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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 12:46 PM
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Enough pebbles will raise the sea: AAR on the air in Columbia, SC
I am SOOOOOOOOO happy. Columbia is a liberal town in a rabidly conservative state. Sort of like a small Austin but with a fort. Radio is a ClearChannel-controlled nightmare: Savage, O'Reilly, Hannity, sure, but other guys that make them look left-wing by comparison. This is sooooo overdue. I feel like I can finally breathe.

(Oh, it's on 1230 AM if you happen to be here or might be passing through.)
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 12:50 PM
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1. How cool! I thought it wasn't going to happen!
Maybe I can get reception from NE GA. Air Atlanta reception stinks. At night, I get 1530 AM from Ohio better than Air Atlanta.

:woohoo:
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:13 PM
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2. I wish you luck on that, but I think their range is only about 25 miles
Still, it's possible. (You'd think Asheville would get AAR before us, but I don't know if you could pick up Asheville either what with all those mountains.)
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dhuss Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:18 PM
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6. Asheville does... part of the time... 880AM n/t
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:23 PM
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7. You can pick up Asheville near the GA/NC state line.
I listened to AAR radio in Asheville when I was there last summer.
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dhuss Donating Member (161 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:36 PM
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10. really??
I live about 20 miles on the north side of the line and I can't get it... I have to pick up Air Atlanta in the morning and at night.

D.H.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 02:14 PM
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14. I got reception with lots of static.
Who knows. It could've been a fluke of weather or something.

Air Atlanta comes in much better north of Atlanta than east.
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74dodgedart Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:16 PM
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3. Still waiting in the upstate..
Land of Jim Demint and Lindsay Graham..
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 05:51 PM
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21. As noted elsewhere, there's Asheville
but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for liberal radio in the Upstate.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:16 PM
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4. Damn, even South Carolina gets AAR before Hartford
<sniff>
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:58 PM
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12. Wouldn't that be a great letter to a station manager though?
"Even bass-ackwards SOUTH CAROLINA has AAR and we don't! What's wrong with you people?"

On the other hand, it's probably easier for us to drop ESPN Radio than it would be up there nearer Bristol U. And I like to think that your local talk radio hosts aren't nitwit Bush apologists like here, either, but I guess it's possible.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 02:30 PM
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15. we have one pair of left of center radio guys...
Colin McEnroe & Bruce Stevens on WTIC AM 1080 are left of center, but certainly no Randi Rhodes or Mike Malloy. And, they get maybe 15 minutes of airtime per hour, as it's news, traffic and weather first.

Meanwhile, we have libertarian conservative Ray Dunaway on in the morning (similar to the afternoon guys in that it's mostly news, traffic & weather)... but, he has 4 1/2 hours vs 3 for the afternoon guys.

Then, they have extreme RW Jim Vicevich from 10-12 and Rush from noon-3.

So, it's not exactly brimming with left wing talk.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:18 PM
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5. And it started in Chicago today, too
A friend emailed to day and she was so happy to have it back in Chi Town!
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:27 PM
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9. Really?
Finally! ... That's great!
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:26 PM
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8. still waiting here in the Piedmont/Triad
guess I shouldn't hold my breath.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 05:50 PM
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20. I don't guess the Chapel Hill station will reach, will it?
WCHL 1360 AM, for the record. Pisser.
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 06:34 PM
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22. Nope. Driving into Burlington on I-85, you can start to get it
But west of Burlington, no way. I'm in Winston-Salem/Greensboro area.

However, just after dusk 'til just before dawn, I can pick up WCKY/1530 Cincinnati.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 01:56 PM
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11. Our job is to listen and get others to listen.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 02:01 PM
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13. This will be the first time that I will take down the names of advertisers
and write them a note thanking them for supporting such programming. Cuz god knows there's going to be a BRING BACK ESPN campaign, not to mention a GET RIDDA DEM LIBRULS campaign.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 03:49 PM
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16. Great idea.
Maybe I should write some of them too.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 03:53 PM
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17. Does that twit named Kevin still follow Limbaugh at 3 O' clock ?
It's been over three years since I lived there, but I have some hilarious recordings of calls I made to him and his occasional sub Stuart McDonald.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 04:28 PM
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19. He spells it Keven, oddly enough. Yeah.
A crazed Zionist in the Deep South. How special. (where's that sarcasm icon?)
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-05 03:57 PM
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18. I believe the drop in B*** poll numbers is due to the expansion of AAR.
God bless them all. Thank you, AAR, for giving us the truth. We are all indebted to you.
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