Randi joins NOVA M Radio Monday, April 14!!!!

[argentarius]

Here's the announcement from Nova M's website!!!


For Immediate Release
April 10, 2008



RANDI RHODES JOINS NOVA M RADIO

The Nova M Radio Network is thrilled to announce the addition of “The Randi Rhodes Show” to its nationally syndicated talent offerings beginning this Monday, April 14, 2008.

Randi Rhodes is the #1 rated progressive talk radio host in the nation.

Nova M CEO John Manzo says, “I just can’t stop smiling - Randi is simply the biggest and the best. Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy under one roof – talk about TALENT!”

Randi Rhodes adds, “With Manzo at helm of Nova M, I am truly going to work for the best of the best. He is radio elite…and I am too <laughs>. I’m home, I’m home, I’m home!”

“The Randi Rhodes Show” will air live Mon-Fri from 3-6pm Eastern on The Nova M Radio Network.



AFFILIATE, MEDIA, ADVERTISER & INVESTOR INQUIRIES:
John Manzo, CEO
Nova M Radio Network
[email protected]



ABOUT NOVA M RADIO
Nova M Radio is in the business of building a progressive talk radio network with the original founders of Air America Radio. Nova M Radio's affiliate markets include Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, Miami, Phoenix, Portland, plus both Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. Nova M Radio nationally syndicates “The Randi Rhodes Show” and "The Mike Malloy Show" and operates radio station 1480 KPHX in Phoenix, Arizona.

ABOUT RANDI RHODES
Randi Rhodes is a radio pioneer who put Progressive Talk Radio on the national stage when everyone told her it could not be done. This Brooklyn native became a national talk radio hero to millions when in 2004 she left South Florida radio, where she had the #1 ranked talk show in her market, for national syndication. Randi started her radio odyssey quite modestly by playing ‘classic country’ in a storefront studio in Seminole, TX but today holds the mantle of the #1 progressive talk show host in the nation. Randi is impeccably researched and infectiously funny, she starred in the HBO documentary “Left of the Dial”, is listed in Talkers Magazine’s “Heavy Hundred” and is probably watching C-SPAN right now.

 

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I hope XM keeps her on the air. I enjoy listening to Randi. Especially if it's true that Detective Munch is going to be replacing her.

 

[Victoria1776]

Here's the announcement from Nova M's website!!!

RANDI RHODES JOINS NOVA M RADIO

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As soon as I heard the news of her firing, I thought, Well, AAR finally found a way to get rid of that horrible wench. Rhodes (and her agent, I presume) pulled a number on the network with her one-sided contract. The original AAR managers were naive and inexperienced with the whole media-show biz stuff, and were just so happy to go on the air initially with a known personality, that they failed to get the proper legal assessment of the contract drawn up by Rhodes' people. I think the contract was also for a lengthy period of time, in her favor.

What she said on Larry King's show was true -- that AAR could not fire her. Now, what kind of contract is that? When, months into the first year on air, someone at AAR finally figured out what a bad deal they were in, and tried to modify the contract, she threatened to sue the network. They obviously backed down, since we heard no more about a lawsuit.

I listened to only the first two days of her on air, and found her a terrible personality. Every now and then, I checked in on her for a few minutes. Some people make their on-air work seem so easy, so unforced. But she sounded like such a phony, someone who was working hard all the time to create a certain personae. She wound up being so repetitious that she was downright boring.