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The last para is pure conjecture.

Whatever one thinks of the network they are paying the bills and adding staff but, unlike the Bugle, that is paid staff versus indentured intern labor.

Btw, numerous PSAs are a fact of life on nearly every radio station in our state.

The observation about PSA is quite releveant. I am also surprised at the number of stations that change formats (sometimes drastically) every year. it seems clear the owners are chasing a small number of advertisers who are not impressed by the small numbers of listeners. This has been going on since before satellite radio and iPods that plug into car radios came into use, so I suspect it has to do with low income levels, etc...

So if your measure of success is the number of times a station does not change formats in some given period of time then the Supertalkers must be considered quite successful regardless of the relative size of a local advertising base.

Where Charlie's conclusion falls apart is that advertisers considering radio don't solely focus on the size (i.e. "too small") of a specific demographic.

10:12 Either Supertalk is making a pfrofit with their format OR someone with deep pockets is subsidizing their losses, possibly with some agenda in mind. Given the large number of advertisers I've heard on their shows while driving I suspect the former.

Anyone got any actual data?

Cholly must be wantin a job.

Maybe Cholly wants to be hostin' one of them huntin' shows they got some nights.

Supertalk hired that boring, monotone, know-it-all goob Salter. Then followed it up by hiring that boring, monotone goob Ramsey. The capoff to a trifecta would be hiring this boring, race-baiting goob Mitchell. I quit listening when Gallo started that God-Awful, unrelenting, kill-the-dead-air stutter.

The perfect answer to the old JT and Dave should would be Mitchell and Holland.

Ask them for their #s.
If you have one person listening in Snellville and he calls in. You get the impression that every body in Snellville is listening.
That been said they do a good job of covering state government.
A PSA from government agencies does generate revenue. That's what's help to fund the expansion.

They should do great with the new administration. They certainly kissed every ass that got within smooching distance.

They should do great with the new administration. They certainly kissed every ass that got within smooching distance.

Gallo never did have the balls to cover the Davis boys in Desoto County. Too much allegiance goin' on.

Title should be "Cholly blows Supertalk."

Supertalk is all about the new administration because it generates big advertising dollars! They did everything but pick Bryant up and place him in the governor's chair!

Kim Wade ( WYAB) dominates the afternoon drive home.
Marshall is the weakest link in Davenport's programing.

I was skeptical about Salter's PM talker at first but over time IMO he improved dramatically. He displayed a radio voice that became far more strident and opinionated than you'd ever know by only reading his columns. He had his sacred cows -- like the King does here -- but you got to hear more of his conservatism on the air than his written words reveal.

I love Marshall Ramsey! He's just such a nice man and is getting better and better on the air. I do miss Dave on JT and Dave so I just listen to the Dennis Miller Show.

what happened to Dave ? & where is He ?

Dave got fired for his mouth. What a giant surprise. Right? What negative, nasty man. Marshall being a nice man and good with his kids is hardly a reason to have him on the air for three hours trying inartfully to be a comedian and news person. Salter, I do believe, was the most irrationally opinionated man I ever met, which is fine if you're a column writer, but not as a radio talk show host in conservative Mississippi that thrives on call ins.

"Salter improved over time"? Please!

Seethespending.org shows in excess of $600,000 paid by the State of MS to Telesouth Communications (Supertalk's parent) in FY11.

Seethespending.org shows in excess of $600,000 paid by the State of MS to Telesouth Communications (Supertalk's parent) in FY11.

And? Is there a point?

Seethepending is half of the story, the campaign finance reports on Dogbert's site is the other half.