Help keep a Progressive Talker on the air. . .

Hey all!

Brad Friedman of BradBlog has been doing an excellent job of keeping the news up to date on the PBC show. Here’s the link to the latest:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6992#more-6992

And the “above the fold” text:

Not Dead YET: A ‘Peter B. Collins Show’ Update
Listener activists scramble to keep the Progressive talker on the air,
but time is short, and the fight is difficult…

I wanted to offer an update on the Peter B. Collins situation, that I
detailed last Friday following Peter’s announcement that he would be
leaving the air after this Friday’s program due to the difficult time he
has been having in continuing to self-finance and self-syndicate his
daily, live radio show in this economic climate, and under the rigid
Progressives-need-not-apply rightwing corporate control of our public
airwaves. [Disclosure: I am a regular weekly guest and occasional
fill-in host for PBC, just to get that out of the way.]

Following last Friday’s announcement on his show, some of the audio of which we posted with last week’s article, a number of listeners have
been working to help determine if sustainable funding could be raised to keep PBC on the air. I’ve been in close touch with Peter, both before his announcement last week, and since then. I have, of course, offered any help I might be able to provide, but what can feasibly done has been difficult to determine.

He noted during last week’s show that his monthly costs are just over
$5000 to stay on the air, and that while a miracle could happen to help keep him on the air, stations had been notified, and the outlook wasn’t good.

Folks have asked me what can be done, and I’ve been doing my best to try and figure that out, while respecting both listeners’ feelings (and the avoidance of building up hopes, only to see them dashed) and Peter’s concerns, which are similar. But I’ll take the liberty of trying to share some of his feelings here, many of which he’s now shared himself publicly in a blog item he posted at his website over the weekend, and then during today’s program (selected audio from which I’ll post at the end of this article) in response to a number of callers rallying to see what they can do to help keep him on the air…

For more, go to http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6992#more-6992

Yours in the Cause,
Aldous Tyler,
NonStop Radio

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