Earlier this week, a report surfaced that a management fund led by George Soros would be the largest shareholder of Audacy once it exits bankruptcy. Howie Carr says that while the headlines may be attention-grabbing, those weary of Soros owning media entities shouldn’t be concerned.
While taking a call from a listener concerned that Soros would be involved in the programming of Audacy stations once it exits pre-packaged bankruptcy proceedings, Carr shared his opinion that Audacy shouldn’t be taken seriously in the news/talk radio space.
“They went broke for a reason. They were terribly unsuccessful as radio programmers and as businessmen,” said Carr. “And they never had a successful show, let alone a station. They inherited a few stations that kind of work, but they never put one together, and they never put together a show. They never put together a format that worked.”
Howie Carr continued by sharing his belief that the company would simply let its AM stations die before shifting a liberal talk format to some stations on the FM band.
“My theory is they’re just going to let the AM stations go. They’re going to take some of the FM stations and try to make them into an FM, 21st-century version of Air America. Air America couldn’t get any audience when there was no streaming,” said Carr. “It was a different world that basically there was not much of an answer back when Air America was running. Nobody wanted to listen to it.
“You know why? There was already an Air America of left-wing programming. It was called National Public Radio, and it is still called National Public Radio. Who’s gonna listen to this crap that George Soros puts out? So he’ll probably take a few other crappy FM stations like WEEI off the air and put on some left-wing crap. But I mean, who’s gonna listen to it? If you’re a moonbat, you’re used to listening to NPR. NPR is like 200-proof distilled Democrat deep-state propaganda.”
It isn’t the first time Howie Carr has criticized his former employer. After Audacy announced its bankruptcy filing, the Boston-based host shared that with the news “my prayers had finally been answered.” Carr left what was then Entercom in 2014 after a contentious seven-year period where he publicly bashed the broadcaster for failing to let him out of his contract. He eventually returned in 2015, but stayed with WRKO when the station was eventually purchased by iHeartMedia.
