Reply #18: A few specific suggestions. [View All]

[tomreedtoon]

1) Get Randi Rhodes a co-host. She sits and talks about whatever SHE wants on her show. She runs into commercial breaks. She has few callers. She needs someone to react against, and someone to occasionally tell her to SHUT UP.

2) On the Internet feed, get something besides music to play during the "local break" slots. It wouldn't hurt for them to do what other networks do: broadcast PSA's during that time. Of course, they would have the option of broadcasting PSA's for groups with progressive agendas, instead of just the standard Boy Scout/Arbor Day things.

For that matter, I wouldn't mind a little sponsorship in those internet feeds, so they could make back the money it costs to host those feeds.

3) There are a lot of listeners out there who could record things and send them in. You want more entertainment value? How about having contests for listener-supplied bits and segments?

4) How about a host somewhere to do a more black, urban, street-level show? Kind of like what Chuck D used to do? Something for those people who are dirt poor and struggling - you know, the people that progressive causes say they want to help?