Air America, an overtly liberal talk radio network, is about to go on the air

okay, i admit that i laughed at the title of their drive-time show: "Morning Sedition"

still can't find a list of stations.

also, cute show description:

The O’ Franken Factor: 12:00-3:00pm

After debunking right-wing propaganda in his bestselling books Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken is taking the fight to America's airwaves--and he's doing it drug-free. With his co-host, veteran radio personality Katherine Lanpher, Franken will deliver three hours a day of fearlessly irreverent commentary, comedy, and interviews. Franken and Lanpher have a mean streak a smile wide. The O'Franken Factor will energize fans, infuriate liars, and deliver the truth--in what Al Franken likes to call the Zero Spin Zone.

I miss 'The Daily Show' sooooooo much. :(

Air America Radio will debut its programming on radio stations WLIB (AM 1190am) in New York, WNTD (AM 950) in Chicago and KBLA (AM 1580) in Los Angeles and a station in San Francisco to be named before launch.

http://airamericaradio.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=26

Is the chatter ALL ACCESS is hearing about AIR AMERICA RADIO adding an affiliate in PORTLAND about to come true? If so, it's CLEAR CHANNEL's KPOJ-A (SUPER 62), flipping from Oldies, which it started airing last JULY.

Now, will MIAMI hear the network on WNMA-A, MUILTICULTURAL's Spanish outlet that was the home of RADIO UNICA there until that network's demise in FEBRUARY? And meanwhile, the network has added Talk KCAA-A/LOMA LINDA-SAN BERNARDINO to its affiliate list for launch.

And, AIR AMERICA RADIO will be available on XM SATELLITE RADIO (CHANNEL 167) and DISH NETWORK as well.

...not at my desk at work, of course, but it's a start.

Morning Sedition 6:00 a.m. EST
Unfiltered w/Lizz Winstead and Chuck D. 9:00 a.m. EST
Al Franken Noon EST
Ed Schultz 3:00 p.m. EST
Randi Rhodes 6:00 p.m. EST
Marty Kaplan 7:00 p.m. EST
Jeanene Garofalo 8:00 p.m. EST
Alan Colmes 10:00 p.m. EST

(the music snippets are always the Dead, but they change every time)

They're now interviewing Bob Kerrey. He calls out the Clinton admin for taking a single military action against AQ (while noting the attacks Clinton prevented - the Sullivan, LAX) after their declaration of war, states disinterest in comparing the Clinton and Bush admins, and foreshadows his questions to Rice, noting the intent to reverse all Clinton policies, and stating that "once you take your hand off the Bible, you're the Commander-in-Chief; you don't get a few quarters off to get your act together."

This morning, Jack Cafferty on CNN made mention of the new "communist talk radio station." "Oh, it's liberal? Isn't that the same thing?"

Dude, just stick to the cute babies and diet tips like with the Today show. Don't even bother trying to rebrand yourself as crochety old righty -- it won't burn away the memories of you on Live at 5 with Sue Simmons.

also, G Gordon Liddy called in to wish him well.

http://www.super62.com/main.html

KPOJ portland

reason to play the Dead: Limbaugh's disparaging of "junkie" Jerry Garcia, a friend of Al Franken's.

I didn't know they were friends. Another reason: joie de vivre. Jerry was a "junkie," though.

Franken claims it all the time, I don't know if it's actually true.

heh. what would Dennis miller say?

I hope it's allowed, "Ann Coulter" just said it again.

Jeez, only a matter of time

Looks like someone cold-clocked her from behind. Not exactly a mugging, but not good either.

So, it was pretty much a targeted attack then?

Probably a failed mugging.

"I shouldn't have speculated based on hearsay that Randi Rhodes had been mugged and that it may have been an attack from a right wing hate machine. I apologize for jumping to conclusions based on an emotional reaction," he said in a written statement.

newsday

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/16/2007-10-16_air_america_host_randi_rhodes_wasnt_mugg.html

The right has far subtler ways of shutting up the left than a crude mugging attempt.

yeah, they can post the addresses and phone numbers online, then have people go and peek into their windows.

maybe her dog was a republican

I just discovered Lionel: Hands-down, he's the best AAR host I've heard. He's hilarious, extremely sharp, and can flummox right-wing nutbag callers like no other.

I couldn't get into Lionel, but they don't broadcast him out here. I do like Thom Hartmann, but dude seriously lacks a sense of humor.

My fave Lionel bit so far was the bit when some right-wing pro-torture nutbag called with a self-described "hypothetical" question about torturing someone known to have information on a pending terror event. Lionel defused this guy by agreeing with him right off the bat -- YES, torture him -- and then turned the tables by asking whether this guy would perform a "homosexual act" on such a terrorist if it were extremely likely to get the info out of him since it would prevent him from going to heaven or somesuch. The caller said "no" and had a conniption complaining about Lionel making up stuff. Lionel's brilliance here, in my opinion, is that the caller couldn't object to rape, since he came to the table pro-torture in this precise scenario.

maybe I should start listening to this again

lol, Randi Rhodes calls Rodham & Ferraro "fucking whores" (well, no shit). FoxNews has the vid and the best Geraldine bananas quotes:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/03/air-america-host-suspended-for-calling-clinton-ferraro-fg-whores/

I thought RR was a boring Clintonite when I heard her 4 years ago, has anything changed?

she sounds even more shrill than Limbaugh and Schnitt, if that's possible.

Randi Rhodes has quit the Air America radio network, a week after it suspended her for using a derogatory word for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during an event in San Francisco.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24066818/from/ET/

This incident has probably been good for Air America on the whole, as it reminded people that Air America does indeed exist

Enjoy yr schadenfreude while you can, Dr Morebias.

The reason I think Air America never went all that well is because ... there's already an overtly liberal talk radio network that dominates the culturescape: NPR.

Can't you attempt a bit of a more clever troll, bs?

burt stanton after making post:

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I want a real liberal station, that is just as vile and "comedic" as the worst of Fox News and conservative talk radio. Then it'd remind me that I really am more of a polite centrist.

WBAI occasionally veers off into that territory. It's not an exact analogue to conservative radio, but it's as paranoid and freaked-out as conservative radio is vitriolic.

schadenfreude? As uninterested as I am in Rhodes' show or career, this is classic scaredypants lib shit by AA to placate supporters of the bloodthirsty WalMart sen.

Sorry, I misspelled trollenfreude.

Rhodes quit to placate Clinton?

Massive "lib" conspiracy, y'all.

Use of "lib" == Morbs is big Rush fan.

i think it was more like this was a good pretext for doing something they wanted to do anyway

libs are a lot more like Rush than they realize.

AA forced Rhodes out so they wouldn't piss off any DLC/Republicrats.

yeah, real DLC vibe at AA

but you wouldn't know, rite?

My wife thinks that the fundamental issue is RR's "drinkling problem". Remember when she fell down walking her dog and had to have dentistry? Maybe she's just a bad drunk.

AA got on my bad side when they cancelled Morning Sedition for absolutely no good reason (other than that Marc Maron makes suits angry on a regular basis).

I know, gabb -- they built the damn place on that Clintonite egomaniac Franken.

I never really found RR all that entertaining, honestly. In other news, my house has like a full-on Lionel addiction now.

(xp) Morning Sedition was good, but Stephanie Miller is a decent replacement. Not quite as good, but still better than the 10 other things KQKE/KKGN tried in that slot, including and especially the Duelling Willies.

RANDI RHODES JOINS NOVA M RADIO

The Nova M Radio Network is thrilled to announce the addition of “The Randi Rhodes Show” to its nationally syndicated talent offerings beginning this Monday, April 14, 2008.

Randi Rhodes is the #1 rated progressive talk radio host in the nation.

Nova M CEO John Manzo says, “I just can’t stop smiling - Randi is simply the biggest and the best. Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy under one roof – talk about TALENT!”

Randi Rhodes adds, “With Manzo at helm of Nova M, I am truly going to work for the best of the best. He is radio elite…and I am too <laughs>. I’m home, I’m home, I’m home!”

“The Randi Rhodes Show” will air live Mon-Fri from 3-6pm Eastern on The Nova M Radio Network.

as much as I enjoy obscenity-laced rants, Rhodes is a fucking chore to listen to. I say good riddance.

otoh, I really ended up digging Franken's show. Sober, informative and just enough yuks. this was after years of thinking him a bit of a smug prick.

Nova M CEO John Manzo says, “I just can’t stop smiling - Randi is simply the biggest and the best. Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy under one roof – talk about TALENT!”

lol i wanna hear a radio show with this guy!

morbs doesn't like (or get?) chutzpah

Nova M CEO John Manzo says, “I just can’t stop smiling - Randi is simply the biggest and the best. Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy under one roof – talk about TALENT!”

both nutcases under one roof - we've got the grumbling paranoiac market cornered!

lol i wanna hear a radio show with this guy!

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Tempted to share some Lionel shows so's to get more on the Lionel bandwagon.

It's always nice when Rachel Maddow shows up on Olberrman.

Liberal Nova M Radio to File for Liquidation

By SARAH MCBRIDE

Nova M Radio Inc., a competitor to troubled radio network Air America, is filing for bankruptcy liquidation, according to the company's co-founder, amid mounting disarray in the small world of liberal talk radio.

Anita and Sheldon Drobny, a married couple from Chicago, founded Nova M in 2006 and have been funding the business partly out of their own pockets. Compounding their troubles: Nova M's highest-profile host, Randi Rhodes, vanished from the airwaves earlier this month. Mrs. Drobny also said that her husband is currently hospitalized for problems stemming from the stress of dealing with the network, which has 34 affiliates.

Nova M hired Ms. Rhodes last year after she fell out with Air America, which is now run by Pendulum Media LLC. A person familiar with the matter says that Nova M was supposed to have promised to cover certain legal costs for Ms. Rhodes, who some herald as the liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh. But she quit after discovering that her employment contract didn't offer such indemnification.

A message on Ms. Rhodes's Web site blames her disappearance on Nova M's failure to correct an unspecified problem and says she is seeking a new home for her show. Ms. Rhodes's lawyer, Robert Gaulin, blamed "technical problems." Anita Drobny says she can't discuss the terms of Ms. Rhodes's contract.

Stations that aired Ms. Rhodes are left scrambling. KKGN "Green 960" in San Francisco has found a replacement. But programming director John Scott fumed in a posting on the station's Web site that while conservative radio is organized, liberal radio is plagued by "drama, inconsistency, miscommunication, ego and a trail of wreckage."

Ms. Rhodes has been replaced on station WJNO in West Palm Beach, Fla., by conservative talk host Sean Hannity.

Ms. Rhodes left Air America last year after she made inflammatory comments about Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton during a stand-up comedy performance. Although Air America has found new financial backers, it doesn't have the high profile its founders had hoped for. The Drobnys, who helped get Air America off the ground, are no longer involved with that company.

Nova M's other host, Mike Malloy, is switching to another would-be Air America competitor: Phoenix-based start-up On Second Thought Radio Network LLC. The backer of On Second Thought, Dr. Mike Newcomb, who was involved with Nova M until last year, describes his new network as "talk radio for independent minds." He plans to use former Nova M station KNUV in Phoenix as his company's flagship.

Ms. Drobny says she and her husband had poured their own money into Nova M, but the business became unsustainable last fall. As advertising revenue plummeted, so did the Drobnys' personal portfolio, making it impossible for them to keep supporting the company. Toward the end, Nova M lost $100,000 a month. The financial stresses eventually affected her husband's health, she says, leading to the breakdown that landed him in the hospital.

"There were so many wealthy progressives out there that could have made [progressive radio] happen," she said, but they didn't want to help. "It ended up being on Sheldon's shoulders."

On RR's site:

TO ALL:
NOVA M RADIO HAS NOT YET CORRECTED THE PROBLEM THAT HAS KEPT ME OFF THE AIR
DESPITE MY STRONG DESIRE AND READINESS TO BROADCAST MY SHOW. RESPECTING THE
EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP THAT HAS EXISTED BETWEEN NOVA M AND ME, AND
EXPECTING THE SOLUTION TO BE QUICKLY ACHIEVED, DETAILS OF THE TRIGGERING
EVENT WERE WITHHELD IN GOOD FAITH. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS MUCH: ANY
STATEMENT IMPLICATING ME AS BEING IN ANY WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISRUPTION
IN THE RANDI RHODES SHOW IS PATENTLY FALSE. THIS ENTIRE SITUATION IS
SOLELY WITHIN THE CONTROL OF NOVA M.
IN LIGHT OF MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, MY SHOW WILL BE SEEKING A NEW HOME.
I WOULD ASK FOR YOUR CONTINUED PATIENCE AND INDULGENCE IN RESPECTING MY
RIGHTS DURING THIS TIME. YOUR UNWAVERING SUPPORT IS CHERISHED. THANK YOU.

RANDI RHODES

There were so many wealthy progressives out there that could have made [progressive radio] happen...

Some might actually be willing to throw you a bone if you offer something better than Mike Malloy and Randi Rhodes.

Also, looks like Thom Hartmann is moving his show from AAR over to Jones Media(or whatever they're changing their name to), the same network that carries Ed Schultz & Stephanie Miller(and Neil Boortz, ha).

Stephanie Miller > Rachel Maddow > Mike Malloy > Randi Rhodes > Ed Schultz > Thom Hartmann > Gavin Newsom

KKGN has a poll where you can vote on Randi's replacement, FYI. I voted Frangela - Lionel - Mark Maron.

Thread needs a title change

RIP