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February 24, 2005

Air America Radio Coming to Austin

By Byron LaMasters

It's about time! The Austin Chronicle reports:

After months of rumors, radio industry sources confirm that Air America, the liberal talk format starring Al Franken, is about to find a home in Austin, where the airwaves are still dominated by tough-talking Rush Limbaugh wannabes. Air America is now heard on 48 stations around the country, but on only one in Texas, KCCT-AM in Corpus Christi. An announcement on an Austin affiliate is expected within days, according to one source.

Although details are still sketchy, speculation focuses on Border Media Partners, the Houston-based company that now owns seven Spanish-language stations in Austin (see "Austin Radio Spanish," p.36). BMP president Tom Castro was national deputy finance chair of the Kerry for President campaign, and one of the company's main investors is notable Democrat Tony Sanchez, the former candidate for governor. Asked to analyze the Austin market last week, Castro immediately pointed to the lack of a format for "intelligent and interesting dialogue." Austin, he said, seems like a place where "a lot of people want an outlet for voicing their opinion."


I'm surprised it's taken this long to get liberal talk radio in Austin. Either Air America Radio or Ed Shultz would certainly do well here. After all, Travis County gave John Kerry a 50,000 vote victory (PDF file) - by far his largest margin in Texas, yet we still have all the right-wing quacks on our radio dial with no alternatives from our side.

Posted by Byron LaMasters at February 24, 2005 01:17 PM | TrackBack


Comments

Should we ask Andrea Yates?

Posted by: Bill Danville at February 24, 2005 01:57 PM

What about that "1st amendment radio" or whatever that is in Austin. My wife and I were blown away by the unbridled "leftiness" of that station.

If you meant "conventional" radio, then yeah.

Posted by: Effern at February 24, 2005 02:33 PM

Finally! I was poking around this morning on radio websites to see if there were any stations around here moving to any progressive talk shows. By the way, I noticed several weeks ago a station on 90.10 that I didn't know about before. It also streams live at rbnlive.com and seems to be geared towards Alex Jones/conspiracy type stuff. Looks like it is out of Round Rock. Maybe that's the "1st amendment radio" mentioned in the previous comment. It's not all that lefty, though, according to some of the commentators I've heard on it.

Posted by: harold at February 24, 2005 04:45 PM

Oh Man Oh Man...

Posted by: Frank at February 25, 2005 01:06 AM

That is great news for those us of us who pay for satellite radio to listen to air america and sirius. Hopefully it will be on 1600 am because it has pretty good reception even outside of Austin. Much better then 1490.

Posted by: Walt at February 26, 2005 02:01 PM
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