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Radio Sputnik 1390 / 105.5 to end

b-turner said:
It's no more absurd than you saying their licenses should be revoked. These stations are not being funded by an enemy of the USA. The stations are selling time. In fact, the entity buying the time is a registered business in the USA. For you to suggest revocation of the licenses is sort of a Putin kind of thing versus American sort of thing. It's sort of like the KKK marching in town. As much as you dislike them, they have the right to do so so you don't violate their rights.
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The FCC has regulated speech in the past and does so today. I hear tons of bleeps / scrambles of curse words in songs.

If the FCC lacks authority to order foreign government propaganda programming be removed from U.S. based airwaves, then Congress ought to act, as Rep. Jack Bergman (a longtime former broadcaster in northern Michigan) has suggested.

To be clear, I am not condoning preventing an independent group from expressing support for the Kremlin or whomever. I am condoning barring propaganda that is *directly subsidized* by foreign government agents from our public airwaves.
 
MarkW said:
The FCC has regulated speech in the past and does so today. I hear tons of bleeps / scrambles of curse words in songs.}
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No, the FCC has vague rules about indecency (Janet Jackson) and profanity (Seven Dirty Words) but no list of prohibited terms or practices.

That is not a regulation that affects free speech. It only limits certain words and content that come under the profanity and indecency broad regulations.
MarkW said:
If the FCC lacks authority to order foreign government propaganda programming be removed from U.S. based airwaves, then Congress ought to act, as Rep. Jack Bergman (a longtime former broadcaster in northern Michigan) has suggested.
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That would be limiting freedom of speech. In fact, even trying to define "propaganda" is a dangerous endeavor.
MarkW said:
To be clear, I am not condoning preventing an independent group from expressing support for the Kremlin or whomever. I am condoning barring propaganda that is *directly subsidized* by foreign government agents from our public airwaves.
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Where do you draw the line? I was given a free trip to Israel with a personal guide when I was managing a talk station or two. Is that "directly subsidized" by your definition? What I am pointing out here is that our kind of democracy has greater freedom of speech than nearly any other nation in the world; at what point does the government start intervening in business relationships?
 
DavidEduardo said:
No, the FCC has vague rules about indecency (Janet Jackson) and profanity (Seven Dirty Words) but no list of prohibited terms or practices.

That is not a regulation that affects free speech. It only limits certain words and content that come under the profanity and indecency broad regulations.

That would be limiting freedom of speech. In fact, even trying to define "propaganda" is a dangerous endeavor.

Where do you draw the line? I was given a free trip to Israel with a personal guide when I was managing a talk station or two. Is that "directly subsidized" by your definition? What I am pointing out here is that our kind of democracy has greater freedom of speech than nearly any other nation in the world; at what point does the government start intervening in business relationships?
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There are U.S. imposed sanctions against business relationships involving countries or persons located in countries that are deemed enemies of the U.S.

Iran is one such example.

Irani government entities are almost assuredly barred from U.S. airwaves access.

I am simply proposing similar restrictions for Russia. Those who violate such restrictions, upon enactment and due notice of such enactment, should face license revocation.

Profanity is a form of speech, I would contend.
 
Gregg. said:
It is interesting how the television service "RT" or Russia Today, has been wiped from American viewing. At one time, it was carried on my Time Warner system. Some radio hosts such as Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz had shows on the channel. Even Larry King had a program on RT after he and CNN parted ways.

Now it's not available from any cable or satellite service I know of. And you can't get it from You Tube as you can Al Jazeera English, France 24 English and other international news feeds. American political leaders of all parties have criticized RT for its slanted coverage of news. Maybe Radio Sputnik is so small, few politicians are speaking against it.
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In the UK, you can't even view the website. Navigating to rt.com just brings up a site not found error. You can work around it using VPNs if you really want to view the content, but it isn't really worth it - same old crappy propaganda. Strangely, while the RT website is banned, the Sputnik website and audio feed work fine.
 
According to this article, Sputnik is coming off WZHF (and the aptly named W288BS) altogether at the end of October:

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Sputnik’s D.C.-Based Programming Winds Down | Radio & Television Business Report

Tuesday was the final day of Washington, D.C.-based programming for Sputnik — with programs produced and made by journalists from stateside Sputnik studios coming to an end. Leased airtime on radio stations in Northern Virginia and in Kansas City is believed to be winding down by the end of the...
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Surprised Sputnik lasted this long…not due to being legislated out of existence but that the Russians felt it was a good use of cold hard cash these days.

As for those who call for licenses to get pulled due to being paid to broadcast Russian propaganda, I don’t think that would make “us” any better than “them”. I somehow doubt VOA could even pay a private Russian broadcaster to broadcast their stuff over there. And if someone was nuts enough to do it, I don’t think just their license would get pulled…they’d be residing in Siberia under the Kremlin’s expense at best case.
 
For more than a decade, Radio Liberty (a sister station to VOA targeted towards the former USSR) was heard in Russia over the airwaves of the now defunct since 2008 Radio 1.
Radio 1 was the first radio station in Russia and when it was privatized in the '90s the new owners gladly rented it to the US government to get some easy money.
When Radio 1 closed in 2008, the last song played was an excerpt from the Mission: Impossible soundtrack taken from the Radio Liberty satellite feed.
 
EddieTheRapFan said:
For more than a decade, Radio Liberty (a sister station to VOA targeted towards the former USSR) was heard in Russia over the airwaves of the now defunct since 2008 Radio 1.
Radio 1 was the first radio station in Russia and when it was privatized in the '90s the new owners gladly rented it to the US government to get some easy money.
When Radio 1 closed in 2008, the last song played was an excerpt from the Mission: Impossible soundtrack taken from the Radio Liberty satellite feed.
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In fact, Kluge's Metromedia owned private stations in Moscow and St Petersburg in the 90's. At the St Petersburg station, the "vanity panels" on all the desks were made of bullet-proof material so employees could hide there if someone came in shooting.
 
KCXL still has Radio Sputnik listed on their daily schedule, but I don't listen to the station so I don't know what they're running now. I might tune in tonight if I remember to check.
 
KCXL is truly an odd station! Here what its website says about Radio Sputnik:
Remove Radio Sputnik Shut Down KCXL Cancel Free Speech

These are a (clean) sample of the comments we have received since the reprehensible, inhumane invasion of the Ukraine by Russia. Most comments come from people who have never listened themselves. They don't know that the programs we run during the week are produced in Washington DC by American journalists who jumped at the chance to not be told what to report on by big media and big corporations. They don't recognize that by buying gasoline and products which use rechargable batteries (such as cell phone or electric cars) they have blood on their own hands by giving Russia the money to drop bombs on innocent people.

The only answer is to pray for peace and engage in dialog to find peaceful solutions. This can't happen if free spech is canceled. Right now the biggest threat to America is from those within our own borders who want to stick their heads in the sand and cancel others.

They also run Catholic shows and oldies.
 
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