Thursday, March 25, 2004
I GUESS YOU COULD CALL IT HIGH CLASS ...
Al Franken's radio campaign to help John Kerry become the nation's second black President seems to have advanced the ball a few yards. New York's premier black activist radio station has just announced it is dumping its tradition lineup of Black-produced programing in favor of Franken's new Air America Radio talk radio network (hat tip: I Want Media).
Inner City Broadcasting Corporation Chairman Pierre Sutton is pumped:
Inner City Broadcasting Corporation Chairman Pierre Sutton is pumped:
We are excited about the diverse and important voices Air America Radio is bringing to the airwaves, both on our own WLIB signal and others.An anonymous former station staffer was less thrilled:
That's what you call 'high-class B.S.!'Plans are to keep only a few of the station's leading Black radio personalities. The Air America Radio lineup does boast a Black co-host for one segment: rapper Chuck D.
