Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evil dinosaur liberal media made it up. We don't matter anymore. Today the big noise comes from talk radio. Its conservative hosts are the kings of AM radio and the kingmakers of the new Republican majority; one survey showed that hard-core listeners to the format voted 3-to-1 Republican. As could be expected, the hosts showed little interest in ribbing Newt Gingrich and the G.O.P. They had bigger fat to fry. Have a listen...
...true masters are motormouths like Hamblin, Boortz, Hannity -- and the supremo, Rush Limbaugh, whose syndicated sermon is attended by 20 million people a week on 660 stations. Talk radio trails only country music as the nation's most pervasive format; it commandeers more than 15% of the fragmented audience. More than 1,000 talk stations (up from 200 ten years ago), and hundreds more with Evangelical Christian commentators, deliver hot chat to an avid constituency. About half of all American adults listen to the format at least once a week for at least an hour, according to Talkers magazine...
...even in sympathetic markets, liberals are the kickees. Surely the Bay Area is the Mecca (or, as Rush would say, the Moscow) of the California left. But in San Francisco, KSFO has just dumped all its moderate and liberal talk-show hosts -- including Leykis -- to go to a conservative format featuring Hamblin, Reagan, Emerson and Pat Buchanan. What's the problem with liberals? "They are genetically engineered to not offend anybody," says Tom Tradup, general manager of talk station WLS in Chicago. "People who go on the air afraid of offending are not inherently entertaining...
...earliest recordings that will be broadcast during the orgy, those from the period 1955-1960, Cecil Taylor sounds approximately like a jazz pianist on acid. He performs with the standard format of a jazz combo: piano, bass, drums, and a hornman, in this case, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. The group records several versions of tunes from the standard jazz repertoire. Hearing Taylor perform the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn composition "Johnny Come Lately" has almost the shock value that hearing Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star Spangled Banner" must have had ten years later. The familiar jazzman's repertoire turns...
...Once the director is there we'll have a good format to think about relocating the Flowers," said Jay L. Taft, director of administration for the Museum of Comparative Zoology...