Air America + Democracy Radio

Air America radio and Democracy Radio are joining forces to some degree. The CEO, Tom Athens, will be joining the management team of Air America. As a result Democracy Radio will cease to exist. However, two of the radio personalities from the company may be coming to Air America Radio. It is possible that all of you who wanted Stephanie Miller to replace Morning Sedition may get your wish. In his online letter the CEO of Democracy Radio did not say that Miller or Shultz would follow him to Air America; however, it has been reported that Air America is considering axing MS and SM plays at the same time as MS so she may be picked to replace the show. Does anyone think that this puts Randi Rhodes in jeopardy of losing her spot to Ed Shultz. I hope Rhodes can keep her spot.

Now is the time when we need MORE diversity in Progressive talk radio, not less!

She's live 9-12 EST, and broadcasts from LA (so she's actually 6-9 PST). Somehow I don't think she'd want to be up at 3 AM to be doing a radio show. However, if anybody was going to replace MS (and I hope Goldberg gets his head out of his ass and keeps Maron), I would love for it to be Stephanie Miller. Her show is hilarious (though MS is funnier).

As for Ed replacing Randi, hahahahaha. Ed doesn't have the audience, he doesn't have the draw, and he's not that progressive. He's more like Springer in that sense.

as it is. (1260 progressive out of Columbus Ohio)

And sorry, if Stephanie Miller replaces morning sedition, I will return to tunes on my way in to work. If Stephanie would stop with the sound bites every 3 seconds, and the "morning show timed simultaneous laughter", I would listen more.

You all reading that, upper muckity mucks from Air America? We want stuff that is more serious, not more of a sideshow with laugh tracks.

My local progressive station plays her on there. :D I get all of my favorite's on the local station which is great (they play Rhandi as well). I hope they keep Rhandi at the point she's at now. I think it's a good time personally. I personally like Springer a bit more than Schultz. Of course that's just me.

:D

I am listening to her podcast right now! ... "you lying sack of crap, you lying sack of crap..." :rofl:

Jim is the best "voice-over" artist on comedy radio. :)

She was Democracy Radio's latest project that I'd heard about.

I guess I was wrong, but I saw DR as a different mission from AAR. DR was grooming and building shows for syndication and sale, where AAR was trying to be a full-service network.

This is an example of market forces working in the wrong direction. Less talk radio development means we're again ceding a greater share of the AM spectrum to the freepers.

That's OK, though. When the market contracts instead of expanding, grow your own! Ya never know what sorts of neat little weeds will pop up in the garden!

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i'd take her any day of the week, i miss her on the weekends on wls

hey 560am (chicago), drop ed, put randi on for her full four hours, or until the signal needs to drop so we then can hear kkkoa out of denver

although I wouldn't mind if she went national but as long as she does her show out of Detroit, like how Ed does his out of ND.

syndication.

"As Executive Vice President, Athans will head Air America’s newly established syndication division, developing new programming to expand its lineup. He will also head Air America’s Washington, D.C. corporate office." http://www.airamericaradio.com/node/1258

Edit to add - there are many "Progressive Talk" stations that follow a schedule of Morning Sedition, Stephanie Miller, Al Franken, Ed Schultz, Randi, Majority Report.

That is what I have locally and that is what I stream when I'm at home.

I like it.

Do we really have any idea of what they are going to do or is this all just guessing? Has AAR said anything regarding SM or Schultz?

I know about Maron perhaps being let go but is that all we really know?

To you and the other poster who pointed out that SM comes on after MS and not at the same time. I made a mistake and did not realize it until reading another post. I am not aware of what will happen regarding Schultz and SM. I am mainly guessing and questioning due to the fact that Schultz is scheduled to replace Rhodes in Austin?

different schedules so what you said may be true in some West or Mountain timezones - but in the East and Central time zones it works out the way I said above.:hi:

is AAR want to ditch MS, so they can put Jerry on 6 to 9 AM, and keep SM on 9 to Noon. I just really wonder about AAR after they sold out Unfiltered. I don't see this situation getting better AT ALL...

And GOD help them if they fuck over Randi...

Lu

...and, ok, at first glance, 5 to 6 AM sounds SUCK ASS! But, think about JUST how many people are stuck in their cars on their godawful morning commute JUST IN NYC at that time! If what's his name (Mark Marron?) wants to quit or not renew or whatever the hell, why not bring HER in to Morning Sedition, along with the other co-host, and make MS air from 5 to 9 AM?!?!?! But me thinks AAR is just trying to hard in alot of ways and overlooks such EASY and SIMPLE solutions like this. And for the LOVE OF GOD, can we PLEASE knock off this HORSE SHIT that Ed Shitz is THE MOST successful liberal talk host?! Ok, so he's on the most stations. Yeah...in BFE markets! Sorry, but # of stations DOES NOT mean MORE listeners! Randi probably has more listeners in NYC alone than Ed has nationwide!!!!!! It's just so frustrating to see AAR give her virtually NO promotion (same goes to Mike and Laura) but plug the HELL out of Al, Jerry and big names that EVERY ONE already knows! The radio pros ARE THE ANCHOR of that network. They NEED to learn that PRONTO!

Lu

Maybe after Malloy is over? Would she work than though???

Anyone over Jerry Springer.

They currently syndicate Tom Hartman who is on at the same time as Al Franken.

It's possible they may do more of that syndication rather than networking to get a bigger slice of the pie.

Democracy Radio?

I know there are still a lot of cities that don't get AAR or Progressive Talk - such as Kansas City. KC does get a couple of hours of Democracy Radio in the morning but that is it (according to my Mom). They need more.

Anything that spreads it around to a broader audience is great.

We will see, I guess.

Have we heard anything yet about Maron - is he leaving or staying or who were they thinking of replacing him with? I haven't heard anything else.

Air America is based on picking up stations as a branded network dominated by AA programming.

With syndication, stations have more ability to pick and choose individual programs.

So a station might have a mix of talk shows fgrom various sources, and maintain its own identity.

And Randi will probably resurface on Sirius on one of Howard Stern's channels and in the long run be HUGE and leave AAR in the dust. They hardly do jack shit to promote her show (meanwhile, going out of their way to plug Franken and Jeanane, and not to take away from them, they are great talents...but COME ON!) they let their affiliates preempt or not even carry her show thanks to Ed Shitz. It's bogus! SHE is the one who came up with the concept of a liberal radio network and she gets consistently DUMPED ON. What gratitude!

And that is why I don't promote ANY other shows on AAR, expeting Mike Malloy and Thom Hartmann. AAR's attitude seems like "You got the CELEB NAME RECOGNITION?! THEN AAR LIKES YOU! YOU A RADIO PRO? OH WELL!"

Tell a fiend to listen to Randi Rhodes on the following stations, ALL TIMES LOCAL:

INTERNET: http://www.airamericaradio.com/listen.asp (3p-7p ET)
Albany / Corvallis / Salem, OR: 990 KTHH (3p-7p)
Albuquerque, NM: 1350 KABQ (4p-8p)
Anchorage, AK: 1080 KUDO (12a-2a)
Ann Arbor, MI: 1290 WLBY (6p-10p)
Asheville, NC: 880 WPEK (6p-sunset)
Atlanta, GA: 1690 WWAA (3p-7p)
Barstow/Victor Valley, CA: 1230 KSZL (Noon-4p) = NEW!!!
Baton Rouge, LA: 1380 WYNK (5p-sunset) = NEW!!!
Binghamton, NY: 1360 WYOS (3p-7p) = NEW!!!
Boston, MA: 1430 WXKS (6p-10p)
Brattleboro, VT: 1490 WKVT (3p-7p)
Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY: 1390 WVAA (3p-7p) = STATION SWITCH!!!
Chattanooga, TN: 1310 WDOD = NEW!!!
Chicago, IL: 850 WCPT (5p-sunset) = NEW!!!
Cincinnati, OH: 1530 WCKY (6p-10p)
Cleveland / Akron, OH: 1520 WJMP (3p-7p) = NEW!!!
Columbus, OH: 1230 WPTG (6p-7p/4a-6a)
Corpus Christi, TX: 1150 KCCT
Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX: 910 KXEB
Davenport, IA (aka Quad Cities): 1270 WKBF (2p-3p)
Duluth-Superior, MN: 1490 KQDS = NEW!!!
Denver / Boulder, CO: 760 KKZN (4p-8p)
Detroit, MI: 1310 WDTW (6p-10p)
Ely / Hibbing, MN: 1450 WELY
Eugene / Springfield, OR: 1450 KOPT (Noon-4p)
Fresno, CA: 790 KFPT (3p-7p) = NEW!!!
Honolulu, HI: 1500 KUMU (8p-11p)
Huntington, WV: 930 WRVC (7p-11p) = NEW!!!
Ithaca, NY: 1470 WNYY (3p-7p) = NEW!!!
Key West / Key Largo, FL: 1500 WKIZ (3p-7p)
Lafayette, LA: 1490 KEUN (2p-6p) = NEW!!!
Los Angeles, CA: 1150 KTLK (3p-7p) = NEW!!!
Madison, WI: 92.1 WXXM (2p-6p)
Memphis, TN: 680 WWTQ (2p-6p)
Miami / Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 940 WINZ (6p-10p)
Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN: 950 KTNF (overnights)
Missoula, MT: 105.9 KKNS (6p-8p) = NEW!!!
Monterey / Santa Cruz / Salinas, CA: 1340 KOMY (12p-4p) = NEW!!!
New Haven, CT: 1300 WAVZ (6p-10p)
New Orleans, LA: 1350 WSMB (7p - 9p) = NEW!!!
New York, NY: 1190 WLIB (3p-7p)
Petoskey / Cheboygan, MI: 750 WWKK (2a-6a)
Phoenix, AZ: 1010 KXXT (3p-7p)
Portland, ME: 870 WLVP (3p-7p)
Portland, OR: 620 KPOJ (3p-7p)
Poughkeepsie, NY: 1020 WKZE = NEW!!!
Providence, RI: 920 WHJJ (6p-8p)
Reno, NV: 1230 KJFK (4p-8p)
Riverside / San Bernadino, CA: 1050 KCAA (5p-6p)
Rochester, NY: 950 WROC (6:30p-10p)
Sacramento, CA: 1320 KCTC (Noon-4p) = STATION SWITCH - STARTS Nov. 1st!!!
San Antonio/Victoria, TX: 103.1 KTXX 103.1 (2-6 pm)
San Diego, CA: 1360 KLSD (3p-6p)
San Francisco / San Jose, CA: 960 KQKE (3p-7p)
San Luis Obispo, CA: 1340 KYNS (Noon-4p)
Santa Barbara, CA: 1340 KTLK (Noon-4p)
Santa Fe, NM: 1260 KTRC (1p-3p)
Seattle, WA: 1090 KPTK (6p-10p)
Spokane, WA: 1280 KAQQ (3p-7p)
Taos, NM: 1340 KVOT = NEW!
Washington, DC: 1260 WWRC (6p-9p)
West Palm Beach / Stuart / Boca Raton, FL: 1290 WJNO (3p-6:50p)
Worchester / Framingham, MA: 1200 WKOX (6p-10p)
Youngstown / Warren, OH: 1570 WANR (3p-7p)

More info, go to & bookmark:

http://www.TheRandiRhodesShow.com

http://www.RandiRhodesArchives.com

Lu Cifer

Don't just tell fiends -- tell everyone.

(Sorry. Couldn't resist. ;) )

Ed SUCKS

KXEB 910 AM in Dallas doesn't promote Randi a lot at present. The station has a new van, and last I heard, it only features pictures of Franken and Springer.

Also, KOKE in Austin just dropped Randi in favor of Ed Schultz. Ouch.

of this year. Both Miller and Schultz shows are distributed through Jones Radio. But Schultz has no current relationship with Democracy Radio. Sale of Schultz's show noted here: http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/radio/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000955749

AAR press release re: Athans: http://www.airamericaradio.com/node/1258

Athans' online letter here: http://www.democracyradio.org/

I get in my car, turn on the radio and listen to commercials for ten miles down the road. By the time the show comes back on, I'm at work and shutting the radio off. I realize that advertising pays the bills, but can't they squeeze a little bit of the show in between the commercials??

Why on earth is consolidation TWO into ONE, a better idea?? "Gee now instead of being able to have TWO radio out lets, you will get ONE..but it's bigger and beefier:eyes:

It's just a power play to remove the lefties who were still on Sirius, like Stephanie & Tom Hartman..

Pretty soon AAR will have too many to do any of them justice, and I would bet money that XM will not give them another "number" on the dial to expand ..

You can only listen to one at a time anyway..

Most people do not even HAVE satellite radio.. More money should go to buying LOCAL radio stations and getting lefties syndicated so they can get a bigger audience, not just a more selective one :(

Pretty dumb humor and no substance whatsoever (Miller).

Stephanie Miller rules the airwaves! And Jim is the most awesome voice-over artist/comedian! :)