Rational Radio Set to Exit Airwaves Jan. 1

• If an irrational enterprise promotes itself as being rational, its demise is rationally... inevitable. The �Blow Torch of Truth� proved to be nothing but hot air.

• I listen to Progressive talk radio every day. 92.1 "The Mic" out of Madison Wi is great. To bad Rational Radio never tried Progressive talk rather than failed local hosts.

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• Even tho the signal was weak and some of the shows were too far left for my taste, I enjoyed listening to the afternoon line up. It was something other than sports or politics.

• Awww, Big Dick Sucker and Thugs and Smelly are out of yet another gig... What's that, three stations in under 2 years? Incredible talent.

• now that we know Rational Radio and parting ways with 1360's parent company, what takes over the 1360 stick, more non-English language radio. 1360 will ether "Se Habla Espanol" or be Asian/Indian(not the Native American kind but the India kind.).

• Welfare Radio would have been a better monicker, sucking on the government tit is the only way it could survive.

• cp, Economics 101? It's a left leaning station. You are preaching to the wrong crowd. That stuff is only understood by simple right-wingers. You need something nuanced and complex like Sociology 101. Right wing dickheadedness just can't grasp that.

• If only they had showcased Kelly more instead of the other boobs...and speaking of boobs....naw thats too easy!

• Radio for stupid people has a better chance to succeed because there are many more stupid people than smart people.

• To be fair, Rational Radio sucked long before P&K joined the ranks. As did the signal of the radio station. Live and learn folks. Talk radio formats like this don't last long. You have to appeal to the entire spectrum of audiences to make any money. And money talks in radio.

• Oh My Lord, why can't you people get it. It's not for any other reason than Economics 101: Supply-and-demand. Plain and simple. No right-wing bogeymen, no crappy signal issues, no programming faults, just plan ole American supply-and-demand. There's just not enough demand for this. And it's just not in Dallas, it's the whole country. Didn't Air America suffer similar problems?

• Whole lot of conservative dickheadedness in this thread. That being said, I blame the demise of Rational Radio on Pugs and Kelly, who suck so bad that the radiowaves had a hard time trying to escape...thus, shitty reception.

• "Based on the piss-poor signal quality, I think the Plano and Frisco municipalities had engaged some sort of electronic warfare and was jamming the 1360AM signal." Who wouldn't want to pay to advertise to this guy?!

• I'm enjoying the right wing stereotypes of left wingers, utilized as excuses for why the station failed. The truth, is firstly that the station's signal sucked, and secondly that the majority of left wingers get tired of being spoon fed generic soundbytes of biased opinion. Though there will always be a place where some lefties will go to hear what they want to hear, such as Democratic Underground, there's just not of those that love the smell of their own farts, to keep a lefty radio station in business.The right can have their pigslop disguised as "news" that they so eagerly devour from Rush and Glenn and Fox Infotainment. Slurp that shit up, boys.

• @RobertB - the lone voice crying in the wilderness just got its first, predictable response from Couch, who probably thinks "nuance" is some French mustard. Excellent points phrased well, RobertB. Would that your voice could grow into a chorus, even joined by slightly-right-of-center curmudgeons like me.

• Dear RobertB, just because the star of Clueless died recently does not mean they are accepting auditions for a remake.

• Liberal radio has trouble grasping the same concept as liberal politicians: Idealism is great, but eventually you're gonna have to make payroll....

• No one pays good money to put up a bill board in the middle of the ocean. Who in their right mind would pay for an ad that will be listened to by a hand full of dopers and Prius drivers? Business people are no fools and they want bang for their buck. Then the very people you want to attract as listeners, those with jobs and disposable income, are accused of being racist, bigots or just stupid. So did you guys plan out this stupidity or did it just fall in to your lap? You want to blame someone for tanking? Look in the mirror you self abosorbed idiots. Epic Fail

• The little liberal station the could...NOT! I blame it on Greggo's departure.

• A left-leaning talk radio station, patterned after right-wing talk radio, was doomed to failure from the start. Right-wing radio panders to those who like simple solutions to complex problems, and hold "If you're not with us than you're with the TERRORISTS" as a mantra. It's Orwell's "Two-Minute Hate", spread out over several hours. (Next time a Tea Partier talks about Big Brother Obama, point that out. Hilarity ensues, trust me.) The problem is that Liberals, by our nature, strive to see *all* sides of an issue. We see a complex problem and seek a nuanced solution. Take the economy -- we don't respond well to someone on the radio telling us it's all Bush's fault, because we see that Clinton-era deregulation lit the fuse. That's nuance. It's as stupid to say it's all Bush's fault on Rational Radio as it is to say it's all Clinton's fault on KRLD. Or to put it more succinctly: hate is stupid, even when I agree with the hater. "Rational Radio" offered me nothing I couldn't get on the other AM stations -- just a mirror image.

• <i>Right wing-nuts tend to forget how Rush started. </i> You mean, in small market radio, and selling ads to advertisers? That's the problem that the left can't seem to get, because they have no concept of actual markets. Right radio can survive in small markets, because there is a demand for right radio in rural areas. Once the small markets are established, that base can be expanded to large markets, like Dallas. Left radio has no demand in small, rural markets, and therefore has to leap into large markets to find any sort of market (which is smaller than they think, because their real market is the liberal elite, which is very tiny, compared to the rank and file Dem voters) and then they get crushed by getting in over their heads -- and I'm talking about the sales and marketing infrastructure, not necessarily the hosts (but them too, since Dick Hunter and P&K couldn't sell ads before they got political either.)

• The days of terrestrial radio stations no matter the content are numbered. The big radio chains are going bankrupt and once mobile wifi spreads radio will go the way of the telegraph.

• P&K have been out of place from the start. Whenever I tune in they are either talking about entertainment news or some Cosmopolitan sex survey. BDH is great, but he too will often wander away from political talk and do a half hour or more on stand up comedy or MMA fighting. Also, the signal went to crap every day at 5:30 pm.

• Where's Greggo?

• BDH and Jack are about the two bright spots for the station, too bad Jack isnt staying on, id think a move to the internet would free him up to say whats REALLY on his mind LOL. P&K pretty much are now at the same level as z-list celebs who are used for supermarket grand openings and appearances at auto shows, Somewhere, Steve Dahl is laughing about the whole situation and lighting cigars with 100 dollar bills...

• Aw, man, I am really going to miss Jack E. Jett's show. I loved the music (and Jack himself, of course). So bummed here.

• Based on the piss-poor signal quality, I think the Plano and Frisco municipalities had engaged some sort of electronic warfare and was jamming the 1360AM signal.

• What's rational about it?

• I am a right leaning fellow, and I enjoy BDH. I will actually miss the station and since I listen via the web, I guess I can continue to do so anyway. Wish them the best of luck. Mr. Jett, well, meh.

• Right wing-nuts tend to forget how Rush started. But then again, hypocrites have short attention spans. And please, someone tell Hunter that looking like and aging Nikki Sixx isn't cool.

• I tried to listen a few times but it seems that everything that happen to Pugs and Kelly from bad meals to traffic jams is a plot by George W Bush to ruin their lives and only their lives. And that can not be true as all those things, according to a weekend DJ on that station, are caused by racists whites!

• A lefty radio station that needed money? Why didn't they apply for a government subsidy?

• Oh maaaaaan that sucks! I really enjoyed Rational Radio during the day. At night (especially after Richard Hunter), the station would lose power or something and I'd have to switch to the mp3 player, but that was all I'd on the actual radio. It was much more interesting than stodgy NPR...crap. So is that why Pugs had some weird breakdown last week?

• I have bad news. Almost every person I know who is left leaning chooses to either listen to music stations, their mp3 player or NPR when they are in the car. Meanwhile, almost everyone who leans to the right listens to either conservative talk radio, sports talk, or music. This means that this station never stood a chance, IMO.

• Liberal radio even bores leftists.

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