Return Progressive Talk and Balance to Cincinnati

On Friday, December 8, the Cincinnati Post reported that Clear Channel programmers were terminating the progressive talk radio format on WSAI on the following Monday, changing the format to "self-help" including 3 hours a day of reruns from another Celar Channel station. Mr. Parks said: "Radio, at the end of the day, is about ratings and revenue. There were some good (liberal) shows, but they need to start looking to more broad-based subjects than just harping on politics." Mr. Parks' action leaves Cincinnati with no balance to another Clear Channel station, whose weekday lineup is over hours of right wing political shows by Laura Ingram, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Mark Levin. It eliminated the balance of progressive talk shows by Rachel Maddow, The Young Turks, Al Franken, Ed Schultz, and Randi Rhodes, and interviews with progressive authors and legislators. Please sign the petition and help let Clear Channel and others know that there is support for progressive talk radio in Cincinnati. We will not sell email addresses or use them for anything except the purposes of the petition.