Steaming Mad: Air America in Atlanta is Gone
ARGHHHHH! Turned on the radio in the car to my customary 1690 WWAA AM station to hear Air America. BUT NOOOOOOO! Air America in Atlanta is GONE.
J.W. Broadcasting, headed by Joe Weber (as in grills?), purchased the assets of radio station WWAA-AM (Avondale Estates) from Intermart Broadcasting of Georgia for $12 million. Weber has switched over the content of 1160’s programming to 1690, and it now broadcasts from Adel. JW Broadcasting was formed in May 2003 to acquire television stations in small to mid-sized markets. The Company’s initial acquisition was a triopoly in Columbia-Jefferson City, MO (FOX affiliate, ABC affiliate and UPN affiliate).
Much of the AM market here is thick with church stations and conservative talk-show hosts. Even NPR has gone downhill. The only other good station I’ve even heard about is FM 89.3 WRFG (Radio Free Georgia) – but it doesn’t come in for me. It’s supposed to have a progressive news hour at noon, free speech news at four, and Democracy Now at five. I’ve written to them to request that they strengthen their signal and adopt at least some of the Air America content.
It’s just that little extra kick in the face that the company is named “J.W.” Broadcasting.
Yes, I can still listen to AAR online, but I don’t really listen while I’m on the computer. I listen in the car. Now Air America is gone, and I can’t stand the other stations.
ooooooooo, I am so angry.
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Joe Weber as in the former owner of Caravan (Bakery) Products,
now an apparent eccentric with too much money on his hands who buys radio stations and uses them as his personal IPods. Too weird to be true isn’t it? Makes the Republicans-want-to-use-their-money-to-shut-AA-down conspiracy theory believable, doesn’t it?
Suggestion. Listen to 1690. Take down any commercial sponsors
and any arts group (the station calls itself “The Voice of the Arts”) heard on the station and boycott them.
Here is how to contact 1160 (now 1690) and here are sponsors listed on their website. Each should be contacted to make sure there is noise about AA being off the air. (Al Franken is not enough).
1690 Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
1100 Spring Street, Suite 610
Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone Numbers:
Phone: (404) 681-9307
Request Line: (404) 223-1160
Fax: (404) 870-8859
E-mail:
Vice President/General Manager Jeff Davis: jeffdavis@am1160.net
Larry Larson: larrylarson@am1160.net
Helen Kopec: helenkopec@am1160.net
Scott Glazer: scottglazer@am1160.net
General E-mail: listeners@am1160.net
Sponsors:
Vision Computers, Inc.
5865 Jimmy Carter Blvd.
Norcross, GA 30071
800-886-4466
770-840-0015
sales@visioncomputers.com
Champion (Atlanta – 770-454-7323)
National Corporate Headquarters
Champion Windows Manufacturing Inc.
12121 Champion Way | Cincinnati, OH 45241
513.346.4600 | 800.875.5575
The Original Gutterguard
North Georgia
(Corporate Headquarters)
(800) 838-6450
Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre
Our address is:
5239 Floyd Rd
Mableton, GA 30126
Our phone number is:
770-819-7765
Theatrical Outfit
PO BOX 1555
Atlanta, GA 30301
Box Office: 678-528-1500
Email: boxoffice@theatricaloutfit.org
Reliable Air
(tel) 770-594-9066
(fax) 770-998-4809
Email
Sales Department: sales@reliableair.com
Service Department: service@reliableair.com
Billing Department: billing@reliableair.com
15021 Highway 92
Woodstock, GA 30188
Brand Atlanta, Inc.
100 Colony Square
1175 Peachtree Street
Suite 1660
Atlanta, GA 30361
info@ATLopen.com
comptroller@ATLopen.com
Presbyterian Homes of Georgia, Inc.
Toll-free: 1-800-808-3309
Email: info@phgainc.org
Julia Karoly’s Beautage
Skin Restoration System
4335 South Lee Street #C
Buford, GA 30518
866.352.7659
(fax) 678.482.6030
orders@beautage.com
Southern Landscape Lighting
Phone : 770-451-0001
Email : billstovall@southernlandscapelighting.com
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