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Progressive Radio NorthWest, PRNW ~~~ the Other Washington


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Our small Progressive Radio Seattle Team is expanding with new people bringing new ideas and options to the table.

For starters, the Team decided on a name change: We are now Progressive Radio Northwest (PRNW). We’ve heard from enthusiastic progressive radio listeners from every corner of the region and wanted our name to reflect the scope and intensity of the public commitment to bring progressive talk BACK to free public airwaves and beyond.

Here are some activities coming up where you can help spread the word about PRNW: (and have some fun):

· Hempfest (http://www.hempfest.org/) is this weekend and it would be great to have a team of progressive radio enthusiasts on hand to pass out some oversized postcards we’ve created headlined, “Don’t let progressive radio go up in smoke!” We need someone to coordinate the effort and folks to hand out the cards on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Let us know your preference. Respond to the progressiveradionorthwest email below with “Hempfest” in the subject line if you can participate.

· Northwest Progressive Institute Tenth Anniversary Picnic, next Thursday, August 22.

Celebrate NPI’s first decade as you enjoy games, music and some serious picnic eats. King County Executive Dow Constantine and Port Commissioner Courtney Gregoire are scheduled to speak. You do not need to bring your own food, but bring lawn chairs or blankets or whatever you’d like to be comfortable. Thanks to all who already signed up to volunteer at the PRNW table – we’ll be handing out information about progressive radio.

 EVERYONE is welcome to come enjoy the picnic: Thursday, August 22, 4:30 to 7:30 pm, Perrigo Park, 9011 196th Avenue NE, Redmond, Washington 98053. For information: http://www.nwprogressive.org

Our web site is almost ready: Thanks to the hard work and talents of our volunteer webmeister, Rennie Sawade, an area software engineer and web developer, our web site is almost ready for prime time. Check out Rennie’s Twitter feed @ProgressiveGeek or visit http://www.progressivegeek.com/

Please send your responses and comments to: Progressive Radio Northwest Team, progressiveradionorthwest@gmail.com

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Progressive Radio Seattle


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The PRS (Progressive Radio Seattle) team is cooking on a number of nifty
projects leading up to the launch of our website next month. Please
contact us asap at progressiveradioseattle@gmail.com if you can sign up for any of the following:

•Help design and write snappy copy for Progressive Radio Seattle Marketing Collateral
Seeking
the volunteer services of a graphic designer who can collaborate to
provide a strong look for the materials we will be passing out at events
next month (simple brochure, etc.) and other marketing collateral down
the road. We also welcome input by copywriters who have experience
creating a compelling branding concept/tagline, etc.

Reply with
“Marketing ” in the Subject Line and kindly attach a work sample or two
and give some indication of your experience. We need to get this cooking
asap.

• Professional Event Planning
Seeking the volunteer
services of a professional Event/Party planner who can provide overall
guidance on the Reunion/Rally for progressive radio we’ll have later in
the year.

Reply with “Party” in the Subject Line if you can help research other events and take an organizational role.

•Save the Date!
Visit
or help staff Progressive Radio Seattle’s information table at the
Northwest Progressive Institute Tenth Anniversary Picnic on Thursday,
August 22. Celebrate NPI’s first decade as you enjoy refreshments,
games, music and a speaking program.

Come to meet, mingle and show your energy and enthusiasm for progressive radio. Details at http://www.nwprogressive.org.

Thursday, August 22, 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Perrigo Park
9011 196th Avenue NE
Redmond, Washington 98053

Reply with “Volunteer Tables” if you can help staff our info operation on August 22.

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Progressive Radio Seattle


We had a famous local radio guest at our last Progressive Radio Seattle meeting! Following is the response from a Team member who couldn’t be there that I wanted to share:

“Hi. What interesting developments! I’m glad there are radio professionals who feel that broadcast radio is not doomed to irrelevance. My sense is that talk radio can be a means to build community and should be cultivated.

The problem is return on capital. There may not be enough profit potential to entice investors whose only interest is making more (and more) money, but there could be “social returns” that would stimulate donations and memberships from the community.

This means that there is an opening for alternative institutions based on democratic principles. We just need to frame the possibilities correctly, articulate institutional designs, and organize!” – PH, Seattle

We are still working to host a Reunion Event. If you want to help plan the event, and have not yet been contacted please email Julia: Juliachase@comcast.net

Thanks all for hanging in there.  We’ll send out another update soon with some additional information.

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Progressive Radio Seattle


Hi All!

We had a famous local radio guest at our last Progressive Radio Seattle meeting! Following is the response from a Team member who couldn’t be there that I wanted to share:

“Hi. What interesting developments! I’m glad there are radio professionals who feel that broadcast radio is not doomed to irrelevance. My sense is that talk radio can be a means to build community and should be cultivated.

The problem is return on capital. There may not be enough profit potential to entice investors whose only interest is making more (and more) money, but there could be “social returns” that would stimulate donations and memberships from the community.

This means that there is an opening for alternative institutions based on democratic principles. We just need to frame the possibilities correctly, articulate institutional designs, and organize!” – PH, Seattle

We are still working to host a Reunion Event. If you want to help plan the event, and have not yet been contacted please email Julia: Juliachase@comcast.net

Thanks all for hanging in there.  We’ll send out another update soon with some additional information.

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“Don’t Let Seattle Lose Progressive Radio”


Jerry Large has done an excellent article about what we are doing:

Broadcasting a plea for progressive talk radio, April 4, 2013

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020704232_jdlcolumn04xml.html

Progressive talk currently available

Steph and the Mooks – KLAY AM 1180 has changed its schedule and is now airing Stephanie Miller “live” 6:00 – 9:00 AM.  According to Bruce of KLAY, Stephanie prefers to air during the live show time slot because they get listeners calling into her show.

Thom Hartmann is still airing on KLAY AM 1180, 4:00-7:00 PM, and KBCS 91.3 FM, Noon-3:00 PM

Other news

A team of people has volunteered to plan a 1090 Listener Rally. We will hear more soon!

We now have over 9,600 signers on the SignOn petition.  We want to build it to over 10,000.  If you know someone who hasn’t signed yet and would be interested in what we are doing, please send them the link: “Don’t Let Seattle Lose Progressive Radio”

http://signon.org/sign/dont-let-seattle-lose-1?mailing_id=11029&source=s.em.cr&r_by=4666192

The development of our website is progressing.  We’ll let you know when it’s accessible.