LTR - Watching Alternative Media for Five Years

According to All Access, there are several upper-office changes at the Clear Channel San Francisco cluster. Most notable to readers here is the departure of longtime KKGN program director John Sc...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/02/shakeup-at-green-960-pd-scott-exits.html

According to AllAccess, "Hollywood Clout! with Richard Greene" has been resurrected and will continue via independent syndication. The show will air weeknights 9-10ET. WCPT Chicago is the first s...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/02/clout-comes-back.html

For those still curious about the finances of Air America, its Chapter 7 liquidation petition, filed with a federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan yesterday, shows a few creditors and almost $16 m...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/02/air-america-bankruptcy-filing-discloses.html

In a California desert radio dial shakeup, Palm Springs progressive talker KPTR is set to move to the right. Physically, anyway. Starting tomorrow, KPTR and it's format will move from 1340AM to 1...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/02/kptr-moves-to-right.html

A few updates on what stations are doing post-Air America... Yesterday, I reported that Norman Goldman gained eight new affiliates, seeking a live show for evenings. Now it appears that Premiere'...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-station-shuffling.html

Not surprisingly, one of the biggest winners in the post-Air America world of progressive talk radio is Norman Goldman, who has gained eight new affiliates looking to fill a gap in their afternoo...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/norman-goldman-picks-up-eight-stations.html

As I tend to this somewhat-neglected blog, and clean up after the whole Air America demise thing, I've updated the links section in the center column. Hopefully, everything is up to date. Here ar...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/updates-shmupdates.html

BlatherWatch reports that Ron Reagan has abandoned his radio show, hours before he was to launch the post-Air America phase of his on-air career: No Ron Reagan on KPTK this afternoon. The Seattle...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/report-ron-reagan-show-up-in-air.html

Following last week's demise of Air America, WZAA, the Washington, DC station that they leased, will flip back to it's previous format - simulcasting all-news WTOP, according to dcrtv.com. Air Am...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/wzaa-to-flip-back-to-wtop-simulcast.html

With the demise of Air America, many stations and hosts are scrambling to fill programming holes, and hosts are scrambling to acquire new gigs and/or syndicators. But seeing as Air America's on-a...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/whats-next-post-air-america.html

From Air America's website: It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, a...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/air-america-folds.html

Just wanted to drop a note, saying yes, I'm still alive, and yes, the Turkey Of The Year is on the way. Just takes a little time to prepare the succulent feast. Look for it later today, or no lat...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-many-turkeys-so-little-time.html

Syndicated talker Ed Schultz is without a Washington, DC affiliate for the first time in five years as WTNT (570AM) has dropped him from the on-air roster in favor of local conservotalker Jeff Ku...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/11/schultz-dropped-in-dc.html

Missoula listeners were no doubt shocked when, tuning in to listen to Stephanie Miller last week, they heard liners like "A new attitude and a great line-up or some of the best conservative talk!...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/11/missoula-listeners-were-no-doubt.html

In what has become somewhat of a tradition here at LTR, I thought I'd share a little history with you. Seventy-one years ago yesterday, October 30, 1938, a radio drama aired that really made an i...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/war-of-worlds-and-golden-age-of-radio.html

It is that time of the year. Time to cast your vote for the "LTR Top Talker of 2009." It works the same as last year. Check out the poll in the middle column. You will see 40 or so personalities ...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/vote-for-top-talkers-of-2009.html

Norman Goldman's recently launched radio talk show has been picked up for syndication by Compass Media Networks. The show airs weekdays 6-9p ET, and is being aimed by Compass at progressive talk ...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/national-syndicator-picks-up-norman.html

Hey, remember all that brewhaha last week about some quotes right-wingers claim Rush Limbaugh didn't say? Well, nobody really came forward with any proof that he did or didn't say a couple racist...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-wingnuts-get-punkd.html

Just got this in my inbox from Thom Hartmann, and I thought I'd share in its entirety (as Sundays can be a bit lazy): We haven't been issuing press releases as this stuff has happened, so if you ...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/update-from-thom-hartmann.html

Just like the end of every year, this very blog will once again do a readers' poll of the top liberal 'talkers' of the year. This poll, the fourth edition, will be similar to the ones done in the...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/formulating-top-10-of-2009-little-help.html

Well, it looks like Rush Limbaugh's dream of being a football mogul has been squashed. Boo hoo. Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the front man in the group attempting to ...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-no-balls-no-glory.html

After months of work, and weeks after it was officially announced, Air America has relaunched it's online presence, complete with yet another web makeover. The new layout sports a much cleaner in...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-air-america-site-winner-new-gop.html

A little rumor floated by mainstream news organizations yesterday certainly scared the crap out of quite a few people. Yes, something even scarier than Orly Taitz without a wig. In the latest cur...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/news-corp-buying-nbc-dont-count-on-it.html

To celebrate today, the fifth birthday of this very blog you're reading, I thought I'd do something a bit different. Namely, I am writing a hypothetical letter to myself, to be delivered (via tim...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/five-years.html

When Barack Obama was surprisingly named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, well, one could almost hear the heads exploding across the "Frank Burns Wing" of the nutosphere that currentl...

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/hate-envy-spite-and-other-conservative.html