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Randi Rhodes Returns To Radio on Premiere Radio Network
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BREAKING: Randi Rhodes to Return to Talk Radio
San Francisco’s Green960 announces ‘Goddess of Progressive Talk’ to be syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, home to Limbaugh, Hannity and other rightwing talkers
Updated: Premiere announces return date of May 11, show to broadcast live from D.C….
Posted By Brad Friedman On 23rd April 2009
[Updated with Premiere’s official announcement at end of article.]
Following a nearly two-month absence from the airwaves, Progressive radio talker Randi Rhodes is set to return, according to an announcement this afternoon from John Scott of San Francisco’s Green960 (KKGN). She will be syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks [1] as reported in a video-taped announcement just posted on the Green960 website [2].
Premiere is known for their national syndication of far-right talkers [3] such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dr. Laura and Glenn Beck. Rhodes, known by fans as the “Goddess of Progressive Talk”, had formerly been with NovaM Radio, which folded when she left, and at Air America Radio prior to that…
Congresswoman Wants To Bring Fairness Doctrine To Cable; Hannity/Hume Spontaneously Combust
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Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, said Monday she will work to restore the Fairness Doctrine and have it apply to cable and satellite programming as well as radio and TV.
“I’ll work on bringing it back. I still believe in it,” Eshoo told the Daily Post in Palo Alto.
The Fairness Doctrine required TV and radio stations to balance opposing points of view. It meant that those who disagreed with the political slant of a commentator were entitled to free air time to give contrasting points of view, usually in the same time slot as the original broadcast.
The doctrine was repealed by the Reagan administration’s Federal Communications Commission in 1987, and a year later, Rush Limbaugh’s show went national, ushering in a new form of AM radio.
Conservative talk show hosts fear the doctrine will result in their programs being canceled because stations don’t want to offer large amounts of air time to opponents whose response programs probably wouldn’t get good ratings.
Eshoo said she would recommend the doctrine be applied not only to radio and TV broadcasts, but also to cable and satellite services.
“It should and will affect everyone,” she said.
She called the present system “unfair,” and said “there should be equal time for the spoken word.” (Photo credit: Ian Port, Daily Post)
The New York Herald Sun 