Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Reality of an Emerging Market

Local media titans repeat the mantra all the time: "There is no market for progressive talk radio in the High Country."

The titans would do well to take a look at this month's Talkers magazine. According to the Talkers analysis of Arbitron reports, progressive talker Ed Schultz has moved into a tie with (wait for it) Bill O'Reilly--with 3.25 million+ weekly listeners.

Titans, please. Boone is a university town, with plenty of progressive voters (wasn't there some kind of election recently?). Can you say, "EMERGING MARKET"?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the Ed Schultz show was on the radio in Boone for a few months

Anonymous said...

yeah, wish we had him back...or maybe thom hartmann--he doesn't yell, seems pretty rational too...