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Joe Madison Tops “Black Talkers Talented 10″ List
Black Talkers a new website dedicated to covering talk radio targeted to the African-American community, has released it’s “Black Talkers Talented 10″ (radio) list. Joe Madison of WOL Washington and XM radio is at the top of what Black Talk founder Rob Redding calls “The definitive list of top black radio talk show hosts [...]
CNN Report: The Psychology of Talk Radio
CNN reporter Carol Costello’s recent segment examining the psychology behind the talk radio phenomenon…who’s listening, where and why. Talkers magazine and publisher Mike Harrison are prominent throughout the piece as are syndicated radio talkers Rush Limbaugh, Randi Rhodes, Glenn Beck and Montel Williams.
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Air America Makes DC Debut at Midnight
Air America Media will debut the new 1050 AM in Washington, D.C. at 12 midnight tonight under new call letters WZAA. The station will feature Air America’s independent political voice in the nation’s capitol 24 hours a day, 7 days a week including Ron Reagan, Rachel Maddow, Ana Marie Cox, Montel Williams, Lionel, Arianna Huffington [...]
Progressive Talkers Can Level the Playing Field Without Legislation
Searching through the blogesphere tonight and “stumbled upon” a nice re-post by LooseKannon on attempts by some to revive The Fairness Doctrine. This was written nearly a year ago and some of the facts are a little dated-Air America Media’s recently hired syndicated radio talker Montel Williams is not quite a policy wonk as he [...]
Air America Lands In Washington DC
Air America Media through a LMA with Bonneville International will some have a home for it’s liberal syndicated radio talk lineup in Washington DC. WFED AM 1050 will become the DC radio home of Montel Williams, Lionel, Ron Reagan, Rachel Maddow and other hosts to launch at a soon to be announced date. [...]
Air America Media Creates Sales Division
Air America Media has created an in-house sales unit, AAM Network Sales to handle the duties formerly held by Westwood One. Air America Chief Revenue Officer Scott Elberg will head the new venture, with offices in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. “We’re confident that our strong roster of talent, including Montel Williams, Rachel Maddow, [...]
Air America Debuts Lionel In Mornings
Being replaced by Montel Williams has turned out just fine for Lionel. Air America will debut “The Lionel Show” in its 6-9 a.m. ET syndicated morning time slot beginning Monday 5/26. The 20-year veteran talk radio host recently ended a two-year run in the 9-noon ET slot before being replaced with Williams. “Lionel is the [...]
Air America Adds Greenblatt As VP Affiliate Sales
Air America Media names radio vet Stuart Greenblatt as VP of the company’s new affiliate sales division. Most recently, Greenblatt served as VP/Affiliate Sales for Westwood One, where he helped launch “The Dennis Miller Show” and “The Fred Thompson Show,” while maintaining and growing “Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly.” At Air America Greenblatt will head [...]
Montel Williams Joins Air America
Air America announced today that Emmy-winning broadcaster Montel Williams is joining the network as host of a three-hour daily program, to air weekdays from 9A-noon EST debuting on April 6th. “Montel Across America” will be based in New York though Williams will be broadcasting from the site of major news events throughout the [...]
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