On 25 Aug 2004 22:17:30 GMT, (Ubiquitous) wrote:

"Clear Channel jettisoned KPOP's longtime Adult Standards and heritage call
letters [Monday] morning to becomes KLSD, 'San Diego's Progressive Talk,' "
reports RadioandRecords.com. "KLSD's new lineup of left-of-center talk
personalities includes Air America's Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Janeane
Garafolo along with Jones Radio Network's Ed Schultz and WOR Radio Network's
Lionel."

KLSD? We guess that's appropriate for these acid-tongued liberals.

Among the Clear Channel stations, this stands out like a token black
at a KKK meeting. Given the politics of Clear Channel, I suspect that
KLSD is a piece of black propaganda intended to discredit Democrats,
liberals, and progressives. The call letters are a tip-off. It's like
setting up a fake organization called "Terrorists for Peace" or
"Pedophiles for Sex Education."

Either that, or the FCC has been leaning on Clear Channel about
"balance."

Is anyone familiar with these "personalities?" Do they make sense, or
are they just a bunch of left wing-nuts trying to balance a bunch of
right wing-nuts?

Mike T., Canadian observer fascinated by US politics & media.

Quoth "Mike T." in news:cgntkf$bia$1
@xuxa.iecc.com:

Among the Clear Channel stations, this stands out like a
token black at a KKK meeting.

Not at all. Air America is making money for Clear Channel in
the markets where they have tried it (most clearly in Portland
OR on KPOJ -- they put it on WINZ in Miami in mid-July, still
too early to tell what's happening there), so they are
expanding it to several of their other underperforming
stations (like KLSD -- stands for Liberal San Diego, despite
the obvious double meaning) and WLBY 1290 Ann Arbor, Michigan
(short for "libby"). They say they plan on introducing it
into two more top 25 markets over the next month, but haven't
said where yet.

It may provide them with some political cover as a side
benefit, but Clear Channel, like most big corporations, is
primarily about Making Money. They see an under-served market
and they are determined to serve it.

Is anyone familiar with these "personalities?"

I've been listening since May to Air America's flagship, WLIB,
so I'm familiar with the Air America lineup. Their
personalities are genuine, mostly entertaining (for example,
Marc Maron has long been one of my favorite political standup
comics, and his approach and material fit well on radio; to my
mind, Al Franken makes me think of what Arthur Godfrey might
have been if he were Jewish; Chuck D is impressive when he's
there; Garofalo impresses, but her sidekick Sam Seder usually
just annoys me; and Randi Rhodes just KILLS) and make a lot of
sense, some more than others. You can sample them yourself no
matter where you are; Air America streams both Real Audio and
Windows Media at AirAmericaRadio.com

I don't know Ed Schultz (not an Air America personality --
he's syndicated by Jones Network) but I hear that he used to
be a little-known conservative talker who intentionally turned
himself into a liberal version of Rush Limbaugh so as to stand
out from the crowd.

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Only the worst waste lives.

Quoth Tom Betz in :

Air America is making money for Clear Channel in
the markets where they have tried it (most clearly in Portland
OR on KPOJ -- they put it on WINZ in Miami in mid-July, still
too early to tell what's happening there), so they are
expanding it to several of their other underperforming
stations (like KLSD -- stands for Liberal San Diego, despite
the obvious double meaning) and WLBY 1290 Ann Arbor, Michigan
(short for "libby"). They say they plan on introducing it
into two more top 25 markets over the next month, but haven't
said where yet.

It turns out that one of them will be Denver.

http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2004/08/23/daily37.html


--
Where was AWOL George W. Bush?
http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm
Any government will waste money.
Only the worst waste lives.

I'm glad that I don't live in the United States, where 45 Million go without
the right of health care...Such a great country, full of so many imbeciles who
are told so much crap, which they believe.

Do yourself a favor and be careful who you call an imbecile. I see one of
those imbeciles got you to believe that there's such a thing as a "right" to
health care.

I pored over our Constitution from beginning to end...you know, that document
which is our fundamental and supreme law...the one which delineates the rights
of the people and the limits on the powers of government. It's a strange
thing, but nowhere in that document did I find any "right" to health care. Did
this "right" get invented when I was asleep one night, or is this just another
ploy to get the US government involved in something it should keep its grubby
paws out of, lest it make the usual mess it makes out of everything else it
touches (while spending OUR money to make that mess)?