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Fonda, Steinem launch all-women radio talk network.
Reuters ^ | 9/12/2006 | Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

Posted on 09/13/2006 8:13:48 AM PDT by Vasilli22

Greenstone launches all-women radio talk network

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.

Steinem said the network, which is run by women, aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which she describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated."

This network "has a different spirit. It has more community. It's more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing," Steinem told Reuters in an interview.

But Greenstone also hopes to attract male listeners.

"We do have male voices on the network. It's much better to have a mixture of voices," said Susan Ness, chief executive officer of Greenstone, which got its name from a children's book by Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple".

The network's broadcasts have aired since July in selected stations, such as on WIIN in Jackson, Mississippi, WXCT in Hartford, Connecticut, a station in Flint, Michigan, and is launching a broadcast in Albany, New York. It is trying to partner with some satellite radio outfits.

"We expect that people will be able to also get us on mobile phones, cable radio, I-pods and every distribution vehicle," said Ness.

Steinem pointed out that the idea of an all-women network stemmed from a company survey showing an 18 percent decrease in female listeners over the past seven years.

"Women are really fleeing from AM talk radio and now FM music because people get their music in different ways. So there's an enormous window of opportunity, and we're diving in," she said.

Currently, the network does nine hours of programming daily, which should increase shortly to 12.

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.


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Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Greenstone launches all-women radio talk network

Can we count on the ACLU to charge them with SEXISM?

61 posted on 09/13/2006 10:36:28 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Vasilli22

Heck, if they put on Laura Ingram, even I'd listen occasionally.


62 posted on 09/13/2006 10:39:39 AM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is more dangerous to the world now that Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

-I stopped watching Oprah 10 years ago.. since then I've been Stress-Free!-

Oh - congrats to you! Har!


63 posted on 09/13/2006 10:40:20 AM PDT by AmericanChef
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To: Vasilli22

They can call it Green Moldy Radio


64 posted on 09/13/2006 10:53:18 AM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: Vasilli22
aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which she describes as "very argumentative"

Oh yeah, get a bunch of self-important broads together and you're not going to have arguments?
65 posted on 09/13/2006 11:03:54 AM PDT by BJClinton (What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
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To: Vasilli22
aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which she describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated."

My second favorite host (behind Rush) in my market:


66 posted on 09/13/2006 11:04:57 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Vasilli22

"We expect that people will be able to also get us on mobile phones"

Just what I need, ANOTHER housewife in an SUV tooling down the highway with a cellphone held to her ear.


67 posted on 09/13/2006 11:08:08 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Vasilli22

Real women don't listen to Fonda and Steinem. They don't listen to Katy either, apparently!!!


68 posted on 09/13/2006 11:08:12 AM PDT by Tolkien ("It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." ---Voltaire)
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To: Vasilli22

Once a month things are really gonna get rough . . .


69 posted on 09/13/2006 11:09:51 AM PDT by freedomlover (Sorry, a tagline occurred. The tagline has been logged.)
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To: Vasilli22

This is so 20th century.


70 posted on 09/13/2006 12:03:59 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)
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To: RedQuill
You're driving too close to him. Turn your wipers on. You're too close to him! Why don't you get in the left lane???Oh-noyoumissedyourturn. ad infinitum

I'm beginning to suspect you have bugged my car. That's just what it sounds like when I drive with my wife in the car.

Why don't I let her drive? Because when she drives she complains twice as much about the other drivers as she does about me.

71 posted on 09/13/2006 12:16:17 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
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To: Vasilli22
Listen live.

Right now they're talking about choices in belts and how they match your shoes. I'm not kidding! Only listen to this station if you don't have enough "rich chocolate Ovaltine" commercials in your life.

Next topic is, "Fabulous Celebrity Singers". I'm guessing this network will have more gay listeners than straight of either sex.

72 posted on 09/13/2006 12:21:31 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
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To: highimpact

I can hear their opening broadcast. "I'd like to welcome our listeners to the first and only radio station that is all vaginas, all the time. Up next, why men aren't necessary. Later, we'll talk about why women are better than men at everything. We'll close the show with the 30-minute rant by Jeanine Garrofolo."

Don't forget their sponsor:
"Acme Turkey Basters"


73 posted on 09/13/2006 12:28:32 PM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Vasilli22; All
Jane Fonda Radio, huh?

I have the perfect tagline for them if they want to use it...

Jane Fonda Radio: Ack! Ack! Ack!
74 posted on 09/13/2006 12:50:36 PM PDT by ct_libertarian ("Who Is John Galt?" Ayn Rand)
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To: Vasilli22

Why are old Lesbians so Angry??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


75 posted on 09/13/2006 12:53:27 PM PDT by bray (Koffi 4 Food has Failed.......Again)
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To: Vasilli22; mother22wife21
Can we still call it a broadcast?

Just sayin'.
76 posted on 09/13/2006 2:26:35 PM PDT by Famishus (I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself.)
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To: Vasilli22

Let me guess

V*ginas Talk??


77 posted on 09/13/2006 2:43:47 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Famishus
Can we still call it a broadcast?

Nice! Maybe we should call it a b*tchcast?? Just sayin'.

78 posted on 09/13/2006 2:47:29 PM PDT by Vasilli22 (http://www.richardfest.blogspot.com/)
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To: Vasilli22

Yawn


79 posted on 09/13/2006 2:49:41 PM PDT by MontanaBeth (Never forget)
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To: Rummyfan
Guess she hasn't heard of Laura ingraham or Tammy Bruce.....

Or Dr. Laura

80 posted on 09/13/2006 2:51:27 PM PDT by dc27
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