[CitizensTruth] ARTICLE-Update from Thom Hartmann

[Walterb306 at cs.com]

All,

FYI,

Beverley

LTR - Your Alternative Media Resource Since 2004

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2009/10/update-from-thom-hartmann.html

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Update from Thom Hartmann

Just got this in my inbox from Thom Hartmann, and I thought I'd share in 
its entirety (as Sundays can be a bit lazy): 

We haven't been issuing press releases as this stuff has happened, so if 
you want to be the one to break the news feel free to put this stuff into your 
own words... 1. In addition to our commercial Dial-Global syndication, 
we're now a Pacifica affiliated show, providing a 3-hour live and delayed show 
to Pacifica non-profit and community stations around the world *with no 
commercial content* through the Pacifica audioport. We're doing this by 
simultaneously generating two identical shows; one commercial and one non-commercial 
(where the commercial breaks are filled with content like Labor Radio News, 
Hightower comments, a Science show, etc.). As a result of this, we've picked 
up just in the past few months since this affiliation began several dozen 
new stations, including one that covers an eighth of England and one that 
covers about a third of Ghana. Yep - our show is the only US-based mainstream 
political talk show, left or right, that (so far as I know) is carried now on 
local independent radio stations on 3 continents. And we're on more 
stations, have more listeners, and have more live clearances then any other 
progressive show in the country. 

2. We also started doing a TV show - simultaneous with our radio show. We 
first migrated it to our new channel on YouTube, with whom we started a 
commercial relationship a few months ago, at www.youtube.com/thomhartmann . The 
show was picked up last week by Free Speech TV (on Dish Network satellite TV) 
and is now carried live from 2-3 PM ET following "Democracy Now" and 
"GritTV." We're also producing a half-hour TV show that will begin in the next 
week or two on FSTV, with most of its content cut down from our 3-hour radio/TV 
show. We'll also be offering this half-hour show as a video podcast. 

3. We've re-established our relationship with Air America in that they're 
carrying my show on their Washington DC radio station and on their website. 
We're working on ways to strengthen that relationship, and pleased to see our 
name again on their brand new website at www.airamerica.com and that their 
DC listeners can hear our show on the weekends. (So our show is now "brought 
to our listeners - and viewers - by Dial-Global, Air America, Pacifica, 
YouTube, and Free Speech TV"...) 

Keep up the great work with LTR, and if there's ever any way we can help, 
let me know! Thom

at 2:25 PM 
Categories: Thom Hartmann 

2 comments: 
Thom Hartmann said... 
At the end of the last sentence of item 1 I should have said "progressive 
*talk show*" instead of just "progressive show," as Democracy Now is on way 
more stations than us; I think Amy Goodman may even have more clearances than 
Limbaugh, and I don't know Laura's count for Grit but she's doing great, 
too...


10/18/2009 3:20 PM Brady Bonk said... 
Is it just me, or did somebody suddenly at long last inject the management 
at Air America with some smarts? I've argued for years (and often in LTR 
comments) that what the network missed from the beginning was a footprint in 
the Nation's Capital. How can you be an entire media network devoted to the 
discussion of public policy without a D.C. presence? Now Randi's here and 
there's an actual affiliate...and now the affiliate will be running the smartest 
guy on radio? Nice. So. How's about a D.C. news bureau? And a left-tinged 
Sunday morning show, complete with stuffy lefties in coats and ties? (I'm 
looking at you, Bill Press!) And how's about stronger affiliations with other 
liberal press? Say, a (more) robust partnership with The Nation? So far so 
good, though. And the Web site looks unbelievable.

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