Right-wing talker rips off crosstown station's name

You can't make this stuff up, ladies and gents.

After the debut of WQRT radio - which gives Cincinnati THREE right-wing talk stations (but no left-leaning counterpart) - station brass have chosen an on-air name for the station: Q-1160.

Are they even dumber than we thought? (Yes.) Anyone who has even a rudimentary knowledge of Cincinnati radio knows there's been a station in town with a nearly identical name (Q-102) for almost 40 years.

So WQRT thinks it can just take another station's name without permission?

And no, Q-1160 isn't owned by the same company that owns Q-102 - despite the near-monopoly that otherwise exists in this market.

Just when you think local radio big shots can't get any dumber, they always manage to outdo their stupid selves.

Q-102 wouldn't even let a station that was almost 150 miles away call itself Q-102, yet someone is dumb enough to think they'll allow a virtually identical name in the same city?

Or is this like when Clear Channel started stations called Kiss FM in markets that already had a Kiss FM, and the right-wing courts forced the original Kiss FM stations to change even though they had the name first?

(Source: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=147001.0)