The radio landscape even more barren in San Diego

Stacy Taylor. . . Gone

Ed Schultz. . . Gone

Stephanie Miller. . . Gone

Michael Jackson. . . Gone

Alan Colmes. . . Gone

Nova M. . . Gone

Randi Rhodes. . . On hiatus

Sal Levine. . . Sold out (540AM now entirely NEOCON talk)

Lionel. . . Still on AM1700 AM, 5 AM-9 AM, 9-Midnight Mon-Fri

And if you can get KPFK out of Los Angeles, 90.7 FM, you can listen daily to Amy Goodman and her syndicated show, Democracy Now! from 6 AM-7AM, repeated at 9 AM.

Even local Neocon talk has been affected as a few conservative talkers, Mark Larson for one, have been dismissed.  Felonious ex-mayor Roger Hedgecock has moved to a nationally syndicated show, and most of the rest of the right wingers are syndicated.  The ever bombastic Rick Roberts can still be heard on one of the several talk stations spewing exclusively Right Wing talking points.  

So it would seem, despite many rumors of a new Progressive Station in the offing, that the percentage of conservative talk far surpasses the feeble local offerings of progressive radio.  Maybe we’ll get some relief from the new, Democratic-controlled FCC.  A push for diverse ownership is afoot in the Congress, and we’ll have to see what comes out of this new administration.  We have lost our locally-connected FCC Commissioner, Jonathan Adelstein, who looks like he’ll be taking another position in the Obama White House.

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