Thanks are owed to Jerry Bott and WISN for having cancelled Beck.
With Beck out of the way, one can listen to an actual Conservative--Levin--in mid-evening. He's far more entertaining (albeit louder) than Beck.
And the issues discussed are more substantial.
There's a lot of that going on (Boeck-cancelling). Happened here in Madistan a few months ago when the otherwise all-lefty station Boeck was on, got tired of taking flack about the "inappropriateness" of Boeck's show on the station.
ReplyDeleteI'm pals with a guy who's prolly the #1 news-talk guru in the country (Holland Cooke) and he says Boeck has lost about a third of his radio affiliates in the past five months. In the bigger markets (50 and above) too many advertisers won't go near Boeck, fearing the loose-cannon syndrome will scatter grapeshot that'll hurt their business.
Unlike Rush, Boeck can't seem to reinvent himself and survive the attrition.
My problem with Beck/Boeck was the conspiracy/end-of-the-world orientation.
ReplyDeleteSome of his stuff was very good, indeed. The rest was apocalyptic, like WorldNetDaily. Catholics have a term for that: "dispensationalist." It's usually present alongside an overemphasis on the Israel situation.
Man, I thought Beck sounded like Mancow when I listened to him for the first time three weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteLevin is great. In Vegas, they switched him from 3-6 to 9-12PM and the radio station has suffered big time for the mistake.