KPLY shakeup brings new faces to Reno talk radio

[stevedeshazer]

New progessive format on a Reno station...

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2005/02/27/93270.php?sps=rgj.com&sch=LocalNews&sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

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Sports announcer Jim Rome is used to talking about big-time trades. Now, he’s fallen victim to one.

Rome’s sports-talk show will leave the Reno-area airwaves Monday, to replaced by liberal mouthpiece and former “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer Al Franken.

The frequency now allotted to Americom Broadcasting’s sports-heavy KPLY-AM will become KJFK-AM, a progressive-talk station, said Daniel Cook, general manager of Americom’s Reno Radio Representatives.

In exchange for Rome, Reno audiences will get political satirist Franken and other moderate-to-liberal hosts, including Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Lionel, and Ed Schultz, whose show has already begun airing on the station.
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And they said it wouldn't work, no one would listen....

[YDogg]

1. Cool ...

... very cool. Glad to see progressivism gaining more traction.

[David__77]

2. Excellent news for northern Nevada.

Las Vegas is emerging as a Democratic metro area. I hope that Reno sheds its right-leaning track record soon. It's much more diverse than in the past. I love going to Reno!