"Thoughts on Air America" ran here on March 5, 2006 and was the result of an e-mail where a woman wrote with great passion about how Air America Radio was under attack. One of her concerns was the fact that AAR had lost its Arizona station, KXXT, which had gone from extremely low rated to third in the market due to switching to Air America Radio programming. The reward? KXXT switched to religious programming.
From "Air America's Phoenix affiliate drops talk format" (The Business Journal of Phoenix, March 2nd).
KXXT 1010 AM was Air America's radio home in Phoenix, featuring left of center talkers such as Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Ed Schultz, who routinely chastise the Bush administration and rival conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. But KXXT's owners sold the station to a Christian broadcasting group last year and the station's format officially went from political talk to religious content on Wednesday.
Good news for Blulady (who was the reader who wrote in on this topic) and all the people who wrote in after we ran the thoughts feature. From "Air America gets new home on radio dial in Valley" (azcentral.com):
Air America Radio has found a new home in the Valley.
The liberal-talk network will debut Monday on KPHX-AM (1480). Nova M Radio, a company headed by Valley radio personality Mike Newcomb and Air America founders Sheldon and Anita Drobny, will lease the radio station.