Attention Malloy fans...let's do something constructive. [View All]

[Pab Sungenis]

At last check, there were over 11,000 signatures on the "Reinstate Mike Malloy" petition.

Are we willing to put our money where Mike's mouth is?

The reason Laura Flanders is being kept on AAR, and supposedly getting Mike's spot, is because she brings a sponsor along with her: the Nation magazine.

Why can't Mike bring a sponsor along with him somewhere else?

There is one station that has gone out of their way in supporting Malloy: Air America Phoenix. The fact that Mike does his show from Atlanta (like Al does his from MPLS) is evidence that you don't need to be in the city that's broadcasting you.

I suggest we band together as many Malloy fans as we can, and pledge our support, not just with our mouths and our pens, but our money.

Let's form a "Friends Of the Mike Malloy Show" organization, pool money, and agree to buy time on Mike's show if AAPHX picks him up.

If even just half of the number of people who have signed, 5,500 people, offer to pony up $5.00 a month to keep Mike on the air, it would go a long way to covering the expense of putting the Malloy show on the air. And if those of us who can afford to pay more put out $10.00 a month, it could become very lucrative (and very attractive) to AAPHX or another station to bring back Malloy.

Once he's on one station, it's not much of a jump to do what Air America was SUPPOSED to do with Marc Maron, and have the host station syndicate it to other AAR affiliates who want Malloy back.

I'll be the first to pledge $10.00 a month, more if I can, just to get us our Mike and Kathy back. Is anyone else here willing to take that step?