My second favorite host (behind Rush) in my market:
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.
Greenstone launches all-women radio talk network
Can we count on the ACLU to charge them with SEXISM?
Heck, if they put on Laura Ingram, even I'd listen occasionally.
-I stopped watching Oprah 10 years ago.. since then I've been Stress-Free!-
Oh - congrats to you! Har!
They can call it Green Moldy Radio
My second favorite host (behind Rush) in my market:
"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.
Real women don't listen to Fonda and Steinem. They don't listen to Katy either, apparently!!!
Once a month things are really gonna get rough . . .
This is so 20th century.
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.
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.
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"
Why are old Lesbians so Angry??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Let me guess
V*ginas Talk??
Nice! Maybe we should call it a b*tchcast?? Just sayin'.
Yawn
Or Dr. Laura
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