"Dan Weir" wrote in message
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Very well put...which raises a rather scary point about Chuck Harder.
Unlike the "shortwave howlers," Chuck has considerable media
experience, mostly acquired in Tampa, FL - where he was in consumer
advocacy, advertising, local radio, TV, recording, production, sales,
promotion, and public relations - from 1963 to 1991.

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I don't know if broadcasting from the Tampa area has effected Chuck Harder's
political outlook much or not. Rush Limbaugh had his biggest early sucess
in California and he went national from New York City.

I think Chuck's problem in competing in the media is his show's lack of
focus. He oftentimes talks of consumer/business topics, but not like Bruce
Williams. Politics comes up, but not like on the Rush Limbaugh show. Chuck
works around the fringes, but he doesn't do weird science like Art Bell.
It's tough to develop a loyal audience when subject matter shifts around so
much. Some listeners will tune out at the mention of one subject or
another. I think Chuck talks about what he wants to talk about, and doesn't
have a good feel for his intended audience.


Yes, Chuck is a moderate compared to the "shorwave howlers," but I
still feel he shares much of their hard-Right, nationalistic,
anti-everything political outlook. In other words, if you were to have
a Bush/Kerry-style debate between Chuck and Texe Marrs, for instance,
concentrating on domestic and foreign policy, the two would agree much
more than disagree.
Remember, Chuck opens his mike to crazies such as Dr. Dennis Cuddy and
Craig Winn, as well as meat-and-potatoes centrists and conservatives
such as Clifford May, Michelle Malkin, and Josh Block of the
American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Those are my thoughts, for what they're worth. Again, apologies to the
folks down in Tampa.

Dan Weir

That's Chuck's problem. His shows are a little bit of this, a little bit of
that. I think much of his audience has found hosts who more consistantly
talk about what they want to hear. Chuck's weird science fans went to Coast
to Coast. His government conspiracy types went to Alex Jones. If Chuck had
a following in the antisemite community, I'm sure they've gone to the likes
of Pastor Peter J. Peters by now. These guys at least know who their
audience is, and what they want to hear.

Ironically, Chuck Harder was hurt by the boom in domestic broadcasting.
There's alot more people out there with radio shows and alot more room for
narrow focus shows. Some of those guys are pretty good. It's like the
famous cartoon in which a father is walking with his distraught, baseball
gloved son, who says "I was throwing a no-hitter, 'till the big kids got out
of school".

Frank Dresser