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12-07-2007, 03:47 PM
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/dt.cms.support.viewStory.cls?cid=28407&sid=4&fid=2
Progressive talk radio may be slipping away from Eugene, despite interest from a national radio talk show host to keep it alive.
Oregon Public Broadcasting announced on Tuesday that it will buy KOPT from Churchill Media. The AM station offers Air America’s lineup of liberal talk shows.
The details of the sale are still being finalized, but OPB expects to pay close to $500,000 for the station, president and CEO Steve Bass said.
The sale must still be approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
Talk radio host Ed Schultz, whose nationally syndicated show airs on many stations that also carry Air America, had been trying to put together a group of Oregon investors to buy the station, but that deal fell through, said James Holm, Schultz’s producer.
“We wanted to keep progressive talk on in the market, but were never able to follow through with the deal,” Holm said.
OPB plans to begin broadcasting the program lineup now airing at its AM station in Corvallis within the next few weeks, said Tara Taylor, vice president of marketing at OPB.
While some people in Eugene can pick up the Corvallis signal, not everyone can, Taylor said.
Besides National Public Radio programs already being aired locally such as “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” KOPT listeners will hear “A Prairie Home Companion,” “This American Life” and “Talk of the Nation.”
OPB bought the station in an effort to extend its presence statewide.
If Err Amerika can't make it in Eugenistan, it can't make it anywhere...
;D
Progressive talk radio may be slipping away from Eugene, despite interest from a national radio talk show host to keep it alive.
Oregon Public Broadcasting announced on Tuesday that it will buy KOPT from Churchill Media. The AM station offers Air America’s lineup of liberal talk shows.
The details of the sale are still being finalized, but OPB expects to pay close to $500,000 for the station, president and CEO Steve Bass said.
The sale must still be approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
Talk radio host Ed Schultz, whose nationally syndicated show airs on many stations that also carry Air America, had been trying to put together a group of Oregon investors to buy the station, but that deal fell through, said James Holm, Schultz’s producer.
“We wanted to keep progressive talk on in the market, but were never able to follow through with the deal,” Holm said.
OPB plans to begin broadcasting the program lineup now airing at its AM station in Corvallis within the next few weeks, said Tara Taylor, vice president of marketing at OPB.
While some people in Eugene can pick up the Corvallis signal, not everyone can, Taylor said.
Besides National Public Radio programs already being aired locally such as “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition,” KOPT listeners will hear “A Prairie Home Companion,” “This American Life” and “Talk of the Nation.”
OPB bought the station in an effort to extend its presence statewide.
If Err Amerika can't make it in Eugenistan, it can't make it anywhere...
;D