September 24, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month
Save Air America
While not yet suppressed by the regime's administrative means, the usual Ashcroftism of "aiding and comforting terrorists", ad placements on Nassua Broadcasting's WLVP (870 AM) favor local sports programming over the Air America talk-radio syndicated content. Therefor, effective October 4th November 8th, WLVP's format will be the ESPN Radio sports syndicated content. Here's the Nassua Broadcasting blurb from last April, when Air America seemed like a good idea.
870 The Voice. The Voice is Portland’s Free-Thinking Talk Station featuring progressive, intelligent talk about today’s issues. There’s been no outlet for the liberal voice in Portland, until now! 870-AM The Voice will carry “Air America Radio”, the new talk format featuring Saturday Night Live Alumni and best selling author Al Franken weekdays from 12-3 PM.The same blurb notes that another Nassua property, 107.5, ran 10,000 popular songs without commercial interruption. Perhaps Nassua's bean counters are less ... liberal in Fall than they were in the heady rush of Spring.
Personally I never listen to 870. As soon as I get in the car I toggle over to FM, and bump up one programmed setting, from MPR/NPR to the college station, MPG. The talk-radio format simply doesn't interest me, and MPG is mostly interesting most of the time. I'm really partial to the French and Indian programming, Pacifica, the wicked good Blues programming, and Blunt, local news programming. However, MPG has two cheesy little transmitters, and 870 covers a lot more than just Portland and Gorham.
So, can Air America be "saved" in the Portland media market, for, or perhaps even by, people who prefer its content over other content? I'm not sure it should be, but I'm not a fan of syndicated content anyway. The other person who drives the car, the one that toggles over to AM, she may have other thoughts on the subject. For her and the thousands who prefer the talk-radio format, and strongly prefer the Air America content over the other brands of mental detergent, there is a business problem to solve.
So, as a sort of disinterested non-listener in the Portland media market, I'm willing to set up a Save-Air-America dropbox. Either a subscription model (NPR meets Salon) or a good-as-Seadogs-and-McCauley-BBall ad model, to meet the franchise and antenna costs. if you want to contribute to a seed fund, or pre-buy ads, let me know, I'll track virtual-dollars for the time being. And now, a small image sent by a friend ...
