LIBERADIO(!)

TALKERS magazine, the leading trade publication serving broadcast talk radio and television, cable news/talk television, as well as the new talk media delivered via the internet, podcasting and satellite radio, has included Nashville-based liberal talk radio show, Liberadio(!) with Mary Mancini & Freddie O’Connell, in its “Frontier Fifty,” a list of 50 talk radio acts that best represent “the important pioneering work taking place in the burgeoning world of internet talk media.”

Other talk radio hosts named to the list include Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Kim Komando, and Rush Limbaugh.

Known for creating lists that highlight the best in talk radio – the Heavy Hundred, Top 250 and Top Talk Audiences – the most recent list was created to highlight the wide diversity of talent in what is quickly becoming a huge part of the talk radio establishment – online broadcasting.

“We’ve known since our show’s inception in 2004 that online broadcasting options would open up endless opportunity for us,” says Liberadio(!) producer and co-host, Mary Mancini, “and so we’re thrilled to have been recognized as a leaders in the field by TALKERS magazine.”

“The terrestrial radio landscape for talk is conservative in every sense in our local market,” says O’Connell. “So it’s been important for us from the beginning to embrace the Web and online media. We were one of the first podcasts included in Apple’s iTunes Store, and we’ve taken calls on the air from Alabama to Denmark. Our show’s focus remains intensely local, but we talk about issues that are accessible to a global audience.”

The “Frontier Fifty” list, featured online at www.talkers.com and in print in their latest issue, describes Liberadio(!) with Mary Mancini & Freddie O’Connell as a “Well-constructed media station for news commentary and analysis from a liberal perspective.”

“This new list reflects not only a wide diversity of talent and the subjects and special interest demos they embrace,” says TALKERS publisher Michael Harrison, “but also the wide array of mechanical, conceptual and formatic options available to the webcaster.

More information about “The Frontier Fifty: A Selection of Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters” is available at www.talkers.com and www.podjockey.com.

Liberadio(!) with Mary Mancini & Freddie O’Connell broadcasts on terrestrial radio in Nashville, Tennessee, every Monday morning from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. on WRVU 91.1 FM, as well as 24/7 at www.liberadio.com.