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I visit a website about Pittsburgh Radio and TV, and they had a story about http://www.radiofreeohio.org/ , which appeared to be a "pirate" radio station taking jabs at all the other boring, corporate radio stations. Someone did some digging and found out the domain was owned by Clear Channel and the whole thing was an astroturf-type ad campaign for one of their stations' new format. Here's the original text of the site that was scrubbed after their cover was blown:
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The following is a list of radio stations in Northeast Ohio that should be forced to turn off their transmitters and turn their licenses over to the Federal Communications Commission.
Akron
WHLO (640 AM) obviously operated by communist, WHLO consists of nothing more than right wing rhetoric dispensed at toxic levels. WHLO features overbearing personalities that have little or no knowledge of actual facts. They allow their lack of knowledge to never get in the way of pushing W¹s plan and opinions upon us like a dealer addicted to his own crack. WHLO airs Quinn and Rose in the morning followed by a show that is so bad it was dropped by a Cleveland station, Glenn Beck. Speaking of those addicted to drugs, Rush Limbaugh follows beck and is the lead in to the Right¹s political poster boy Sean Hannity. After Hannity on WHLO, is the gay bashing Michael Savage, then the Laura Ingram Show. Where are our Barf bags?
WAKR (1590 AM) Barely a radio station at all, WAKR is now a shadow of it¹s former self. Back in the day you could listen to 1590 to hear everything that was going on in Akron . Now we get small segments of grammatically incorrect newscasts voiced by what appears to our ears to be strangers off the street. The morning show on WAKR is hosted by Ray Horner, he¹s the whipping boy for the Mayors office in Akron , not to mention Council President Summerville. If Marco wants to fill a pothole on Wooster Ave , WAKR will devote a 20 minute morning segment to it. You should hear the segment called the ŒEntertainment report" which features a 15 minute interview with a guy who installs cable television in Akron This airs every morning. It¹s just insane enough for us not to make it up. The rest of the day is filled with music piped in from a satellite hosted by DJ¹s in Los Angeles . The Music¹s okay, but what ever happened to " Akron ¹s news Authority"?
WCUE (1130 AM) Once a dominate radio station in town it¹s now nothing more than a rebroadcast of religious programming. There is no local programming whatsoever.
WTOU (1350 AM) Here¹s another one to add to the "nobody has listened in 20 years file". 1350 was Akron¹s first radio station signing on as WADC. That was the first problem. WADC stands for the "Akron Auto Dealers Club". It was set up as nothing more than a commercial mouth piece for local car dealers. Then in the 60¹s it became WSLR. WSLR programmed popular country music. In 1994 the format was switched to urban gospel then in 1999 to Sports. Now it¹s filled with sports talk about everything except local sports. Want to hear if Buchtel beat Hoban last night? You won¹t hear it on 1350. You will get Jim Rome and Women¹s Basketball.
WZIP (88.1 FM) WZIP is operated by the students at The University of Akron. To promote diversity, the station dropped its ethnic programming several years ago in favor of Hip-Hop Music. Genius.
WAPS (91.3 FM) Calling themselves "The Summit" an obvious reference to the mountain tops in our area, WAPS programs a rock format. It¹s completely commercial free, but here¹s the catch: the near bankrupt Akron Public Schools who are now deciding which schools in Akron to close due to lack of funds for upkeep, PAY for this radio station. Radio free Ohio has seen other local radio stations sell for as much as $40 million dollars. Perhaps the schools could stay open if they got out of the rock radio business?
WQMX (94.9 FM) Radio Free Ohio is not about music stations. In fact we have plenty of our own favorite music downloaded into out Ipods, therefore the modern country sounds of this radio station don¹t do too much for us. Interesting Note: This station is actually licensed to MEDINA , Ohio , but pretends to be an Akron Station.
WONE (97.5 FM) How many times do you need to hear Free Bird? Apparently everyday or at least WONE thinks so. Here is another example of a waste of watts. Listen during the day and you¹ll hear the WONE Program Director, T.K. O¹Grady talking over top himself. WONE uses what¹s called in the radio industry as "Voice Tracking" where a DJ prerecords his/her radio program before it airs. That¹s fine with us, but TK is not very technically talented so we sometimes hear him talking live overtop one of his voice tracks.
WKDD (98.1 FM) Fedex can¹t find the studios of WKDD. That¹s our theory to explain why WKDD plays nothing more than Matchbox 20. WKDD mornings are hosted by Matt Patrick. Matt has a long history in Akron, nNone of which can be discussedin mixed company. He makes Wilt Chamberlin look like an amateur.
Canton *** Canton only has 2 FM stations
WHBC (94.1 FM) Featuring an assortment of music spanning genres from Oldies, to Heavy mental is Mix 94.1. We¹re told this is one of the highest rated stations in Canton . Because of this we are now asking for Stark County to withdraw from the State of Ohio .
WRQK (106.9) What was once a cool rock station, Rock 107 is another proponent of playing Free Bird every day.
WCER (900 AM) The station says it¹s where Christ Ever Reigns, except of course when Dr. Laura, Bill O¹Reilly or High School basketball are aired on the station. WCER has some notoriety in that they have been recently fined by the FCC for violations, including not allowing an FCC inspector onto the property,
WRCW (1060 AM) Now a religious station.
WHBC (1480 AM) another station with the "throw a dart and see what works attitude". In a typical day you¹ll hear biased news coverage followed by oldies from artists who have admitted their music is so bad, they¹ve asked it not be played on the radio.
WINW (1520 AM) Now a Gospel station. When we feel like some Be Be and Ci Ci, this is the place.
KENT
WKSU (89.7 FM) We have to cut them a little slack as they are at least on our side, but this has to be the most boring radio station in the world. Somewhere in the bylaws of "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting" there must be an edict to never sound alive.
WNIR (100.1 FM) clearly the worst talk station in the history of the spoken word. WNIR features Stan Piatt reading the latest dick jokes that have been posted on the internet. He is followed by Howie Chisek, who clearly does nothing more than read the Akron Beacon Journal verbatim on the air. Afternoons you can find former Cleveland Brown Bob Golic. Bob is not too bright. How else do you explain the brilliant career decision of a bit part on ŒSaved by the Bell : The College years". Far an away the worst radio broadcaster ever is Tom Erickson. On a recent night Tom was reading Storm warnings for "HOME" county in Northeast Ohio . When challenged by a caller who reminded him it¹s "HOLMES" county, he responded with "I¹ve been doing radio for over 15 years around here, I know its HOME county". For the record, it¹s Holmes County .
WJMP (1520 AM) The sister station of WNIR-FM, WJMP has forever changed the radio landscape with innovative programming. For example, they simulcast the audio of a local low power TV station that primarily airs infomercials. We were excited to recently discover that WJMP had adopted the "Air America " format, but were discouraged when we could not pick up the radio station in Akron , or Cuyahoga Falls , or even Kent . On a recent day trip to Kent I had to drive to the Wal+mart across from the radio station in order to pick it up and even then it was difficult.
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