Montel Williams joins Air America on April 6th (9 AM-noon ET)

[clbuck]

http://airamerica.com/blog/2009/mar/11/air-america-introduces-montel-williams-show

Meet Air America's newest addition, Emmy award-winning host Montel Williams! His new Air America program is called “Montel Across America,” and it debuts April 6 airing weekdays from 9am-12pm EST on radio stations across the country. It will also be streamed live online at www.airamerica.com.

“Montel is a multi-media star and a familiar name to millions of people across the country,” said Bennett Zier, chief executive officer of Air America Media. “The addition of Montel to our talent line-up is an important step for the continued growth of Air America, as we look to distribute Montel’s show across America.”

“We’re extremely pleased to be able to add such a talented, passionate voice to our programming line-up,” added Bill Hess, senior vice president of programming for Air America Media. “This program will give Montel an outlet to do what he does best--reach people with his probing questions and insatiable quest for knowledge.”

Also:

A new program, hosted by Lionel, who is currently heard in this timeslot, is in development.

[luvspeas]

1. :puke

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[Bobbie Jo]

2. Meh.

:boring:

[annabanana]

3. WTF!!! That shill for big Pharma? What the hell is AA thinking?

In no way can the universe be twisted where that guy has a place on a "liberal" network...


edit: My eyes told me the subject was "Montel joins the Air Force". . (which would make more sense to me)

[marmar]

4. Air America has lost its way........

...... (understatement intentional).

[edhopper]

5. Don't matter here in New York

we got some quack pushing his "better way to health".

[rvablue]

6. Why Liberal talk radio is a failure: Exhibit A

I cannot stand this guy.

[clbuck]

7. My thoughts about this:

Just what progressive talk needs: yet another celebrity playing radio. What's the point? There's no chance in hell that the affiliates are going to drop Stephanie Miller in favor of Montel; she pretty much owns that time slot.

Besides, AAR already tried something like this before in this time slot with Jerry Springer, and pretty much failed miserably.