Hi Phil, it is interesting you mentioned that Clear Channel has Air
America station here.  Clear Channel owns about a half a dozen stations on
AM and FM here in the Detroit area, and stations which were really self
sufficient long before Clear Channel took them over.  WJR which is our 50
KW giant here has mainly conservative talk, and gave up sports in exchange
for Rush and Hanity and Laura.  I couldn't believe it, since WJR has
mainly had either local programming and of course lots of sports for many
years, but now is not very local, and what is isn't what it used to be,
and I am saying that from someone who never really paid attention to WJR
when it was mainly local programs.  We have one FM talker and that is 97.1
and I don't know what will happen with that once Howard stern goes off
regular radio at the end of the year.





On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Phil Scovell wrote:

> Funny how things change.  I moved to Denver 33 years ago.  I have been a
> talk show junky since I was 18 years young.  I'm now creeping up on 54 years
> of age.  Anyhow, Denver had absolutely no conservitive talk shows on 33
> years ago.  Now we have air America represented, on a Clear channel owned
> station I might add, and at least one other small station that is mostly
> libral.  The Clear Channel stations running mostly conservitive shows are
> two main local stations, although they own a total of 8 stations in the
> Denver listening market I have been told.  I don't understand why the
> digital stuff isn't put in the upper band and everything from 535 to 1610 is
> left to the standard am broadcasts.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>