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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
Then the Democrats should sit back and let the market handle this. If listeners are in a decline, the station will eventually be forced to remove the show. In the meantime, since the station has agreed to focus their emergency broadcast on Broward County and their signal is the strongest, the Democrats need to do what's best for Broward County. It's not a case of anyone being forced to listen to Limbaugh for updates as Lazarus said, because other stations also carry them so one can tune to them.
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Doing what's best for the public is not the priority in any private entity business plan I'm familiar with and the same holds true for any political group, especially at local levels. The 'good old boys' club always holds power in any local setting and their political labels are interchangeable depending on who holds the majority. That filters all the way down to de facto party control over local advertisers who support radio stations. Just carrying a syndicated program not blessed by the powers that be is enough to lose substantial advertising revenue or an exclusive emergency broadcasting right. Nothing new; just a reaffirmation of power.