'The O'Franken Factor' premieres Wednesday March 31st opposite ...

[skeptic9]

... Rush Limbaugh. I just saw Franken promote it on Letterman.

In addition to taunting O'Reilly, evidently Franken's going after Rush again. Remember his book, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot"? There's an MSNBC story about the new show on Progress Media's Air America at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3980903/

[sadiesworld]

1. Actually, I thought the Letterman performance was weak.

I am a huge Franken fan, but that did not work for me.

[buycitgo]

2. all a matter of taste

some I liked.....calling himself OFranken, calling OReilly, "Reilly"

reading his ads in Rush's voice

looking forward to hearing him on radio

what a welcome respite from allday/allnight fascist propaganda, from National PetRad to WLS to WGN to KDKA to KOA to WTMJ to KMOX to WBAP
to you name it

[Melodybe]

3. I can't wait until March 31

It will be streamed live over the internet, right?

[skeptic9]

7. Yes--it'll be streamed. A site search for 'Franken'...

... at a leading trade publication (Billboard) brought up http://www.billboard.com/bb/biz/archivesearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000462747 as the most recent story. Though so far only Chicago, LA, and NY are sure to broadcast over the airwaves, Airamericaradio.com (now only a shell) is supposed to stream Air America over the Internet.

Other news in the story:

"Public Enemy frontman Chuck D will co-host a daily show on Air America Radio, a new liberal talk radio network set to launch March 31. ...

A number of high-profile comedians will be heard on the network's airwaves. Al Franken will host the three-hour "The O'Franken Factor" daily at noon with co-host Katherine Lanpher, which promises "fearless barbs, sketches and interviews." Janeane Garofalo and political humorist Sam Seder will co-host "The Majority Report" a nightly four-hour block beginning at 8 p.m. and Marc Maron will participate in the morning show "Uprising" (6-9 a.m.) with co-hosts Sue Ellicott and Mark Riley.

Air America's afternoons will boast "The Randi Rhodes Show" (3-7 p.m.) and will be followed by the one-hour "So What Else Is News?" anchored by Marty Kaplan. Weekends will feature "Champions of Justice," hosted by environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papatanio, along with yet to be announced original programming and "best of" segments culled from the daily shows."

[Zinfandel]

13. Wait until you listen to him on the air everyday for three hours,

for a month...you'll be choking your dog, with that dry slow cadence.

I like the Franken, don't get me wrong, but listening to him on the radio everyday for the next year as pigman Limbaugh's millions of listeners do everyday, to keep his rating up.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Hmmmm...anyone know any stations?

I've heard that Chicago is going to be in the first batch of markets, and I'd like to be there the first minute this airs!

[buycitgo]

5. that would be AM950, currently en espanol

I'll be listening from the getgo

[chicagojoe]

6. Al Franken on the air !!! It'll be great !!!

[buycitgo]

8. also on will be Liz Windstedt (sp) the original CREATOR of.......

the Daily Show!

with Craig Kilbourn

it was VERY VERY good when she was in charge, but he treated he like a ho, and she quit

interesting story'

she's quite funny.....funnier than Franken, and excellent political instincts

looking forward to her

wondering how J Garofalo will do

[M0rpheus]

11. An alternative...

To all Conservative all the time, WLS and it's ilk.

I can't wait!!!

Let's see, the 31st is next Wed.
Gonna get up early for this.:bounce:

[skeptic9]

9. Along with WNTD (Chicago 950), the Billboard story lists ...

... KBLA (Los Angeles 1580) and WLIB (New York City 1190).

To make room for Air America, Progress Media's partner Percy Sutton is removing some African-American talk radio hosts from some of his Inner City Broadcasting line-ups. See

This displacement of African-American radio by a predominantly white "Rainbow" lineup is somewhat controversial -- see gristy's DU discussion at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1276840

[Zinfandel]

14. SF, LA, NY, Boston & Chicago.

[American Renaissance]

10. he is a dead man,

It is nice to see him stick it to 'em, but I hope he is taking safety measures. Because he is pissing off heavily armed and mentally unstable people.

[truthspeaker]

12. I wondered where Katherine Lanpher was going!

MPR was advertising for her replacement. Now I know why.