KB1520: Bye...

[Scott Fybush]

Mark Laurence wrote:

> It's interesting to see a liberal-talk station starting up without any 
> input from Air America.  Perhaps not coincidentally, Air America's 
> webpage is welcoming new affiliate WHLD 1270 AM in Buffalo this week.

Not coincidental at all. KB's sudden format change is, at least in part, 
a move intended to steal WHLD's thunder a week before it's set to launch.

(Not that WHLD will be much of an AAR affiliate, either - it's being run 
by a coalition of local labor activists, with local morning and 
afternoon shows and continuing the lease-time arrangement that already 
has WHLD airing Democracy Now and other Pacifica shows. The only AAR 
content will be Franken at noon and a delayed evening broadcast of Randi 
Rhodes.)

As the liberal talk format evolves, AAR's becoming just one player in 
the field - Jones is a pretty big one now, too, with Stephanie Miller 
and Bill Press.

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