What the hell is going on in New Mexico?!

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49. like a lot of states NM repubs use the university to support RW radio

NM dems could kick GOP ass if they complained to UNM for letting limbaugh station 770 KKOB broadcast UNM lobos games.

kkkob dominates the state with pure GOP/Koch bullshit about 15 hrs a day 5 days a week and a couple of real fascist idiots on the weekend.

so they use the LOBOS logo to sell advertising to pay for their cap. more than 88 unis around the country do the same. it's a fucking shame the prog orgs let it happen without complaint. almost any major issue can be protested at those stations. when the discussion starts, whatever the school does, the GOP will freak out, media will notice, and adverrisers will flee. stations like KKKKOB will go broke or change programming or have to be subsidized by the koch's etc.

UNM is basically helping martinez defund public ed in NM. martinez/skandera used lobos/limbaugh radio to tar and feather the pro public ed ABQ school super a couple od years ago. they spent weeks attacking him, finally got rid of him for basically nothing, and then complained about the 'golden parachute' they forced the city to pay.

kkkob is the real reason martinez won - they attacked denesh for months with bullshit, while waving the lobos banner over the station.

on nov 22 the producer pat frisch was filling in for the local morning asshole and was attacking santa fe and its mayor for being a sanctuary city and referenced the killer vigilante “Purge” movies, suggesting “some people may say hey, maybe that’s not a bad idea.”

it's absurd for progressive student groups to keep putting up with this crap - all those stations do global warming.

The 88 universities listed below broadcast sports on 257 of Rush Limbaugh’s 600 radio stations.

Those stations depend on those universities to help them attract advertisers and are legitimate places to protest any issue related to the Trump agenda.

Those universities have no excuse not to begin looking for apolitical alternatives.

Protests at state capitols and other locations are often easily ignored by media and politicians because Republican radio stations can yell over them for weeks after protestors have gone home. Talk show hosts attack and mischaracterize protestors, their tactics, and their objectives. They also encourage local officials and police to break protests up and excuse violence directed at protestors. They will repeat fabricated stories of protestor violence, looting, etc.

Except for occasional innocuous programming, all of those stations operate exclusively for the benefit of the Republican Party, paid for by advertisers. They coordinate with national and state GOP and their allied think tanks. They use public airwaves while call screeners protect them from public challenge and correction.

If Trump/GOP/Kochs/Putin paid $1000/hr for radio infomercial time, each station, at 15 hours/day x 5 days/week would be worth $75,000 every week. 257 stations would be worth $19MIL/week, or more than $1BIL/year. 1200 stations are worth about $18MIL/day or $5BIL/year.

Those stations have played an essential role in selling and excusing the Republican attack on democracy for the last 30 years and getting Donald Trump to the White House.

Any university supporting Republican talk radio is shooting itself in the foot, demeaning its mission statement and professed goals and values, and is undermining the interests of its students, faculty, employees, and surrounding communities.

Those stations are licensed to operate in the public interest but they all:

- deny global warming
- fight environmental regulation and always support fossil fuel solutions over renewables
- fight health care reform
- want to end net neutrality
- argue for media consolidation
- fight campaign finance reform
- fight to defund and privatize public education, attack teachers and work to lower their salaries, attack their unions, push voucher solutions and standardized testing, and obstruct efforts to lower student debt
- use public airwaves to sell voter suppression legislation with lies and exaggeration about voter fraud, millions of “illegal aliens” and dead people voting for Democrats, etc.
- use and excuse racism, misogyny, homophobia, and hate to divide communities and push voter suppression and other anti-democratic Republican legislation
- work to deny reproductive rights for women and access to contraception, and defund Planned Parenthood
- fight efforts to increase minimum wage, and advocate eliminating it
- undermine the economic and environmental interests of their communities
- use public airways to repeat propaganda that is demonstrably false and continue to lie after being corrected, use call screeners to exclude dissenting opinions
- coordinate with and provide free publicity for Republican politicians and think tanks when needed for elections, passing legislation, and attacking critics and opponents
- while railing against “political correctness”, they loudly demand regressive conformity

Many of those relationships began when the stations broadcast music and general non-partisan programming. Their programming became exclusively partisan in 1987 when Ronald Reagan ‘killed’ the Fairness Doctrine and Republicans began buying up radio stations to create a talk radio monopoly.

If school administrations argue they can’t make business decisions based on politics, they could be asked this:

- If the Gulf Stream stopped or slowed enough to radically lower average temperatures in Europe and North America, would they continue to support the global warming denial from those stations?

- Or, if a radio station went to KKK programming would the university still allow its mascot and school brand be used to sell a KKK agenda?

There seem to be two versions of the relationship between university, licensing company, and radio station. A licensing company pays the university for the broadcasting rights and then a station pays the licensing company for those rights. Or the licensing company pays the radio station to broadcast games. In some relationships, such as with the University of New Mexico, there is no bidding process.

The station gets to use the school logos, mascot, and community standing to attract advertisers.

There are many sports talk stations around the country that want to broadcast those sports events and would be more appropriate. They talk sports all day, not politics. They sell sports and sports merchandise.

Compared with TV, radio related revenues are minor. Can loud Republican radio stations be replaced with multiple smaller apolitical stations?

If some licensing revenue is lost can donors be found to make up the difference? If there is a loss, how does it compare with the harm it is doing to its own principles, students, and surrounding communities? Not to mention the damage from defunding public education.

Is there an opportunity for a licensing company that can find apolitical alternatives to reach similar audiences?

Since those stations sometimes weigh in directly on elections for university regents and selection of administration, including presidents and chancellors - is there a conflict of interest?

Is a university that supports Republican radio violating its 501c3 tax exempt status?

Those are questions every community around those universities should be having.

Here is the list of universities with the number of Limbaugh stations for each school and the total for each state. The list is incomplete. It does not include stations that do not headline Limbaugh. For instance, the University of Wisconsin broadcasts on 5 Limbaugh stations but also on 2 stations that headline Sean Hannity. Some universities may have made changes recently.

ALABAMA 8  Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 2 Arizona St. 1, Arizona 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7  Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 5 Wisconsin 5


There is no excuse for any school to support Trump radio.