tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86971872009-11-05T06:59:46.522-06:00LTR covers liberal and progressive talk radio, including Air America Radio, Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy and others. In addition, LTR features other forms of alternative and independent media, technology and grassroots broadcasting.ltrnoreply@blogger.comBlogger906125http://feeds.feedburner.com/ltradio?format=skinltradiohttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8697187.post-72083769032277721112009-10-31T11:22:00.000-05:002009-10-31T11:22:13.176-05:00

In what has become somewhat of a tradition here at LTR, I thought I'd share a little history with you. Seventy-one years ago yesterday, October 30, 1938, a radio drama aired that really made an impact on the airwaves of America. The Mercury Theatre on the Air, led by Orson Welles, did an adaptation of the H.G. Welles classic science fiction work The War Of The Worlds. I wrote about this the

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It is that time of the year. Time to cast your vote for the "LTR Top Talker of 2009." It works the same as last year. Check out the poll in the middle column. You will see 40 or so personalities and/or shows listed on the ballot. To make things a bit more interesting this time around, I have added a few television personalities to the mix of typically radio, webcast and podcast personalities,

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Norman Goldman's recently launched radio talk show has been picked up for syndication by Compass Media Networks. The show airs weekdays 6-9p ET, and is being aimed by Compass at progressive talk radio stations. From the presser: "Don't know Norman Goldman? You will soon," said Peter Kosann, CEO and Founder of Compass Media Networks. "Norman has compelling rags to righteous life-story, track

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Hey, remember all that brewhaha last week about some quotes right-wingers claim Rush Limbaugh didn't say? Well, nobody really came forward with any proof that he did or didn't say a couple racist quotes attributed to him. Evidently, in in 1998, in the days before internet media watchdogs, someone didn't think of recording Boss Hogg's radio show for future prosperity. And because of just a few '

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Just got this in my inbox from Thom Hartmann, and I thought I'd share in its entirety (as Sundays can be a bit lazy): We haven't been issuing press releases as this stuff has happened, so if you want to be the one to break the news feel free to put this stuff into your own words... 1. In addition to our commercial Dial-Global syndication, we're now a Pacifica affiliated show, providing a 3-hour

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Just like the end of every year, this very blog will once again do a readers' poll of the top liberal 'talkers' of the year. This poll, the fourth edition, will be similar to the ones done in the past. But, to throw a little curveball, I added some extra names. In addition to all the radio and webcast notables you've seen and voted for in the past, I have taken into account the various notable

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Well, it looks like Rush Limbaugh's dream of being a football mogul has been squashed. Boo hoo. Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the front man in the group attempting to purchase the Rams, has removed Boss Hogg from his potential role as a minority owner, in an attempt to get approval from other NFL owners. The move comes amid outcry from players, team executives,

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After months of work, and weeks after it was officially announced, Air America has relaunched it's online presence, complete with yet another web makeover. The new layout sports a much cleaner interface, similar to other left-leaning sites, such as Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo, which currently rank among the top progressive websites. And the new web presence seems to be keeping with

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A little rumor floated by mainstream news organizations yesterday certainly scared the crap out of quite a few people. Yes, something even scarier than Orly Taitz without a wig. In the latest curveball thrown in the NBC Universal sale negotiations, a couple new potential suitors were floated about. Namely Liberty Media, which seems to want to buy a stake in everything, and News Corp. Yes, that

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To celebrate today, the fifth birthday of this very blog you're reading, I thought I'd do something a bit different. Namely, I am writing a hypothetical letter to myself, to be delivered (via time machine, of course) on October 12, 2004, the day this bad boy hit cyberspace. Now if I can only locate a time machine... Dear Myself of 2004: About that crazy blog you just started... Well, here I

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When Barack Obama was surprisingly named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, well, one could almost hear the heads exploding across the "Frank Burns Wing" of the nutosphere that currently makes up the core of the conservative movement. Funny thing is, they agree with the terrorists. Some things are best left without comment from yours truly, particularly the ridiculous reactions from

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And here's a look at the week that was (so far), via the LTR Twitter page... First, those tighty-righties are really getting their undies in a bunch. When they're not rooting for this country to crumble, or plotting ways to overthrow our duly elected government, they're out there seemingly doing everything except for the job they were elected to do. Like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who's still

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Following the demise of two local stations catering to African-American listeners, Pittsburgh media executive Eddie Edwards Sr. promised to give the community a new radio outlet for the disenfranchised listeners. And so far, he's delivered. Edwards has struck a deal to purchase WPYT (660AM), licensed to nearby Wilkinsburg, for the daytime-only AM station, with the intent of creating a news/talk

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Catching up with a weeks-old news story (hey, if it took this long for the San Francisco Chronicle's Ben Fong-Torres to cover it, well...), John Rothmann is now the official replacement for imprisoned night-talker Bernie Ward at Citadel’s KGO (810AM) in San Francisco. He is now holding down the 10P-1A (PT) time slot. Rothmann intially did weekend overnights for KGO, and got the full-time gig

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The owner of WCHL (1360AM) has sold a minority stake in the station to Barry Leffler, who is stepping down as president of TV station WNCN-TV (NBC17) and will run day-to-day operations at the community-oriented mostly liberal talk station, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. Current owner Jim Heavner eventually plans to sell the station outright to Leffler. "The opportunity to become a

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How's this for phony patriotism? Radical right-wingers across the land have been blasting President Obama for personally lobbying the International Olympic Committee on behalf of his country and his hometown of Chicago, as he and many others hoped to land the 2016 Olympic Games. The spin leading up to the moment has been quite ridiculous. They claimed that Obama was taking his eyes off

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Former Air America talker Mark Riley has returned to radio with a new Saturday afternoon show on WWRL (1600AM), New York titled "Working New York", a show focusing on people "who are working, looking for work, and people who have worked all their lives and are now retired." WWRL is also undergoing further weekend changes, days after renewing their deal with Air America. The station is harking

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Gee, has it been a week already since I did one of these things? Well, here's the latest from the LTR Twitter page, now with 100 followers and growing: We all know that right-wing pundits, particularly the high-profile ones on radio and television, have major insecurity complexes. Here, Huffington Post wonders if Sean Hannity is starting to feel intimidated by partner-in-grime Glenn Beck. So

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A hypothetical question for all of you: Is it possible to gain respect from the public at large by acting like unhinged crybabies? Or by expressing oneself in the nastiest, most immature ways possible? The past week has been quite an embarrassing one for the conservative movement. Sure, the single-payer approach to health care is stuck in development hell as we speak, which must bring shrieks of

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After reports of some differences between the two parties, Air America decided to stay with WWRL for the forseeable future. Here's the presser: NEW YORK – Air America Media has extended its agreement with WWRL 1600 AM for Air America programming to be carried in the New York market. Under terms of the deal, WWRL will continue to carry "The Rachel Maddow Show" weekdays from 5-6am, "Montel

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Yeah, I know. I've been slacking a bit. There's just so much stuff, it's become rather overwhelming. Well, time to try my best. Here's what I've been tweeting about the past few days... First, aren't you all getting a bit sick of that whole 'liberal media' meme that right-wingers casually spout about when they're just not as extreme as them? The argument is even sillier when you factor in

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After less than six months, Jon Elliott is no longer the afternoon voice on XEPE ("San Diego 1700") effective last Friday. The only explanation thus far claims that it was revenue-related, with advertising sales in short supply these days, a situation all-too common in the industry these days. Elliott apparently funded the show himself. Elliott joined the station in May after leaving Air America

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With the relaunch of "LTR @ Twitter," I thought I'd shake things up a little. To be honest, I've never been a big fan of those 'catch-all' entries I've done. They've always seemed so sloppy and disjointed to me. But they did seem to be the most effective way to forward a bunch of information in one fell swoop. Well, thanks to Twitter, I can cobble it all together in a thematic sort of way,

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Just think, three weeks from today (October 12), this very blog you're reading now will turn five years old. Yep, believe it. And with that, I'm slowly streamlining this thing in order to make it easier to read, and perhaps more interactive. 1. Many readers here have been checking us out on various social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. If not, by all means do. I don't

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Will Air America programming stay on WWRL in the future? This is what both sides are trying to determine. Air America, and their nominal New York flagship station, WWRL (1600AM) are currently engaged in discussions that could determine whether or not the network opts to keep its programming on the station, according to David Hinckley of the Daily News. The deal between the two parties is set to

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