RADIO TIDBITS

Talkers Magazine notes that Salem Communications has just purchased TownHall:

Salem Buys TownHall.com. Salem Communications recently announced its intentions to create a conservative website with which to create synergy for its conservative network talk hosts. Instead of creating one, the company announces it is buying the established TownHall.com. Expect to see commentary from the likes of Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager there very soon.

Salem puts religious wackos Janet Parshall (see here & here) and Richard Land (see here) on the air and according to SourceWatch, is well-connected to the radical conservative movement:

On February 21, 2005, Sarah Posner, writing (http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=260) for the The Gadflyer, reported that:

"And while the mainstream media is asleep at the switch, CNP (Council for National Policy) members' access to conservative media outlets enable them to collaborate and disseminate their propaganda. ...

"Another example is that five directors of Salem Communications Company are or have been officers and directors of CNP: Salem's president and CEO, Edward G. Atsinger III; Stuart W. Epperson (host of Truth Talk Live, a radio show broadcast on Salem's radio network); Roland S. Hinz (who is also president of Hi-Favor Broadcasting, LLC, which has purchased radio stations from Salem to implement a Christian format in Spanish); [former Ronald Reagan cabinet member] Donald P. Hodel; and Judge Paul Pressler (a retired Texas judge who has made a career of advocating a conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention). Salem owns over 100 Christian broadcast radio stations, is the provider of Christian programming on XM Satellite Radio, and recently agreed with America Online to provide the only Christian talk radio station on the AOL Radio Network.

Sen. Kyl (AZ) has been reported to be a member of the CNP and I think Pederson (the Democratic challenger) should ask him what he does for the CNP and what the CNP stands for.