Is radio diverse enough? What can be done to bring all communities together in dialogue over the airwaves – the original dream of the founders of radio 100 years ago?
One good sign: on March 7, Clear Channel Los Angeles announced the launch of its Diverse LA program on talk station KTLK(AM) 1150. Yesterday, less than a week after the announcement, the first episode of the brand new KTLK AM 1150 broadcast went live. L.A. radio veteran and political commentator Morris O’Kelly, executive producer of the show, opened it by announcing: “This is Diverse LA… for the next three weeks the Diverse LA team is going to hold up a mirror to Los Angeles. We don’t really know each other… but Diverse LA is going to change how we talk to one another, listen to each other and how we understand, love and appreciate one another.”
Every day from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, for the next three weeks O’Kelly and Clear Channel Los Angeles will bring the people of LA a series of broadcasts that examine issues of special concern to African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and people of color.
Greg Ashlock, Los Angeles Market Manager for Clear Channel said, “these 45 hours of prime programming will feature local hosts and guests discussing a wide variety of issues associated with the spectrum of experience of all Angelenos.”
Politic365 spoke with O’Kelly about the exciting new venture.
It is news, entertainment, information. It is all the things we talk about in our daily lives, but it’s coming from perspectives of people within Latino, African American, LGBT communities. We don’t look alike, we don’t think alike, we don’t act alike, we don’t vote alike, so why should our radio sound alike? If we want to talk about ethnic redistricting why can’t it come from an ethnic perspective? The people it’s directly affecting?”
O’Kelly continues,
to some people, the issues are controversial, but Diverse LA is specifically a vehicle where we can push the community to think about these issues in a different way. Free speech is a dialogue, not a monologue. We want to offer information, but also be sincere enough to listen to the response in return.”
Full story HERE.
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