From cross-town blogger Elisabeth Riba:
It’s nearly a half-hour to the broadcast premiere of Air America Radio, and it looks like their website is completely overloaded and unusable….
But don’t despair! Commenting in an Atrios thread Chris Tucker has posted a list of the affiliates which have their own streaming audio. So you can point your browser to one of these sites and still listen to the inaugural broadcast….
I realize that the limited market rollout of this new liberal talk radio means that many can’t hear it broadcast over the ether, but does anyone else find it odd that liberals are scrambling to find a webcast of the show? After all, treating Air America as the equivalent of an NPR internet broadcast seems to go against the whole raison d’etre of talk radio to begin with. It’s as if instead of talk radio, we’ve instituted “talk radio.”
Or am I being too old media in my thinking?
UPDATE: Now I’ve come across the Unofficial Paul Krugman Page, which exorts, “if you have a website and you are able, please put a permanent and *prominent* link to Air America Radio’s live audio feed on your site, just like the one I did above. If more websites do this, more people will remember to listen while they surf the web, and this will help liberal radio towards getting a strong base of listenership.” So I’m not simply being too old media in my thinking. There’s something substantially different about the reception of liberal “talk radio” and conservative talk radio. In essence, we seem to be wanting less a radio station than another Atrios, only webcast in audio.
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