Jan 28, 2007

Liberal political talk radio fails in Santa Cruz

There is an article here announcing the failure of liberal talk radio in Santa Cruz, California.

The article begins by saying:

Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Sam Seeder — articulate liberal pundits — don't sell well, even in Santa Cruz.

I don’t know about Sam Seeder, but to call Al Franken (pictured) and Randi Rhodes articulate is like saying the world is flat. Their ranting and raving on-air delivery is anything but articulate.

Liberal talk radio should sell well in such a liberal community as Santa Cruz but obviously it didn’t.

KSCO is actually a conservative radio station that decided to give liberal Air America a chance, hoping that enough advertising could be sold to make it pay. Well, it didn’t.

The station owner said: “We didn't sell a single ad in a year and a half…I thought liberal radio would work as a viable advertising business in the most liberal town in America. I was wrong"

Air America has been replaced with music from the 1950s, '60s and '70s in Santa Cruz. So much for liberal radio in a liberal town.

Hmm…a year and a half without a single paying advertisement…wonder if that will appear in Franken’s next book?