WTF? Instead of Laura Flanders, KQKE airs infomercials about insurance,

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real estate, reverse mortgages and durable medical equipment. Yes, even in San Francisco

Is anyone else sick of this shit from local Air America affiliates?

[pretzel4gore]

1. you're not alone....

fwiw ...maybe get aar on your computer?

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2. Well, I have XM ready to go in the car, but it still bothers me that also

on Sunday nights, KQKE airs "America's Show Tunes" instead of Chuck D. Now, I'm not black, but it really offends me that Clear Channel would rather lose money on airtime than run a good show from the network. It seems unseemly.

Moreover, why should I listen to Will and Willie during weekday AM drive if my car's radio button is worthless on weekends?

[pretzel4gore]

3. same here, there's absolutely nothing on radio locally

again, the economics defy common sense, but if it cost the pig a cool trillion to keep airwaves fulla bush kissing bs, remember they're stealing the trillion from both us and the future

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5. Pretze, what market are you in? And do you feel driven to XM and away from

supporting local broadcasting like I do?

[pretzel4gore]

11. i'm in sw ontario, and yes

i only support progressive media, and intend on getting xm (or sirius) as soon as they're up and runnin' :)
local media is good only for hassling; i call them pigmedia assholes evey chance, and tell them i hope to see the whole lot of them hanged for lying to us

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13. Is Ontario accepting defectors from the dictatorship south of the border?

Down here, we don't have laws, we have "signing statements." We have a government of men, not laws. Is Ontario kind to refugees?

[pretzel4gore]

14. lotsa posturing for the resident ratwing, and venality

but thus far no actual send backs- the dictatorship you're experiencing is a creeping thing, which actually has less work to do in canada- how america goes predicates how canada goes; to put it bluntly, all 'rights' are tenuous if the 'rightwing nazipooh corporate-worshipping redneck US military veteran' can be reduced to serfdom (on his own dime btw!)

[Webster Green]

4. They seem very dis-organized....you never know what will be on

I listen to KQKE all the time in my truck, doing routes in the North Bay.

I think they need to sell more advertising to local, progressive business owners, rather than do info-bullshit programs, and all those anti-pot, anti-progressive ads from the Partnership for a Drug Free America.

I've heard ads on the quake looking for people to sell advertising for them, and I'm tempted to give it a try myself. Seems like there would be plenty of likely businesses in the Bay Area that would buy time on that station.

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6. Absolutely right Webster. I bet a good salesperson could fund the station

just from businesses in Sonoma and Marin Counties alone.

[radio4progressives]

7. Yes.. I've often considered trying to organize a serious protest on

their programming.. I've written letters, i have left messages - but what is obviously needed is organized action on this..

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9. If radio advertising were effective for me as a business owner

I'd buy time on weekends myself. Problem is, graphic design and advertising doesn't sell on broadcast radio at all, except maybe on NPR stations.

[Rainscents]

8. Seattle station... I'm getting Laura

She is talking about protest and illegal.

[Duer 157099]

10. Damn straight.

That drives me nuts, and when they preempt AAR for sports.

Also, they sometimes do this thing where they are running two feeds at once, anyone else notice this? Just a couple days ago, maybe even yesterday, Randi was talking and so was someone else. I thought I was going crazy or something.

I find myself turning off the radio more than I normally would.

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12. That's because the station is on autopilot. There's no live engineer,

probably because Clear Channel is too cheap to pay even one single tech to fix the feed problems and manage the commercial server when it fails. I can't count the number of times I've heard problems like these. And nothing drives advertising dollars away faster than having commercials destroyed by crosstalk.

At least the basketball games are at night, which makes it possible to retune to AM 1150 in Los Angeles, a 50,000-watt flamethrower that comes in stronger than KQKE in many parts of the Bay Area. as well as much of the West Coast after dark.