Cumulus Media, one of America's largest
talk-radio companies, tells its hosts—
including conservatives Mark Levin and
Dan Bongino—they will be fired if they
don't stop claiming election fraud
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Holden Walter-Warner
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/11/2021 4:33:17 PM
Cumulus Media is clamping down on claims about election fraud across their network of radio stations which feature right-wing talkers such as Mark Levin and Dan Bongino. In a memo sent internally, executive vice president Brian Philips made clear that radio hosts will be fired if they start or continue to make baseless claims about election fraud. 'We need to help induce national calm NOW,' the memo read. 'The election has been resolved, and there are no alternate acceptable 'paths,' the memo continued. 'If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.'
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 1/11/2021 4:39:01 PM (No. 657168)
Is Medved part of this group? I haven't listened to him for awhile but did today, for about ten minutes, when he stated that the big lie was that Trump won the election. He repeated it a couple of times before I switched stations, he is now banned from my house.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 1/11/2021 4:39:23 PM (No. 657170)
Cumulus Media needs to remember that the listeners are the ones who set the final agenda. Make your paid talking heads tell the audience what fools they are and you can be another Fox News watching your audience melting away.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/11/2021 4:40:32 PM (No. 657173)
Wow :-(
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
blueline 1/11/2021 4:46:05 PM (No. 657180)
Wow. The level of groupthink manifesting itself today would amaze Orwell.
I think we've arrived at the moment when the payment for allowing decades of public school indoctrination and subversive "higher ed" has come due.
41 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 1/11/2021 4:51:37 PM (No. 657185)
But...four years of Trump is a criminal who colluded with Russia was okay, all day everyday? Four years of "Hillary got robbed," Bret Kavanaugh was a teenage rapist, Covington Catholic School kids are bigoted racists, and months of riots were actually "peaceful?" Even AFTER all evidence was examined and found to be manufactured by the previous administration spying on the incoming president?
The "truth" is that a senile dope who has been a serial plagiarist and fabulist, the joke of the senate, and a self serving swap creature that couldn't draw flies to his pathetic "rallies" actually received the votes of 80 million actual the legal votes of living American citizens in an landslide never before seen in the history of presidential elections?
Really?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
web 1/11/2021 4:52:47 PM (No. 657187)
The claims about election fraud certainly are not baseless, and anyone who says so is part of the conspiracy to steal the election. We do not need to "induce national calm now," we need to speak up and protest the stealing of our vote and our voices. That is what the 1st Amendment is all about. After someone robs you, you should just stay silent and not report it? They not only want to silence us, they tell us that we are crazy for reporting the robbery.
The anarchists and leftists have been protesting, marching and taking over our streets, looting and burning our cities down for months now; but when we are robbed, we are supposed to shut up and obey our superiors. I don't have a superior. I can think for myself, observe facts and make my own conclusions, without being told by the media and politicians that I am a "right-wing nut."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
greyseal 1/11/2021 4:55:21 PM (No. 657190)
To the OP's point - the left likes to make that their answer to calls to regulate their tech friends: just start your own business if you don't like it. But then if you do, these tech oligarchs will communicate and coordinate on the back channel to ensure that you can't function. As a former tech guy, I can assure you that there are myriads of vendors that you need to have lined up including development (web and mobile), hosting services, login authentication, site security, payment processing, and more importantly, access to the internet backbone. That is what has happened to Parler - they have been blacklisted because many in the tech community want to stay in business and not cross Zuck, Jack, and Jeff.
greyseal
How long before broadband service providers start refusing to allow certain site traffic to cross their boundaries? They could simply blacklist problem domains and suddenly people would stop seeing these sites go dark no matter what browser or device you use. I can see Cox, Spectrum and others telling customers that they don't support domestic terrorist speech and blacking out this site and others at the behest of their new masters.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 1/11/2021 5:00:08 PM (No. 657196)
We have gone Soviet so very fast.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Californian 1/11/2021 5:00:23 PM (No. 657197)
Day one of Cumulus media going under was today.
Without listeners they don't have advertisers and therefore revenue. The listeners follow the voices not the nameless invisible clown behind the scenes shuffling paper. They can get new jobs and people will follow them. He can't get a new radio network.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snakeoil 1/11/2021 5:05:49 PM (No. 657204)
They aren't making "baseless claims" but stating undeniable facts. Used to listen to Nick Di Paolo on Sirius XM. They canned him because he wasn't a lib. He went to something called a podcast. I don't even know what a podcast is but it what you go to after you've been canned. So the future of conservative talk is podcasts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/11/2021 5:06:01 PM (No. 657206)
To me, they don’t so much want to silence us as ISOLATE us.
Soviet Amerika.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/11/2021 5:12:15 PM (No. 657214)
Additionally, re the article just posted above about the State Dept posting PDJT’s resignation.
Another benefit of isolation is uncertainty, speculation, conspiracy, misinformation, and outright lies. All designed to keep us off-balance and on edge.
We need PLANS.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
crashnburn 1/11/2021 6:00:59 PM (No. 657260)
You’ve probably never heard of them but I think Red Eye Radio is also part of Cumulus Media. I’m behind on listening to their podcast, but they are mostly skeptical of being able to prove widespread fraud, ever since Beijing Xiden’s fraudulent selection.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FormerDem 1/11/2021 6:06:18 PM (No. 657263)
Wonder how they'll like it when we stop talking about past elections and start working to clean them up for the future.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sciteach 1/11/2021 6:18:55 PM (No. 657274)
At this moment Levin is saying this is a false report. But the New York Slimes has picked up on the false article. Again, the Slimes spreads lies.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
john56 1/11/2021 6:29:01 PM (No. 657285)
Here's a list of all of Cumulus' News/Talk Stations. Easy to talk about canning Levin or Bongino. Let's see how many wave bye-bye to Rush or Hannity.
Alabama
Birmingham
• WAPI – 1070 – News/talk (simulcast of WZRR)[4]
• WZRR – 99.5 – News/talk[4]
Huntsville
• WVNN – 770 – News/talk[6]
• WVNN-FM – 92.5 – News/talk (simulcast of WVNN)[6]
Mobile
• WXQW – 660 – News/talk[8]
Montgomery
• WLWI – 1440 – News/talk[9]
Arkansas
Fayetteville
• KFAY – 1030 – News/talk[17]
• Sports
• KARN-FM – 102.9 – News/talk[22]
California
Fresno
• KMJ – 580 – News/talk[24]
• KMJ-FM – 105.9 – News/talk (simulcast of KMJ)[24]
Los Angeles
• KABC – 790 – News/talk[25][26]
• KESP – 970 – CBS Sports Radio[32]
• KHKK – 104.1 – Classic rock[32]
• KHOP – 95.1 – Contemporary hit radio[32]
• KJOY – 99.3 – Adult contemporary[32]
• KWIN – 97.7 – Mainstream urban[32]
San Francisco
• KSFO – 560 – News/talk[35]
• KGO – 810 – News/talk[35]
Colorado
Colorado Springs
• KVOR – 740 – News/talk[41]
Connecticut
New London
• WXLM – 980 – News/talk[42]
District of Columbia
Washington
• WMAL-FM – 105.9 – News/talk[25]
Florida
Fort Walton Beach
• WFTW – 1260 – News/talk[44]
Pensacola
• WCOA – 1370 – News/talk[48]
Georgia
Macon
• WMAC – 940 – News/talk
Idaho
Boise
• KBOI – 670 – News/talk
Illinois
Bloomington
• WJBC – 1230 – News/talk
Chicago
• WLS – 890 –News/talk
Kansas
Topeka
• KMAJ – 1440 – Talk radio
Kentucky
Lexington
• WVLK – 590 – News/talk
Louisiana
Lake Charles
• KAOK – 1400 – News/talk
Michigan
Detroit
• WJR – 760 – News/talk
Flint
• WWCK – 1570 — News/talk
Missouri
Columbia
• KFRU – 1400 – News/talk
• KLIK – 1240 – News/talk
Kansas City
• K279BI (KCFX-HD2) – 103.7 – News/talk (simulcast of KCMO)
• KCMO – 710 – News/talk
Nevada
Reno
• KKOH — 780 — News/talk[55]
New Mexico
Albuquerque
• KKOB — 770 — News/talk (simulcast of KKOB-FM)
• KKOB-FM — 96.3 — News/talk
North Carolina
Fayetteville
• WFNC — 640 — News/talk
Wilmington
• WAAV — 980 — News/talk
Ohio
• WPIC – 790 – News/talk
Oregon
Eugene
• KUGN — 590 — News/talk
Pennsylvania
York
• WSBA – 910 – News/talk
Rhode Island
Providence
• WEAN-FM — 99.7 — News/talk (simulcast of WPRO)
• WPRO — 630 — News/talk
• WPRV — 790 — News/talk
South Carolina
Charleston
• WTMA — 1250 — News/talk[59]
Tennessee
Chattanooga
• WGOW – 1150 – News/talk
• WGOW-FM – 102.3 – Talk radio
Knoxville
• WOKI – 98.7 – News/talk
Nashville
• WWTN – 99.7 – News/talk
Tri-Cities (Johnson City/Kingsport/Bristol)
• WJCW – 910 – Talk
Texas
Dallas/Fort Worth
• KLIF – 570 – News/talk
• WBAP – 820 – News/talk
Utah
Salt Lake City
• KKAT — 860 — News/talk[71]
Wisconsin
Appleton/Oshkosh
• WOSH — 1490 — News/talk
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/11/2021 7:20:02 PM (No. 657346)
If it were me, I would say, "go ahead. It will only prove i spoke the truth."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/11/2021 7:33:54 PM (No. 657355)
They will take your freedoms.
They will take your wealth.
If you complain, they will take your life.
Far fetched? Not really since two of the three above statements are happening in this article. Levin and Bongino are being told what to say with the threat of loss of livelihood hanging over their heads.
All that remains are for people like Levin and Bongino to 'disappear' in a 'late nite police raid'. Far fetched? That's up for you to decide. Loss of life seems a lot more likely than it did a short while ago.
8 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Schnapps 1/11/2021 7:34:03 PM (No. 657356)
Mark Levin said he didn't get the memo.
3 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/11/2021 10:44:26 PM (No. 657479)
Nazi Amerika. Show me your papers.
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2021 1:02:38 AM (No. 657564)
This is Fake News.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/12/2021 12:47:29 PM (No. 658101)
There's the reason I've been a customer of XM Sirius since its inception in 1988.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/12/2021 12:55:27 PM (No. 658109)
The left never misses a trick. They are masters of lies and deceit. If this is their doing, it's just another sucker punch way of causing pain to the embattled 'right' wing media. Opportunists use every opening, like pretending to be MAGA protestors and then causing destruction, knowing that is exactly what the media have been begging for since the first riots.
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