One can only hope that Lars Larson will be fired immediately, but somehow I don't see that happening.

You wouldn't know by me -- I've been listening to the white trash '80s sounds on the new "Brew" (105.9) the last few days. They're playing 10,000 songs in a row, but definitely not 10,000 different ones. Already I've been subjected to some repeats -- and they were songs you only want to catch about once a decade.

Bought for $42 million and sold for what? $3 million? $4 million and a big handful of Pixie Stix?

I've been listening to the white trash '80s sounds on the new "Brew" (105.9) the last few days.

Ouch! I gave up terrestrial radio for satellite a couple of years ago and I have never looked back.

The only FM radio I listen to these days is 95.5 "The Game" when I am in the car during a Blazer game.

BOOOOM-CHAKALAKA!! (Next year...)

So, Larry Wilson- You are just going to buy two stations and run them for the enjoyment of the public at your own risk?
That's just not the Portland way - you should have asked Adams and Leonard to build you a sparkling new studio with public money as a condition of the purchase. I'll bet they would have rounded you up a piece of public park land for a new tower as well. Geez. Someone please inform him how things are done here...

"One can only hope that Lars Larson will be fired immediately, but somehow I don't see that happening."

What...you don't see the new owners immediately firing the only on-air talent that generates any significant income for the station?

Income - agreed, there's apparently lots of audience for his kind of message in Portland. Uunfortunately.

Talent? Not a chance.

I've been listening to The Brew myself and already suffer from Guns N Roses poisoning. And I'm a fan!

I discovered the Pandora app for my Blackberry yesterday. Between the demise of Rick Emerson and now having Pandora anywhere, my days of needing the radio are quickly nearing an end.

Probably making a return on investment has something to do with it.

Live & local costs more than satellite & syndication feed, so the 'plastic presence' on-air nets out more ROI. Plus, the cost of liability insurance for live loose lips is a format killer. Plus, the 'property' part of 'media property' is a sitting duck, I mean, stationary target -- like when some guy rammed his pickup through the front door into the lobby (of this very same station Paul Allen is selling out), a year or two ago -- so riot insurance is out-the-roof for bigot-talk radio format, another killer.

("Riot insurance." What the heck is "riot insurance"? Just sayin' ... more than Paul Allen wants to afford.)

Limbaugh's over-the-top contract is tanking ClearChannel these days, major layoffs.

And the kicker: The more hate-talk radio got aired, the more elections rightwingers lost. Michael Savage is now prohibited from staining British soil. Al Franken became a US Senator. And today's legislators are trending toward Tax the Rich.

Way to go, racism radio. Talk format is toast ... tick, tick, tick, tick, tick ...

Don't let the pendulum swinging back knock you off the right wing cuckoo perch.

What...you don't see the new owners immediately firing the only on-air talent that generates any significant income for the station?

My point exactly.

The product is garbage, but there's money in it.