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Minnesota Atheists radio program to debut on Air America Radio in January
StarTribune ^ | 12/27/07 | Tim Harlow

Posted on 12/28/2007 4:58:39 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

Minnesota Atheists are taking their message to the air waves with a new radio program that will debut in January on the talk station Air America Minnesota.

Called "Atheists Talk" -- the same name as a show the organization airs on cable access television -- the live radio broadcast featuring news, interviews, listener call-ins and special guests is believed to be the first show of its kind in Minnesota, said August Berkshire, a spokesman for the Minnesota Atheists.

The show will air Sundays from 9 to 10 a.m. on AM 950 starting Jan. 13 when Oxford professor, evolutionary biologist and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins will be the featured guest. The weekly shows also will be streamed live on the radio station's website (www.airamericaminnesota.com/listen) and made available as a podcast at www.minnesotatheists.org/podcasts, Berkshire said.

Until now, Berkshire said the organization reached only a small and shrinking number of people who tuned into its public access cable TV show. He said the radio program will open the way to reach a larger audience.

"Fewer people are watching public access, but they are listening to talk radio," said Berkshire, who has been involved with the atheist movement locally since 1984. "We really want to expand our audience and this will allow us to reach people all over the state of Minnesota."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: aar; atheism; dawkinsthepreacher; enjoythevoid; evangelicalatheists; liberaltalkradio; mn; richarddawkins
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Broadcasting on Air America. The pathway to oblivion.


21 posted on 12/28/2007 5:26:26 AM PST by Cheburashka (Liberals never think what they have done is wrong, they think they haven't done it enough yet.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They don’t have a prayer.


22 posted on 12/28/2007 5:28:29 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: Slapshot68
Conservative talk shows haul in great ratings. Air America filed Chapter 11. The market speaks.

And that's with all that Sorus money backing thier startup.

23 posted on 12/28/2007 5:28:34 AM PST by fella (The proper application of the truth far more important than the knowledge of it's existance."Ike")
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To: XenaLee
By spending an hour bashing and attacking those who DO believe in God.

And that's why I have a hard time with these people. On the one hand, Christians are called upon to spread the gospel -- so Christians often approach people and say, "Let me share my beliefs with you. Let me tell you how wonderful Jesus has made my life."

Now, on the other hand, I suppose atheists can be evangelical too, and tell people about their beliefs. Nothing wrong with that. But can they say that atheism has made their lives wonderful? I don't think so. All they can really do is insult the foolish people believe in God.

Evangelical atheists are rude and boorish.

24 posted on 12/28/2007 5:31:26 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What do they talk about? Oh yeah, the evil Christians.


25 posted on 12/28/2007 5:32:22 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No surprise that the atheists are on a leftist station. (Communism is atheistic)


26 posted on 12/28/2007 5:37:55 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Huck
Sorta like Illinois Nazis.

I hate Illinois nazis.

27 posted on 12/28/2007 5:40:36 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The show will air Sundays from 9 to 10 a.m. on AM 950 . . .

Can't wait to see the Arbitron ratings for this one.

28 posted on 12/28/2007 5:42:19 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Maybe they can channel Madalyn Murray O’Hair and she can tell them just how hot it REALLY is down there?


29 posted on 12/28/2007 5:43:58 AM PST by mkjessup (Hunter-Bolton '08 !! Patriots who will settle for nothing less than *Victory* in the War on Terror!)
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To: andy58-in-nh
"They don’t have a prayer."


Wakka...wakkaa..wakka..

30 posted on 12/28/2007 5:46:49 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: sportutegrl

From their home page....

“Air America Minnesota was born of the inspiration and perspiration of our founders, Minnesota attorney Janet Robert, and former Minnesota Congressman Bill Luther, who were concerned that the public airwaves had become overtaken by a right-wing agenda.”


31 posted on 12/28/2007 5:50:07 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“The show will air Sundays from 9 to 10 a.m. on AM 950 starting
Jan. 13 when Oxford professor, evolutionary biologist and renowned
atheist Richard Dawkins will be the featured guest.”

Well, now Dawkins can get a microphone to rail about his other missionary
work: letting us know that Jews run everything.

Dawkins: Jews Control US Policy
Arutz 7 ^ | October 8, ‘07 | staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908313/posts

(and yes, I’m posting this to let folks get “the rest of the story”
about Prof. Dawkins)


32 posted on 12/28/2007 5:53:50 AM PST by VOA
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Isn’t that the station that uses a squirrel-powered transmitter?


33 posted on 12/28/2007 6:00:43 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
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To: Fresh Wind

And squirrel by-products......


34 posted on 12/28/2007 6:23:18 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

And meanwhile, conservative-leaning WWTC (1280 AM) in the same area is doing well. Unless you have a really good host, liberal-leaning talk radio doesn’t do well.


35 posted on 12/28/2007 6:35:14 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: Dmitry Vukicevich
"How many times can you actually listen to the “No Hope Hour” ?"

LOL

Atheists are the only folk I know who spend a huge chunk of their time talking about something they don't believe in. How inspiring.

jw

36 posted on 12/28/2007 6:38:19 AM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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To: RayChuang88

Yes, 1280 does well in this market. But AAR gets all the press when something “earth shattering” like this happens.....


37 posted on 12/28/2007 6:39:10 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: JWinNC

I’d listen, but I don’t believe in atheism.


38 posted on 12/28/2007 6:42:37 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Considering Air America's using charities as "creative" funding methods in the past, how did they get the money for this show? Knocking over Salvation Army buckets?
39 posted on 12/28/2007 6:44:56 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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To: USS Alaska

Are there sponsors? Radio’s bottom line is sponsors, and I see this going absolutely no where, not to mention the listening audience must be so obscure, there are no ratings possible.


40 posted on 12/28/2007 6:46:28 AM PST by Ranger Warrior
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