It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that this week will be the last week of the Sam Seder Show on Air America. As you know, Air America recently came out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the new management wants to go in a different direction with the 9-Noon (est) time slot. However, as much as I would like to spend more time with Alberto Gonzales’ family, he will be doing so shortly, freeing me up to do a Sunday afternoon show on Air America Radio. The show is tentatively known as Seder on Sundays and I am excited to get it started.
I am very proud of the three years I have broadcast on Air America Radio. I am particularly proud of the Sam Seder Show. We started the show as AAR was entering bankruptcy, when things around here were pretty hectic and insecure. The Sam Seder juggernaut, as no one but me called us, was able to maintain all of our affiliates that stayed with the progressive format through our bankruptcy. While it’s a bit early to judge, (our first full “book” is out in a couple of weeks) our ratings were looking pretty good and we dramatically increased AAR’s streaming numbers during this time slot. Most importantly, though, was the support and response we received from you, our audience. You'll never know just how helpful and motivating your comments, calls, emails and letters have been to me and my family and I greatly appreciate it.
I hope all of you will join me when I begin the Sunday show in the next month and a half or so. Of course, I’ll be maintaining this blog and continuing to promise to fix it. ( I mean it this time, I am serious!) I actually have some rather large plans for this site and its offerings but am not prepared to discuss them at the moment.
Anyway, over the next week I’ll be posting more about my plans, this site, Seder on Sundays and reflecting upon the last three years.
My email address is posted in the left hand column of this blog— drop me an email if you want to receive updates in the future. And tune in this week! I really don’t know how I am going to break this to Dewey.
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NO! Say it is not true! Mornings
with you are the Best! The fastest 3hours of my working day! AAR has made a big mistake! I have 2 XM radios because of you! I'm heart-broken. I'm a 54 year old grandmother of 2 who now contacts my senators & congressman because of you! This is a sad day for progressive radio. Thanks for
everything Sam. I will miss you!
Deb
The only way to show management how you feel is to not listen or stream. When the Armitron (sp) ratings come out and listenership has dropped, they may get the message!
That's it--we have officially gone through the looking glass. Instead of nurturing and PROMOTING their talent, AAR management once again chooses to canabalize their team, alienating any audience they've managed to grow during the past few months. Enough already. I am no longer a supporter of AAR and will let my premium membership lapse. As a wise woman once said, "They can kiss my fat, black ass!"
"Tread a woorme on the tayle and it must turne agayne." - John Heywood's 1546 collection of proverbs
Apparently the earliest recorded use of the phrase 'the worm will turn', or a variation thereof.
GODDAMMIT. my reasons for listening are dwindling. I should've known, AAR has cancelled every good show since it started ... unfiltered, then sedition, major report, malloy ... now sam. Sam, yours is the ONE SHOW i never never miss. Only now, I guess i will. Hey, call NovaM in Phoenix! They could REALLY use a good show from 9-12 eastern!
Mornin catchoo!
just wanted to see how Sam is handling this.
Tragic, tragic!! What th'--how are they going to find someone who can provide the insight and comedy? Damn...who do I complain to?
Dan Bernard
Easter Parade from DiFi's to Camp Pelosi, by Granny Ruth R
Just part of a very busy Easter Sunday that started in the morning on the Golden Gate Bridge, Bill Carpenter captured CodePink and Raging Grannies on camera as they went a'knockin' on Diane Feinstein's door. The trek from Feinstein's home to Camp Pelosi was arduous, but the Power of Peace prevailed and a gigantic Gandhi made it with a lot of help from Persons in Pink. Raging Grannies took the easy way out and travelled via hybrid Grannymobiles....
One of the Songs we Sang: By Raging Grannies Action League members Gail Sredanovic and Ruth Robertson.
Raging Granny Easter Bonnet Parade (tune: The Easter Parade)
In San Francisco City,
It's an awful pity
Our troops can't be at home for the Easter Parade
We don our Easter Bonnets,
As we sing out our comments
We think of where they are and why they're not with us today
**With the revenues...tax revenues...We are funding an inhumane war, without an end**
Diane [Nancy] think upon it, as you put on your bonnet
What will be the death toll in Iraq today?
We EXPECT the Congress, to vote to end this madness
Grannies want to see our troops come home right away!
http://www.RagingGrannies.com
Lots of photos!!
Justin has been missing a lot of closet door cues.
I hope Bob's fried fish worked as well as mine. I will be moving to the tonid heathy version next.
I sent an e-mail to the new VP of programming David Bernstein and owner Mark Green at dbernstein@airamerica.com and mgreen@airamerica.com although I suspect that they are falling on deaf in-boxes. You might want to include COO Scott Elberg at selberg@airamerica.com for some quality ignoring as well. I am just guessing these are the addys but I have not received bouncebacks, (yet).
We have gone through this crap with numerous AAR programs, in my case and for many Marc Maron twice. Malloy was big as well. I suspect that throwing Sam the Sunday bone will keep him quiet long enough for the thing to blow over. They don't get it, some folks never forget.
Devastating news. Sam is by far and away the best on Air America, and with him gone, there will be precious little in the current line up worth listening to.
Of course I'll listen to the Sunday show, but Sam's absence during the week can't be filled. There is nobody like him. A profoundly stupid move by management.
dr said...
edit for clarity:
It's why regulations and protections that free-market fundamentalists [despise and deplore] exist:
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Morning, dews.
April 9, 2007 8:36 AM
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This is not a matter of Regulation..
It is a matter of economics..
It's about moving to the center..
It's about sell product.
You could have A Crazy Talk AAR it you were to PAY for it..
But to no one is going to lose millions to GIVE it to you...
sammy i am gutted. and mark green what crap are you going to replace sammy with ?
Sam, word is that the stupid Greens want to make this time slot "less substantive".
Sounds to me like they want to dumb down Air America. So Im sorry, as far as Im concerned, they suck.
i'm gonna cry. What kind of crap are they gonna start shoveling at us? i can't stand ed shultz, and my xm replaced thom hartmann, mike malloy went away, and i can't even get free podcasts! soon they'll get rid of randi too, just cuase we can get laughs out of her funny little songs or her rants. this freaking sucks.
Sam,
I am so tired of the moving of the morning shows! Your show is informative, provacative and entertaining with the left slant I enjoy. I just hope the new programming will continue with the integrity and talent that you have demonstrated. I will miss you. Thanks for educating me, enlightening me and challenging me to think and learn more!
Bonnie in Muscatine, IA
Iran has entered an "industrial stage" in its production of nuclear fuel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said.
He was speaking at a ceremony at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant to mark Iran's nuclear technology day.
Iran maintains its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes, but the West fears it wants to build atomic bombs.
Correspondents say the announcement that Iran has achieved industrial-scale enrichment is likely to further strain tensions with the West
Journalists and diplomats have been invited to the special events taking place at the site, but European Union diplomats are boycotting them in protest at Iran's refusal to comply with UN demands to end its uranium enrichment programme.
The most sensitive areas at Natanz, deep underground, are thought to be halls for up to 50,000 centrifuges - the machines that enrich uranium gas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6538957.stm
This is reee-damn-diculous! This is the smartest, funniest political show on the radio. (Sorry, Turks, you're second) Air America just lost another premium subscriber. Way to come out of bankruptcy!
I have been listening to Air America from its inception. It has kept me going for the last 3 years. I was upset when Lizz left, when they got rid of Mark, and when the Majority Report was changed to the Sam Sedar Show. I still listen to Tom, Rachel, and ofcourse Sam. Well, I guess I will spending less time listening to Air America, but I kind of had the feeling it would be ending soon. I just don't get why they are getting rid of you. I will be listening on Sundays, I hope it is longer than an hour.
Sam best of luck!
Good morning,
I am sorry to hear the news about your weekly show. I enjoyed the Majority Report and your weekly show was extremely entertaining. Your attacks on those right wing idiots and the chimp in the White House were refreshing and thought provoking.
Please continue doing what you do on the Sunday show and please keep speaking truth to power. I will miss you in the mornings, but look forward to hearing you on Sundays.
Thanks for the memories and laughs! Best of luck!
Ken in Atlanta, GA
Sam,
I feel like I've been riding the Seder rollercoaster for quite some time now. It's been such a treat to have you around five days a week for the last three years, it will definitely be a jolt to my system when I can only hear you once a week. I hate to hear you give management credit for knowing what's good for aar when in reality they are the problem. There is nothing wrong with you, your show, or your time slot. They just want to make a change for the sake of change. I trust you have looked into Nova M? If not, PLEASE do! You'll do great wherever you go, your such a talented, smart and charming guy. I hate to lose so much time with you, though. Atleast there is Sunday...not too early I hope;)
Love you,
kalena
I guess they want to make aar paletable to advertisers...
Puke.
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Laura Flanders is on DN this morning...
Why won't they STOP changing the shows around!? This is maddening!!
Sam, you are the best. I came to AAR because I'd been listening to Randi Rhodes for a long time when she was in West Palm, but now I mainly listen to you.
My wife and I were listening to the first broadcast by Internet stream when AAR started with Franken "in a bunker." And we were so excited to finally get talk that we could get into.
But with this announcement, I'm really past my limit with AAR now. They broke my heart when they killed Morning Sedition. But this is just unforgivable.
I don't get why THEY don't get that they have to invest some time and money in building these shows and audiences. If they can't get advertisers then they need to fire their sales people and get some new ones.
I hate mornings and you have made them not just bearable, but something that I look forward to.
Thanks for everything Sam.
-z
What???
I took it when AAR canned Marc Maron and Liz Winstead. I took it when they nixed Mike Malloy. I even took it when they put Jerry Springer on the f’n radio! But Sam? WTF??? Who’s next? Randi? Rachel?
I’m just re-uped for Premium. I almost want to cancel out in protest! If it weren’t for the idea that it would be counter productive. All I can do is appeal your misguided decision.
mia_nj said...
GODDAMMIT. my reasons for listening are dwindling. I should've known, AAR has cancelled every good show since it started ... unfiltered, then sedition, major report, malloy ... now sam. Sam, yours is the ONE SHOW i never never miss. Only now, I guess i will. Hey, call NovaM in Phoenix! They could REALLY use a good show from 9-12 eastern!
April 9, 2007 9:59 AM
I'm already switching between AAR, Nova M Radio / Air America Phoenix, and AM-540 KRXA (which has Peter B. Collins, who is very good too).
Peter B's stream details are found at his website,
http://www.peterbcollins.com/
For me, it's Sam, Thom, Randi, Peter B or Rachel, Mike Malloy.
I imagine they will stick Jerry Springer back in this slot
First it was Unfiltered,then Morning Sedition and now it's you. Who's next Randy Rhodes? For 3 years i have listened to AAR. I was here on the very first morning and I am so sad and dissappointed in AAR. There will be very few reasons for me to listen to AAR anymore.
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good to read all you folks posting here for the first time.
blatant stupidity has that effect on people.
Imus on AAR?
Peace All!
There will be very few reasons for me to listen to AAR anymore.
April 9, 2007 10:07 AM
This should be put in EVERY e-mail Green gets. No listeners, no radio.
this sucks! but at least i won't feel bad about missing Amy Goodman anymore (9AM - WBAI 99.5 and all over the pacifica network)
just sent this message in an email to sam:
sam! you help get me moving in the morning! i never listened to AAR earlier that franken until you were moved to mornings...
now i have no reason to wake up... (...half joking...)
why why why???
can we, your loving listeners, do anything to help? to change this decision?
another monday blows...
love your show... please don't go!
and in addition, i listen to AAR on my XM... just renewed that subscription - hope i can cancel if i'm not happy with sam's replacement... 'cause that is the only reason i have XM - for AAR... and, worse, i have to turn it off and stream thom hartmann to avoid the obnoxious red ed - another huge mistake, and what the hell is that about??? ed is not AAR...
i am distressed.
Sam! You've got a loyal following...we'll follow you to the ends of the weekend! But one day a week ain't enough!
Let us know what we can do to get you on the air more frequently.
AAR is on the precipice of suckage.
While we all realize AAR is a business and as such needs to make money, this latest "business" decision to can Sam Seder is insane.
The same loyal listeners that rallied here in Portland, Maine, to keep AAR on the airwaves two years ago will go away. Does management think Limbaugh or Stern are the only hosts who have a loyal fan base?
Sam is smart, funny, down-to-earth, honest... and so it's time to fire him, huh?
There are a lot of pissed-off listeners here. Don't know if the Greens care. I used to care about AAR, but it's back to NPR for me.
Laura S.
Portland, Maine
This is so lame. Sam Seder should have been given Franken's old slot. He is just as smart as Al but even funnier. Sam Seder has a very radio-genic personality. He deserves more.
Sam - I have enjoyed listening to you and your show over the past three years. I am glad to hear that you will remain on AAR. Good Luck to you and you family! herb jones
Oy. I just brought up the stream and heard you announce you're leaving. Radio is more "intimate" than other media and I figure that's why it feels like being punched in the gut when you, Maron, etc. have announced leaving... well, good luck and I'll keep my eyes peeled for you in the Hudson Valley to say thanks some day....
(PS to AAR Mgmt: I'll listen to Rachel at night from time to time, but this is it for me and AAR, for the most part.)
So sorry to hear the news! I LOVED your show every single day. I will look forward to your Sunday show and anything else you do. YOU WILL BE MISSED!
I hate my job and the Sam Sedar show is the only thing that has made showing up everday possible. This is going to suck. Thanks. Kate.
air america is quickly becoming the fifty-something liberal station, maybe thats where the audience is. i hope this doesnt happen to racheld maddow.
They're shooting themselves in the foot anyway. It's like when a library keeps changing the hours...people stop going....
This is AWFUL! I have loved listening each day in the morning at work.
I enjoyed The Majority Report but didn't get to listen very often (I actually liked it better when you were on alone!)because of the time.
I suppose I must be happy with Sunday afternoon. At least you won't be gone completely.
I think the Greens are making a BIG mistake.
It is bad enough that XM radio doesn't carry Thom Hartmann and carries that Rush-sound-alike Ed Schultz, now this! We have no AAR affiliate in Albany, NY so I have to listen on XM or on-line (hard to do in the car!). But that is a complaint for another forum.
Best of luck - as someone has posted, you have really grown into this work -
Peace,
Marey
This is unbelievable! Why doesn't AAR wait for the ratings before making a move? I think Sam is better than Randi (I know I'm gonna get flamed for that). AAR has jerked their 9-12 (Eastern Time) audience around since the very beginning and I'm tired of it.
DAMNIT!
Boycott this time slot untill they bring Sam back. Show listener power.
To be, or not to be....an imbecile.
I guess the new AAR management has chosen the "to be" option.
So the insight, the excitement, the wisdom, the cleansing hilarity you have blessed us with every day is to be yanked off the air!?
Frikkin unbelievable. So sorry, Sam. Please find a network which honors your genius, and please stay on the air!
WTF. Yeah AAR is going in a different direction, and it's time for this listener to do the same.
I'd rather listen to Rush Limbaugh than 10 minutes of Rhandi Rhodes horrible drama queen style or Thom Hartman proving to himself how much he knows.
The Sam Seder show was the most intelligent, witty and fun show this network had to offer, and I will definately stop listening now.
What happened to the contract Sam just signed? Was it not worth the toilet paper the Green brothers used it to wipe their asses with?
Sam was my second-favorite in AAR's current line-up, after Randi Rhodes. (Not counting Mike Malloy, who gives voice to the rage I feel, but he's not there any more.) My wife and I still listn to podcasts of Sam in the evening, because that's the time frame we grew accustomed to hearing him in first. With him gone (once a week is effectively nothing -- even Dewey won't call) I have only one reason (Randi) to listen to AAR. Hartmann and Elloit are OK, but they're like dry whole-wheat toast: good for you, but not something you consume with relish. (The figurative kind, not the kind made with pickles.)
I used to care whether AAR survived. Now I don't. I also used to care if AMERICA survived, but since I moved out of the country and got my money to Switzerland, I don't care so much about that any more either. Looks like Ed Schultz wins. I hope Nova-M will make a go of it. I'll play the same podcast of Malloy three times a day if I have to, because radical radio ranters are the background noise of my life. So sorry Sammy won't be among them any more.
Mark Green prolly listens to Bob Shrum, when making talent slot decisions at AAR-
Sam, I have been listening to you since your show moved to the 9-12 am timeslot in Detroit. I greatly enjoy your wit and hummanity and the intelligence of your commentary. Although I will miss your voice most, I will also miss the appearances of Senator Harris and dippy Dewey.
I wish you the best of luck in your personal and professional life. We need more people like you.
WHY ??? I listen to your show because of the Humor and the HARD HITTING STYLE.AAR needs to rethink this decision you are one of their BEST BROADCASTERS !!!A perfect lead into Hartmann's show,damn IT WAS A GREAT LINE UP !!
I encourage everyone to e-mail Mark Greene to change this BAD DECISION !!!!
Good Luck, Will Follow You to Sundays.
DYE in RED State Indiana
If they want less substance, I imagine they will also be getting rid of Rachel Maddow and Laura Flanders
Sam:
I stopped listening in this time slot when your predecessor program took it over ... and started again as soon as you went on the air.
OF COURSE, I'll listen to you on Sundays ... I consider you and Rachel to be two of the most progressive broadcasters in the business. That's different than liberal, you know ...
Your programs were the reasons that I donated to various political campaigns. I listened to the candidates on your show ...
I think you've brought enormous value to AAR. The various decisions of both the old AND the new management leaves me wondering at what the network is attempting to do. It's possible that they don't realize that our allegiance isn't to the network; it's to the people who inform and entertain us.
The best of luck to you ... and a small word of advice. I don't know if now's the time ... but call Sheldon.
Screw this, first Maron, then Jeneane, now Sam. Sam, I love ya and I hope the Sunday thing works out but I won't believe it 'til I hear it. Keep us posted!!!
Sam I have been streaming you from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil for 6 months now. Keeping me grounded in the 3rd world!!
Love the show, been with since Janine, and miss her too. Now that you've gone the way of Maron, AAR is losing a another really funny show, damn shame.
See you on Sundays, Steve
I'm crushed - this is my favorite AAR show. Yeah, I love Thom and Rachel, but I've listened since the beginning and while you were always good (and I was delighted when you made Bill and Atrios regulars on MJR, and really glad you grabbed Franken's good guests for this show), you've become something special in your own slot.
The only bright side is that maybe now I will go back to being able to get something done in the afternoon. I used to get more exercise outside during the Springer show.
I'm gonna be really pissed off if your Sunday show turns out to be in an inconvenient spot, though. I don't suppose you could pick up Rachel's habit of making a free stream available from your site for those of us who miss you live....
And, man, this is going to be a rough month waiting for you to come back.
I HEAR SUBSTANCE!!!
AND I CRAVE IT!!!!!!
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Sam Seder gets booted before Alberto Gonzalez, wow that has got hurt. I'll bet that left a mark!!!
OHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
My life is ruined forever. Please, Air America is keeping me alive. I have been listening to you since you subbbed for Al Franken & others. It was YOU that I could relate to. YOU were saying exactly what I would if I could get on the radio.even more than Franken who I love, but Al was just too nice for me. I bought your book IMMIDIATELY & have watched you whenever you were on TV. I AM A POLITICAL PROGRESSIVE, LIBERAL INDEPENDENT ADDICT. I stay on-line listening to AA from 9-3 every day I am in the USA. Or I go to Paris. When there, I only miss you & my Chat NOIR.
This is RIDICULOUS! This is INSANE! What in the H#$$ is Air America thinking???????? MY GOD! UGH!! DO NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW!
This has been THE BEST show on Air America for AT LEAST the past 2 years! What is going on over there?!
Disgustedly yours,
Jim
who in the world are they going to have on in the morning that is not irritating, goddamm!!! I am addicted to you and now this crap...jeez what is it with some producers!!! they think they know it all...what the...I will follow sam where ever he goes..just like I listen to Mike Malloy on weeknights..after a year i found mike malloy again...sam you need to be on in the morning you are damm good and a pleasure to listen to.
Major mistake on part of AAR--they've just lost another loyal Sam listener.
I am also one of those who invested in XM radios in order to listen to AAR and Sam and Al in particular.
I hope everyone drops a line or two to the boneheads in charge that made this decision.
AAR Has Three shows I like.... Sam Seder...The Young Turks...and Ring of Fire...Sam is sharp...funny...gutsy ...there is nothing this guy can't do....Fuck it!!....
Sam... Don't let AAR jerk you around like they did Marc.. Give the sabbath day hell...
this is why the right wing wins, the aar is run by a bunch of scatterbrain propeller heads...sam's show is the best on the radio...hopefully sam will get a full time gig with another network. peace to alll...keep the faith...fubar forever...
I have no idea what AAR is thinking. I just got XM over the last month only so that I could pick up Air America and I enjoy listening to your show on my way from RADIATION TREATMENTS to work.
Yes, I am not beyond playing the pity card right in Air America's face, if that's what it takes to keep you on in the mornings! I also listen to you at work.
I really hope they check out the blogs and see how unhappy all the listeners are that they will be unable to listen to you in the mornings. People like you, Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, and Rachel Maddow have helped keep me sane.
But most importantly, all those of us who have to commute to work need to hear your voice and biting wit in the morning to help us get ready for the drudgery and often conservative oppression of the working world! Since I've had Air America, this is the first time I've caught myself LAUGHING on the way to work and its because YOU are on! You have no idea what that means.
I guess I will have to get my "home kit" so I can listen to you on Sundays at home! Or maybe we'll get lucky and Air America will change their minds. If they keep this up, XM will lose lots of customers and I hope they realize what they are doing.
Lastly, I LOOOOOOOVE your show & I love you!!!
Melanie
Now, this is an idea worth repeating although I fear filthy rich could be Mark Green...
Filthy Rich said...
SAM SEDER SUNDAY!!!
Heck, the best thing about this concept is that Sam could work ALL DAY on Sunday (Sam has his Friday commitments anyhow, ya know) and it would fit in with the patchwork of 1 & 2 hr shows on weekends.
Hear me out.
Sam could have an hour LIVE every other hour between the other weekend shows! NO MORE REPEATS! Heck Sam could do Sam's Sunday Sermons in the AM and work into Sam's Sunday Brunch. Around 4 pm et Sam could start the show with Sam's Sunday Scoreboard, with lame sports analogies and his sidekick reading scores. Then a nice two-hour block of Sam's Sunday Guests around 9 pm et , kinda like "Late Late Edition - the VERY VERY LAST WORD in Sunday talk" !!! Take THAT CNN!
THEN, make EVERY HOUR syndicated! That way, many more stations suffering from BAD RADIO SYNDROME on Sundays can a la carte Sam Sedar Sundays !!!
Sam Seder needs a forum and has been a STAUNCH DEFENDER of the progressive movement since The Majority Report took to the air 2 years ago. Heck, Maron and Janeane can be guest hosts too (mebbe the Greens might see some "green" in this arrangement and bygones).
just sayin' ......
SAM SEDER SUNDAY!!!
Sam,
It is a damn shame that AAR has decided to end the best presentation in their daily line up. Clearly it is about something other than the quality of your show. I will miss hearing you as a part of my daily routine. I am truly depressed by this.
Rob in Dallas
Oh hey FYI - there is no way to track terrestrial radio listenership,there is no special device in a radio that lets a company know if you're tuned in or not (nor in a TV either)
Listenership is tracked by monitoring a volunteer sample of the population, using computerised monitoring devices installed on radios/TVs. FYI, we've had personal experience w/ this - they come in & attach stuff to your TV (or radio) essentially taking it apart & rebuilding it w/ the devices inside.Then when it's over, they come back & take it all apart again to remove the apparatus.& you have to push buttons every time to register what you're watching/listening to.
Internet streaming/podcasting is not the same obviously....
Sam,
You'll be alive, but it already feels like a best friend will have died. You're an absolute pillar of progressive thought and commentary. Air America, like those it seeks to expose, has its head very very far up its a**.
I am very proud of the three years ~~~I have broadcast on Air America Radio. I am particularly proud of the Sam Seder Show. We started the show as AAR was entering bankruptcy, when things around here were pretty hectic and insecure. The Sam Seder juggernaut, as no one but me called us, was able to maintain all of our affiliates that stayed with the progressive format through our bankruptcy. While it’s a bit early to judge, (our first full “book” is out in a couple of weeks) our ratings were looking pretty good and we dramatically increased AAR’s streaming numbers during this time slot. Most importantly, though, was the support and response we received from you, our audience. You'll never know just how helpful and motivating your comments, calls, emails and letters have been to me and my family and I greatly appreciate it.~~~
Sam has done well in the 3 years at AAR. He will go on to success and AAR seems to be on self distruct mode. Time will tell.
Will miss you weekday mornings, you are very good at giving us the truth! Thanks Sam Will look for you on Sundays.
Bye Sam.
You were and are the greatest Progressive Radion talker evar™
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This isn't happening! Someone tell me this isn't f'n happeing! I'd almost be happier to hear Bush bombed Iran. If it is, Sam, you have my everlasting thanks for what has been a sublime show. Someone tell me this isn't f'n happening!
I'm so sorry to see you go. I was an arbatron person last time so I know I helped your ratings.
I can remember many times when Air America was ' Sam Seder all the time radio'. The least they could do was give you that Sunday slot.
I, like so many other of us, have been there from the beginning and watched you grow into a very good liberal talk radio personality.
We have new management making the same dumb ole mistakes. idiots
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Radion I think is the stuff the Bush EPA allows to leak into our homes since they installed a former Radion supplier as the Chief EPA official.
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Bummer! Sam, you've been a reason to shell out for satellite radio since the Majority Report days. Thanks for bringing Colin McEnroe into the consciousness of AAR listeners too.
Damn.
The bright side is that there will be something worth listening to on Sundays.
My nightmare is that they extend the Young Turks show for a couple more hours. Good grief... one of those young turds actually called Reagan a great president.
Young with attitude can be ok, but young and ignorant with attitude isn't. Ignorant with attitude equals George Bush.
eya BB!
you think anyone is reading anyone elses posts?
Stream just quit...
It usually takes months for radio listeners to 'warm up' to new hosts.eventually good hosts become like a familiar part of one's family.Sam has obviously endeared himself to most of AAr's listeners and his ratings have been going up.
Now we are being told by the 'new' owners that we have to start all over again from the begining and 'accept' a host who none of us have ever heard before.
In my humble opinion Mark green should be fired and sent to 'access hollywood' where he belongs
Anti-occupation march has been peaceful
LINK
BAGHDAD, April 9 — Tens of thousands of people marched to the city of Najaf today, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, to protest the American occupation of Iraq.
The demonstration, which has remained peaceful, was being held at the urging of militant Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr. He exhorted Iraqi security forces on Sunday to unite with his militiamen against the American military in Diwaniya, an embattled southern city in Iraq where fighting has raged for four days.
Mr. Sadr’s statement did not explicitly call for armed struggle against the Americans, but it still represented his most forceful condemnation of the American-led occupation since he went underground after the start of an intensified Baghdad security crackdown nearly two months ago.
The demonstrators marched to Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, from neighboring Kufa, with two cordons of Iraqi police lining the route. Some at the rally waved small Iraqi flags; others hoisted a giant flag 10 yards long, the Associated Press reported. Leaflets fluttered through the breeze reading: “Yes, Yes to Iraq” and “Yes, Yes to Moktada. Occupiers should leave Iraq.”
“The enemy that is occupying our country is now targeting the dignity of the Iraqi people,” said lawmaker Nassar al-Rubaie, head of Mr. Sadr’s bloc in parliament, as he marched, according to the A.P. “After four years of occupation, we have hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded.”
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Sam, I fear that AAR is trying to run itself into the ground. You will be missed.
Sam Seder!
post on the blog?
you got a coupla hundred folks saying goodbye.
What a drag! I have no idea what the Green brothers are thinking.
I've really enjoyed the show. I'm angry and sad.
Good luck with the new show and with everything, Sam.
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Everyone call (212) 871-8290 to complain!
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Sam:
Here I am in the DC Metro.
A couple of years ago it was so exciting: we had a new "progressive" station and had you and janeane and al and maron and it was such a gas to keep the radio on all day.
Then we started losing it in DC. Having to hear watered-down Bill Press, super-ego Ed Schultz and awful weekend broadcasts that had little or nothing to do with the intellectual concerns of the liberal revolution.
So I started listening only on the computer. Then we lost Al (although I'm glad he's running for office), and janeane, and maron (twice!), and malloy and more... now you.
A Sunday show is wonderful, but it gives you such a small footprint.
Air America, new owners or not, continues to make mistakes and misreads its audience. I can't listen to Randi much anymore... too much screeching and squalling (and too much Randi). Rachel is about all that's left worth listening to.
Thom Hartmann, too, but he has always been there.
I've taken to tuning in Malloy on Nova M and trawling the dial for other voices. More and more it's NOT Air America... something 2 years ago I would never have said.
Good luck... maybe you could go freelance with the Sammy Cam the way the Young Turks do when they're not on Air AMERICA. i'd watch that!
Under The LobsterScope
I'm destroyed that you are not going to be on the air. You are my favorite (along with Randi) personality on Air America. Jerry Springer was a disaster, and the Rush Limbaugh-style guy on @ noon is terrible.
Who is going to be on in this slot?
Phil
Sam, i am sorry you have to reduce your radio-presence, hopefully its just temporary. I love your show, your invigorating sarcasm, thank you for all that. I don't know who they will replace you with, and if it is anything like replacement of Al Franken by Thom Hartmann (both of whom i respect, but Al was funny, and Thom is often boring) - Air America may loose substantial amount of its listeners.
You've had the best show for this time slot on AA, i doubdt they will come up with better stuff.
Thank you again, tons of luck to you !
p.s. At least now there will be something worthy of litening on Sundays. ))
Oh no! What the heck is going on.
First,in Atlanta with the silence of Air America from the airways and now Sam Seder being moved to Sundays. I really learned alot politicaly from your show. One day (Sunday) is not enough to learn what you have to give us.
When you started the announcement with this being your last week, my heart dropped. But I felt a "little" better when you were going to be broadcasting on Sundays. I sincerely hope that doesn't work out and your back to the morning timeslots.
Love your show Sam. Good luck with the new time slot. I know better things are to come for you.
Felicia
Atlanta Stream Listener
I just read that your time slot is being taken over, at least in part, by the Young Turks. Are they kidding? The show is mostly unlistenable. Ben Mankiewicz is alright. Cenk Uyger is a light weight (figuratively, not literally). The mostly absent Jill Pike is attractive, but you don't watch the radio. AAR is taking a serious step backward in its programming.
PS - Is there anything we can do to complain to AAR - I also want to complain to XM since they are the carrier for the show in my area. If AAR continues to monkey around with good shows they will only have MORE financial problems, I would imagine. Think of the advert dollars they will lose if listeners are not satisfied with the new show and either pop in a CD or turn off the radio altogether.
Melanie
Yeah Sunshine. I think right now, we're all reading each other's posts.
PS again, you have no idea how much I will miss the closet door sound effects every time Lindsay Graham is mentioned. He is my senator.
Melanie
Been listening to you since Day One on AAR (xm radio). You and Morning Sedition were my absolute favorites. I am chilled to think what weak dribble might replace you. My AAR Premium subscription just got auto-renewed. The only reason I don't cancel right now is because you'll have a Sunday show. I'll see if that's enough. No disrespect to the others, but only you bring the passion, youthful viggor, and no-holds-barred news information I crave.
Thanks for all you've done, and thanks for agreeing to a Sunday show and not just walking away altogether, even though you probably felt like it. It means a hell of a lot to a hell of a lot of people that you'll still be heard, even if only once a week.
"... one of those young turds actually called Reagan a great president."
Maybe you heard him wrong. For George Bush, Reagan was a great precedent.
Sam, I always looked forward to your show and will miss you...I think. Unless they replace you with something much better and then I won't really care. I'm actually looking forward to the Sunday show cuz I'm a truck driver and there is not much(anything) good on the weekends on AAR so I'll be looking for you.
Sam, yours was the best show on the entire radio. The only one that enticed me to turn off my CDs in the car. Best of luck,
Paul F.
I love your show, Sam, but Sunday? Isn't that their way of saying, "don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"?
I have an Air America sticker on my car's bumper, it's been there since the network launched. I bought it as soon as it was available. I'm about ready to rip it off my car, it's embarrassing to have it on there now.
Actually, Sunshine, some people are reading the comments. I'm sitting in front of a computer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia, doing an overnight shift in a ward where all the patients are stable, (so I can waste time without being neglectful) refreshing the screen periodically. I'm amazed at the rate at which comments are coming in, and it must still be Easter Monday there. Too bad there wasn't a blog like this when Malloy got fired so rudely.
eya manuel
that's a step in the right direction.
the blog will continue, please join us.
Ok, my worst nightmare is they put Ed Schultz on. The Young Turks extension is my second-worst nightmare.
Isn't Backwater a fatal malaria complication?
SAM I WILL FOLLOW YOU TO SUNDAYS AND I AM VERY UNHAPPY WITH MANAGEMENTS DECISION TO TAKE YOU OFF THE AIR DAILY. ALL I CAN THINK OF IS, WHO IN AIPAC DID YOU PISS OFF? AS DID ANOTHER TRUE BELIVER, MIKE MALLOY.
sam,
you have been a wonderful presence on the radio. i'm ill over this. i'll miss you but i know you'll be back doing something great soon. aars loss is you gain. good luck.
Sad radio day,
Sam Seder Show can't be lost,
AAR rethink!
blackwater must be the creepiest bunch of freaks in the world. where can we hide?!
eya Royal Melbourne
there was a superb Malloy blog
and we organised a HUGE call/write in.
we would have done the same for Sam too IF he'd asked us to.
There was Anon. There was a flood of calls to AAR. This page part of AAR's site. Mike's site is his own.
How about Saturdays also? I'd love that. Weekends is kind of the radio graveyard and I'd love to here Sam on 5hrs a day Sat and Sun.
The only hosts I enjoy during the week are Sam, Rachel, and Randi. I cannot believe they are taking Sam away! What are they thinking???!!!!
Hope so Sunshine! But back to my original point if you don't mind... Somebody f'n tell me this isn't happening!
Is Jerry Springer Coming Back?
AAR has always had corporate management even if they claimed turning over a liberal leaf.
so this is no suprise.
I participated in the Malloy write-in, Sunshine, and I read the blog comments. I can watch this unfold live, so it seems different to me. When Mike went down, we had just emigrated and were living in a temporary rental, so we had to haul the laptop to an Internet cafe to download Mike. A high-tech version of hauling the bucket to the well! For information instead of water... Too bad the allegedly left-wing corporations are as heartless as the fascist ones.
nut-meg said...
Isn't Backwater a fatal malaria complication?
black pee?
Oh, no, not that!!! Are you --trying-- to creep me out? Jerry Springer? On the f'n radio???
This interview that Sam is doing with Jeremy Scahill is superb. You won't get this kind of radio anywhere else.
This is truly bad news.
I posted the following comment to the Air America comments log:
"I am very disappointed to hear that Sam Seeder will no longer be part of your week day schedule.
We endured Jerry Springer in that slot, which was terrible, then Al Franken left to run for the Senate position so Sam Seeder was the strongest programming you had in the morning. Randi Rhodes holds up the afternoon.
You better have a very compelling replacement for Seeder or expect to loose your audience.
Premium Member"
Jeffinator said...
Is Jerry Springer Coming Back?
April 9, 2007 10:43 AM
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Mark Green said he wanted someting "less substantive" , so I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry returned.
The Greens are Morons!!!
OY! The speculation that they'll replace Sam with Ed Schultz is MORTIFYING! I've been with AAR from the very beginning (I even endured Springer in this time slot). There is NO WAY that I'll listen to Schultz.
I can't say much about the young Turks, because in NY they have the temerity to air Armstrong Williams (I actually watch the blowhard Imus instead of that).
Felicia, I wish someone would take notice of the fact that there are STILL Air America listeners here and that a progressive radio station would have NO COMPETITION.
I had a glimmer of hope when I heard Hartman was replacing Franken in the 12-3 spot. I assumed (wrongly) that 1690 would continue to play the noontime slot with Thom.
Things just keep getting worse.
Even Don Imus is upset about Sam Leaving....He said "I love that nappy head jew"
black pee?
April 9, 2007 10:45 AM
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Yes. Pretty nasty Ive heard.
RIght this second Sam is running really good talk radio, which means bringing in a person worth hearing from, and then asking good short questions and listening without interruption so that we may actually hear from the interviewee. Check other shows and see how often this happens, and who (which hosts) actually listen to the guest. Thanks Sam. Hope Hartmann can cling a spot too.
The struggle of liberal radio is not about the ratings. It is about the advertisers. The major radio advertisers both locally and nationally are controlled by corporations. They are doing all they can to kill liberal talk radio, especially the hard hitting, truthful, and raw kind that Sam Seder presents. Maybe AAR, in an effort to placate the corporate cabal, have come up with a more Ed Schultz type to replace Sam.
..or maybe they got Don Imus really cheap..
Rob in Dallas
If they are willing to give you a Sunday show I'm not sure why you are not continuing on with your daily show? Are you bitter? You must have bigger plans, I hope so. Love your show and all that you offer. Keep up the great work and best wishes to you in your new endeavours.
"so we had to haul the laptop to an Internet cafe to download Mike."
Applause! WTG!
Sam's skirting to close and too often to reality.
This is the only show on AAR that I can sit all the way through. It's funny, smart and always entertaining.
I listen despite living in New York and having to practically stand on my head on top of a chair holding the radio to get any decent reception.
This decision makes no sense to me.
When it launched I listened to AAR all day long. Now, if this show is cancelled, I am down to sampling Rhandi Rhodes every couple of days.
Nice way to kill a station.
I'm not the kind of listener that gives much feedback (I don't call in or blog much) so I suppose the new and improved AA won't miss me but I'm not so sure their latest moves, including your departure, are exactly a pearl of wisdom, specially when they're leaving Randy in place (her condescending "preaching to the unenlightened" "if i want your opinion I'll give it to you" approach wore thin with me a third through the first show I endured). On the other hand your "from the heart" rants and sarcasm were fun to listen to (as was garoffalo btw)
If people want something "less substantive" they can listen to Conservative talk radio or NPR. There are about a million options.
Progressive radio should be about substance.
I gotta say, back when you did the Majority Report with Janeane there was something about the dynamic between you two that made me want to spoon my eyes out. BUT, your morning show has quickly become my favorite slot on AAR. You've got ZAZZ! Anyway, I'm really sorry to see it go, but hopefully the Sunday show will breath some life into AAR's weekend.
Blackwater fever
Jim, Sam doesn't have to ask. We are doing it anyway.
I'm going to write and call anyway. It's beyond just Sam now. It's the direction that AAR seems to want to take.
It is more important for the "middle of the road" people to realize what is really happening to the US. A true progressive voice not a moderate voice.
This is ridiculous... first, Mike Malloy and then SAM??? Besides Randy R, & sometimes Rachel there is no one else I like listening to during the week. This sucks big time. Good bye Air America. I'm completely fed up with this..
I don't know what Air America is thinking. Sam is Air America's most talented and most entertaining host. I will try to listen to Sam on Sunday's, but otherwise Air America has lost me as a listener.
I've enjoyed this quality show and listened every day.
Why does Air America continue to get rid of the best shows? I don't understand this.
And that's exactly why I podcast Premium, as being overseas I can't patronize most advertisers. We're too many, and we're finally starting to get organized. You can't kill the truth.
I just can't believe this news. On the way to work today I heard that Sam is out on weekdays and let me just say that I currently have heartburn because I've made myself so outraged. I've been screaming in my car for the past 1/2 hour using every curse word I can think of. I really don't know why AAR hates money. When this network satarted I thought, well, it will need some growing, but I think it is brilliant. Moring Sedition, O'Franken, and Majority Report were raw, but there was signs of awesomeness. Sure enough in less than a year these shows grew, the hosts became more polished, and I was fixed to AAR programming. That is when things got crazy.... First, just when Howard Stern announces that he is going off the air, leaving a HUGE vaccumn for morning radio, AAR announces a change of programming. Getting rid of the popular Moring Sedition, and replacing with Maddow. Great move AAR, I am sure putting a brand new show at that timeslot instead of an establised show that was growing in popularity must have made HUGE ratings for you. But this was just the begining of your monumental blunders. That was one that really pissed me off. As you continued to mismanage a successful programing network, I watched in wonder as to how you can ruin something that should easily work. Then when you moved your FLAGSHIP station in NYC to 1600AM, that's when I knew that AAR is over. First off, how can you have non-AAR programming on your fucking FLAGSHIP AAR station!!! With fucking sammie and armie as the lead in for Sam Seder, it's no fucking wonder that his show had to climb an uphill battle to get ratings. You know what I have to stop writing this cause I'm at work and I am going to blow a fucking gasket. Sam, you're awesome, please leave AAR cause this is a fucking sinking god-damm shithole of a ship. Fuck AAR...why do you hate money?!?
Who on Earth could be better than Sam?
The only 2 shows I faithfully listen to are the Young Turks and Sam...from when I get up til the end of Sam's show. This is really disappointing. Sam, you are great...funny and insightful..there are so many times I laugh out loud at some bit you do. And I learn so much too. We'll try to listen to you on Sunday, though it's not a convenient time for us...but otherwise we'll miss you too much.
We want Sam!
I'm not finding that link to Skahill's (sp?) Blackwater book.
Upset?
Let AAR know what you think!!!
VP of programming David Bernstein
dbernstein@airamerica.com
owner Mark Green at
mgreen@airamerica.com
CEO Scott Elberg at
selberg@airamerica.com
I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!
I will soooo miss sam seder.. I love his energy and will miss him on the 9-12 slot on Air America.. Good Luck Sam.. !!! I'll be listening on Sundays FOR SURE!!!
Nanette in NJ
This really sucks I live in GA near Atlanta and don't get AAR on my radio so I will most likely miss your new show. guess i will be getting the podcast =(
Dave
stream listener
http://www.blackwaterbook.com/
Sam, keep ownership of your podcasts like Randi does so people can download
Sam,
I am cc'ing you on an e-mail I just sent to Air America. Sorry, but moving you to Sunday just doesn't cut it for me. I don't know what I'm going to do with weekday mornings.
Air America,
You are cancelling Sam Seder. Why?
I have been a devoted listener to Air America since its inception. I first tuned in (actually, I primarily listen to your Internet feed or to podcasts, and no, I am not a Premium member) to listen to Al Franken, whose program I loved, particularly when the show also featured Katherine Lamford (sp?), and now miss dearly. Like many of your listeners, Air America was the first station on the radio dial where I ever heard the views expressed and, more importantly, the questions asked that I as a liberal/progressive wanted to hear. And though I first tuned in for Al Franken, I also discovered a number of other great personalities with whom to share a few thought-provoking hours.
I actually began to listen to Sam Seder when he was filling in for Randi Rhodes, and then for Al Franken, and when he was given his own show, particularly the 9-12 slot, I thought it was a stroke of genius on the part of your programming. I mean here was a radio personality, that essentially your network created. No other of your on-air hosts have so completely come into their own as an Air America personality than Sam Seder has. I mean, Sam Seder. Who knew? And yet there he is: smart, funny, more practical than a number of your other hosts, perhaps a bit outspoken at times, but hey, he and his staff deliver the goods. With Sam Seder you always know that the truth wins out. I think he'd be the first to admit it. And hypocrisy, thankfully, for the most part, gets put in its place.
So why on are you cancelling his show? Did he piss someone off? Did he say something that is absolutely unforgivable or irretrievable?
I listen to Air America every freakin day. Sam Seder always. Tom Hartman sometimes. Randi Rhodes sometimes. But I tune in for Sam Seder every day. I want to hear what he has to say, and I want to hear him engage his audience as he does better than anyone else on your network. And you're letting him go?
I just hope somebody else hires him, or I guess I'll have to go back to listening to my itunes.
Sincerely,
Howard Solomon
Started reading the blogs, and it says you were fired, what is wrong with the AAR folks? Talk has it that some right-leaning chief operating officer Scott Elberg had a leading role in your termination. If there is a movement towards "less content, and sexy-funny banter", I'm going to switch off! IF THIS STATION ISN'T GOING TO BE POLITICAL WHAT IS THE POINT!!??!!
This sucks!
Phil
I completely agree with the 10:54 AM post. Really - are AAR's ratings in the AM better without Morning Sedition ? Are the evenings' ratings better without The Majority Report? The new owner of the network is as clueless as the previous owners and that is quite discouraging.
http://www.blackwaterbook.com/
http://www.blackwaterbook.com/
http://www.blackwaterbook.com/
Here it is...
If Sam is on 4-6, what are they doing with the other good show, Ring of Fire?
sam, you do a great job and take people to task!! i wish AAR would reconsider-good luck in the future!!!
Nancy Davies’ “The People Decide: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly” to Premier at New York City Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, April 14
While others talk, the poor and indigenous people of Mexico have been acting to take control of their future. The Zapatista movement established a new pattern of antiauthoritarian, nonhierarchical organizing that has inspired organizers around the world. Last year, the people of Oaxaca moved to oust their corrupt governor and establish a new form of horizontal self-government. Despite severe government oppression, communities across the country are launching similar efforts. Meanwhile, the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign has galvanized a wide-ranging, community-based discussion about the future of the people of Mexico. Insurgent Mexico brings together two American journalists who have provided some of the most consistent, on-the-ground coverage of Mexico’s social movements to discuss the struggle in Oaxaca and the Other Campaign.
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Volunteer a Shift at the Narco News Table (10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.); Forum on Movements in Mexico at 4 p.m.
L@L sez:
G'day, gang!
Been away on a job & now I read this.
Fuck...just FUCK.
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Message to Mr. Green: Go Cheney yourself, you blithering idiot!
You want "less substance," less fucking substance? If I want less substance, I'll turn on or read the MSM. AAR was supposed to be the counterweight to the MSM, not just another set of talking heads blathering about talking points.
*shakes head, disgustedly*
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Sammer: "Eight days a week," eh?
*goofy grin*
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O Captain! My Captain!
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
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You'll always be my Sam Spaz Stumblemouth. I'll follow you wherever you go, My Captain! And I'll always have your six.
Sam is the funniest AAR personality. I can't believe he is being bumped. AAARGH !
The most brilliant talent of Sam is his ability to recreate the mindset of a rightwinger. He can zero in on the flow of "logic" that starts with an erroneous presumption and then leads further and further away from reality in order to support it.
I can't wait for Sundays!
movin to sundays?air america needs better wekend shows anyway-is yer anouncer "coach McGirk" from home movies?he rox-i listen online so i'll have to chec out sundays
say high to jeanie 4 me[she was super hot bac in the 90's;)]
I'm truely saddened by the decision of air america to remove you from your time slot. WHY???? You are absolutely the best and the time slot was perfect. Can we petition AAR?? What can we do? Good Luck to you in your future endeavors!!!
Is War Dog a pervert who blows little kids?
Thank you Sam Sedar!
Great interview about Blackwater.
Didn't see any links for Scahill on the blog,
so here you go:
Bush's Shadow Army
by Jeremy Scahill
from The Nation
Baghdad a ‘deadlier battleground.’ For American troops, Baghdad has become a “deadlier battleground” since President Bush implemented his escalation plan. “The rate of American deaths in the city over the first seven weeks of the security plan has nearly doubled from the previous period.” According to the Iraq Coaltion Casualty Monitor, U.S. casualties since the beginning of the escalation have been “running at 3.14/day, which is the highest of any period since the end of major combat.”
LINK
First in the War, Then in the Oil Grab Congressional Complicity, by Richard W. Behan
The US Congress has gone beyond compliance with George Bush's illegal war, and is now technically an accomplice-it is assisting with full knowledge in the perpetration of a crime. Congress has attained this status through two grave errors, one of omission and one of commission.
I can't believe they are taking your daily show off the air.
Al Franken said you were the future of AAR.
I don't know what that means about AAR.
I love you Sam
and your wonderful staff.
Thanks for past ,present and future
enlightenment.
Melissa
eya LaL!
stay tuned for further developments.
revolting or otherwise...
maybe just maybe he is going to swap with thom hartman and have a co host @ 12:00? That would make sense go back against fat Eddie.
This is sooooo upsetting. We'll def listen to you on Sunday.
But, I have to say...right now, you have the best show on AAR. It's been fun to watch you get better and better over the past 2 years. I LMAO every morning with your show. You have a great mix of humor, timing and integrity.
If AAR doesn't recognize your talent, someone else will.
Morning L@L. Glad to see you.
Bad news! But, you never know...might be a good chance for Sam in other ways. I'm hoping!
AAR now sucks big time. Too bad.
F*#K!!!! i can only listen to you at work from 9-12.
i'm an artist that does political themed work, and you give me a LOT of info for me to look into and study. diggin' your show.....will miss you greatly.
i hope the next show will be as informative or at least half as much as your show.
take care.
k!
I told em Crazy Talk won't sell...
I told em not to make fun of the Commercials..
It told em to focus on selling ads..
Too late now...!!
It will be another lesson learned the Hard Way...!!!
You can't disrespect Capitalism..!!!
Hahahahahaaa!
the dewey drama continues!
Very disappointing... yours is the best show on AAR. I'll contact AAR and question their decision
I'm planning on hating your Sunday show because every program that I found entertaining as well as informative, management decides otherwise. What good is it to get it when one has to wait years for the powers that be to figure it out. The only hope is like Al Gore and his laptop show -if one just keeps plugging away, eventually the tipping point is reached. (and hopefully gets rich in meantime)
Is War Dog a pervert who bangs little boys up the butt?
LETTER TO AAR: Re Sam's Show Change...
To Whom It May Concern,
I have been a listener of Air America Radio since its very begining. I listen to your station much more than WBAI, which actually is my favourite station. One of the reasons is SAM SEDER.
I remember Sam's early begining at the "Majority Report". I remember him stuttering, misspronouncing names and getting ridiculed by his "side-kick" , Ms. Jennine Garafalo (who I still miss on YOUR airwaves... A LOT!). Since Ms. Garafalo "left" the "Report", Sam bravely took the show upon his shoulders and raised it to another level. Sam INSTANTLY MATURED! He raised his satandards and by defult, the standards of AAR. He is an intelligent, brave and cohesive young and fresh voice the station desperately needs to protect and preserve. He obviously took the time to (and I'm sure still takes the time) to study and analize the HOT ISSUES of the day and quite responsibly reports and informs US the LISTENERS what is going on in America and beyond. He has brought and brings guests to the show that are brilliant, controversial and down right interesting and Sam has been rigth there with them at their own level and sometimes above, way above! He is simply BRILLIAN! He is SMART! He is INFORMED! He is COURAGEOUS!...And FUNNY!!!...And GOOD, very, very GOOD!
We learnerd today that AAIR has decided to move Sam out of his INDISPENSIBLE morning show and shove him into a Sunday 3 hour slot. WHAT AREYOU DOING AAR? Are you going to gives is more of "Jerry!"? Sam works for US; why fix what works for US (by the way, US = the LISTENERS).
Do I hear boycot?.....Sorry, the voices in my head are talking!
Jose Padilla,
AAIR LISTENER
Sam, I don't understand what AAR is doing. I understand Janine and Al Frankens departures but as for yours I can't. You are the freshest voice on the radio today. I hold you up as one THE reasons for the 2006 Democratic landslide. I will not be able to listen to your weekend show and probably will not listen to your replacement. AAR has really screwed the pooch on this woeful decision. I hope Mark Green as the new owner reconsiders.
Another boneheaded decision by the PTB at AAR. I'll be there for your show on Sundays, but I'll echo previous commentors and hope you get your own show on Nova M or some similiar network that recognizes your talent and what an asset you'd be to their lineup.
People of Color More Concentrated Near Hazardous Waste Facilities Than Twenty Years Ago
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A 2005 Associated Press analysis found that Africans Americans are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger.
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From an old blogger here...
Thanks to all you Sam listeners for blogging here today. It shows how many people are really listening to Sam that even I was unaware of.
Glad to have your comments :)
I CAN"T BELIEVE THIS!!!
ug!! What am I going to do? Best of luck Mr. Sedar. We are very sad in this household!!!
I am appalled at Sam's loss. It appears that the Greens are using a scorched-earth policy -- the same one that got Air America Radio in trouble in the first place. I can only get Thom Hartmann on the computer now at noon, because I get Ed Schultz over XM Radio (and he doesn't appeal to me -- he's rather like Rush Limburger) and now I find that my FAVORITE AAR personality is going to be taken off weekdays and only available on Sundays. In a word, this SUCKS! And they wonder why the station isn't doing better? Try not responding to the letters, calls and e-mails I have been sending for two months. I can only assume they show the same discourtesy to others who have done the same thing. I get letters back from my congressman and senators but NOTHING from AAR. Apparently they think they are too high-and-mighty to respond to the criticism and input of mere "listeners." They are going to sink like the Titanic, because I no longer feel sympathy for AAR, I am beginning to feel resentment and anger. Any sympatny has given way to anger at their high-handed and clumsy treatment of their listener's concerns.
Sam, I am so devistated! I got my purs stolen Friday, but that experience pales in comparison that I no longer get to wake up with you every morning
WTF!
Change the management, but leave the talent alone. This is the kind of crap that makes an outlet look like it's feeling it's way in the dark. Just when you get in to it, there goes the rug. I'll miss the show. It's getting harder and harder to listen to AAR when the constantly snipe-off the talent you like.
john
u will be missed - mosel tov Sam
Sam, Please go to NovaM Radio--take Maron with you! Then there'd be you, Marc and the Malloy all on one station! Maybe even Rhandi would move over there too! Wouldn't it be nice if the remaining best talent of AAR would abandon Marc Gren instead of it being the other way around? Viva La NovaM!
It's devastating news that AAR is once again killing off it's best shows! I'm soo disgusted with AAR over the loss Malloy, Maron and now Sam!
Sam is the Daily Show of radio! He is articluate, intelligent, funny and he also inherited most of Franken's guests which is what I liked about that show. Now AAR wants to regulate LESS SUBSTANCE in Sam's time slot? WTF!?!?! Like too much substance is a problem we have in our media right now? So much for the "new leadership and direction" Green was supposed to take AAR.
Since Friday I've called and emailed AAR. I even said I wanted to cancel my premium subscription due to their no longer being interested in people such as myself being their listeners. No word such as yet from them, I don't really expect them to answer...they're no longer intersted in their listeners.
I'll listen to you on Sunday's Sam. But I hope you'll get your deserved daily 3hour show back---like say on..NovaM? :)
L@L sez:
eya Solar One!
You get that thing?
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Gotta fly, kids. Got 3 weeks' worth of shit to catch up on.
Impeaches, gang!
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By the way,
Sams podcasts are available here:
http://am1090seattle.com/pages/84914.php?contentType=34&contentId=1199
Stream just cut out here for the third time...
great management eh?
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Shucks, this is disappointing. I only hope this
is not part of the effort of an insidious media-conglomerate ever pushing to undermine objectivity in news and commentary. Sam is about as insightful and bright a mind as we're likely to get in the talk format (did I mention witty??). The bright side: Less drek in weekend programming.
Thanks Sam! More power to ya...
Sam - I got the premium podcast package for AAR so that I could be sure to listen to you everyday (along with Jon Elliott and Randi Rhodes). You have become my favorite host to listen too (your humor and your rants were awesome).
I can't believe the new management is moving you to an obscure Sunday show!!!! You'll only be available once a week!
The only consolation I can gather is that at least you'll be able to unspin the spew on the Sunday talking heads shows.
I'll still podcast ya Sam and shame on management!
sr
i swear, sam seder was the only reason i listened to AAR after they fired Malloy! yes, change the management - sam how can you be so gracious?
Alternat stream link
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Thank You, Sam. You are the best thing on radio. Not a wise decision by the management; Monday through Fridays will not be the same.
-J.Scott McIntosh
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What's next, AAR, going to pull the plug on Randi next? That will certainly be the last straw for me. I agree with "gail" above; I prefer Thom Hartmann over Ed Shultz, who seems to have a more sensationalistic style like Rush or Hannity, although at least he doesn't spout the hateful rhetoric of those two.
Sam Seder is a bright spot in my day. He is funny, entertaining, topical, charismatic, and enjoyable. This is a HUGE loss for AAR's listeners during the week.
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