The liberal radio stations just can’t cut it in the free market. Once again, another lefty radio station has bit the dust. And once again, Randi Rhodes is out of a job.
Libtalk network Nova M Radio has been shut down, according to the attorney for Randi Rhodes, Robert V Gaulin of New York. … Moments ago, Gaulin sent this letter to your Radio Equalizer:
Randi Rhodes’ on-air home for less than a year will shut its doors. In an email message of February 17th from counsel for Nova M Radio, Inc. to Randi’s entertainment attorney, Robert V. Gaulin, the company is said to have been advised to file for bankruptcy protection next week. All payroll deposits were reversed on Tuesday, leaving Nova’s employees unpaid for the past two weeks.
On Sunday, Nova received a letter from Mr. Gaulin asserting that the contract with Ms. Rhodes was terminated due to material breaches and other reasons. Ms. Rhodes had not broadcast for over a week prior to this time, a situation which was diplomatically referred to as a “problem” that was solely within Nova’s control to solve. A few days earlier, Sheldon Drobny, founder of Nova M, and a co-founder of Air America Radio, attempted suicide and is hospitalized in Chicago.
And here I thought it was supposed to be the time of Rapture for the hard left. But seriously, the reason why there isn’t much liberal talk radio is because nobody much listens to liberal talk radio. Forcing station owners to put on dud programming isn’t going to make them very happy. It wouldn’t take long before the station owners start asking for the government to pick up the tab for the lost advertising revenue caused by the Fairness Doctrine. Hmm, state sponsored media, wherever have I seen such a thing before….
Exit thought; what if in the new Fairness Doctrine it’s mandated that whole stations be devoted to liberal chatter? Obviously such stations can’t survive on their own, so someone would have to step in and pay the bills to keep the airwaves abuzz. Guess who that someone will have to be….
