"PROGRESSIVE" TALK FORMAT

When I was a Program Director (as well as Talk Host) for Clear Channel Communications I would from time to time take heat from Liberal listeners who charged that we were just an arm of the GOP. Their contention was that since the Mays family, the majority owners of Clear Channel, were Texans who backed Bush, they used their radio stations to forward their political agenda. This, these callers assured me, was why they owned shows like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, etc. I would always counter that the reason the company ran shows like the aforementioned was due only to the fact that those shows were POPULAR and PROFITABLE.

Now, the proof. Clear Channel is leading the way to put "Progressive Talk" formats on their radio stations. Why? Gabe Hobbs (the Director of News/Talk/Sports Programming) and John Hogan (CEO) obviously think these shows will be POPULAR and PROFITABLE and will, therefore, put more money in the wallets of Clear Channel shareholders.

Ah...introducing "Progressives" to the joys of Capitalism.