RIP Progressive Talk 680 WSMB (WWTQ) 8/31/2007

SAVE PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO IN MEMPHIS

Target:
Entercom Memphis and stations considering a progressive talk format
Let's let Entercom Memphis know we were listening and encourage them to bring this format back to Memphis radio.  If they are unwilling, let's let other stations know we would support them and their advertisers.
Please visit http://www.memphiscatman.blogspot.com/ for updates, audio links to progressive talk shows and more.
Email me at memphiscatman@aol.com to get on the mailing list.  We need to organize an event so the media can see us!
Visit http://www.nonstopradio.com/ to see what people are doing in other communities.
Thanks much!  Brian Stuhr
Let's let Entercom Memphis know we were listening and encourage them to bring this format back to Memphis radio.  If they are unwilling, let's let other stations know we would support them and their advertisers.
Please visit http://www.memphiscatman.blogspot.com/ for updates, audio links to progressive talk shows and more.
Email me at memphiscatman@aol.com to get on the mailing list.  We need to organize an event so the media can see us!
Visit http://www.nonstopradio.com/ to see what people are doing in other communities.
Thanks much!  Brian Stuhr
We the undersigned want you to know that we listen to and support the advertisers of progressive talk radio.  Please bring this format back to the Memphis area.  Thank you for your time and consideration.
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We signed the "SAVE PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO IN MEMPHIS" petition!
# 187:
6:31 pm PST, Dec 3, Timmy Ray, Tennessee
I wish we around nashville could get Progressive talk, All we get is red neck talk. TIM
# 186:
2:09 pm PST, Dec 3, Toug Chen, Tennessee
# 185:
9:58 am PST, Dec 3, Name not displayed, California
We want progressive Talk Radio in Memphis. We don't live in the South, now, but have friends who do - they deserve to be able to listen to whatever they please, IF it is available. Please make it available - this is still America.
# 184:
7:25 am PST, Nov 14, Bryan Freehling, Pennsylvania
# 183:
2:53 am PST, Nov 12, Gregory Schuman, Tennessee
Please bring back a progressive radio station to Memphis. I miss Randi Rhodes on my 60 min commute.
# 182:
7:04 am PST, Nov 11, Name not displayed, Iowa
Please spare us from more sport. Bring back progressive radio. Help make Americans an educated voting public. The media must take their share of responsibility for the disaster that is Iraq. The public must hear all viewpoints.
# 181:
6:26 pm PST, Nov 8, William Shepherd, Tennessee
Progressive talk is so important to our community--Let's organize. I'll help sell the spots! Contact me, please.
# 180:
8:13 pm PDT, Nov 3, Susan Sharpe, California
Please do not silence the voice of progressive talk radio.
# 179:
9:19 am PDT, Nov 2, Tyree V Johnson, Illinois
I was down memphis way the week-end. I was expecting to be able to listen to air america on 680am, and came to find out, that now it is a right-wing station. I heard a Hannity sound bite, talking about how the dems can't manage anything, and that air america is doing broke. Please update me. Has 680 changed? You all have got to hit the neo's with The Word of God. They all claim to be christians, but do and act otherwide. Matthew 15:8, "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me their lips, but their heart is far from me." Proverbs 29:2, "when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn." We are truly mouring because of them. Because of the neo's and their lies; if the over 3800 flag-draped coffins from Iraq were lined up end to end, there would be a line of flag draped coffins about six (6) miles long. And this is all because of the lies that were told, to get the war going. Galatians 6:7, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." The dems can no longer be ashamed to make mention of The Word of God, otherwise it will come back to haunt us. Over & Out, Tyree, Hillside, IL., U.S. Air Force Vet
# 178:
5:31 pm PDT, Oct 29, Lori Eades, Tennessee
Bring back Air America Radio. I miss Randi and Rachel!
# 177:
9:04 pm PDT, Oct 16, Terri Dunn, New Mexico
SAVE PROGRESSIVE TALK RADIO IN MEMPHIS!
# 176:
9:07 am PDT, Oct 14, Denise Heater, California
Please keep our only progressive talk radio station in San Diego!! Let's not regress but continue to be pro-gressive!!
# 175:
1:10 pm PDT, Oct 11, Name not displayed, California
# 174:
12:54 pm PDT, Oct 11, Lily Mitchel, Oregon
I am sad to think that there is such animosity toward hearing different points of view that they are tryiing to shut us down... We will not be silent, we will not accept a right -wing monopoly of the publicly-owned airwaves. What ever happened to that good old-fashioned sense of fairness and equality we were brought up to cherish???
# 173:
11:44 am PDT, Oct 11, Carole McGraw, California
All points of view are necessary in a free society. The progressive viewpoint is fast becoming the mainstream point of view due to the freedom of speech on radio, and the internet. Please continue the progressive radio, we have too many sports channels as it is.
# 172:
12:10 pm PDT, Oct 9, Susanna Weston, Tennessee
Please reinstate Air America.
# 171:
10:39 am PDT, Oct 9, Name not displayed, California
# 170:
7:58 am PDT, Oct 9, A Vanslyke, California
The "right-wing" radio is so dishonest and hypocritical represive, disgusting, and fascist oriented to the exclusion of reason, so what can you expect from the assholes who own and put on the air most of these human damaging stations!!! rush Slimebaugh, bic, and hanityhonorless are three prime examples of hatred and hypocrisy which much of the stupid population buys. It's disgusting and there NEEDS TO BE A COUNTERMESSAGE OF HOPE!
# 169:
11:15 pm PDT, Oct 8, Carol Lapetino, Illinois
# 168:
12:01 pm PDT, Oct 8, Carlos Richardson III, California
It's about an informed citizenry and safeguarding and fighting for democracy.
# 167:
6:05 pm PDT, Oct 7, Anthony Osburn, Tennessee
Please help re-instate talk channel 680 to Progressive status. We need to hear the Truth and no more lies.
# 166:
5:52 am PDT, Sep 30, Gary Cannon, Oklahoma
# 165:
8:28 pm PDT, Sep 25, Carol Shinker, California
# 164:
5:03 pm PDT, Sep 25, Juan Escalona, Tennessee
# 163:
3:44 pm PDT, Sep 25, Polly Odyssey, Missouri
# 162:
11:55 pm PDT, Sep 23, Patricia Watterworth, Washington
# 160:
12:45 am PDT, Sep 22, Name not displayed, Tennessee
We need an alternative view point on the airways in this era of AM cookie cutter (conservative)radio that runs counter to every poll and majority view point in America. Hartmann radio show is enlightening and informative. Where else would get a real debate on the major issues of the day. Keep Air America on the airways.
# 159:
12:40 am PDT, Sep 22, Lori Lasko, Oregon
Counteract suppression of free speech. Counteract systemic monopolization of media!
# 158:
10:42 pm PDT, Sep 21, Mark Danisovszky, California
This is America. We must be heard. Thank You.
# 157:
8:40 pm PDT, Sep 21, Pete Philippis, California
save progressive talk!
# 156:
3:08 pm PDT, Sep 21, Eileen Dover, California
# 155:
9:18 am PDT, Sep 21, David Moore, Tennessee
# 154:
2:35 pm PDT, Sep 20, Gared Oudeans, Wisconsin
# 153:
6:28 am PDT, Sep 20, Anne Rolfe, Tennessee
We NEED Air America in the Memphis market!
# 152:
3:40 pm PDT, Sep 19, Ranetta Jackson, Tennessee
# 151:
1:17 pm PDT, Sep 19, Jin Emerson-Cobb, Tennessee
Fascism destroys the separation of corporate power & govt power. It%u2019s what we get when greedy CEOs decide what we can or can%u2019t do. It%u2019s called %u201Cgiving us the BIZnissss.%u201D A mere 6 corporations now monopolize mainstream US media. That means we get propaganda instead of news. In Feb. 2003, e.g., a Fla. appeals court ruled for Fox %u2018News%u2019 that there%u2019s no law against distorting or falsifying the news; i.e., they can %u201Clegally%u201D LIE to us. (The suit involved recombinant bovine growth hormone made by Monsanto, the corporation that is destroying our food supply through genetic engineering & terminator seeds while the media ignore it.) So WSMB now marches to the jingle of fascist profit motive, helping to dumb down the populace. I will NEVER again listen to it or support its sponsors. (I now hear Mike Malloy, Thom Hartmann, et al. on NOVA M, 1480 KPHX, via the Internet.) - See how gradually the corporatists are taking over our information, our govt, & our lives (sacrificed to a death-profiteers%u2019 war of choice)? If we don%u2019t object to the first %u201Clittle%u201D changes, then everything will be taken away. Here%u2019s a relevant quote from %u201CThey Thought They Were Free %u2013 The Germans, 1933-45%u201D by Milton Mayer: "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security.%u201D WSMB is now part of the problem. I%u2019d hoped for truly progressive talk radio in Memphis, but fascists love Money, not America. It looks like the only peaceful solution left to regain our balanced (non-fascist) system of govt & our access to truth is to have a general strike of at least 3 days: no work, no school, no buying anything, no using the media or utilities grid - & to repeat it until they understand. The 11th, 12th, & 13th of each month seem appropriate, because corporate-fascists made a LOT of money from Sept. 11th & are still making BILLIONS from the suffering & death caused by their war on Iraq.