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To: Postman

Was it a democrat station?


2 posted on 10/07/2019 6:23:06 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
Here is a video from WBAI:
"Greg Palast Breaks Down How Voter Suppression Sealed Donald Trump's Victory" Dec 2016
"It was a Jim Crow Election"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinU6NnnROI
6 posted on 10/07/2019 6:33:19 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Bonemaker

re: “Was it a democrat station?”

JUST LIKE “Air America Radio Network”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_%28radio_network%29

Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk radio. It was on the air from March 2004 to January 2010.

The network featured programs with monologues by on-air personalities, guest interviews, call-ins from listeners, and news reports. Several shows had million plus audiences, and multiple weekday presenters continued on in radio, television, or politics after their time on Air America. For example, in 2008, The Thom Hartmann Program had 1.5–2 million unique listeners a week and The Lionel Show had 1.5–1.75 million unique listeners a week.[1][2] Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and Mike Malloy later had shows on other radio networks. Marc Maron started his” WTF podcast” by trespassing in Air America’s studios after the network’s demise, before moving to Los Angeles. Al Franken went from his show to the United States Senate, and Rachel Maddow moved her show to television on the MSNBC network.

The network was financially troubled, however. A scandal involving nearly $1 million in loans from a Boys & Girls Club in New York secretly transacted by Evan Cohen came out in 2005 and was a source of negative publicity. The loans were repaid, but in October 2006, mounting debts forced Air America Radio to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company was bought by New York real estate investor Stephen L. Green and his brother Mark J. Green, who purchased the network in March 2007 for US$4.25 million.[3][4]

The company eventually changed its name from Air America Radio to Air America Media and lastly to just Air America, an effort to establish itself as a broadcaster on multiple media sources including television and the Internet, and one not merely relegated to radio. Always primarily a radio network, on January 21, 2010, Air America went off the air citing difficulties with the current economic environment. It filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidated itself. Bennett Zier was the company’s last CEO including through the bankruptcy and liquidation.


7 posted on 10/07/2019 6:36:28 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Bonemaker

Communist.


25 posted on 10/07/2019 11:08:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bonemaker
Was it a democrat station?

Radical Leftist station with ties to the Berkeley "Free Speech" movement of the late 60's. Always existing in total chaos because they tried to run it like a commune with Occupy Wall Street-type "assemblies" which meant critical decisions never got made.

This station was the focus of a free speech SCOTUS case in the 70's when they aired the George Carlin routine about seven words you can't say on the air.


26 posted on 10/08/2019 6:11:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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