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AAR back on in Phoenix

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Just got this message from the group that is bring libtalk back to Phoenix on KPHX. AAR lost its Phoenix Affiliate last month when a religious broadcaster bought the station and switched the the station to pay for pray. The group which is headed up by long time Phoenix talker Mike Newcomb and AAR Founder Sheldon Drobny will be going on the air in about 45 minutes according to the message. Here it is:

At midnight tonight, April 3rd, KPHX 1480 AM will officially switch over and begin broadcasting the Air America Phoenix signal. You will also be able to catch us on the stream at AAPHX.com

Tune in for all your favorite Air America shows.

Tomorrows' line up all live:

Rachel Maddow 4-6 AM
Dr Mike Newcomb 6-9 AM
Al Franken 9-12 noon
Randi Rhodes 12 noon - 4 PM
The Majority Report 4-7 PM
Mike Malloy 7-10 PM

Thanks for listening and spread the word.
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> Just got this message from the group that is bring libtalk
> back to Phoenix on KPHX. AAR lost its Phoenix Affiliate
> last month when a religious broadcaster bought the station
> and switched the the station to pay for pray. The group
> which is headed up by long time Phoenix talker Mike Newcomb
> and AAR Founder Sheldon Drobny will be going on the air in
> about 45 minutes according to the message. Here it is:

So what's the difference between the former "pay to pray" format and "pay for AA to be on the air in Phoenix"?
 
Old news. Discussed here in a long thread last week.
http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=689523&Board=newstalk

This appears to be turning into a replay of Buffalo. Former KXXT manager Robert Christy, an experienced radio manager, was working to get the progressive talk format on another station in the market - and apprently still is. Newcomb and a group of activists did an end run and have attempted to cut him off. Ego also appears to be at work here since long-standing and popular Phoenix liberal morning drive host Charles Goyette is not part of the Drobny-Newcomb LMA (but, of course, he's a radio guy - can't have that). So we will see what happens should a real radio guy get up and running with Goyette, Miller, Big Ed et al.
 
> This appears to be turning into a replay of Buffalo. Former
> KXXT manager Robert Christy, an experienced radio manager,
> was working to get the progressive talk format on another
> station in the market - and apprently still is. Newcomb and
> a group of activists did an end run and have attempted to
> cut him off. Ego also appears to be at work here since
> long-standing and popular Phoenix liberal morning drive host
> Charles Goyette is not part of the Drobny-Newcomb LMA (but,
> of course, he's a radio guy - can't have that). So we will
> see what happens should a real radio guy get up and running
> with Goyette, Miller, Big Ed et al.

Listeners win with multiple choices of libtalk to listen to, so I don't care how they did it. Competition is good for everyone.
 
> Listeners win with multiple choices of libtalk to listen to,
> so I don't care how they did it. Competition is good for
> everyone.

Just what we need... to go back to the days of having nine, or even more, talk stations here. Not counting the three sportstalkers. Donde los yikes!
 
I'm with Phil on this one. Competition is good. Good for the listener and good for the growth and the development of the progressive talk format. And I think progressive talk is a much better use of bandwidth than all those stations with pay to play preachers and bowel cleanse infomercials.

Three sports stations sounds like over-kill. Maybe Robert Christy can get one of them to flip to Phoenix's other "libtalker."

That said, many markets would not support a second progressive talk station. Phoenix has a lot of sticks per capita and certainly could. And stations with one progressive talker - or none - will be watching markets like Sacramento, Buffalo, Monterrey and (just maybe) Phoenix as sort of test markets for progressive talk talent and show concepts.


> > Listeners win with multiple choices of libtalk to listen
> to,
> > so I don't care how they did it. Competition is good for
> > everyone.
>
> Just what we need... to go back to the days of having nine,
> or even more, talk stations here. Not counting the three
> sportstalkers. Donde los yikes!
>
 
> I'm with Phil on this one. Competition is good. Good for
> the listener and good for the growth and the development of
> the progressive talk format. And I think progressive talk
> is a much better use of bandwidth than all those stations
> with pay to play preachers and bowel cleanse infomercials.

In your opinion; if no one ordered the bowel cleanse, they would stop writing checks to radio stations.

> Three sports stations sounds like over-kill. Maybe Robert
> Christy can get one of them to flip to Phoenix's other
> "libtalker."

The PD of the third sports talker (the one that doesn't or barely show(s) up in the book) has been saying a new format is coming for 18 months. The company that runs it is rather incompetent, so I wouldn't bank on anything. Heck, they won't even entertain conversation about their 5kW/52w oldies AM, which signs off at night, doing any paid programming, new format, etc. Imagine the slam of the door you'd get with 1060.

> That said, many markets would not support a second
> progressive talk station. Phoenix has a lot of sticks per
> capita and certainly could. And stations with one
> progressive talker - or none - will be watching markets like
> Sacramento, Buffalo, Monterrey and (just maybe) Phoenix as
> sort of test markets for progressive talk talent and show
> concepts.

We also have a number of Spanish AMs, (one, albeit not licensed within Maricopa County, had their towers torched) which get no ratings and have lousy billing. What hypocrites libtalkers would be if the moved in at KSUN, a rebuilt KMIA (not likely), or any of the even more inferior Spanish-language signals.
That would be racist! :)
 
> In your opinion; if no one ordered the bowel cleanse, they would stop writing
> checks to radio stations.

Economics are a little different, but if you say the stuff works I'll try it. ;)

>
> We also have a number of Spanish AMs, (one, albeit not
> licensed within Maricopa County, had their towers torched)
> which get no ratings and have lousy billing. What hypocrites
> libtalkers would be if the moved in at KSUN, a rebuilt KMIA
> (not likely), or any of the even more inferior
> Spanish-language signals.
> That would be racist! :)
>

In New York, AAR moved in on WLIB which was then programmed for a Black audience. And the Black owners of WLIB were criticized for selling out to White liberals.

They've also moved in on a bunch of standards and oldies stations. That's ageist.
 
> In New York, AAR moved in on WLIB which was then programmed
> for a Black audience. And the Black owners of WLIB were
> criticized for selling out to White liberals.
>
> They've also moved in on a bunch of standards and oldies
> stations. That's ageist.
>

Every one of the stations has moved in on a human station, thats specist.
I won't rest until Frankin is broadcasting on that dolphin station in Ca!
 
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