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Air America Radio: Hypocritical & Desperate
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The only "hypocritical and desperate" thing about the linked article is its
author, who is severely put upon because one program on WLIB got kicked out by Air America. As far as I know, WLIB's ENTIRE SCHEDULE was displaced by AA. Another so-called journalist of the open-mouth-insert-foot school. |
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Quoth "Corbin Ray" in
: http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_3231.shtml Richard Mullenax is a hypocrytical liar. I would point out to the peripatetic Mr. Mullenax that contrary to his rabid assertions, Air America didn't steal anything from anyone. Air America has contracted with Inner City Broadcasting, the owner of WLIB (run, by the way, by Pierre and Percy Sutton, African-Americans both) to lease WLIB. Inner City has been losing money on its full-time Carribean programming, and now has an opportunity to make a profitable deal, while at the same time providing a public service to the community of New York, with wide-ranging, informative and entertaining programming. Do black-owned radio stations not have the right to make a profit? Would Mr. Mullenax restrict what Inner City may do with its own property? Or is his problem with the deal more related to the nature of the public service being provided by Air America -- providing a counter to the ubiquitous hail of right-wing hate radio? The hypocrisy lies not in Air America, but rather in Mr. Mullenax's protestations. -- "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the King that led them to it; who to disobey were against all proportion of subjection." - W.S. |
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"Tom Betz" wrote in message ... Quoth "Corbin Ray" in : http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_3231.shtml Richard Mullenax is a hypocrytical liar. I would point out to the peripatetic Mr. Mullenax that contrary to his rabid assertions, Air America didn't steal anything from anyone. Air America has contracted with Inner City Broadcasting, the owner of WLIB (run, by the way, by Pierre and Percy Sutton, African-Americans both) to lease WLIB. Inner City has been losing money on its full-time Carribean programming, and now has an opportunity to make a profitable deal, while at the same time providing a public service to the community of New York, with wide-ranging, informative and entertaining programming. Do black-owned radio stations not have the right to make a profit? Would Mr. Mullenax restrict what Inner City may do with its own property? Or is his problem with the deal more related to the nature of the public service being provided by Air America -- providing a counter to the ubiquitous hail of right-wing hate radio? I guess the simple question, shorn of all the rhetoric, is whether Air America replaced programming by the Coalition of Artists and Activists or not. Did they (i.e., is Air America now where this programming was previously)? I also find this rather confusing. You refer to wide-ranging, informative and entertaining programming. But I thought we were talking about Air America? |
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I don't care who owns WLIB. But I will never forgive them for killing one of
the best radio stations in middle America. Remember what happened to WOWO, 50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and half of Canada? The owner of WLIB bought them a few years ago, decreased their power and changed their directional pattern just so that WLIB could increase its own power to cover NYC. Then the owners dumped their damaged goods and sold WOWO to someone else. That was one of the saddest days in broadcast history for me. WOWO used to have an incredible signal here in Kentucky. Back in the 70s, my radio buttons were set on WLS, WCFL, WOWO, and 15 WLAC. And even though they weren't still playing music, I was listening to them steadily every night, right up to the sad night when their strong signal became a noisy whisper. So as far as I'm concerned, WLIB can take a flying leap into the Hudson River and let us have WOWO back. |
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I would point out to the peripatetic Mr. Mullenax that contrary to his
rabid assertions, Air America didn't steal anything from anyone. "Peripatetic" means "walking" or "one who walks." |
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SS,
The 'original' License for certain "Minority Owned" Broadcasters were to SERVE the 'under-served' Minority Community of a specific Media Market, and 'create' "Diversity in Radio Broadcasting". So we now see the selling out of the Minority Community to 'benefit' the interests of a few White Liberal ELITISTS. These Liberal Elitists only claim to fame is their Leftist Socialist Agenda and using a few radio stations to act as propaganda outlets. "Air America" in 'name' ONLY In-Fact Very Ugly American Liberal Elitist in Reality ! ssi ~ RHF .. .. = = = pamthis (Sid Schweiger) wrote in message = = = ... The only "hypocritical and desperate" thing about the linked article is its author, who is severely put upon because one program on WLIB got kicked out by Air America. As far as I know, WLIB's ENTIRE SCHEDULE was displaced by AA. Another so-called journalist of the open-mouth-insert-foot school. |
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"Corbin Ray" wrote ...
Remember what happened to WOWO, 50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and half of Canada? Remember it well. Before FM played rock, night time AM was all we had. WKBW / 1510 / Buffalo - Tom Shannon and others. WABC / 770 / NYC / Cousin Brucie. WOWO - Ft. Wayne WLS - Chicago CKLW / 800 / Somewhere in Canada - came on when our local 800 left the air. WWVA / 1170 / Wheeling - had to love those pre-profit Stair preachers. Wanna go waaaaayyyyy back? WCKY / Cincinnati One, Ohio .. Wayne Rainey and the Rainey Family. I miss 'em all. :-( [ Moderator's note: CKLW is in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit. They are still on the air and you can visit their website at http://www.am800cklw.com/ . CKLW-FM 93.9 flipped formats from Oldies to Adult Album Alternative a number of years ago and became CIDR, 93.9 The River. When I left that part of the country last year they'd flipped again, to some sort of Soft Rock format. ] |
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"Corbin Ray" wrote in message ... I don't care who owns WLIB. But I will never forgive them for killing one of the best radio stations in middle America. Remember what happened to WOWO, 50,000-watt blowtorch from Fort Wayne that covered 38 states and half of Canada? First, WOWO did not cover 38 states. There were, at the time of the facilities changes on WOWO, stations with night operations in Kansas City, Anaheim, CA, Portland, OR (50 kw KEX), San Juan, PR and Dallas, TX. In addition, a dominant station on 1190 is KEWK, a 10 kw operation in Guadalajara, Mexico, as well as a half-dozen other fulltimers in Mexico on 1190. WOWO was always directional, going back to when Westinghouse downgraded it a half-century or more ago so KEX could become a 1-B clear channel station. It sent little power to the West, to protect KEX. And KEX did the same so it could run 50 kw. It got a signal into parts of eastern Ontario, some of Quebec and occasionally in the Maritimes... but much of that is Francophone and WOWO was hardly of interest. WOWO was limited to consistent coverage of maybe a dozen states or parts of them at night, and NE Indiana, South Central Michigan and a piece of Ohio in daytime. Since very little radio listening is done at night (and hasn't been since the 50's), the important issue is whether the station has decent coverage of the Ft. Wayne market. Even nearby markets and towns, which did not have local stations in the 50's and before, now have, in most cases, too many stations. |
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