This is the problem with talk radio.
The Conservative groups have all the money in this media area and they lock things up. Not only do they have their own funding sources they also have all the various religious groups that can't stand it when Progressive Talk Radio gets going strong in any particular area.
This just recently happened in my town Columbus, Ohio. We had 1580 AM WVKO and it was doing great. Brought the ratings way up from the previous format and with the Obama win the sky was the limit.
So what happend... a Catholic group came in and bought the station to put WVKO off the air. They know Ohio is important and Ohio went Blue this time so they used their deep pockets to try and stop the Progressive radio information in central Ohio.
There's a perfectly good and truly fair way to have a fairness doctrine.
Not make every station have equal time on every channel or make every area have an equal number of Left to Right channels.
But simply make sure every major market has at least one single channel on the Left & one on the Right. If there's not one... open one.
The Right can have 15 channels in my area I could care less good for them! I just need one channel.
And this would go the same in the few places where it's all Liberal talk... the Right should have one station. It's a good thing for people to get both sides easily in their cars while they're driving around and make evaluations as to what political bend fits them best.
Seems an easy fix to me. The Right still gets the massive coverage they have now... and the little guy gets a word in too for balance.
