Air America leaving Sacramento

[ken_g]

Weird. But we will get Thom Hartman instead of Franken and Schultz instead of Randi. But no more morning sedition at 9am.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I would not miss Franken, but I would miss Morning Sedition.

This must be related to their latest move of syndicating certain programs. I think that is how they got Thom Hartmann on the network at the same time as Franken.
Not sure about the Randi Rhodes/Ed Schultz thing.

[merwin]

17. Seattle got rid of Morning Sedition as well.

Replaced it with Stephanie Miller

[Pirate Smile]

18. How do you like Stephanie Miller? I don't get to listen to Morning

Sedition but I LOVE Stephanie Miller's show.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. Miller is excellent.

[WA98296]

36. Sorry, I think Step adds nothing

You asked, I gave my opinion. Sick of hearing her discussions about her good looks. Who the hell cares what she looks like.

[Pirate Smile]

37. I've only heard her make fun of herself. I haven't heard any discussions

by her about her good looks.

Oh, well, nobody is going to please everyone.

We are all certainly entitled to our own opinions. :hi:

[merwin]

40. It's OK. I'm impartial... I suppose she will grow on me though.

I'd much rather have Rachel Maddow back though.

[eridani]

41. Really? It's on at 2AM

I'm usually awake then, and listen to it.

[merwin]

43. Really? Damn that's early.

Makes sense that I would think it had left though.

[fooj]

2. WTF is going on? Why are you losing Randi?

Peace.

[ken_g]

5. Air America decided not to stay at the sacramento station they just

announced. No explanation.

[TrueAmerican]

3. Air America is moving to another Sacramento Station

So now you will have two progressive talk stations in Sacramento.

[BuyingThyme]

7. I hope that's true.

What is the new station?

[TrueAmerican]

9. LINK LINK LINK...

http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=552054&Board=newstalk


A regular on the Sacramento board, who seems to have some connections locally, posted of an impending change in the market. Since the post, I've done some asking around, and it seems like it's gonna happen.

The move would have current Entercom standards KCTC/1320 flipping to liberal talk in early November (or sooner), taking the Air America programming schedule from current affiliate KSAC/1240 "Talk City". Looking at the current Talk City website, it promises new programming in October, and has reduced the Air America programming in its schedule to just a simple block with no host names.

Listeners in the market report that 1240 is promoting the addition of Democracy/WYD/Jones Radio's Stephanie Miller in morning drive, AAR Syndication's Thom Hartmann in the early midday slot, and P1/Jones' Ed Schultz from noon-3 PM PT. It would appear possible that current 4-6 PM local host Christine Craft (who may have just found this message board :) could move to a 3 PM start...though that's just a guess on my part. It'd probably also mean a time slot improvement for local brokered host Mary Jane Popp, whose "Popp-Off" now airs at 7 PM on 1240.

This would all mean that KCTC/1320 would likely play the majority of the AAR schedule live, if not all of it...since the Jones Radio product is debuting on 1240 next week.

There have been two competitive liberal talk situations before, though not long-term. Clear Channel FM libtalker WXXM/92.1 in the Madison, WI market competed against local incumbent WTDY/1670, which really isn't a full-time liberal talker, but did air Jones' Ed Schultz until WXXM grabbed the show. And here in my hometown of Akron, there was a brief overlap between WJMP/1520 Kent's carriage of Air America, and liberal talk on former sports outlet now-WARF/1350 Akron. (The sports format, by the way, landed on 1520.)

It'll be interesting to see how long both KSAC/1240 and KCTC/1320 stay in the format, and how they'll do in the ratings. 1320's definitely the better stick, by far, but 1240 is incumbent in the format and has a well-known local host (the aforementioned Ms. Craft, a market veteran) in afternoon drive. It's picked up at least some ratings...in one 12-plus book, it bested long-time Salem conservative talker KTKZ/1380, not that it's difficult to beat a Salem conservative talk station in the ratings. ;)

The other thing here is something even 1240's former program director will tell you...Entercom is, obviously, a much more polished and professional operation, and has resources KSAC owner Paula Nelson-Redfield could only dream of having. We'll see.

-OA

[BuyingThyme]

10. Thank you.

[Rainscents]

4. You sure? Do you have link?

[ken_g]

8. They have a local, Christine Craft 4 - 6pm, she's discussing it now.

Neither website has any info about it other than ksac says new programming in October.

[BuyingThyme]

21. Is there a KSAC stream?

[AlCzervik]

23. ksac is Talkcity 1240 am.

[BuyingThyme]

30. Yep. Is there a stream?

[AlCzervik]

31. i usuall download the podcast of morning sedition and sometimes al franken

www.itunes.com and i listen to Randi live, i'll have to see if there are stations that stream it, i'm sure there are, we used to stream before AAR came to Sacramento. If i find the station i'll post it.

[BuyingThyme]

38. I was actually looking for KSAC in particular. I'd love to get

Christine Craft on the computer.

[Garbo 2004]

42. Yup KSAC has an online stream. Starting Monday Craft will have

a three hour show from 3pm PDT to 6. http://www.1240talkcity.com/ Click on the "on air" icon in the upper right hand corner to get the stream.

[LisaM]

6. Thom Hartmann is Air America...

they are trying to get West Coast shows on the West Coast, but it's all messed up here (Seattle.) Thom Hartmann at 9:00 a.m., which is great, then Ed Schultz (he syndicates separately and I'm sure he's got it written in to the contract that he must be live), then Al Franken, tape delayed 6 hours instead of Randi, who now starts at 6:00, also tape delayed 6 hours. It's not working for me. They should have it Hartmann, Schultz, Randi, Malloy, then Al Franken later at night if they're going to delay him anyway. He is too low key for 3:00 p.m. I always switch now.

[Rainscents]

12. I agree with you! They should had kept Randi at 3 and Mike at 7

and Franklin at 10

[LisaM]

15. I'll email 'em if you'll email 'em!

Because now I just flip it off at 3:00.

[Kitsune]

14. I hear that

I've gone back to streaming so I can hear them live and so I don't have to listen to Ed freaking Schultz.

[TrueAmerican]

16. CALM DOWN! AIR AMERICA IS MOVING TO A STRONGER STATION IN SAC

CALM THE FUCK DOWN.

[NightOwwl]

20. THANK YOU! I WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK!

Zippity Dooh Dah Zippit Ay! My oh my what a wonderful day!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[gort]

39. Ed Schultz is borrrring

Why he has to be on live when all he seems to talk about is drinking beer and shooting deer, I'll never know. The callers have to bring issues up to him and he seems to show no interest in pursuing stories the way Randi does.

I saw the AM 1090 staffers at the peace rally in Seattle last Saturday holding up those stupid "Vote 1090" campaign signs.

One of them tried to give me an AM1090 Key Ring. She was very nice, but I told her, " No thank you, but please tell your Program Director to put Randi back on at drive time" Her reaction was a very shy nod. I don't think I was the only one her shared that sentiment with her.

[nicknameless]

11. Keep checking their site for affiliates. Here's the link:

http://www.airamericaradio.com/stations

Is this the old station or a new one? Sacramento, CA - KSAC-AM 1240 AM

[TrueAmerican]

13. Follow this link

That's the current/old one....

here's the link to what's happening..

http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=552054&Board=newstalk

[nicknameless]

25. Thanks for that link!

More progressives for Sacramento radio is great news!

... BTW, I hope they're not saying that Christine Craft is a liberal! She spewed lots of pro-war BS on KGO, as a fill-in host.
I would hope her views have changed, but I'll never forget all her "Why do you hate 'murka?" crap that she threw out at other
hosts like Bernie Ward. Craft also condemned Jessica Lynch for telling the truth.

[ken_g]

32. That's weird. I'll take your word for it, but her taking

on Bernie Ward is hard for me to imagine, but ... not impossible to imagine.

[artemisia1]

44. She turned some time ago and has been successful organizing protests and

letter writing campaigns (to representatives). True, she's a mix of liberal (mostly) and conservative (some) views. But, hey, so am I and so are many people who are against the Bush admin. I was against the war BEFORE it started but we must take our allies where we can find them (excepting race-baiters and homophobes which she most definitely is not).

[AlCzervik]

22. 1240 is the current one so i guess it's old, i hope they are just moving

[nicknameless]

28. I see.

TrueAmerican just posted this link about more AAR programming on a new station:
http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=552054&Board=newstalk

Good to see that's happening.

[ken_g]

19. I'm happy with Hartman - he seems very prepared and

informative. Any opinions on Schultz and Stephanie Miller?

[Pirate Smile]

24. I like them both - especially Stephanie Miller - her show is a riot.

You will love her "voice monkey" - Jim Ward aka the Conspiracy Guy also. He does a lot of impressions. She is a comedian.

It is a lot of fun.

I know some people don't like Schultz (and he has ticked me off once or twice) but most of the time he is pretty good.

edit to add a link to Stephanie's web site where you can listen to her show from today, etc. if you would want to check it out.

http://www.stephaniemiller.com/

[Drewskie]

26. Some people call him a plant for the DNC

*shrugs* He is humorous at times and I've spent more time chuckling at him than anyone else save Malloy. Malloy is freaking funny. Schultz gets pretty good interviews with all the prominent Dems... which goes to show he probably is a plant...

[OnionPatch]

33. Who do they call a plant?

I couldn't tell by your wording if you meant Hartmann or Schultz. I hope you meant Schultz, because if you meant Hartmann, you are totally and absolutely wrong. Hartmann is not even a Democrat and he voted for Nader in 2000.

[OnionPatch]

34. Oops, okay I read it again

Sorry. Schultz does get lots of interviews, they might be right.

[LaPera]

29. You gain an excellent liberal (Hartmann) & you lose two excellent liberals

(Rhodes & Malloy).

What a way to dilute the liberal air waves...Now all you need is Alan Colmes.

According to postings on Radio-Info, it appears that another station, KCTC (1320) will take over as the local Air America affiliate from KSAC (1240). The website for KSAC (aka Talk City) claims that changes are coming to the station in October. On-air promos claim that Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz will be added to the lineup. Supposedly, the contract between KSAC and Air America was not renewed.

[Cleita]

35. Schultz instead of Randi is not a good trade off. Yell!

They replaced Janeanne and Sam with Schultz in my market. I am not a happy camper. Although he's good about being pro-labor, he's just another DLCer.

[fleabert]

45. oh no....

but is talk city staying? I never really got how the format worked...

I thought it was air america, with local stuff added in...I guess the opposite is true?