[BC] Building an audience

[cldube]

Did O'Reilly and Hannity get their national exposure on television and then 
make the migration
to syndicated radio (I'm not talking about local shows)? I knew them from TV 
long before hearing them on radio in this area. That would guarantee some 
monies (and built in audience?) to back up an upstart nationally syndicated 
radio show methinks? They would already be familiar names. Just askin'.

Chuck Dube
Amherst MA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com>" <reader at oldradio.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:53 AM
Subject: [BC] Building an audience

> I accept that Rush and Sean and O'Reilly have built their audiences and 
> they have a right to be there.  But competition is a good thing, and new 
> formats with new points of view are okay with me.  I simply ask my friends 
> on the right, please stop looking for "proof" that liberal talk is a 
> failure.  It's not.  It's a viable format in some markets and time will 
> tell what happens to it, as well as whether it can develop its own stable 
> of local talk hosts to carry it on in the markets where it is doing well. 
> Happy new year and I'm off to temple now.
> >