I’m not sure that this show is a paid advertisment because they did have some commercials as I recall; I was not listening too intently. Kelly’s show preempted Coast to Coast that had an author on about the Medieval Inquisition. He left off talking about instruments of torture, followed by Bill Kelly

Al, I’ve noticed a lot of dead air on RKO lately, during Laura Ingraham’s program, Howie’s program and this morning during Whitley’s program. What is up with that? Also during rush’s program right in the middle of a sentence there’s dead air, anyone know what’s causing this? One early morning there was dead air for about 30 minutes or so. Is this due to automation, no one around to monitor what’s going on? Sheesh, nothing worse than dead air, oh wait, there’s the felon, wendy, hedlund, maryellen………..: )

No one there even cares anymore.

If real journalism had not died, real talk radio would have never gotten to the point where it is. People realizing that media outlets like the globe, nytimes, et al have all surrendered any / all integrity with their coverage of stories are the reason people like Rush, Jerry, Howie, et al grew so big. Yes at times they do spark outrage, but it was just outrage about things the other media outlets couldn’t be bothered to tell us about.

When somebody says something like talk radio is designed ONLY to sell us windshields, and that’s the ONLY point of talk radio it makes me think they are upper management at RKO. (Didn’t Julie have a sales background?) With those people in charge, you end up with “talent” like: mcphee, reese, felon, and jay. THEY are there to sell us windshields and matresses. The management that hires this “talent” are the ones killing the business and then are clueless about why it died. Bottom line is that since managmement can not recognize the problem, it can never be fixed.

It’s sad that those management types were given the reigns to one of the most accessable outlets for information. There is a bright side though, all of us can learn how to remove the spackle from our colon walls if we listen.

If one doesn’t like that, they can always listen to NPR…and if I recall, back in the late 90’s, they weren’t exactly doing commercials but got very close (like PBS). You have to enjoy the liberal spin on it though if you go that route.

I try to use my brain and common sense…I never liked those GOLD commercials but have to admit that for the past few years they were a better investment (which normally isn’t the case).

We still know more than the average bear because we listen to talk radio…some of us are the resistance against those dopes that only vote for the D. They don’t know the ISSUES…they don’t know the GERRYMANDERING and they are ignorant to the corruption that yes, even a DEMOCRAT state is filthy in!

Plus, hubby says that Curt is the biggest faker ever on the Red Sox - pretending to be all about TEAM but in reality way more conerned about #38. Except maybe for Trot Nixon who was all faux hustle and grit (then get a hangnail and sit out).