There's one in Washington, D.C., too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/07/radio-sputnik-wzhf/
Its owner makes the same "free speech" argument. Meanwhile, in Russia, the woman who held up the sign on TV can't be located by her lawyers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/15/marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-russia-television-protester/ On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 11:14:37 AM UTC-4 Bob Jersey wrote: > He must think DN! is like NPR, which strictly governs their local-advert > breaks. (Pay no attention to the RT America post... I found the earlier > report about their demise) B > > Mark Jeffries, March 15th: > >> KCXL in suburban Kansas City, a station devoted to rightwing talk and >> religion that once carried Alex Jones and claims on its website that it >> airs "the truth...the liberal media won't tell you," airs six hours daily >> of the Russian government service Radio Sputnik--three hours in morning >> drive and three hours in the evening, getting paid over $500,000 a week, >> huge money for a station with no full-time employees. The radio lobbying >> group the National Association of Broadcasters has called on stations to >> drop Sputnik (and on television, RT), but owner Pete Schartel waves the >> First Amendment flag and claims that the NAB is doing a disservice to >> "independent broadcasters": >> >> https://radioink.com/2022/03/11/station-owner-receiving-threats/ >> >> If he's so "independent," how come he doesn't run "Democracy Now!"? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/961994d9-7768-43cf-bc11-cc83db62ec58n%40googlegroups.com.
