Reply #3: Here's reply I got from Programming Manager John Poister

[RamboLiberal]

Thanks for your message. We are still in discussions with John McIntire John's a local liberal who had a great local cable show called Nighttalk till they fired him for financial reasons for a role at the radio station. Right now our problem is more financial. We are a small station compared to other stations in this market owned by giant companies like Clear Channel and Viacom. While we would like to expand our local programming we can only do it if advertisers will support it.

We seriously looked at Air America-- but we would have had to sacrfice nearly all our local programs(something that would have put 6 people out of jobs). Air America requires stations to carry all its programming ( with the exception of morning drive time). We looked at the few other liberal talk shows and frankly there wasn't anything good.

The decision to carry Boortz was made by the management of this station on the basis that he had built up a large audience on another Pittsburgh station. It was an economic decision.
I understand that this decision was disappointing to you and many other listeners. But now at least you know what was going on here.
Again, thanks for your message.

So all we get here is a shuffling of conservatives from station to station.