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Liberal KSAC Radio Station Moving To Gospel Format, Cites Lack Of Advertisers
From Sacbee:
Nationally syndicated talk show host Mike Malloy just called to confirm that the KSAC (1240 AM) rumors are true:
The station is changing to a gospel format Monday morning.
“I got the call from (KSAC general manager) Paula Nelson today — she told me it broke her heart to have to make the change,” Malloy says.
The Atlanta-based talk show host, whose show has been carried daily on the station, says he first heard about the switch earlier this week via his boss, Nova M Radio CEO John Manzo.
Manzo, on the phone from Phoenix, also confirms the switch.
The reason? Economics.
“They don’t have the revenue to support the format,” Manzo says.
Malloy put it in even clearer terms.
“It’s not a ratings thing — we have plenty of listeners,” Malloy says. “KSAC is experiencing what most other liberal talk show format stations are experiencing – it’s not a lack of audience, it’s a lack of business support.”
In other words, not enough advertising dollars.
Big-name, deep-pocketed businesses, Malloy says, are turned off by the station’s progressive format.
“If you listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, you’ll hear (plenty) of national ads,” he says. “If you listen to someone like me or Randi Rhodes, there’s a complete lack of those types of sponsors.”
It’s a problem plaguing liberal talk radio in markets across the United States, he adds, noting that stations in San Francisco and San Diego have been forced to make similar changes.
There’s a reason that big business doesn’t get behind so-called “progressive radio” and it’s painfully obvious to everyone except progressives.
What respectable business is going to send millions of dollars in ad revenue to people who bash the President, the country, and the war on a constant basis?
Not only that, but liberals never miss an opportunity to bash corporations as evil and crooked. Why the hell would big business support the enemy?
Probably the biggest reason that big business doesn’t support left-wing radio is that there’s no benefit to it. The audience for Mike Malloy or Randi Rhodes is so tiny that it’s not worth it.
Only a very tiny sliver of America enjoys listening to hate progressive radio and it’s unlikely that will ever change. Companies flock to Sean Hannity, Bill O’reilly, and Rush Limbaugh because they have the largest radio audience’s in the United States.
Rush has the largest radio audience in America, followed by O’reilly, and then Hannity. O’Reilly and Hannity also have the highest rated news programs on cable television.
In fact the same comparisons you find between left-wing radio and conservative radio carry into television. MSNBC is far and away the most left-wing news channel in America, and it’s also dead last in the ratings night after night.
If liberals didn’t club listeners over the head with the same “America sucks” mantra 365 days a year they may actually get an audience, and maybe even a few sponsors.
-Chris Jones
Pelosi Turns Congressional Cafeteria Into Gourmet Experience
A revolution is afoot at the deli counters, grills and salad bars of the U.S. House of Representatives.
According to Politico, the cafeteria in The U.S. House of Representatives is now a very different place.
The processed cheese has been replaced with brie. The Jell-O has made way for raspberry kiwi tarts and mini-lemon blueberry trifles. Meatloaf has moved over for mahi mahi and buns have been shunted aside in favor of baguettes.
The menu transformation is part of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Greening the Capitol” plan to make the House campus more environmentally friendly and “socially progressive.”
Some employees are complaining that this new “socially progressive” campus is also becoming progressively more expensive.
“It’s a big jump from high school cafeteria to fancy-pants gourmet. I just wish my pay improved,” said Caryn Schenewerk, a staffer for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).
House officials counter that the fresher and more varied foods were indeed more expensive but that they had tried to preserve low-cost alternatives such as pizza, sandwiches and prepared salads, which remain around the same price.
When you actually read what some of the new meal choices are you really can’t help but laugh. The food sounds good, but it just seems out of place in the congressional cafeteria.
You can now get pan-roasted Chesapeake rockfish with sweet potato fennel hash and yellow pepper relish. Or something a bit lighter like Pears with Stilton cheese and watercress.
Staffers who find themselves emotional and weary after a long day fighting for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq might wish to dine on Cumin-scented leg of lamb with almond couscous.
There are also vegetables with funny names, like bok choy, arugula and jicama. There are baked goods with Italian names, like biscotti, focaccia and frittati.
With the immigration debate raging it only made sense to put something besides “Juan Valdez” in the vending machine that sells coffee.
Employees can now enjoy more politically neutral coffee from famed chef Wolfgang Puck, in flavors like “Vive la Crème Caramel” and “Tropic of Chocolate.”
Even the things that haven’t changed seem odd because their names are in foreign languages. The taco bar is the “Taqueria.” The grill is “A la Plancha.” The salad bar has expanded to “Salad/Antipasti.”
A person eating in the cafeteria is also afforded the opportunity to save the earth in a variety of new ways.
Regular trash bins have been replaced with recycling stations. Each station has four differently shaped slots to sort garbage and lengthy directions on proper sorting. Soup containers go into the square-shaped “compostable” slot, but soup lids end up in the rounded “landfill waste” slot.
Other environmental touches include Energy-efficient vending machines that sport a 6-foot-tall illuminated image of trees.
A poster trumpets the existence of a “pulper,” a big machine that mashes up waste into little cubes that go to compost centers, where, eventually, they biodegrade into dirt.
Nearly everything in the new cafeterias is biodegradable, from plates to utensils to straws. The biodegradable straws have caused considerable outcry, because when placed in hot liquids they allegedly disintegrate.
House officials contend that employees need to quit crying about the straws and sip their coffee like normal human beings, because “we’re trying to save the planet here.”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making the cafeteria more environmentally friendly and the food a bit better quality.
The hilarious part of all this is the menu. Those menu choices certainly validate the stereotype of “liberal elites” and “limousine liberals” being so out of touch with ordinary Americans.
It is certainly a bit presumptuous on Nancy Pelosi’s part to assume that most people would want expensive gourmet cuisine.
I also suspect PETA may take issue with the idea that being “socially progressive” is munching on lamb legs.
-Chris Jones
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