We remember that guy
The Drudge Report has been touting a South Florida Sun-Sentinel story on Broward County's threat to cancel business with a Florida radio station because it airs Rush Limbaugh. Here is an excerpt with the background:
Radio station WIOD, AM 610, has been the official channel for emergency information from Broward County government for the past year. The County Commission, all Democrats, balked at renewing the deal Tuesday, unable to stomach the station also being home to Limbaugh's talk show.
Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want to support a station that's out of step with area politics. Ritter, a Democratic stalwart in the state Legislature before being elected to county office, cited talk shows hosted by Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and WIOD's partnership with Fox News.
"They have every right to speak, but we don't have to do business with them," she said.
It's not a Houston-centric story of the type we usually discuss here, but friend Matt Bramanti called our attention to this part:
Ken Charles, WIOD's director of AM programming, said Tuesday the station's talk show lineup has no relationship with its news coverage and that the county should focus on the benefits of teaming with the station.
"It's a shame that people would let politics get in the way of saving lives in a hurricane," Charles said.
That would be the same Ken Charles who formerly oversaw Clear Channel's Houston talk operations, and sometimes found himself in the middle of such media stories here.
It seems like he's settled into his new home and is doing his thing in south Florida.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/13/07 09:34 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (1)
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