Welcome To Red Massachusetts
by Brian Maloney, November 4th, 2008 at 10:42pm
Despite the influx of Boston-area residents, the South Shore is still surprisingly moderate to conservative, with McCain beating Obama in several towns and coming darn close in many more.
I noticed it in my area recently, where McCain signs greatly outnumbered those for Obama.
Along with the North Shore and parts of MetroWest, this is Boston talk radio’s target audience, NOT the city itself.
If you don’t know that by now, you shouldn’t be on the air or programming a radio station.
Thanks to tonight’s national election results, talk radio is now in for an unprecedented audience surge, the one format that will grow as music FM dies.
Let’s hope our local stations, including WRKO’s post-Entercom owners, get a handle on this quickly and capitalize on it.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Joe from Brighton | November 4th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
MetroWest is a particular problem for WRKO since you can’t pick the station up at night past Newton Corner.
2. Al Bowlly | November 5th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Thank God for WCRN. It’s the only way to get Howie out on 495 where many of US live.
So now we know that the Marxists are going to go after talk by comparing it to Pornography. What the heck are we going to do? Is the fix in?
3. medford jim | November 5th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
i think the fairness doctrine is coming. the 2 maine senators, bernie sanders i-vt, and john mccain will get the dems to 60.
4. chris | November 6th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Thanks to tonight’s national election results, talk radio is now in for an unprecedented audience
something BIG needs to happen for AM radio to surge. People wont suddenly turn to AM radio from FM-if people want to listen to talk they will-if they dont they wont-your saying people will be like “obama is now president-i better stop listening to fm and start listening to am”
yeah ok
as for fm radio dying: sat. radio, internet radio,xm and Sirius on tv (dish network and Directv)
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