[BC] News in the 21st Century

[Robert Orban]

At 07:53 AM 4/6/2008, you wrote:

>On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Rich Wood wrote:
>>
>>>If you take news seriously at all and you don't like what is said,
>>>it is a liberal conspiracy if you are conservative and a right
>>>wing conspiracy  if you are liberal. In fact it is neither. It is
>>>commercially supported content.
>>
>>That's a shame. I really like vast right wing and vast left wing
>>conspiracies. I have to tell you, at least in Talk Radio, these are
>>absolutely necessary for ratings. If Talk Radio were to deal
>>honestly and intelligently with important issues the format would
>>go the way of Easy Listening and Smooth Jazz.
>
>The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy® is like KKK-SFO, San Francisco. It
>sells, well.
>
>The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy® is like KGO, San Francisco. It sells,
>very, very well.
>
>The Vast Middle-of-the-Road® is like NPR. It doesn't sell at all,
>except to The Vast Intellectual Elite®.

It sells to a lot of the Bay Area audience; KQED 
has a very large audience and offers mostly talk.

Another thing that's nice to see is that 
classical KDFC is the #3 station in the market 
and the #2 music station, behind KOIT-FM.