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Sirius progress channel

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R.F. Burns

Does anyone know why, after changing Sirius Left to Progress that they've also changed programing now including a gay show at 3 in the afternoon. How does Gay equal liberal? There's a gay channel already, why did they feel the need to move Thom Hartmann to the night? The show which airs at 3 PM is obviously steered towards a gay audience and I believe it once aired on their gay channel. Perhaps I'm confused but putting this specialized type of programing on the Liberal talk channel doesn't seem right. Do they run a program by the Log Cabin republicans on their right wing channel? In some ways it's like the raw dog channel where they run comedians of all types but on the Jamie Foxx channel only African American and Hispanic comedians need apply. As they say, something isn't Kosher here. .
 
From what I've heard the show sounds like it appeals to a gay audience. Stephanie Miller is a lesbian so the hosts sexuality was not the point of my post. It's the agenda of the programing. If there wasn't a channel already programed to gay focused programming, I wouldn't have said anything but there's only one so called, "liberal" talk channel. Why dilute the product with a show that appeals to a niche within a niche?
 
Michelangelo Signorile has had his show on OutQ (SiriusXM's gay channel) for years, and the Left channel had run repeats on weekends before he moved there. He has certainly talked about issues from a gay perspective, but hasn't always centered on gay topics exclusively. He's certainly liberal and fits in with Ed, Stephanie, Thom, etc.
 
But he's replaced Thom Hartmann. That's my point. Hartmann now airs delayed at night. That send me to WWRL in NYC which at least airs the show live. My point is that the show should air from a liberal perspective NOT a gay perspective. If I was interested in hearing a "gay" perspective I would tune to OutQ.
 
I haven't heard any of the shows mentioned. But I think in a "liberal" mindset, you are supposed to be blind to the host's orientation.
If the host makes too much of their orientation in an overt way, then a complaint is justifiable.

It shouldn't be a "flavor" to the show, unless the show is rather "about" a particular perspective.
If it does lend a flavor, R.F.'s objection is reasonable.
 
Thank you Tom, that's my point. I'm not interested in a persons sexuality and the hosts sexuality doesn't enter into whether I'd listen to a show or not. It is probably because I prefer Mr. Hartmann's program & that is not unusual, in that programming constantly changes. It just seems that this move replaced a entertaining talk show with one that isn't, as far as I'm concerned and yes, I have listened to the Michelangelo Signorile program. To each their own.
 
The answer is simply Sirius wanted their in-house hosts in drivetime. Why Michelangelo Signorile I don't know, the morning show is equally as terrible IMHO.
 
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