–hotwire

How sweet is this, you can load up your favorite podcasts and hear them
right through your series2 tivo, this so rules! Oh and games they added
some fun little games but it would be better if you could PLAY the games
while listening to your favorite podcasts. Series 2 @ tivo.com and tell
them bfoster@onelproductions.com sent ya (I wanna get a fuzzy Tivo
guy!)
–hotwire

For today
–hotwire

Finally some freaking rain here in the valley, it’s been a hecl of
week. Nice to un-plug for a couple hours enjoy the wetness by doing
what else? The MALL
–hotwire

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SaveAirAmericaPhoenix.com …………

Press Release …..

OnSecondThought Announces
SaveAirAmericaPhoenix.com
Phoenix, AZ – Mar 06, 2006 On March 1, 2006 our Air America Phoenix station was bought by a Christian Broadcasting company who immediately took us off the air. This was a “dark” day for progressive talk radio in America. You have flooded us with emails pleading to get Air America back on the radio and asking how you can help. We have heard your cries and we can get us back on the air by April 3, 2006 !

The former staff of Air America Phoenix has negotiated a deal to resurrect operations at a new home effective April 3, 2006 but we need your help! We must immediately raise money to cover our operating expenses out of the gate. Our goal of $500,000 will guarantee us a home for years to come.

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Each person or business who donates can have their business logo or personal message permanently displayed on our new web site, www.gotStation.com, that will commemorate you, the true patriots who rallied to our cause. This is like “buying a brick” and having your name and message inscribed on it. Instead our “building” is the web page and the “bricks” are the pixels.
Please feel free to send a check or money order in any amount to: On Second Thought LLC 28248 N Tatum Blvd B1,#605 Cave Creek, AZ 85331 If you are tech savvy and would like to upload your business logo or content directly through our website and click Buy Pixels!

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About Mike Newcomb
Dr. Mike Newcomb is known in the media as a progressive political commentator. He is a regular contributor to the Arizona Republic newspaper, and the charismatic host of the smash hit liberal radio talk show”The Mike Newcomb Show” Mike is also a medical doctor who specializes in caring for the elderly and impoverished. He has a strong belief in the value of human health and dignity, and often treats his patients in the comfort and convenience of their own homes.

Website: http://www.mikenewcomb.net
About Save Air America Phoenix

We can do this! If the Christian broadcasters can raise money from their flock to buy airtime then so can we. As they say in the movie “Network”, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

Website: http://www.saveairamericaphoenix.com

OnSecondThought
Mike Newcomb
email: mike@onsecondthought.net
phone: 1-877-548-5144 Air America Phoenix
Jeff Farias
email: jfarias@aaphx.com
phone: 1-602-577-3837

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February 28th, 2006
Dear Friends of Air America Phoenix,
Thank you to the staff, the listeners and the clients for all you’ve done in the past 17 months.
You helped take an unrated, unprofitable AM radio station and pushed it to a tie for 3rd place out of 25 AM stations in Phoenix. You took that same AM station and made it profitable in less than a year and even after the sale was announced you stood by Air America Phoenix and we kept on making money even when our future was in doubt and we didn’t know when our “plug” was going to be pulled. In fact, the last month we were on the air was the 3rd best month we’ve had financially!
Air America Phoenix has now disappeared into the ether and Phoenix is left with multiple Christian formats, some in English and others in Spanish, several “brokered’ time stations (you know the radio stations selling you vitamins, good bowel movements and financial advice) a bagful of right wing “Conservative Talk stations” featuring Rush, Sean, Laura, Bill Bennett, Savage, Medved and all of their local imitators, three “Sports Talk” stations that live off the largess of their sister stations in the big corporate clusters that dominate the dial in Phoenix. Is anyone enjoying Tony Snow on KTAR…did anyone ask for him? And there are 3 “nostalgia” stations on AM and another on the FM dial. (The inside radio joke on nostalgia is that listeners are “dying” for it!) CBS’ new “Free” FM is another station loaded with sophomoric chatter, but without the interruption of overplayed songs! Free FM is a continuous loop of bad FM morning show humor 24 hours a day! CBS should have stood by Howard Stern and they will regret the day they didn’t!
Phoenix has 60 odd radio signals on the AM and FM dial and the best of those signals are owned by four companies; CBS, Clear Channel, Bonneville and Sandusky, they play it safe and considering the level of investment, it is certainly understandable. Innovation and change has to come from the smaller clusters and the one and two station owners. Will they innovate? Take a chance like we did with THE STATION WE CAN’T MENTION? Probably not, they never have and they never will, like the classic definition of insanity they “continue to do the same thing over and over expecting different results”! Only a special company like James Crystal would let me take the chance, Thanks, Jim!
Over the past 4 months I have tried to raise the money to buy a new station for Air America Phoenix. We made offers on 2 stations; one didn’t have an adequate signal to insure success and the other was laughably over priced. I have talked to more BS artists and rich guys who pretend they want to get “involved” and “progressive” venture firms that live in the world of “new media” and think that good old terrestrial radio, the kind that everyone has access to and is free 24/7, is so “over”! When I finally put together the right banker and the right investors, we were out of time! I’m mad at myself for wasting time with the charlatans, the BS artists and the dreamers. I’m also worn out and I have to publicly apologize to the love of my life, Jan, for being so damn grumpy and short since last fall. Baby, you have been just great, thank you!
I need to thank all the great network people; Al, Mike, Stephanie, Sam and Jeanine. And of course my friend Ed Schultz who was the first on and signed! And Randi…I always love you more!
This has been the single best experience I’ve had in broadcasting, better than being number one in Boston! THE STATION WE CAN’T MENTION has simply been the best. The people I’ve worked with at AA Phoenix have been the most dedicated, hard working and they wouldn’t leave when I tried (twice) to throw them out of the building. I love you all and as Jan says we are a family!
Thank you for all you’ve done!
Robert J ChristyGeneral Manager, Air America Phoenix, THE STATION WE CAN’T MENTION
PS the new GM of THE STATION WE CAN’T MENTION is Jess Spurgin