Success Story! Air America Phoenix is back on the air!

[saracat]

Thanks to all the locals listeners and advertisers who contributed the money , we have brought AAR Phoenix back. It will be on a different station but we have thwarted the Christian Cooaltion(who bought out the last location and refused to sell time) and are back on the air April 3rd. Read below for details and please continue to help. We cannot afford to be silenced!

Friends,

I come bearing good news.
We are proud to announce that starting April 3rd Air America Phoenix will return to the airwaves.
Our new home is at 1480 AM KPHX.
We will be carrying all of your favorite Air America personalities plus Dr. Mike Newcomb in the morning.

Thanks to all of you who contributed to the effort. This has been a remarkable effort and perhaps the most intense three weeks of my life. In the end we were able to negoitiate a better deal than we were first offered to get us in the door. We are not out of the woods yet. We need to raise more funds to finish paying the lease. We will be continuing the pixel drive in hopes to offset some of the money we have had to borrow to get on the air.
Go to www.saveairamericaphoenix.com to contribute.

Thanks again and we look forward to talking with you on the air.

Jeff Farias
Air America Phoenix


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[Rainscents]

1. This is excellent news for Phoenix!!!

Thank you for posting this!

[Dying Eagle]

2. Yes

Good Work Phoenix!!!

Dr.Mike is awesome too. I have heard him fill in for Bill Press before.

[B Calm]

Glad my little donation sent from behind the hoosier iron curtain done

some good!

[mdmc]

3. good news

:kick:

[Eric J in MN]

4. Good news. To help keep AAR growing, I suggest

going to the AAR website, and either subscribing to Premium (to access their archives) or buying merchandise.

http://www.airamericaradio.com/

[saracat]

7. No! Please go to the link indicated. AAR National does not give any money

to the local stations. We had to raise the money ourselves without their help! Contribute to your local AAR affiliate directly if they need help and please contribute to AAR Phoenix! They have targeted us!

[LaPera]

40. I sent in a couple of small donations, & I'll send in a larger one today

Though I'll probably never hear the AAR channel in Phoenix, but I know it's needed and I'm happy it'll be there!!!

Nothing like sincere dedication, it's beautiful and necessary.

Thanks dude!!!

[LaPera]

39. YOUR ABSOULELY CORRECT!!! We should all help out Air America Radio

ANYWAY we can...and a perfect way is to sign up AAR Premium. (Or even buy something in the AAR store).

SUPPORT LIBERAL RADIO!!

http://www.airamericaradio.com

[Coexist]

5. knr

[NMDemDist2]

6. HooRay!!!!!!!

:bounce: :woohoo: :party:

[IndyOp]

8. Yes! Phoenix is the 6th largest city in the US!!

...so, this is great! I could only contribute a little, but every little bit helps!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

From 2004 Census:
New York, N.Y. 8,104,079
Los Angeles, Calif. 3,845,541
Chicago, Ill. 2,862,244
Houston, Tex. 2,012,626
Philadelphia, Pa. 1,470,151
Phoenix, Ariz. 1,418,041
San Diego, Calif. 1,263,756
San Antonio, Tex. 1,236,249
Dallas, Tex. 1,210,393
San Jose, Calif. 904,522
Detroit, Mich. 900,198
Indianapolis, Ind. 784,242
Jacksonville, Fla. 777,704
San Francisco, Calif. 744,230
Columbus, Ohio 730,008
Austin, Tex. 681,804
Memphis, Tenn. 671,929
Baltimore, Md. 636,251
Fort Worth, Tex.603,337
Charlotte, N.C. 594,359
El Paso, Tex. 592,099
Milwaukee, Wis. 583,624
Seattle, Wash. 571,480
Boston, Mass. 569,165

<http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html>

[LuCifer]

14. To avoid some confusion here!

Phoenix CITY LIMITS make it 6! Just city limits, NOT overall metro area.

Now, for overall METRO stats mcgillicuty, Phoenix STILL comes in pretty dang good:

1) NYC
2) LA
3) Chi-Town
4) San Fran/San Jose
5) DC/Balitmore
6) Miami/Ft. Laud/West Palm (aka HELLHOLE!)
7) Dallas
8) Philly
9) Houston
10) Detroit
11) Atlanta
12) Boston
13) Seattle
14) PHOENIX

So if I am off on this, OH WELL! You GET THE IDEA!

And it has been 1,933 days since the Rehnquist Supreme Court illegally allowed this illegitimate takeover of our Government by the RoveBushCheney Fascists. If we don’t impeach the entire cabal now, we may never get rid of them!!!!!!!!!

[IndyOp]

26. Agreed - City limits give a different impression than metro area --

I was still surprised at Phoenix' size and at the all of the southern/red state cities - really validates Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy.

:kick:

[proud patriot]

9. Right On

:woohoo:

[BuyingThyme]

10. Does anybody know how powerful KPHX is?

Will it reach a lot of people?

What was the previous format?

[Poppyseedman]

11. 5 kW

Not very powerful, but better than nothing.

[NMDemDist2]

21. yes but it's right in town, the other station was in Tollison n/t

[LuCifer]

15. Here ya go

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=KPHX&x=0&y=0&is_unl=Y&is_lic=Y&is_cp=Y&sr=Y&s=C&sid=

[BuyingThyme]

16. Thank you. A map and everything...

[LuCifer]

20. No prob G!

It's quite the useful site!

NOW GET AAR ON IN ORLANDO SO I CAN LISTEN! AND YA BETTER HAVE RANDI LIVE AND NOT PREMPTED FOR ED!!!!!!

Lu

[SDL]

27. I concur, Lu..

Now get AAR on here in Tampa/St. Pete!!!!

[Nitrogenica]

12. AWESOME!!!! IN your face righties!!! They cannot stop truth.

They try and try, but the truth is strong!

[jillan]

13. Saracat ----

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

I AM SOOOOO EXCITED!

GV just posted this for me over at the Kerry forum.

I knew we would do it.
whew!

[chitty]

17. Man it's been

so hard to keep quiet about this.
I have known for a few days but was sworn to secrecy.
Great work!!!!!

[NMDemDist2]

22. you knew! and you didn't tell us?????????

:spank:

[Mr_Spock]

18. Well, that's good news...

I'm glad they are back on the air!

[B Calm]

19. At night, will a 5000 watt radio station reach Tucson?

[Justice Is Comin]

23. Pretty flat land here

and AM signals travel much better than FM due to their concentrics. Especially at night. Also depends how close a strong Tuscon station is on the spectrum to wash them out.

[stevedeshazer]

24. It's only 500 watts at night

Nighttime coverage map:



Daytime coverage map:



Doesn't look like Tucson is covered.

[troubleinwinter]

29. Oh, man... no hope for me in Prescott, either? Pfffft. I feel marooned.

[rocktivity]

25. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

And now that I'm financially stable again, I can contribute to the lease drive!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[SeattleGirl]

28. Wow! Now THAT's grassroots action at it's best!!!

:toast: :bounce: :toast: :bounce: :toast:

[Wheezy]

30. Woo hoo!

Great news! I am proud to see my little hamsters as icons on that pixel page. :) And so happy to hear it's a sure thing. Thanks for posting!

[BigBearJohn]

31. Hip Hip Hooray!

[burythehatchet]

32. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.

But you can bet the fundies will not stop trying to shut down AAR wherever they can. It means a lot that they are putting so much into trying to supress AAR.

[progressoid]

33. coolio. Score one more for out team!

[sellitman]

34. Now if we can only get Springer off AAR.

I wind up turning it off for his whole show. I bet I am not alone.

[bluestateguy]

37. I find his radio show to be surprisingly good

I was surprised too, but it's his TV show that should be put out to pasture.

[sellitman]

38. Are we talking about the same show?

You actually like the whiny toned, wishy washy show host? He has no back bone and agrees with virtually every caller no matter what is said. The day he voices any real strong opinions and sticks to them will be the first time. I guess to each his own though. I find him utterly un-listen-able.


:puke:

[bluestateguy]

35. My parents in Phoenix will be very happy about that

My father is an especially big fan of Malloy, Franken and Shultz (who was carried on AA Phoenix).

[blondeatlast]

36. YESYESYES! Hallelujah! nt