That compendium of liberal grassroots heat and light, The Northwest Progressive Institute has gone, multimedia, having posted their inaugural podcast on Jan.18.
What we're excited about is that they're also broadcasting them over the radio starting today on 94.5 FM in Seattle (104.5 in Fall City, Snoqualmie, and Carnation). No blowtorch, this, but we suspect this is only the beginning for these progressive activists' broadcasting.
(The Institute, under the direction of Andrew Villenueve, has played large parts defeating various Tim Eyman initiatives and was instrumental in the resounding defeat of the anarchic anti-roads initiative 912 last Fall).
"We're hopeful other stations will air our podcasts." Villeneuve says. "We'll likely break future podcasts into two shorter segments for radio, which means we'll be delivering four "mini episodes," or segments for airplay each month, running each audio segment several times on air."
They'll drill down on local politics and the Pacific Northwest.
"Our regular episodes will focus on important issues and campaigns, offering vital information and what we hope will be refreshing perspectives," Villeneuve says. He promises they'll listen to feed back and take input from listeners.
Examples of possible topics range from defending transportation funding from attacks by right wing anti-tax zealots to focusing attention on key campaigns for elected office, such as the race for Washington's 8th Congressional District.
In the NWPI audio archives are some of Villeneuve's appearances on KVI and a bunch of David "Goldy" Goldstein's (horsesass.org) entertaining appearances on the John Carlson show punching the rhetorical lights out of various opponents on questions as diverse as 'Is Intelligent Design intelligent or just design?' to 'Will Dino Rossi's hair piece survive a wet winter?'
"We have a long way to go to take our country back from the Republican right," says Villeneuve, "Every piece of media infrastructure we create helps us as a movement and as a Party."
I saw stock yard, Vinne on tv yesterday , man I can see why he won the ulgy radio talk show host this year , now if he can do something about his radio show , ( Ron and Don would work just fine )
Posted by: Brian | January 23, 2006 at 06:19 AM
I discovered 94.5fm (Super CFL) about six months ago. I immediately fell in love. Their play list is like nothing else on radio today, mostly obscure or long forgotten tunes of the 70's & 80's. But this is no KBSG or KJR, it is amateurish, upbeat and endearing. The stilted DJ banter (often consisting of strange facts & statistics straight out of the "weird newswire") always brings a smile to my face.
What a pleasure to hear unslick, unpackaged, inconsistent radio in this cookie cutter market.
Whenever I have had my fill of the talkers, 94.5 is my first stop. I can even retain my warm fuzzies for this eccentric little station in spite of the occasional canned commentary by kooky leftist Jim Hightower.
I was happy to hear someone else noticed the station that I thought was my little secret. It's a shame that CFL's pristine, refreshing programming will be sullied with even more off the wall leftist banter.
Posted by: Michael B. | January 23, 2006 at 09:48 AM
Hey, Michael B., please enlighten this(ohmygawd...as old as Joanie??!!) person how to access 94.5 on my radi-yo or streaming. What is Super CFL?
Posted by: Fremont | January 23, 2006 at 11:21 AM
Hi Fremont: "Super CFL" is an eccentric little radio station that can be found in Seattle at 94.5 FM. While they used to focus on long lost tunes from the 70's and 80's, they have a new morning guy (Cisco) who is doing a lot of 50's stuff.
They have two different streams at http://cflfm.com/ , the Ocean Shores (KYA) stream and the 94.5 FM Seattle Stream. I have never listened to the Ocean Shores stream so I can't comment on it.
Posted by: Michael B. | January 23, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Wow. Progressive podcasting on K-Billy. That's like going to a Brodeur/Westneat live reading with no Q and A afterwards, just "Stuck in the middle with you," by Stealers Wheel.
BTW- after Procaccino mispronouncing Grant Wistrom's last name (note to Mikey: Grant plays football) and then regaling us with an amusing anecdote about relocating to San Fran for a theater company, yet retaining a love for the Cincy Reds! Whew!
I know KIRO is set to maximize their Seahawk coverage.
I can't wait for Dave to pay tribute by singing some G and S.
He will actually sound like Frasier Crane discussing the local Red Stocking baseball franchise.
Posted by: Scrilla | January 23, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Scriller; I know quite a bit about football- (it's the ball pointed on both ends like a rat turd- right?) it's this Sea Hockey everybody's talking about that I need to know more about...
Posted by: blathering michael | January 23, 2006 at 06:58 PM
Bla Bla Bla
Posted by: John | August 08, 2007 at 10:15 PM