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WPTT ( Listed as AA afiliate)

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inorm99

WPTT, along with WTAM in Cleveland is listed as an Air America radio afiliate on
the website: www.airamericaradio.com

With Thom Hartmann as the only AA host on WPTT, and Jerry Springer as the only AA host on WTAM, this must be Air America lite<P ID="signature">______________
Norm Rosen
</P>
 
> WPTT, along with WTAM in Cleveland is listed as an Air
> America radio afiliate on
> the website: www.airamericaradio.com
>
> With Thom Hartmann as the only AA host on WPTT, and Jerry
> Springer as the only AA host on WTAM, this must be Air
> America lite
>
This is pretty typical of syndicated radio shows. O'Reilly, Ingraham, Savage, Doyle, etc. all do the same thing. Just marketing.
 
> This is pretty typical of syndicated radio shows. O'Reilly,
> Ingraham, Savage, Doyle, etc. all do the same thing. Just
> marketing.

And the OP suspects correctly... AAR recently put Thom's affiliate list on their own list.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
This is beacuse when WPTT originally picked up Thom Hartmann, the show was not part of Air America. AA recently picked up his show, and as a result added all of the stations that carry Hartmann as "affiliates", though that is stretching the truth just a little bit. Most likely to better lure advertisers ("Look how many affiliates we have now") but it is a little misleading to say the least.
 
> This is beacuse when WPTT originally picked up Thom
> Hartmann, the show was not part of Air America. AA recently
> picked up his show, and as a result added all of the
> stations that carry Hartmann as "affiliates", though that is
> stretching the truth just a little bit. Most likely to
> better lure advertisers ("Look how many affiliates we have
> now") but it is a little misleading to say the least.

Why is misleading? It's now an Air America show that can be streamed through the AAR web site. Hartmann's calls are screened in New York by an Air America screener; Hartmann chats on the air with his board op, who's in New York at the Air America studios; the show goes up on the bird from Air America. It seems to me that any station that carries an Air America show is an affiliate.
 
Sure WPTT could be called an affiliate of AA technically and it would not be an incorrect statement. They could also be called a Salem (Mike Gallagher), Premiere (Matt Drudge, George Norry), Jones (Clark Howard), Fox News (Alan Colmes), and Talk Radio Network (Laura Ingraham) affiliates as well, but I doubt that AA would explain that to their advertisers.

The casual listener doesn't care who screens the call or whose bird it comes from. If they liked Thom Hartmann when WPTT first started airing him, they aren't going to be talked out of listening to him simply because he has a new syndicator. Advertisers are a different breed however. Many national spots that come down come with the stipulation that they can't air in AA programming (or any other controversial programming for that matter). And the suggestion that AA has added stations is misleading in that for most of the Thom Hartmann stations, the hard work was already done, he was on the air on many of them and AA just picked up the show after the fact, rather than a bunch of stations went out and started picked up the entire AA programming package.

If anyone wants to listen to AA, and they tune to WPTT to do so, other than that particular three hr window M-F, then they are going to be sadly disappointed.
 
> Advertisers are a different breed however.
> Many national spots that come down come with the stipulation
> that they can't air in AA programming (or any other
> controversial programming for that matter).

And your point is...what? Hartmann's show is "controversial programming." AAR has "controversial programming" all day. What are you trying to say?
 
> > Advertisers are a different breed however.
> > Many national spots that come down come with the
> stipulation
> > that they can't air in AA programming (or any other
> > controversial programming for that matter).
>
> And your point is...what? Hartmann's show is "controversial
> programming." AAR has "controversial programming" all day.
> What are you trying to say?
>

What I was saying is simply that stations that might not be able to clear spots in Thom Hartmann anymore, because some advertisers specify that they don't want there spots in AA programming, even if they used to clear those spots in Hartmann before the switch.

And another affiliate I forgot to add would be Westwood One (Ron Insana).<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by fromtheinsideout on 12/26/05 06:13 AM.</FONT></P>
 
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