I said at the time, and I still think, it will last only until after the election. It's a mostly owned subsidiary of the DNC.

Thanks for explaining why signals of 1500, 1280, and 1570 are weaker than my mother's coffee.

I tune in as much as possible to Franken, just to revel in how bad he is. I'll be truly disapointed when its taken off the air.

I said at the time, and I still think, it will only last as long as the election. It's a mostly, thinly-disguised, subsidiary of the DNC

I'm Curious and you probably know. What is the coverage that Salem Radio Network have over the US? When I listen, the callers are not as widespread as they are on Limbaugh. I know the individual hosts can claim hundreds of stations, but what does that really mean?

Good catch, Mitch.

I think some of the predictions of (year)-long life for the network ignored this basic reality: George Soros can cut checks to the "network" for the rest of his natural life, but he can never pay major radio stations enough for them to want to air the stuff. That's going to be the downfall of the network.

Ironical, isn't it? The notion that as long a commodity is produced (a la Soros subsidizing Air America production), there must be a reason for it? Sounds like a lot of liberals' attitude toward government...

I am curious about the signal strength issue. Here in Sacramento, Rush is on AM 1530 (KFBK) and their signal covers can be heard two hundred and more miles away (it is much stronger than The Patriot's signal in Minneapolis).

I get your point, however, Colorado is a pretty conservative state outside of Boulder (university town), Aspen (where the conspicuously rich keep their second homes), and to some extent Denver (I think most big cities are, anyway). Even the home of Colorado State University is notably conservative--Fort Collins being the large population center that elected Marilyn Musgrave to congress--she of recent anti-Same Sex marriage fame. Colorado Springs is pretty much the belly of the beast with respect to Air America--likely the most conservative city in this pretty conservative state. It is likely one of the most conservative cities of its size outside of the South. They have historically been dominated by the religious right (i.e. Focus on the Family HQ is there) as well as military personell (AFA, and four other military bases including Norad).

Just trying to throw a tiny monkeywrench in your argument.

As for questions about the signal strength of AM 1500 in the Twin Cites, and 1530 in Sacramento, go back to Mitch's explanation:

"Forget satellite for a moment; most of the stations are above 1200 on the AM dial. Fact of physics - the higher on the AM dial you go, the shorter your range per watt of power."

So you add more wattage. AM 1500 is a blowtorch - 50,000 watts pointed west. Maybe it's the same with 1530.

Thanks, James. I was going to write a quick post about this later, but James is right.

KSTP makes up for its high position by having 50,000 watts. It's omnidirectional all day, and blasts straight west at night (I used to get calls from Denver, but we'd be inaudible in Eau Claire after dark). KFBK is, as I recall, big - 50KW, I think (I applied for a gig there, once).

Congestion does a lot, too; the station I started at was 1,000 watts at 1400khz, and could be clearly heard 60 miles away. AM1280 is 5,000 at 1280khz, and can barely be heard 20 miles from their transmitter.

As in so many things - power is good.

Correct, KBFK 1530 in Sac is also 50,000 Watts

Here folks, you can play with this:

http://www.radio-locator.com/

WJNO 1290 in WPB carries only one Air America program--the Randi Rhodes show, which originates with WJNO and has been carried by WJNO for at least the last 3 or 4 years. In terms of overall programming, WJNO has a conservative tilt. Glenn Beck (traditional family values/libertarian), Paul Harvey, and Rush precede Ms. Rhodes on WJNO and Phil Hendrie (talk radio satire) and George Noory (paranormal interests) follow. I think WJNO can be heard reasonably well throughout PBC and probably beyond. Ms. Rhodes used to also be carried by WIOD 610 in Miami but was dropped a couple of years ago in favor of another Florida-based talk show host.

John,

Thanks for that. I think I'm going to go to each station's website and see if I can figure out, by show, exactly how much of FrankenNet's weekly schedule is actually seeing air.

1660 KXTR in Kansas City must have some
whomping signal, it can be heard in Norway!

http://www.kxtr.com/home/longdistancelisteners.asp

My first two stations (KEYJ, Jamestown ND - 1KWday/250W night @1400khz and KDAK, Carrington ND - 250w1600khz) got QSL cards from Finland, Britain,

Excellent. Air America radio has all you right wing wackos quite worried. You can predict the death of liberal radio all you want, but the latest polls do show The O'Franken Factor more popular in New York City then Rush "Big Fat Idiot" Limbaugh after only about 6 weeks on the air. Poor right wingers; maybe you can get the Republican Congress to pass a law to ban liberal radio...

Too bad you Righties. AM 1530 (Minneapolis) and AM 740 (St. Paul) is now broadcasting good lefty stuff all weekend too.

www.straighttalkradio.com is the web site, but it only shows the weekday 9am - 5pm lineup. I haven't found any listing of the new weekend schedule.

You greedy right-wingers: You've had a monopoly on lying right-wing hate radio on at least 3 stations in the Twin Cities. Now its time to for one lefty station. And no, its not going off the air. Plenty of us are contributing $50 or $100 to keep it on the air (www.straightalkradio.com to contribute) in case it doesn't make it commerically, or just to expand its programming.

Greed is not good.

"Jumiee"

Er, where does "Greed" come from? Are you capable of saying "Right" without tossing in "Greed"? Do you call your right foot your "Greedy right foot?"

Any commercial radio station that needs *donations* to stay on the air, won't stay on the air. The fact that they'd ask should be all the clue you need that it's a joke.

And the stuff they're broadcasting? Pfft. If it were conservative, it'd never get on the air.

By the way, your math is a little stunted, J-dog. What "three" conservative stations are there? WWTC, certianly. KSTP? Probably half conservative. What else is there? If you say WCCO, be ready to forfeit any crediblity you might plan to claim.