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Will AAR Lose Atlanta?

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fred flintstone

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Posts on the Atlanta Board say the new owner of WWAA has said he plans to drop Air America Radio to simulcast the arts programming aired on his other station in the market. WWAA currently is automated and just airs the AAR feed. It currently has a fractional 12+ share (although dropped off the radar at one point).
If this happens, this would leave three of the top 10 markets without progressive talk outlets: (6) Philadelphia, (7) Houston, (10) Atlanta. Reportedly, WWAA's owner is giving AAR time to find another outlet (which may mean giving the Drobnys time to shop for an LMA).
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,39695.0.html
 
fred flintstone said:
Posts on the Atlanta Board say the new owner of WWAA has said he plans to drop Air America Radio to simulcast the arts programming aired on his other station in the market.39695.0.html]http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,39695.0.html[/url]
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You need a better source than a post on rthe adio-info board.
 
fred's info is a bit outdated...a week and a half or so ago, Joe Weber did indeed dump the full-time liberal talk format on WWAA/1690, and moved his WMLB "eclectic" arts format, and calls, there. 1160 took the former 1690 WWAA calls with a new business talk format.

For whatever reason, now-WMLB/1690 kept Air America's Al Franken for noon-3 PM ET. The rest of the station's schedule is the WMLB arts format...

The future of Air America and liberal talk in Atlanta? Undetermined.

-OMW
 
barooosk said:
You need a better source than a post on rthe adio-info board.
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Agreed. Which is why I posted this as a question, hoping a "better source" would confirm or refute the Atlanta Board posts.

I think "Old Akronite" qualifies as a "better source." Thanks for update OA.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
fred's info is a bit outdated...a week and a half or so ago, Joe Weber did indeed dump the full-time liberal talk format on WWAA/1690, and moved his WMLB "eclectic" arts format, and calls, there. 1160 took the former 1690 WWAA calls with a new business talk format.

For whatever reason, now-WMLB/1690 kept Air America's Al Franken for noon-3 PM ET. The rest of the station's schedule is the WMLB arts format...

The future of Air America and liberal talk in Atlanta? Undetermined.

-OMW
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Welcome back!
 
Thanks, folks. I've been trying to cut back on message board posts, but have been weak the past couple of days. The MBoF(tm) takes most of my writing time...

And all I know about this, I learned from the one and only Rodney Ho at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, particularly this item from June 12th:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/...otalk/entries/2006/06/12/612_11601690_sw.html

(I haven't paid much attention, but I think Rodney is still here, on the Atlanta board...)

-OA/OMW
 
Drobny can look for an LMA until he turns blue, he still won't find an available frequency that reaches a quarter of the market day or night.
 
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