Fonda, Steinem Launch All-Women Radio Talk Network

[babylonsister]

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004847379

Fonda, Steinem Launch All-Women Radio Talk Network

September 13, 2006 1:55 p.m. EST

Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer

New York, NY (AHN)-Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.

The network, which is run by women, aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which Steinem describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated."

In an interview with Reuters, Steinem says, this network "has a different spirit. It has more community. It's more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing."

But, chief executive officer of Greenstone, Susan Ness, hopes the company will attract male listeners, saying "We do have male voices on the network. It's much better to have a mixture of voices."

Steinem pointed out that the idea of an all-women network stemmed from a company survey showing an 18 percent decrease in female listeners over the past seven years, telling Reuters, "Women are really fleeing from AM talk radio and now FM music because people get their music in different ways. So there's an enormous window of opportunity, and we're diving in."

[Cerridwen]

1. Here's their web site

http://www.greenstoneradio.com/listenertest/

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

:D

[Eric J in MN]

28. Opinions on any of the hosts?

Maureen Langan, Cory Kahaney, and Nelsie Spencer
Lisa Birnbach
Mo Gaffney and Shana Wride
Rolonda Watts

[Cerridwen]

32. So far I've only had time to listen to Mo and Shana's

"Women Aloud". So far, so good. :D

[TahitiNut]

2. Maybe they'll hire Katie Couric?

:rofl:

[stepnw1f]

3. or Anne Coulter? Lol...

Kidding... this good news. The more alternative radio the better.

[Cerridwen]

5. Well, "Women Aloud" discussed her debut...

Mo Gaffney talked about how she was the first woman who has been given the opportunity to read from a teleprompter at that time of the evening on a major network station. She seems to feel the reason Katie's ratings were so high the first night was because people were tuning in to see the first woman reading from a teleprompter. She thinks maybe people didn't think women were capable of doing that.


:rofl:

You can listen here Click on recent broadcasts.

edit: spelling

[sandnsea]

7. Except for Barbara and Connie

More American Amnesia I guess.

[Cerridwen]

8. They've mentioned Barbara...no mention yet of Connie. :D n/t

[TahitiNut]

13. Exactly.

I don't see Katie as an 'advance' ... it's 'tits and ass' superficiality. Disgusting.

Not that I have anything against 'tits and ass' -- aesthetics IS a branch of philosophy. :evilgrin:

[omega minimo]

37. Why are you so hostile to women?

What's the story TH? Is there something we should know about you?

[deaniac21]

4. Go for the BURN, baby!!!

[bigtree]

6. kewl

beans

[Swamp Rat]

9. EXCELLENT!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Cerridwen]

10. K & R....n/t

[bobbolink]

18. Love erma's quote! Expresses it exactly!!

Thanks for having that in your sigline! :thumbsup:

Erma was too cool....

[Cerridwen]

20. You bet!

Glad to add my little piece to the knowledge base. :D

I love Erma!

[Balderdash]

26. Erma was wonderful!

I really miss her wit and common sense.

K&R

[Xenotime]

11. This will be the new era of radio...

[Tactical Progressive]

12. Very good marketing strategy. n/t

[pstokely]

14. maybe they can hire Randi?

[bobbolink]

21. uhhh, no. Randi "doesn't play well with others"

What I hear them describing is a whole different concept -- one of community, actual LISTENING (which Randi just can't grasp), and real communication.

That's a whole different thing, if they can actually pull that off. They have some strong women, so I have some hope this is the beginning of some peace-making.

Good news!

[Greyhound]

15. #4, folks we need one more!

AA was a start, but fails to make the stands that are needed. :kick:

[babylonsister]

16. I can think of a few women I'd like to see, if only guest

appearances. Katrina Van der Heuvel, Rachel Maddow, Amy Goodman, Randi for starters.
This could be fun!

[Homer Wells]

17. Kicked and Recommended

NT

[jhain]

19. Cool- I was trying

to get to this site yesterday and it wouldn't load.

No problem tonight.

I am excited by this- ought to be well worth listening to every day!

Thanks again!

[NMDemDist2]

22. hard to get that activism out of your blood

Hooray for old broad activists (of which I am one) :evilgrin:

[vickitulsa]

24. Same here. I say, "Hooah for old broad activists!"

I'll be interested to see if Fonda can finally benefit from her many apologies to the Vietnam vets and see her other "ghosts" from her past laid to rest as well. Nine out of ten of my Nam vet pals still hate her with a passion that just won't go away, but I have to say I've been reassured about her genuineness enough to give her a real fair listen.

Wonder if she will be on the air much, though?

I bought the very first "premier" issue of MS. Magazine back in 1970 (I think it was, or maybe '71), off the shelf at a grocery store in a tiny West Texas town (Ft. Stockton) which was about as "red" as you can get. At that time I was already preparing to leave my husband who was not a bad guy in some respects but who did actually contribute to the George Wallace campaign, so you can imagine our political bents did not jive well at all. :D

So I read the thing from cover to cover in one sitting, loving especially "I Want A Wife" and excellent contributions from Steinem and many other names some of us have known for a long time now. But at the time most of those names were new to the reading public. Hell, if that grocery store manager had realized what was IN MS. Magazine, I'll bet he never would have put it out on the rack! :rofl:

I just couldn't shut up about the articles in the rag, and the fantastic women who wrote them. I kept reading snippets to my hubby, and the more I read, the more he fumed.

Finally, in the following months as we agreed on our divorce settlement and parted ways, he told me, "If you'd never found that g**damned MS. Magazine, we'd still be doing fine!"

I just roared. Exactly like when I read Erica Jong's classic Fear of Flying, it was just one of those things that I was ready for right BEFORE it came out!

I think to this day Gary still blames MS. and those YOUNG broad activists for the dissolution of our marriage!

Seems to me that, with the troubles AAR is having these days (and really had from the well-intentioned start), this new women's radio network might be just what we need. Time for that next generation to "pick up the torch," indeed, and I can think of no better way to reach them.

From Harriet Tubman to the early American suffragettes to Steinem and Germaine Greer -- and so many more, like Friedan and Sanger (the list goes on), we modern women have a lot of very brave ladies to thank and appreciate and learn from!

(I saw Germaine Greer debate William F. Buckley at Cambridge in 1973, and she creamed his ass ... literally and technically and in every way WON that debate. Made my day and maybe my year!)

Carry on, ladies -- this country definitely needs a new infusion of wisdom from women.

[NotGivingUp]

23. i admire the hell out of jane...and gloria too...but i disagree with

separating it by sex and making it into an issue that only women will listen to. makes no sense.

[vickitulsa]

25. Makes more sense than you might at first think.

We ladies weren't the ones who first "separated" us "by sex," after all. But enlightened feminists have been a lot more forgiving and gracious about including men in our world than it was the other way around. And men can be feminists too, ya know.

Hey, I love men. But I benefit a LOT from confabs with other women. And surely a women's network might attract some male listeners, if only to see what the gals are "up to" or hoping for a turn-on in the mix somewhere. I think they'll be pleased along with us a what they discover on THESE radio waves!

We'll see, I guess.... :)

(And I love your handle, NGU. I've even taken to using that little acronym a lot myself. Hope you don't mind!)

[NMDemDist2]

27. i disagree, the largest demographic of NON voting citizens are

young women

hopefully a radio station would enlighten them to become more political

[Eric J in MN]

29. A radio network needs a marketing angle. NT

NT

[omega minimo]

36. They're not "making it into an issue that only women will listen to"

That's why it "makes no sense." That's not what they're doing.

"The network, which is run by women, aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which Steinem describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated."

An alternative to that, get it? Current radio talk for the most part IS "seperated by sex and making it into an issue that" mostly men will listen to. (Argumentative, hostile, male-dominated). But that seems "normal," doesn't it?

"Steinem says, this network "has a different spirit. It has more community. It's more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing." "

"But, chief executive officer of Greenstone, Susan Ness, hopes the company will attract male listeners, saying "We do have male voices on the network. It's much better to have a mixture of voices." "

No doubt there are many men also who are ready for a different style, less "argumentative and hostile."

:hi:

[Cleita]

30. They will have no problem attracting male listeners if

they make the talk attractive, well half the time, to men and it doesn't have to all be about sports either.

[NotGivingUp]

31. hey 'ladies' don't you see the division here?

[mopinko]

35. that line is so old, the last time i heard it i fell off my

dinosaur. get out.

[CarlVK]

33. It's about time.

I just hope its not as vapid and squealy as "The View".

[omega minimo]

34. WOMEN

:yourock: