WAH!!! My Air America is gone

[CatWoman]

:cry:

signal gone, nothing.

Then I found a story saying that the station was sold. :cry:

[benburch]

1. Where? nt

[CatWoman]

3. Atlanta

:cry:

[benburch]

5. Well feel free to use my archives!

At least you can keep up on Randi and Mike that way, and we have LOTS of wonderful non-AAR content.

[CatWoman]

10. thanks, Ben

:hi:

:loveya:

[RagingInMiami]

18. So you can't listen to Mike Malloy

Even though he broadcasts out of Atlanta?

[CatWoman]

30. that's correct - can only listen now on the net

btw - saw your awesome pics of Havana :thumbsup:

[RagingInMiami]

32. It sounds as if this is a direct attempt to shut Malloy down

Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist or anything. Thanks for the compliment.

[butterfly77]

33. mike said it the other night

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[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. OK, I'll bite: what would Gore have to do with her AAR station being sold?

You're not very good at this, are you?

[racaulk]

15. Enjoy your very brief stay at DU.

Here folks is a clear example of how when the right-wingers repeat a lie in our "liberal" media often enough, the sheeple will come to accept it as undisputed fact.

Hey, draft, turn off the television and pick up a fucking book!

Dumbass.

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[orleans]

23. i'm sure you're familiar with this:

"Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, which implies that he engineered the technology. The invention occurred in the seventies and allowed scientists in the Defense Department to communicate with each other. In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though that's how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the actual language.

For a heady while we hoped that the Bush campaign would prove their man to be the champion of honesty and integrity that he pretends to be, especially for those looking for a squeaky clean new White House. A couple of weeks ago the campaign rejected a shoddy commercial showing Gore saying that Clinton never told a lie. Problem was that the clip showed an interview from 1994, long before Clinton ever heard of Monica Lewinsky.

To his credit, Bush scrapped the commercial before it aired. But as I write, his campaign is unloading a new commercial, featuring a sneer at the fragment from the Internet claim, again implying that Gore had nothing to do with the Internet's creation. At least they got the words right; it would be dangerous to doctor the tape.

But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."

The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"
http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm

on edit:
"In 1991, Gore sponsored the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 which advanced the growth and mainstreaming of the Internet during the 1990s.<36> In 1999, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's Late Edition on March 9, 1999, Gore said:

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, and improvements in our educational system.<37> "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Contributions_to_the_Internet

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[blue sky at night]

6. not to worry....

get on their website, stream over the internet, then using an FM Transmitter, listen all over the house! In the Car use an XM radio.

http://www.airamericaradio.com/

http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx

P.S. If you should purchase the c crane fm transmitter; it needs a slight modification to boost it's output and bingo you are in business. This is very simple to do, all it takes is opening the back and turning a screw clockwise to up the "volume" !!! Been doing this for two years now even though we have a local affiliate here in Akron, OH.

[pstokely]

17. The XM home/car combo kit is under $100 at costco

[CatWoman]

31. Blue Sky,

thanks for the tip!!!

:hi:

[Wheezy]

7. oh no!

That happened here in Phoenix, but got it back after a month or two -- hopefully your local folks will come up with a similar idea to what Phoenix did--selling ad space to get the capital to buy a new station. It was horrible, just horrible. Ours was sold to some fundie group. I turned my radio on one day expecting to get Randi, and there was a preacher-man on. At first I thought it was a clip Randi was playing to make a point, but she was gone. Gone like the wind.

I'm so sorry.

[onehandle]

8. Supposedly another AM station here is negotiating with AAR.

In the mean time I guess I'll peel that 1690 bumper sticker off my Honda.

Cheer up! We still have our own...Neal Boortz!

:puke:

From Atlanta Area Democrats in an email last week:

"This week's Dedicated Democrats program at 1690-AM is partly about Perdue and Reed, but mostly a personal thank you for the past year of having our Democratic voice heard on Atlanta's talk radio at 1690. It is scheduled to air on Wednesday and Friday at 11:29 a.m. and 9:29 p.m. I hope you will be able to catch one of the four.

When you turn on 1690-AM next Monday morning, you will hear the music format programming of Atlanta Voice of the Arts, currently 1160-AM - the new residents of the signal tower for 1690.

We still don't know whether Air Atlanta/Air America will be moving over to the 1160-AM signal -- negotiations between A/A and 1160 are still underway. As soon as we have any information on that, we will blast it out to you.

Meanwhile, it becomes more important than ever that we stay in touch with each other via the internet and email. I love hearing from each of you with suggestions, comments and input, info to share with our group - or simply to say hello"

take care,
Linda Edmonds, Organizer/Director
Atlanta Area Democrats
"Dedicated Grassroots Democrats"
www.atlantademocrats.org

[CatWoman]

9. Thanks, One Handle

:hi:

:loveya:

[racaulk]

11. Me too!

I live in Atlanta also and my drive to work tomorrow just will not be the same without Rachel. :(

What else am I going to listen to? Steve and Vicki? The Bert Show? Morning X? :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

I'm buying an XM Radio unit soon! I NEED my AAR!!!!!

[CatWoman]

14. I normally listen to Springer during my drive in

Fortunately, 1380 - WAOK - Talk - is available.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Mike was talking about this last Thursday

He said it was not about the ratings - AAR was kicking RW radio's heinie, considering how long it's been around.

But, now that a hole has been created, they'll get in somewhere near you.

[Semblance]

13. I subscribe

I actually subscribe to their online service. It allows me to download the shows from their website when I want them, and they remove the commercials. They even break the shows up into segments, which is a nice service.

[onehandle]

16. That is a good option.

I have put their shows on my iPod many times in the past.

But we need it broadcast here in Atlanta for the uninformed.

[Bossy Monkey]

20. This can't possibly last; if it can make it in Columbia, it can surely

do so in Atlanta. Somebody will pick them up as soon as a deal can be struck I'm sure.

Still, I reel in amazement that I have finally lived long enough to see Columbia have bragging rights over Atlanta in anything.:)

[blues90]

21. XM is the best option

There are some car units with the home package online for a real reasonable price . I got one a few months ago since the am radio signal here is weak and the shows are on later and you only get 2 hours of Malloy instead of three so you miss the last hour which sucks . And if there is nothing on AAR you have radio with music which is also a rare thing since the right wing twist nuts sucked up all the other wavelengths spouting their crap . One day while driving home before I had XM I could have sworn I saw a right wing tongue flapping and slobbering all over my dashboard in hot pursuit of a housefly .

[regnaD kciN]

22. It may be the "best" technically...

...but make no mistake: unless AAR maintains a substantial "on air" presence in major markets throughout the country, it will merely be a niche hangout for those already "in the know."

AAR's goal isn't just to be a private club where a small number of disaffected progressives with XM accounts can avoid dealing with the right-wing media -- it's to become a countervailing force against the onslaught of the Republican Noise Machine in talk radio. To accomplish this, it needs to be widely available, so that people who were not already devotees will stumble upon it, listen for a bit, realize that what's being said makes sense, and re-evaluate their politics. To do that, it has to be on air -- satellite just won't cut it, at least not until it becomes large enough to be the dominant radio format, which is at least years and possibly decades away.

[flyarm]

25. self delete..n/t

[blues90]

27. I agree

It's just an avenue for those who can't get the station anyother way . For me i loose the local station around town and some programing is cut short for games .

[blues90]

26. here is an email address to contact the new station owners

[e-mail]

You might try to get as many people together as you can and email your concerns and comments .

[RamblingRose]

28. Oh My God No!!! I just got in my car and Franken was on when I left, but

now AAR is gone!! I can't take it! Pleeeeeze come back.

[helderheid]

29. you'll have to stream like me - we never got it in Utah.

[grateful581]

35. yep, no Air America here

Just right wing bull**it.
:grr:
I had to get XM for Air America Radio.
I wish AAR would be on the air here in utah.
Utah really needs AAR

[butterfly77]

34. If they don't have anything to be afraid of with their over 600

stations why are they buying any that dems are on are they afraid of something?