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(9,090 posts)UNM broadcasts sports on 770 KKOB and even advertises for recruiting during the limbaugh show, ads touting their diversity!
that station is strongly connected to the GOP. it regularly gives their candidates and elected republicans and their staffs, as well as rw think tank media hacks, free time, while attacking progressives and their causes. if they were going to pay $1000/hr x 15 hrs/day that's worth about $75,000 FREE to them vs you and other dems.
i hope you or another dem candidates - or all of you - in NM get a community discussion going about the absurdity of UNM supporting and bringing in ad money and even advertising on KKOB while it denies global warming, excuses trump and racism, attacks immigrants, supports the wall, etc., and has been used to enable and cheer on COVID denial and action delay.
that limbaugh radio station, licensed to act in the public interest, followed limbaugh's lead and called covid a hoax for two months and more recently was screaming for the governor to reopen small business - and masks are for sissies. maybe they are covering their ass more now but theres no excuse for UNM to be helping republicans against you and other NM dems by continuing to broadcast sports on KKOB. at the same time, whatever happens, they will blame dem politicians for not doing it right!
and UNM is just one of 87 universities endorsing 260 limbaugh stations