WVKO in Columbus is in trouble

Just got this email from the only progressive station in Ohio:

"WVKO-AM 1580 is Central Ohio's "Air America" station, broadcasting Progressive Talk programs since -December 2007.

There is good news and bad news about the station.

First the bad news:

Due to slow advertising sales, WVKO is currently having trouble paying its bills. Good, progressive Salespeople are hard to find in Central Ohio, especially for a startup mom-and-pop station like WVKO. The station now finds itself with unpaid bills, and may have to shut down if $50,000 is not raised within the next few weeks.

Now the good news:

Do you remember how it felt when Air America was pulled from the airwaves a year and a half ago? Air America fans were told that there was nothing they could do to help save that station. Well, this time there is a way for you to keep Air America on the air ... through a generous donation to the station. By clicking on your choice of PayPal buttons on our Contribution page, your contribution will go directly toward keeping Air America on WVKO.

This show of support from Progressives like you will keep the station on the air, and will enable WVKO management to pay off current debts. Salespeople will be assured that the station will remain on the air, enabling them to make sales calls with confidence.

Please make your contribution now:



For more information, and to track the Grand Total of contributions, go here: http://wvko1580.com/contribution/"

Hard to compete as a small station in the land of the giant conglomerates. Here's hoping they can get it together and keep the station afloat.

Let us raise 50k and keep progressive radio on the air in Columbus, opens people's minds by having them hear our side of the story.

I am outside the station's reach but I am chipping in my few bucks for this worthy cause.

there is another way for it to be heard that it won't be quenched. Stream it freely on the internet and in addition use many small Part 15 transmitters (license free) to rebroadcast it.

if you remember 1994, there were broad Republican gains in congress, at state & local levels.

Remember Newt's "contract with America" ?

They built a superb platform that lasted them until 2006, Rush Limbaugh was showered high praise by the party machine and was often the keynote speaker at many a R conference.

Republicans succeed because they think and plan longitudinally, they each invest a few bucks to promote their way of thinking and voting / acting / behaving over the public air waves.

10,000 hours of brainwashing an audience of 100 million later, their way of thinking is called "mainstream".

The democratic party ought to be investing in progressive/liberal radio coverage for each & every corner in every swing state, so progressive thought is debated and understood across America.

As it stands today, a conservative candidate can put a liberal candidate in the defensive in a second by saying - "as usual the democratic party is out of touch with the needs and values of ordinary Americans".

Right-wing talk radio & Fox News, while copiously consumed by Republicans, are not just for them. They are also a mechanism to recruit the unaligned middle into their conservative thought.

It is about gaining mindshare and marketshare.

Liberal talk radio is in its infancy, and it is already getting clubbed to death like a SEAL PUP.

Yes, people are so unhappy with the Republicans in 2006 & 2008 that are likely to make broad gains, but what about 2010 & 2012 ?

We will be scrambling to be heard by the public at large, while the right successfully magnifies each mistake from the left using their well orchestrated media machine.

So, while internet streaming & micro transmitters can feed the determined left seekers, it once again places progressive thought outside the reach of ordinary folk.

It is HIGH TIME that the democratic party and the left invested in a lasting media & communication infrastructure that can successfully communicate our message to everyone.

It will make volunteer efforts more fruitful and an easier task for Democratic candidates.

the repukes own the stations and control the licensing body called the FCC. Add to that the corporations won't sponsor or support such stations with commercial monies for commercials meaning more private money is needed to keep it operational or it fails. Wasn't that the exact problem this Columbus station had in the 1st place?

I loves me some Steph.

I gave what I could, things are a bit tight @ ~