Liberal radio fails in Huntsville
Posted by BrianA local “media reform” group called North Alabama Media Reform - a basically anti-capitalist group that favors more government control of media content - has been underwriting a left wing radio program on a local NPR station. The program is called Democracy Now!, although it would be more apropos to name it Democrats Now! as tilts far to the left. Two weeks ago WLRH removed the program from it’s schedule. The station said that its Arbitron ratings were not sufficient.
That just goes to show how small the audience is for liberal radio programming. Here we had a show that was underwritten by a local “media reform” group (probably full of community organizers!) that was airing at a very undesirable time, Fridays at 7:00 PM (i.e. low ratings were to be expected), on NPR and it couldn’t even get sufficient ratings to stay on the air. I didn’t even know NPR cared about ratings! How pitiful. Keep this in mind when you hear liberals whining about how there should be more left leaning programming.
Side note on Democracy Now!: Two of the shows producers and the host were arrested at a protest at the Republican National Convention.
Side note on WLRH: Good call removing the Democracy Now! program. It was over the top. Also, thanks for adding The World to your schedule so I don’t have to switch over to “the other” north Alabama NPR station to listen to this show.
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September 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Maybe they should consider Low Power Community Radio. Most times, it sounds like indymedia on acid, but it is a way of owning your own printing press.
However, it seems to be the default position for many to demand a media outlet than building one of their own.
September 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
The show’s fate was determined by the market and thats the way it should be!