Death of talk radio in Pittsburgh, take 2

The Post Gazette did not even note it, But more than WAMO ceased to exist as of last friday.
Clinging by her finger nails to the crashing radiozeppelin, was Lynn Cullen.
Lynn had talked her way back on the air with Wamo managment, battled a poor time slot, a signal not as strong and further north than that of 1360 but still had an audience building and advertising on the up swing when a 3.8 million dollar purchase by religious broadcasters short circuited the comeback.

Lynn deserves credit for her tenacity in landing the WAMO gig and for the great years of radio she brought to Pittsburgh. It was nice to have a talk show with some class and culture (imagine a Marty Griffin interview with Sam Hazo). Problem is, that there aren't many options left, station wise for Lynn, or anyone proposing talk radio of any serious intellectual caliber. Commercial radio needs to be scrapped and turned into micro and regional broadcasting with the required condition of "serving the public interest as a public trustee"until then, good luck with a parade of tent preachers, Chiropractors,snake oil salesmen and right wing gassbags.

A force has turned broadcasting in to the "vast wasteland" predicted, that force is un-bridled, deregulated capitalism.