Posted on 08/30/2006 3:07:17 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
He's a Paine alright.
EXcellent, mikrofon! Now Petronski or dead or whoever, can you work that up into a graphic? We can use it on any Err America/Al Franken DUFU.
I should have a chance to whip one up this evening at the latest. Maybe someone with greater skill will beat me to it.
Yeah, he did. And so a complaint was filed.
And the hits just keep coming for Air America!
in Burlington, VT, being moved to a "daytimer" station means they have to shut off at sunset. That means going off air by 4 pm or so each December afternoon.
And in Chattanooga (from local paper):
WDOD Radio Switches From Air America To Music Format
by Judy Frank
posted August 23, 2006
Chattanooga's oldest radio station, WDOD, has ended its 11-month experiment with progressive talk radio.
At 10 a.m. this past Monday, the station switched to a format featuring musical oldies and standards from the late 1950s and the 1960s and 1970s, according to Danny Howard, director of programming and operations for WDEF and WDOD.
The new format, which is locally controlled, is known around the station as Ruby AM 1310.
Who's Ruby?
"It's kind of funny," Mr. Howard said with a laugh. "When we started talking about doing this, it turned out that everybody had an Aunt Ruby or a grandmother named Ruby who would like this kind of programming. And then, of course, Chattanooga has Ruby Falls . . . So we decided to name it after all the Rubys."
One highlight of the new format will be Ruby's Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, when host Chris Adams will play Southern Gospel music. Adams also will host a similar show on Sundays called Ruby's Fried Chicken Sunday Dinner.
WDOD will continue to simulcast WDEF TV's early morning news show on weekdays, as well as WDEF TV's 6 p.m. newscasts.
The decision to drop Air America talk show programming grew out of the format's failure to attract adequate advertiser support, Mr. Howard said...
Like Paine, he is likely to die penniless and friendless. Sad, really.
Just ignore this question if you'd rather not go into it.
Second, can you imagine how horrified the DUmmies will be that Err America is being replaced by (GASP!) Gospel music? "AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!! @#$%! @#$%! @#$%! The fundies got to WDOD!"
Enjoy that fried chicken and sweet Jesus music, DUmmies. Just because you're deranged doesn't mean Jesus doesn't love you.
If I were gay I'd listen to Garofalo and Rhodes for reinforcement of my sexual preference...
You must see post 145 for an extra-divine dose of freudenschade.
Actually, extra-divine seems to indicate "outside of God," so let's just say "divine and extra crispy."
Some AM stations have to go off air at sunset to make room for clear channel stations (not to be confused with Clear Channel, a company that RUNS Air America on more than a few of its stations).
Example: In Boston, WILD (AM) 1090 has to go off at sunset because of WBAL in Baltimore, on the same frequency. Boston talk station WRKO (680) has to change the direction of its signal at sunset to protect station on the same frequency
in Raleigh, NC; Binghamton, NY; Baltimore, and Toronto.
This goes back to the days when there weren't many local
radio stations, and it was discovered that, at night,
signals would be found from distant areas easily. So some
stations were given permission to have a big strong signal,
one that would serve the local areas during the day, but much of the country at night. This is how WSM 650 in
Nashville became so popular, as people in much of the US
could pick it up at night. Of course this also means
many stations at 650 on the dial have to shut off or
change direction of their signal at night.
The Burlington, VT, station has to shut off at night because other stations on its freq. have priority. The owners of that station decided to put sports on the OTHER freq
(1390) which could go on after sunset, and they can carry
games, etc.; sports is more popular than Air America.
Oh,my G_d!
The long-time DUmmies "progmom," "misunderestimator," and "nothingshocksmeanymore" got mausoleumed last night.
Is the DUmmie "IndianaGreen" next to go?
I guess Skinner is purging all the non-communists from DU.
It would be nice if my fellow alum did something about the troublesome DUmmie "atman" too, but one expects too much.....
Sounds like you've already thought about it(not that there's anything wrong with that.)
Yeah, Lord Marblehead (the third assistant DUmmie "EarlG") gave a pretty good answer.....that begs more questions.
If those three were mausoleumed for bringing their personal problems to DUmmieland, well then, how come the DUmmie "underneathpanther" (or whatever) is still there?
Or how about the DUmmie "kevin malice" (or whatever)?
There's lots and lots of DUmmies who bring their personal problems to DUmmieland, as if the site were stocked, stacked, with experts on psychology, but those two are just the first who come to mind.
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