[grc] Fwd: [NCRA-Members] Film about Radio - Left of the Dial

[Frieda Werden]

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From: <ltyndale at mnsi.net>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:02 PM
Subject: [NCRA-Members] Film about Radio - Left of the Dial
To: ncra-members at ncra.ca


About a month ago there was a question posed looking for
films about radio.

I recently found myself watching Left of the Dial - a
documentary about the starting days of Air America Radio,
its ups and downs, and some of the challenges it faced in
its first year.  I actually found myself fascinated by the
documentary.

Air America Radio Network for those of you who may not know,
was started in 2004 as an attempt at a national US left-wing
talk radio network.  At one point they had affiliates in
just about every major US city.  As of 2010 the network was
gone.  This documentary was filmed during the first year in
the lead up to the launch and then through some of the many
challenges that were faced.

While this was mainly a US documentary about a now defunct
US radio network, I found it interesting from a number of
standpoints. Both from watching the on-air staff - many of
whom had not been on the air before - try and figure out how
to put decent content on the air.  There is also the
behind-the-scenes management who seemed to have little clue
(at least in my opinion) of how to actually run a radio
network (for example, from what I can tell they had no sales
staff to speak of, yet constantly had money problems, with
the only reference in the documentary being a single
low-revenue contract).

While the people involved approached radio from a very
different perspective then what Campus Community radio does,
I did enjoy it enough to add to the list of radio films to
check out.  If I was ever putting together a radio-film
marathon, this one would probably end up on the list.

Lorne Tyndale


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