1470AM to offer ‘better class of talk radio’
Written by Toledo Free Press Staff Writers | | news@toledofreepress.comToledoans will have more voices to listen to with 1470AM’s new talk radio lineup.
“Talk Radio 1470,” a Cumulus production, launched Aug. 13. The new weekday schedule will start off with 30-year-entertainment veteran Don Imus and feature former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and journalist Geraldo Rivera later in the day. “Talk Radio 1470” also will broadcast Bowling Green baseball and football and Detroit Tigers baseball.
The lineup also is offered at TalkRadio1470.com. “Talk Radio 1470” is set to broadcast out of Cumulus Station’s Toledo studios, 3225 Arlington Ave. Cumulus is the second-largest radio station operator in the country and reaches 14 million listeners, according to its website.
In a news release, Matt Spaulding, vice president and marketing manager at Cumulus, promised that “Talk Radio 1470” would offer “unbiased, balanced and compelling content.”
“ ‘Talk Radio 1470’ will be a communicator to the audience we serve, not a dictator of opinions. Toledo deserves a better class of talk radio, and Cumulus Media is going to give it to them,” he said in the release.
The new lineup is as follows:
6-9 a.m.: “Imus in the Morning”
9-noon: “Geraldo Rivera”
3-6: “Dave Ramsey”
6-9: “The Mark Levin Show”
9 p.m.-1 a.m.: “The John Batchelor Show”
1-6: “Red Eye Radio”
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Mark Levin and John Batchelor? “Unbiased” content?
That’s rich.
Cumulus and Clear Channel talk properties are in fact,
unbashedly and wholly biased Both effectively serve
not the public interest, but rather, the function of
advancing a very specific political agenda.
Deregulation has allowed for a media monopoly game
wherein a select few monolithic corporations have majority ownership in every radio market in the nation.
In turn, listeners are unwittingly and without alternative,
fed a daily diet of slanted editorial content cloaked as
‘entertainment.” The beauty is, it’s all presented free of
any obligation to offer opposing viewpoints…and free of
any competitive alternative media choices where such
viewpoints could be heard.
That’s called having a pretty powerful national platform
and mouthpiece. In effect, it also collectively acts as a
form of ‘free advertising’ for a singular point of view.
In the absence of such pesky annoyances as the
This comment was posted on August 17th, 2012 at 7:19 pmFairness Doctrine, this is a mighty media landscape
that would make even Joe Goebbels proud, not that
anyone knows who he was. (well, at least we still
have an uncensored internet so you can Google
him).
God help us! Rationally UNdependent talk radio. There’s always NPR for the intellectually dependent.
This comment was posted on August 21st, 2012 at 3:18 pm