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Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to Take on Anti-PBSO Radio

Posted by , July 13, 2012 Print

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw‘s assault on media that he perceives to be against him continues.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw

Starting July 26, a weekly pro-Bradshaw show is scheduled to start airing on West Palm Beach radio station Seaview 960 AM. So happens the station also broadcasts The Beat, a local show about policing and law enforcement whose hosts are critical of Bradshaw.

What’s more, Gossip Extra hears that Bradshaw’s campaign is planning to flood the station with advertisement boasting Bradshaw’s run for a third term.

Bradshaw is opposed by several candidates, including former Baltimore Police higher up Joe Talley.

“The show that the sheriff’s people are going to do is not supposed to be political,” said Seaview General Manager Chet Tart. “It’s not a political ad.”

Tart says the host hasn’t been picked but speculation is that Bradshaw’s right-hand man, Chief Deputy Mike Gauger, will be involved.

Seaview sells most of its airtime. Tart wouldn’t say how much Bradshaw is going to pay for his 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. time slot every Thursday for 13 weeks. But the going rate at the station is $500 per hour.

Who’s going to be paying for it? Unclear at this point but we’ll keep you updated. The financing of the show will be dicey: If it comes from ad sales, Bradshaw will then be involved in a commercial venture rife with potential conflicts of interest; if he uses campaign money, then the show will be considered a political show.

The Beat, by the way, airs 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. every Wednesday.

Show creator and co-host Rick Sessa, whose main topic this week was whether Bradshaw is a thief, says the sheriff is getting worried about his re-election.

“This is a man who won’t go on the air with us and who won’t return phone calls from people he thinks are not friendly to his cause,” Sessa said. “Yet, he is going to spend big money to have his own show.”

(Cards on the table: I am a frequent contributor to The Beat, which also airs 95.9 FM and 106.9 FM)

Rick Asnani, Bradshaw’s campaign manager, didn’t return a call for comment.

The news comes three months after Bradshaw’s campaign tried to buy secretly pbsotalk.com. The small West Palm Beach website that published public records and satire that make Bradshaw and his administration look like bumbling idiots. The deal never came through and the site is still active.

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3 Comments

  1. Pathetic, 10 months ago Reply

    It’s sad that in a Top 50 radio market, these important local community passions and issues have to be shuffled off to a hard to-pick-up low powered AM station……and airtime has to be purchased to debate them. Meanwhile over at Clear Channel, which holds the licenses to half a dozen West Palm area radio stations that once upon a time served the community, the staffs have been gutted (“Newsradio” WJNO is down to one news person, and now doesn’t even pretend to report breaking news and weather stories, just simply says ‘tune to our ‘partner’ Channel 5). The rest of the day is filled with syndicated slop and national issues.

    It will likely take a severe weather disaster or other emergency in the West Palm Area for people to realize their radio waves have been monopolized by Wall Street ‘investors’ who have grossly understaffed the stations….and every day spit all over the idea these licences were designed to serve this community. Not Ryan Seacrest’s ego.

  2. A 1911 SHOOTER, 10 months ago Reply

    94.3 WZZR is the only local news station anymore and even that is just the Love Dr’s for a few hours while the rest is unsustainable garbage sports talk for compulsive gamblers.

  3. frumpy Ric, 9 months ago Reply

    I did not give a crap what that liar Bradshaw said in the past , and I am sure not interested in hearing him now . This frumpy old timer needs to retire and take all his fat friends with time , I think you have milked the county dry enough Ric . You are a selfesh , self centered big mouth know it all , and the only people who pretend to respect you are the people you give favors to .


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