How's your access to Progressive talk radio?

[marmar]

Poll question: How's your access to Progressive talk radio?

Here in the Detroit area you can tune in to two of them, WDTW Detroit and WLBY Ann Arbor. Even though their signals aren't the strongest on the planet, between the two of them you can get progressive talk pretty much everywhere in southeast Michigan. And for a few hours on the weekends, the progtalk programming is displaced by infomercials or a sporting event, but I'll take those annoyances.

What's the Progressive Talk situation in your metro area (or non-metro area)?

[Chipper Chat]

1. Indiana: It's best to avoid the AM band altogether.

You have 2 choices. (1) mainstream country music radio (2) Rush Limbaugh

[Juche]

24. Yup

There is MSNBC and programs like the daily show and colbert report, but no audio programs within 200 miles of where I live.

Of course a person can always jsut use their computer as a radio. I have done that.

[Chipper Chat]

38. Our local cable company (Comcast) didnt have MSNBC in 2004.

Of course Fox and CNN were in the basic lineup. I called and they said MSNBC didnt generate any support from their customers. I guess Keith fixed all that!

[tabbycat31]

2. no stations in the area

and it's one of the more liberal areas of the country (NY metro area).

However the only AM radio that I will listen to is during baseball season, Yankee games.

Podcasts of my favorite liberal talk shows are the best thing ever.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Count your blessings

We have all right wing and sports talk here. And they play Rush 3 times a day. We were thrilled to see one station drop Michael Savage a year or so ago but then the other talk station picked him up.

Even the local 'news' shows on our am talk stations are right wing. And this weekend all these right wing locals promoted those despicable tea parties to protest against the Stimulus bill.

This really truly is red state hell.

[marmar]

5. Rush 3 times a day?......Good f**king grief.

Doesn't that qualify as torture under the Geneva Conventions?

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. It should

I gave up my satellite radio for a few months and went on a long road trip. Ended up listening to Rush and Bill every day. Thought it would be amusing but just made my blood pressure rise. When I got home I re-activated my satellite radio. Never giving it up again.

[Juche]

25. Beck, Rush, Hannity, Savage

9-noon Glenn Beck
noon-3 Limbaugh
3-6 Hannity
7-10 Savage


that is the daily lineup to the radio station my mom listens to.

[ramondajk24]

4. None of the answers fit me

Our local AM talk radio station has a mix of conservative and progressive, both national and local shows. Ed Schultz, Phil Valentine, Alan Colmes each for 3 hours daily on weekdays, with local hosts for the rest of the time. Used to have O'Reilly in the lineup, but that's over as of last Friday.

[FormerDittoHead]

6. I live in the Philly market. Heavy Democratic demographic. Right wing talk only.

It's the DEMOGRAPHICS. They can sell ad time to those selling SUVs to appeal to those who will buy them. Even though Philadelphia county voted Obama, get this, 83-16 (and Bush/Gore was about the same) they can't get a liberal talk station going...

[mucifer]

7. In Chicago we have 1 medium powered signaled am that goes off at sundown

the station is simulcasted on fm in 3 very weak signals. So if you are driving around you can switch stations to try to get the same programming with a different station. So with all of this together I answered that Chicago has a strong signal.

Best part of Chicago's progressive talk is that it is COMPLETELY indy owned. It's probably not going anywhere soon.

[KharmaTrain]

40. Also On 3 FM Signals...

You can hear WCPT on FM from Madison to Champaign-Urbana...but it's only on from 5am-9pm.

Yep, the station is locally owned by a lifelong North Shore Democrat. He sold his teevee station to Murdoch for $500 million that has been keeping this station going despite poor ratings and advertising revenues.

[sandyd921]

8. No progressive talk where I live but I listen on the Internet

I also have Sirius in my car. There used to be a progressive talk station (in Portland ME) which I could sometimes hear in my car. Now I listen at home on my laptop (streaming and podcasts) and in my car on Sirius (I'm not crazy about all of the shows on Sirius Left) or on my iPod. Don't know what I'd do without streaming and podcasts!

[AndyA]

9. No local broadcast stations with progressive talk, but I can find several

full out conservative talk stations!

I have Sirius/XM satellite, but rarely listen to the progressive channel. (I think the years of my dad listening to Rush and Co. on the local crazies station has turned me against listening to talk radio.)

[johnfunk]

11. One local outlet... but I listen ON THE INTERNET!!

Most people I know who listen to Stephanie, Peter B. Thom H., Big Eddie and Randi (please come back! all is forgiven!) are listening at home or in the office via the Internet. In the car? Traffic reports and iPod time...

[OwnedByFerrets]

12. Non existant in S. Alabama unless I stream it from computer.

[babylonsister]

13. I don't know if we have any progressive radio. Plenty of Limbaugh, Hannity,

Harvey (rip), etc. And this is Houston, pretty big.

[radfringe]

14. I listen to progressive talk via internet streaming

nothing on the local radio stations other than mouth-foamers

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. We are lucky to have WCHL 1360 in Chapel Hill - Steph Miller, Ed Schultz,

Nancy Skinner are the current line up that I've listened to (from 9 AM until 6 PM). Not sure what is on either end of this block, or weekends.

[PFunk]

16. None in Columbus Oh. Forcing me to go internet only.

Which is find because it also introduced me to internet music sites (which IMO play a lot better music than on-air ones). And I rarely if ever listen to local on-air radio now-even in the car (thanks to pod casts).

[livetohike]

17. Here in rural PA it is Rush Limbaugh 24/7

Any radio station with a decent signal is totally right wing.

[BlooInBloo]

18. Don't care. Internet > radio.

Let the wingers keep their dying, obsolete format.

[marmar]

20. Yeah, but I'm not going to use my laptop while driving......

..... I'm not that good a multitasker.

[BlooInBloo]

21. Gotcha. I'm fortunate to live downtown, so I don't have to drive often.

[TWiley]

19. NPR is all I get, and they are increasingly right-leaning

I would love to have access to a liberal limbaugh.

[Christian30]

22. We have Air America in New York

But I never listen to it. They managed to get rid of everyone I liked - Rachel, Marc Maron, Randi Rhodes, etc. I have a Stephcast subscription and listen to Frangela through their website.

In some ways, I think Air America is hurting progressive talk more than it's helping.

[dem629]

23. I have no access to any talk radio. By choice!

[aaronbav]

26. I voted other because:

I am currently living in Dallas, TX for work - my wife and family are still back in Atlanta, as we are uncertain how permanent my new job will be (I was out of work and on unemployment for 10 months from Jan. 08 to Nov 08).

Anyway, much to my surprise, Dallas has a progressive station - AGAIN (apparently they had one previously, and like Atlanta, it was taken away, but this one managed to come back).

The former progressive Air America affiliate in Atlanta was taken over by a REICH winger and changed to a Spanish speaking format, and so far, there is not a hint of a progressive station returning to the airwaves in ATL :-(

So anyway, while in Dallas, I do listen to, and support the sponsors of Dallas's "Rational Radio" which is at 1360 AM (http://www.rationalradio.org/)

For those times I can't listen to the Radio, I stream the show via the web, and I also am signed up fo r the premium service on Air America so I can download and listen to Thom Hartmann (or re-listen since I usually listen live most days, but I miss bits and pieces, because I'm not always at my desk).

It is truly a pleasure to be able to get in my car and know that there is an ALTERNATIVE for folks to listen to besides the Reich wing raving lunatics!!!!

[libodem]

27. I'm deprived

I pick up stuff from the video forum. I used to have a media player so I could listen to TYT but it's not installed on my son's laptop. I need his password to do it and keep forgetting to ask. Hmmm, perhaps I have been remiss? I better get on that! Actually there are about 3 am stations that broadcast nothing but one RW program after another in this area. We had (jeez I can't think of his name Schultz? for about 6 months) and I was thrilled. He even went to Alaska town forum about Palin. It was live and people had a lot to bitch about. The best thing to happen lately is Rush LImbaugh has been moved off of the station that broadcasts the BSU Broncos. I actually did call the University sports department and then some other department where I'd been directed. It was making me sick to hear, 'Your station for Rush and BSU Broncos'. I thought what a sick association, is the university inherently a conservative cesspool? I listen to Coast to Coast at night and now I wake up to the sound of Dennis Miller's, soft, even, cadence spewing hate and discontent, with a twist of ironic humor.

[santamargarita]

28. I've gone to great lengths to insure I get progressive talk radio

XM satellite, Air America & Nova-M (2nd thought) via airway, Internet or subscription. I've never listened to their bullshit and never will! And I started this the very day Air American came on line. Prior, I listened to PBS.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

29. KTNF is a lifeline of sanity here in the Twin Cities

5am to 11 pm is:
Press/Steph/Ed Schultz/Hartmann/local/Ron Reagan/Malloy

Dunno who's on later, I think Nancy Skinner may be.

[SethInUpstateNY]

30. I live in Rochester, NY,

but I can usually pick up the signal from a radio station in Buffalo (1520 WWKB).

We used to have a progressive station here until last September when they decided to switch to sports radio. Most of the talk radio stations here lean very far to the right, specifically 1180 WHAM or as I call it, WGOP. There lineup consists of Rush, Sean, and the Savage Wiener. They also have a local bigot who I'm sure people from Rochester on this forum know by the name of Bob Lonsberry who once referred to our former Mayor Bill Johnson as an orangutan.

[FreakinDJ]

31. We LOST our progressive talk radio station

like we needed anouther "Religious Music Station" to accompany the other 3 already on the AM dial here

[TahitiNut]

32. As a fellow Detroiter, my answer is obvious.

:shrug:

[Arkansas Granny]

33. To my knowledge there is no progressive talk radio in my area.

The only way I can listen is online.

[MiniMe]

34. They just killed progressive talk in the DC area

It was a weak signal, but at least it was there. No more.

[LWolf]

35. Other:

I have no clue.

Because I don't listen to talk radio, any more than I watch talk shows on tv.

For several years, I supported, and occasionally tuned into, "The Guy James Show." Guy's a good guy, a fellow DUer (or he WAS,) and I wanted to show support for his efforts. Since we are at opposite points on the map, I tuned in when I could be home to live stream it, and called in frequently.

Eventually his show schedule shifted to a time that I couldn't tune in, and I took a pay cut that ended my $$ support.

Other than that, I've never listened to talk radio, from any view point, and I've never missed it.

[proud patriot]

36. we have KPFA which carries Amy Goodman with a decent signal

the old Air america station carries Malloy , Hartman , and
Miller but it's an AM weak signal station . I usually stream those .

[Greyhound]

37. Clear Channel has a near monopoly on progressive talk radio

and work constantly to fuck it up. Ever since Air America sold out we've seen the same games played, weak signal stations sold and resold, constant schedule and line up changes so people can't get into a routine, even the streaming sites regularly change "technology" to limit the numbers of people that can get it that way.

When in hell are we going to realize these parasites are not on our side, they're not neutral "just trying to make a buck", they bought a good idea and ensuring it cannot grow.
:grr:

[RebelOne]

39. Atlanta, GA area, just northwest of Atlanta

There are no progressive stations that I can pick up. In fact, I don't think there are any progressive stations to speak of here. I used to be able to get Air America, but lost that.