The official "Air America" thread...

[wyldwolf]

Yeah, I know it doesn't launch until next week but I'm first in line and camping out here so I can buy the first ticket.

WOW! This is just like a Star Wars movie!

Will someone bring me some doughnuts?

[shekina]

1. Al Franken is da man

I just bought Lies tonight and I can't wait to read it. Seriously, I'm like gonna be at my computer all day Wednesday listening to that.

[oscar111]

4. hosts?

Pls tell us who the hosts will be?
Is this the effort that began with the chicago banker, then got sold to a centrist dem activist?

Any life left in the effort by the UAW ?

Is there a site that tells us what stations to listen to? Will it be on the am waves, or just online?
thanks

[wyldwolf]

5. here...

http://www.centralairmedia.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=28

[IronLionZion]

6. both

http://www.centralairmedia.com/

everything you want to know is there check it out.

[Bozita]

11. up to date list here

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/radio.htm

maintained by a DUer

[truthseeker1]

2. Al Franken will be on The Daily Show tonight (eom)

[wyldwolf]

3. Current/former staff of WLIB New York complaining Air America...

... will be "predominately White," "not good for Black and Hispanic people."

http://www.sacobserver.com/news/032304/wlib_air_america_radio.shtml

[CatWoman]

9. bullshit!!!

it will be pro truth, which is very good for blacks and hispanics.

[skeptic9]

13. Here's the lineup for the premiere on Wednesday (March 31st)

A site search for 'Franken' at a leading trade publication brought up

http://www.billboard.com/bb/biz/archivesearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000462747 as the most recent story. Though so far only Chicago, LA, and NY are sure to broadcast over the air Airamericaradio.com (now only a shell) will stream Air America over the Internet.

Other news in the story:

"Public Enemy frontman Chuck D will co-host a daily show on Air America Radio, a new liberal talk radio network set to launch March 31. The outspoken rapper will join Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" co-creator Lizz Winstead and radio talk veteran Laura Flanders on "Unfiltered," which will air 9 a.m.-noon ET daily Monday through Friday. ...

A number of high-profile comedians will be heard on the network's airwaves. Al Franken will host the three-hour "The O'Franken Factor" daily at noon with co-host Katherine Lanpher, which promises "fearless barbs, sketches and interviews." Janeane Garofalo and political humorist Sam Seder will co-host "The Majority Report" a nightly four-hour block beginning at 8 p.m. and Marc Maron will participate in the morning show "Uprising" (6-9 a.m.) with co-hosts Sue Ellicott and Mark Riley.

Air America's afternoons will boast "The Randi Rhodes Show" (3-7 p.m.) and will be followed by the one-hour "So What Else Is News?" anchored by Marty Kaplan. Weekends will feature "Champions of Justice," hosted by environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papatanio, along with yet to be announced original programming and "best of" segments culled from the daily shows."

Along with WNTD (Chicago 950), the Billboard story lists ...

... KBLA (Los Angeles 1580) and WLIB (New York City 1190).

To make room for Air America, Progress Media's partner Percy Sutton is removing some African-American talk radio hosts from some of his Inner City Broadcasting line-ups. See

This displacement of African-American radio by a predominantly white "Rainbow" lineup is somewhat controversial -- see gristy's DU discussion at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1276840

[rooboy]

14. So if it had Colin Powell and Condi Rice...

would that be a good thing?

[tridim]

7. I'm excited, can't wait..

But I'm worried they're not going to get streaming up and running smoothly on day 1. This stuff takes testing, and there's no way to guage the online audience and to allocate appropriate bandwidth. I'd feel much better if they had a few dozen or more stations at launch.

[DemoTex]

8. I still connect "Air America" with the CIA in Laos. Sorry.

Wish they had come up with a better name. However, I really look forward to AA (again, another problem: Air America? American Airlines? Alcoholics Anonymous?).

[gristy]

10. I think its a pretty good name.

Excellent, in fact.

[proud patriot]

12. darn it I wanted to be first in line

oh well :hi:

[skeptic9]

15. What GUESTS would you like to hear on Air America?

My list would begin with:

John Kerry
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Richard Clarke
Al Sharpton
Kristin Breitweiser (911 widow)
Jamie Gorelick (9-11 Commission member)
Russell Simmons (Hip-hop entrepreneur)
Sibel Edmonds (the whistleblower FBI translator who exposed foreign spies among her colleagues)
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi (House Democratic leader)
John Dean (of Watergate "cancer on your Presidency" fame)
Jesse Jackson Jr (D-IL)

[burythehatchet]

16. I'm looking forward to it myself...BUT

can the DU webmasters please help them out with their site. It is lame. Can't even find any info on streaming

[oscar111]

17. when announced?

did it just come out now , thurs at about eight PM central time?
thanks

[wyldwolf]

18. Heard rightwinger Glenn Beck talking about it today...

...said RW talk radio sprung up because of interest and has never been fueled by hate of the left.

Yeah. He really said that.