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Loss of Air America's Best Host: Mike Malloy
RECEIVED Thu., Sept. 28, 2006
Dear Editor,
It’s no surprise that you neglected to mention the loss of Air America Radio’s best nighttime host, Mike Malloy, whose 9pm-midnight show was delayed until after midnight by KOKE when the station is virtually unhearable because the broadcast signal drops so dramatically around 7:30pm [“Changes at Air America,” News, Sept. 22]. Malloy is the progressives' most uncompromising and strongest antidote to the mainstream conservative gasbags who are all wind with no substance. Malloy has a large and loyal following and an online petition to AAR for his reinstatement has gathered more than 16,000 signatures. Many listeners were AAR loyalists primarily because of Malloy, who is a 25-year radio/media veteran and one of the co-founders of AAR, which claims his firing was due to financial reasons, although he was the lowest paid of the regulars. He is as relentlessly critical of Democratic Party leadership as he is of the current administration and it is speculated that his viewpoints toward the former are unpopular with prospective AAR investors. Re: Border Media Partner's commitment to progressive radio in Texas: KXEB in Dallas has been sold, and AAR will be silenced there. KOKE has been unimpressive since its arrival in Austin – technically inept and unresponsive to listeners' concerns. I gave up on them more than a year ago, especially after they pushed back Randi Rhodes’s show for that blubbering Ed Schultz and soccer from Dallas. I gave up on AAR when they fired Malloy.
It’s no surprise that you neglected to mention the loss of Air America Radio’s best nighttime host, Mike Malloy, whose 9pm-midnight show was delayed until after midnight by KOKE when the station is virtually unhearable because the broadcast signal drops so dramatically around 7:30pm [“Changes at Air America,” News, Sept. 22]. Malloy is the progressives' most uncompromising and strongest antidote to the mainstream conservative gasbags who are all wind with no substance. Malloy has a large and loyal following and an online petition to AAR for his reinstatement has gathered more than 16,000 signatures. Many listeners were AAR loyalists primarily because of Malloy, who is a 25-year radio/media veteran and one of the co-founders of AAR, which claims his firing was due to financial reasons, although he was the lowest paid of the regulars. He is as relentlessly critical of Democratic Party leadership as he is of the current administration and it is speculated that his viewpoints toward the former are unpopular with prospective AAR investors. Re: Border Media Partner's commitment to progressive radio in Texas: KXEB in Dallas has been sold, and AAR will be silenced there. KOKE has been unimpressive since its arrival in Austin – technically inept and unresponsive to listeners' concerns. I gave up on them more than a year ago, especially after they pushed back Randi Rhodes’s show for that blubbering Ed Schultz and soccer from Dallas. I gave up on AAR when they fired Malloy.
Margaret Weston
