsense he spewed on the air "politics," but he did have a fantastic voice and he did know a lot about consumer issues, alternative energy, basic physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and computer technology.  His big problem was, obviously, his hatred of Jews, which did him in.
You know, even though I'm Jewish, and know the history of anti-Semitism by heart (I wrote a book about it years ago), I still cannot explain why it exists at all.  The more conventional racism - ugly, vicious, atavistic and barbaric though it is - has a certain cruel logic to it, which can be summed up as "They don't look like we do!"  That certainly doesn't excuse it, and we must do all we can to banish it from the hearts, minds and spirits of the people, but it does provide an explanation for why it exists.
Jew-hatred?  It doesn't even have a cruel logic to it!
And it's been going on for 4,000 years!  The ancient Greeks had it; ditto the ancient Egyptians; and the medieval Europeans; and the modern Europeans; and even some of our Founding Fathers (Benjamin Franklin, despite his Hebraic first name, once proposed that the original Continential Congress permanently ban Jews from the fledgling U.S. of A.).
And it's 2007 - the 21st Century, the George Jetson era, the Internet/multimedia era, the era of space travel, miracle cures, and COMPSTAT - and here we have folks like Chuck Harder.
What was it what Kermit the Frog said? "It's tough to be green"?  Well, let me borrow from that aphorism: It's tough to be Jewish!