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Jenoch

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13. You're right. The Salem station in the

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 11:18 PM

Feb 2014

Twin Cities where I live gets about a 1.0 share or a little less. The locally owned progressive station, which used to be Air America, gets about the same number of listeners. I don't listen to the Salem station too much (almost not at all) but the progressive station seems to have both loyal listeners and loyal local advertisers. I know the owner (I used to be in broadcasting) and I don't think she is getting wealthy from her radio station, (she was wealthy when she bought it, I hope she still is) but they've been around for almost ten years.

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The ratings show: People are tired of right wing sludge on air. [View all] alp227 Feb 2014 OP

k/r Dawson Leery Feb 2014 #1

Recommend! KoKo Feb 2014 #2

Not soon enough. Boomerproud Feb 2014 #3

I ONLY tune in to KOGO when we have a distaster nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #4

San Diego's former progtalk now sports station KLSD 1360 also has emergency info, alp227 Feb 2014 #12

K&R Little_Wing Feb 2014 #5

I really don't listen to local stations since I've gotten a vehicle with satellite radio Revanchist Feb 2014 #6

Safellite radio in general has not had Jenoch Feb 2014 #8

Thanks,, I was curious but not enough to try to dig up data on my tablet. EOM. Revanchist Feb 2014 #10

excellent work grasswire Feb 2014 #7

Most of the Salem owned stations are low power AM stations Jenoch Feb 2014 #9

same with Air America. the funny thing is, right wingers say alp227 Feb 2014 #11

You're right. The Salem station in the Jenoch Feb 2014 #13

I see no reference to "LW-Talk". Why is that? madinmaryland Feb 2014 #14

I did. alp227 Feb 2014 #15

There is a large public radio Jenoch Feb 2014 #18

Why would any one tune in? gerogie2 Feb 2014 #16

Such talk gets them horny. They want validation of their bass ackwards bigotry. nt alp227 Feb 2014 #20

Nobody under 40 listens to talk radio Ex Lurker Feb 2014 #17

hey i'm under 30 and i listen to NPR, sports, and music on the radio most of the time! alp227 Feb 2014 #19