Who killed Portland progressive station KPOJ? (3,174 words)
Source: Willamette Week
... For the past two weeks, a wave of protest against the change has collected more than 15,000 signatures and grown to include the state’s entire Democratic delegation to the U.S. Congress.
... More than a few of the outraged listeners suspect a dark hand at work. Clear Channel Communications, which owns seven Portland stations, is the nation’s largest radio company. And it’s owned in part by Bain Capital—the very Romney-founded private-equity firm that Wolfson had often skewered on the air.
Why else would blue Portland—where voters went for Obama over Romney better than 3-to-1—be denied a progressive talk station?
But the real cause of KPOJ’s death was more complex: The changing face of Portland radio, a communications company at the mercy of casino capitalists, and a sympathetic audience that—despite progressive talk’s potential appeal—simply tuned in elsewhere.
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