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  • 5 ways to rescue liberal talk radio (but it won’t be easy)

    11/29/2013 12:30:25 PM PST · by Brad from Tennessee · 52 replies
    Politico ^ | November 28, 2013 | By MACKENZIE WEINGER
    Just a few dozen stations now carry liberal talkers, as key affiliates in cities with active left-wing politics are falling like dominoes, going dark or switching formats. Detroit’s progressive outlet shut down in January, along with Seattle’s liberal talk station, which changed to sports. And after last year’s election, Portland’s progressive talk station ended its political programming. With the political battlegrounds of 2014 and 2016 on the horizon, reducing the whopping imbalance between conservative radio, with its huge fan base, and the left has become more important than ever, according to those in the progressive media world. POLITICO spoke with...
  • No injuries when bullet busts window at KPFT radio (Pacifica Radio)

    08/13/2007 11:41:51 AM PDT · by weegee · 37 replies · 1,489+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 13, 2007, 6:55AM | KEVIN MORAN
    A bullet blasted through a Plexiglas window at KPFT radio early this morning, missing a woman's head by about 18 inches, said general manager Duane Bradley. The bullet was fired while another staff member was talking to three people at the station's front door, about 12 feet from the smashed window, Bradley said. The station is located in the 400 block of Lovett. No one was injured in the shooting, Bradley said. Bradley said the sometimes-controversial station airs blues, folk and other types of music as well as "alternative" programming about gay and lesbian issues and a program geared toward...
  • HBO to Air Glowing Documentary on Success of Liberal Air America (Tonight)

    03/31/2005 2:32:53 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 57 replies · 2,608+ views
    MRC ^ | Thursday March 31, 2005 | BrentBaker
    Left of the Dial, which looks to be a 90-minute documentary that will deliver a glowing tribute to the left wing Air America radio talk show service, will debut Thursday night on HBO. The HBO Web site touted how "a group of investors set out to launch a liberal radio network that would challenge the dominance of America's airwaves by conservative talk radio." A synopsis of the documentary recounted how "in the days before launch, the energy picks up amidst a whirlwind of photo shoots, CNN sound bites, the creation of marketing/PR materials, and delivery of the hot-off-the-presses New York...
  • What's 'Left' To Say (HBO's Air America fawnumentary: Lie to advertisers, berate guests, be a hero!)

    03/29/2005 6:54:52 AM PST · by dead · 40 replies · 1,478+ views
    NY Post ^ | March 29, 2005 | John Mainelli
    ALL-liberal Air America gets a great first-birthday gift this week: an HBO documentary in which everybody — who's still there — is a hero, and evil forces will be vanquished from the land. Maybe not by November, but soon. "Left of the Dial: America Undercover," which airs Thursday night, is all about the rocky start, near doom and the somewhat-premature happy ending to the left's answer to politically powerful conservative talk radio… < snip > Not knowing what's ahead, everybody is in liberal heaven during the much-trumpeted March 31 debut designed to stop — as Walsh tells a lavish p.r....
  • Air America's Difficult Birth, Caught On Film (Barf Alert)!

    03/28/2005 2:18:52 PM PST · by Pendragon_6 · 37 replies · 1,194+ views
    CalenderLive.com ^ | 3-28-2005 | John Cook
    Air America's difficult birth, caught on film HBO's documentary on the liberal-leaning radio network chronicles its tumultuous first weeks.Air America Radio, the left-wing talk-radio venture featuring Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo, celebrates its first anniversary on the air this week, and HBO is giving it a rather macabre gift to mark the occasion: a searing, warts-and-all documentary showing just how perilously close the fledgling network came to oblivion in its first weeks. "Left of the Dial," which premieres on HBO on Thursday (8 p.m.), was supposed to be a relatively benign insider's account of the launch of Air...
  • HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS

    03/24/2005 8:19:13 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 29 replies · 1,799+ views
    Drudge ^ | 3-24-05 | Drudge
    **Exclusive** HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone. The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak. The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition. The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud. The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA offices...
  • HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS

    03/23/2005 6:26:56 AM PST · by Bigturbowski · 50 replies · 1,555+ views
    The Drudge Report ^ | 3/23/05 | Matt Drudge
    HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS **Exclusive** HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone. The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak. The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition. The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted as a complete fraud. The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the...
  • HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS

    03/22/2005 7:19:45 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 119 replies · 3,456+ views
    Drudge Report ^ | March 22, 2005
    XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE MARCH 23, 2003 20:32:45 ET XXXXX HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS **Exclusive** HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio network AIR AMERICA. The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA microphone. The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak. The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition. The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is depicted...