Thank God For The Internets

Darn.

President Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not.

The area's only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week.

The move by Redskins owner Dan Snyder, who purchased the station, WWRC, and others in Washington last summer, leaves the city without a liberal radio outlet. Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election.

But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at Snyder's conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett.

Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.

Should I blame Dan Snyder for this? After all, we've seen how he's handles the Redskins. Or should I blame Tantum, for not working on using Obama's victory to prime up a product that the DC/MD area sorely needed?

I can't believe that there's some kind of pushback against progressive/liberal radio here. The most controversial person in that station's lineup is Rachel Maddow and she's been the most consistent at making sure the Obama Administration stays honest to its promises, not attacking the GOP or neo-conservatism.


Anyway, at least I have 1190 nova AM when I'm at work.

P.S.: Oliver Willis has his own (quasi-Darwinian) take.