The corporate owners of KPOJ -- Clear Channel -- made the decision lat week.

KPOJ aired programs with progressive talkers Thom Hartman, Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy.

The radio station had a one percent share of the listening audience.

That is well behind the two conservatvie Portland radio stations , KEX and KXL, which have ratings ranging from 3 to 5 percent of the listening audience.