Posted on 07/13/2006 6:32:29 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Air America has signed off in Atlanta, with few immediate prospects for finding a new home.
J.W. Broadcasting, which purchased the Atlanta affiliate that broadcast Air America, has launched a business talk format on WCFO-AM 1160. "After doing some research, I realized [Atlanta] was the only top 10 radio market without a business talk station," says Jeff Davis, vice president/general manager for J.W. Broadcasting. "It was needed."
The decision comes as a letdown for local liberal listeners and Air America execs. Until J.W. Broadcasting purchased its second area station in late January, the 1690 dial had served as the home of Air America, the only liberal AM talk radio in a market saturated by conservative talk show hosts such as Neal Boortz and Laura Ingraham.
J.W. Broadcasting owns two AM frequencies: 1160 and 1690. The company switched its eclectic programming of R&B, jazz and poetry on WMLB from 1160 to 1690 because that frequency has a stronger signal.
Davis told CL in May that they were considering continuing the Air America programming on 1160. In the end, he says he chose financial programming because 1160's signals are strongest in Cobb and Gwinnett counties, where left-leaning programming wouldn't suit the mostly conservative crowd. "The Republican business types are out there," Davis says. "If we carried Air America, we'd get nothing but complaints."
Meanwhile, Jon Sinton, the president of Air America who happens to live in Marietta, says he's continuing to shop Air America around the Atlanta area. He says J.W. Broadcasting continues to broadcast Al Franken on WMLB 1690 dial in the afternoons, and that he's received numerous calls and e-mails asking for Air America to come back.
"The outcry for [Air America] has been very gratifying," Sinton says. "We're talking to some other people to see what we can do."
Business talk radio. Isn't that something similar to dying by carbon monoxide? You just drift off to sleep and one day somebody figures out you've passed onto the Big Balance Sheet In The Sky?
I mean, I'm glad Air America has lost another market but at least their listeners probably stayed awake. How exciting can it be to talk about the tax ramifications of second mortgages? I'm getting sleepy just thinking about it.
One bastion is WHMP, 1400 khz , located in Northampton Mass.
( The home of Smith College, a liberal arts wymns school.)
It is simulcast on 1600 khz, in Springfield Mass. using the same
call letters. I believe the station is a 250 watt "coffee grinder".
Now that is a great example of irony.
"Air America has signed off in Atlanta, with few immediate prospects for finding a new home."
Ahhh..victims of the 'evil' law of supply and demand.
Maybe Airhead America can shop a liberal tyrant judge to overthrow the decision.....the good ole' liberal way.
Can't these liberal whores appeal to say United Way for some charity monies. United Way is basically a tool of the dumbocraps. All the folks that vote lock step for Dems here in Alabama feed off the tit of UW.
Corrections to my post. Did a Google search, the station in East Longmeadow, near Springfield has call letters WHNP, and is 3000 watts.
I think that's close to the frequency that baby monitors transmit on. Which does make it hard to tell them apart because you hear nothing but fussing and whining on both channels.
Who wrote that headline, Wally Cleaver?
the mountains of Pakistan.....
"Todays action was part of a long-range plan, which is on target and proceeding in accordance with our expectations. Air America is signing up new affiliates at a rate much higher than other networks of its type, and we expect to have exciting news for you in the very near future."
"Todays action was part of a long-range plan, which is on target and proceeding in accordance with our expectations. Air America is signing up new affiliates at a rate much higher than other networks of its type, and we expect to have exciting news for you in the very near future."
Traced the emails back to the Starbucks on NW Peachtree.
perhaps *uckhead ahh I meant Buckhead....
these people just dont get the fact that their ideas are not mainstream. someone sold them a bill of goods.LOL
"He says J.W. Broadcasting continues to broadcast Al Franken..."
Bet he can't cast him very far...Al is definitely above his ideal wresting weight.
That's an exageration. You owe the other listner an apology.
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