Category Archives: Talk-Radio - Page 2

Terrorist Radio

Posted by on 4/19/2005 3 comments

Taliban launches pirate radio station in Afghanistan Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban has launched a clandestine pirate radio station. The station broadcasts anti-US and anti-government propaganda as well as Islamic hymns from a mobile transmitter. Called “Shariat Shagh”, or Voice of Shariat, …

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Radio Hypocrisy

Posted by on 3/1/2005 2 comments

Radio Hypocrisy The move is on to vilify those who support President Bush’s Social Security reform package. The New York Times recently demonized the group USA Next as Republican operatives — with, gasp, ties to some of the same lobbyists …

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They Need Better Hosts

Posted by on 1/27/2005 20 comments

Springer joins liberal foray into talk radio Liberal talk radio shows are beginning to find a place in American broadcasting after years of dominance by Rush Limbaugh and his conservative cohorts. Despite the fresh infusion of high-profile names into market …

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Armstrong Williams

Posted by on 1/14/2005 174 comments

FCC Member Urges Armstrong Williams Probe A member of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday the agency should investigate whether conservative commentator Armstrong Williams broke the law by failing to disclose that the Bush administration paid him $240,000 to plug …

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“Misinformer of the Year”

Posted by on 12/24/2004 208 comments

….. and the winner is Media Matters for America announced that it has awarded its first annual “Misinformer of the Year” title to Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly — who beat out Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Britt Hume and Bob …

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Air America Lands Funding

Posted by on 12/9/2004 200 comments

Air America lands funding Liberal broadcaster Air America Radio said Wednesday it has raised $13 million from investors and renewed the contracts of two of its more popular radio hosts and signed RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser on as its chairman. …

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“Aunt Jemima”

Posted by on 11/19/2004 25 comments

Radio Host Calls Rice ‘Aunt Jemima’ A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state. John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on …

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Liberal Radio

Posted by on 11/10/2004 8 comments

Spreading To Another Town Churchill Communications LLC, the broadcast company that went live last Thursday with the region’s first 24/7 Hispanic radio format, will score another milestone come Wednesday morning: the Eugene-Springfield premier of liberal-leaning Air America Radio, led by …

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Limbaugh Records

Posted by on 10/7/2004 9 comments

Court: Limbaugh Records Properly Seized A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that prosecutors did not violate Rush Limbaugh’s privacy rights when they paid a surprise visit to his doctors and seized his medical records for an investigation into his use …

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Today at 2PM EST

Posted by on 8/31/2004 11 comments

Live Today at 2PM ET Rush Will Interview President George W. Bush –==Update==– Rush’s site has updated the time to 1:45 PM EST. –==UPDATE==– Time has change again – – Bush is on now! 1:35 EST

O’Franken’s Spins

Posted by on 5/5/2004 14 comments

Splitting Hairs In Spinning Motion I got a call from comedian-activist-liberal icon-radio guy Al Franken on Monday. It was regarding a column I’d written dissing his new radio network, Air America. I’d say he was just this side of mad. …

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Franken Seeks Advice

Posted by on 5/4/2004 14 comments

Al Franken to run in 2008 As Al Franken considers challenging Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., for re-election in 2008, the comedian and liberal radio host is looking to his hometown senator for advice: Hillary Rodham Clinton. “I asked Hillary, ‘Can …

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Pity Party

Posted by on 4/21/2004 7 comments

Liberal talk radio must find new Los Angeles, Chicago stations Air America must seek new homes in the nation’s second and third-largest markets less than three weeks into its short life. Heartbreaking as hell, ain’t it?

Al and Janeane Week One

Posted by on 4/7/2004 18 comments

Bring Back WLIB After listening to Air America for a week, I now know what liberal radio is. It is Janeane Garofalo bantering with her co-host about swallowing her own saliva, and then dismissing the American victims of the Fallujah …

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Liberal Radio Bumps Black Programming

Posted by on 4/4/2004 5 comments

Liberal Talk Radio Bumps Black Station in New York Air America Radio, liberalism’s talk-radio answer to Rush Limbaugh, took flight this week in New York, but not without bumping the city’s preeminent black talk radio station off the dial. For …

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