Editing IHeartMedia (section)

====Progressive talk====
[[Progressive talk]] shows had been heard on a few of iHeartMedia's stations, primarily secondary to its main news/talk stations.  These liberal-leaning stations usually featured at least one local host with some syndicated shows, mainly from [[Westwood One]], making up the balance of the broadcast day.  [[Air America Radio]] also aired on some of these stations. iHeartMedia has shown a tendency to drop liberal talk affiliations due to lack of ratings or advertiser support and replace it with sports talk or other formats.  For instance, [[WCKY (AM)|WCKY]] Cincinnati, [[KLSD]] San Diego, [[WXKS (AM)|WXKS]] Boston, [[KPOJ]] [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] and [[WINZ (AM)|WINZ]] [[Miami]] had progressive talk formats that were switched to sports.  

In one case this caused a listener protest when iHeartMedia (then Clear Channel) wanted to change [[WXXM]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], to a sports format.  The outcry worked temporarily.  WXXM was allowed to keep its liberal-leaning talk format for a few more years.  But in November 2016, due to a general lack of syndicated progressive talk programming, WXXM flipped to [[classic hits]].