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The progressive talk network Air America kicks off today, hoping to give nonconservatives a daily place to roast their ideological opposites. Just the way conservatives do now. Air America can be heard locally on WLIB (1190 AM), over XM satellite radio or by Internet at airamericaradio.com. While the network hopes to stir controversy, it already has some here that it probably doesn't want. A community rally is planned tomorrow night at 7 at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, 132 Odell Clark Place, to protest the loss of WLIB's talk and Caribbean programming. The Coalition of Artists and Activists wants a boycott...

SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH ON THE EVE OF APRIL FOOLS’ DAY, the new “liberal” network Air America Radio is to begin airing on stations in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and, maybe, San Francisco, five liberal cities where it can rouse the already-converted. Several of its key programs can also be heard via XM Satellite Radio’s new “America Left” Channel 167, also launching March 31.  (Air America’s Vice President of Programming Dave Logan was programming executive at XM.)  Its streaming internet audio might also be available at airamericaradio.com.Experts are betting that the new network will fail to make money...

NEW YORK (NNPA) - New York's radio station WLIB-1190 AM has been loyally "serving New York's Black community" - as its logo states - for decades now. In the early '90s WLIB was lauded as a resource for "Afrocentric" programming and became known for featuring Imhotep Gary Byrd's "Global Black Experience" show. The station was in many ways a Black activist outlet. But by the end of this month, WLIB will be taking on a different hue, as it joins the launch of Progress Media's "Air America Radio," the new, predominately White, liberal talk-radio network. Air America has reportedly partnered...

Liberal Network Gets N.Y. Station – Franken and Garofalo to Host Bush-bashing anti-war comic Janeane Garofalo is reportedly ready to team up with hot-headed partisan attack dog Al Franken for the Democratic Party's new liberal radio network, which has finally snagged a key New York outlet. Dubbed "Air America," the network could be up and running later this month or early April, reports the New York Post's John Mainelli. The project's Democratic backers are anxious to hit the air ASAP for maximum impact on the 2004 presidential election. The Dems' official talk line-up will be heard in the Big Apple...