KC area needs to do what they did in Baton Rouge to get AAR. Look here:

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Posted by AnninLA:

"Just rec'd this email: Progressive Talk Radio comes to Baton Rouge

PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO ARRIVES IN BATON ROUGE!
Thanks to a petition effort that topped 1,000 signatures, Clear
Channel has agreed to switch one of its Baton Rouge stations to a
progressive talk format. Smart and funny hosts will start telling
the Capitol City the truth on Tuesday, July 12th, at 6 A.M. (unless
hurricane outages push back the launch). Set your radio dial to AM
1380, WYNK-AM, to start your day with Morning Sedition, followed by
Jerry Springer, Al Franken, Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes.

The launch will make WYNK-AM the first progressive talk radio station
in the entire Deep South. If the format succeeds in Baton Rouge,
Clear Channel will consider switching stations in New Orleans,
Shreveport, Lafayette and elsewhere.

We're counting on grassroots support from progressives to make the
new format a resounding success. Please set your radio dial to AM
1380 and share the news that Al Franken and other truth-telling hosts
will hit the Baton Rouge airwaves on AM 1380 next week.

From the Louisiana Coalition of Independent Media (don't know if they have a website or not)"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=155&topic_id=1681&mesg_id=1681

I don't live in the KC area anymore but I have a lot of family there and visit frequently. I wish you guys could get some progressive talk radio/AAR.

My Mom is desperate for it and tried to get Sirus (it was 6 months ago) for work but the reception won't come in and her computer doesn't have a sound card.

Good Luck.

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1. Working on it

A few people with Democracy for America are working on it.

[Jon8503]

2. I bought Sirius and now they have moved over to XM. N/T.

Glad to hear about you guys working on this. That is why I bought Satelite, the news around here is really bad.

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4. Here is a post over on Dailykos re how they did it! This is doable.

UPDATE: Air America in Bush Country - How it was done
by hbyronk
Tue Jul 12th, 2005 at 14:15:15 PDT
In an earlier post, I explained that a group of interested citizens, led by a Baton Rouge woman named Vicki Lancaster, had convinced Clear Channel to put Air America Radio on one of its broadcast properties in Louisiana's capitol city.

Ms. Lancaster responded by leaving a comment on my blog, where the story was cross-posted. She explained how she and her associates went about it.

This could serve as a template for Progressives around the country in convincing radio broadcasters to make Air America available on their airwaves.

Diaries :: hbyronk's diary :: ::

Ms. Lancaster writes:


e had a lot of good advice with regard to our efforts to bring progressive talk to BR. We first found all the commercial radio stations in BR and got their Arbitron ratings. We found a Clear Channel station that was floundering and changing formats with no success. So we went to the regional VP of Clear Channel armed with marketing info about Air America and articles on the success of progressive talk radio and we asked CC what would it take for them to switch one of their stations to progressive talk. We were told - get 1000 names and contact info - we did it and put the info in an Excel data base - and CC kept their word. Don't ever let anyone tell you a few committed individuals cannot make a difference. We are now working on getting Democracy Now (independent news) aired in BR.
Don't ever let anyone tell you a few committed individuals cannot make a difference.

And, by "a few committed individuals," Ms. Lancaster means, literally, a few. Six people circulated the petition, gathering 1,500 signatures, to convince Clear Channel to place Air America on its low-rated AM country station in Baton Rouge. They understood that, no matter the political leanings of its top management, Clear Channel is business to make money. If they believe that there is an audience for Progressive talk, they will take a chance on it. They would rather do this than continue to lose money running country music on an AM station that nobody is listening to. It is just common sense.

I cannot emphasize strongly enough the potential this has to serve as a model for similar actions in radio markets across this country. Not only can it work, the Baton Rouge 6 have demonstrated that it WILL work.

I know it's kind of tacky, but I am asking for "Recommends" for this post so that more people will have a chance to read Ms. Lancaster's comments and understand that we have the ability, through purely constructive means, to crack the stronghold that conservatives have had on talk radio for the past 20 years. Think about how important talk radio has been to the GOP message machine. Then, think about what we can accomplish when our superior ideas get the same kind of exposure.

UncommonSense

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/12/171516/153

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5. Here is a link to a DU thread on this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4085193&mesg_id=4085193

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6. I posted your link over on the thread re how Baton Rouge got AAR.

It includes specifics so if you haven't seen it yet, please check it out and thanks for all you are doing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4085193

[pstokely]

3. the owners of the AM classical and comedy stations should be targetted

Entercom owns the classical station, dunno who owns the comedy station, 1510 might be a good place