Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate Brian Moore was interviewed on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, on Tampa Bay, Florida's Alternative Community Radio station WMNF, 88.5, by News Director Rob Lorei, on his program "Radioactivity: Live Call-In."  The program, which follows Amy Goodwin's "Democracy Now" program from 12 to  1 PM, is heard in the Greater Tampa metropolitan-wide area to a potential population base of over one million people.

 

The interview covered an entire hour, from 1 to 2 PM, with approximately 8 to 10 callers and e-mailed questions posted by the listeners during the program.

 

To hear the interview, please double click the link below.  The actual interview begins at 6 minutes and 32 seconds into the show, after the previous day's recorded responses are aired.

 

Should your computer process not work, you can also go to the website: www.wmnf.org/programs, and click "On Demand" in the left-hand column, then click "Archives," and go to the "Wednesday" column, and click on "05/07/08" for the show to air.  Remember, the interview begins at 6:32 minutes into the program.  The link follows.

 

 

Wikipedia Info:  Radio WMNF is a non-commercial, community radio station operating in the city of Tampa in the U.S. state of Florida that broadcasts at the FM frequency of 88.5 MHz and streaming live, also the past week of programming is available on the web. The station has been on the air since 1979, and has a broadcast power of 70,000 watts (a class C1 transmitter).

The radio station is listener sponsored, relying on some 11,200 (as of June 2007) supporters for a majority of required funding which is raised in two or three semiannual pledge drives. The station has paid operations staff, but the daily programmers and pledge drive workers are volunteers. The station is licensed to the Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation, a non profit organization established solely for this purpose. The Board of Directors comprises programmers, volunteers, staff, and community members.

Controversies

While providing extensive public affairs programming to the greater Tampa Bay area, and perhaps because of it, WMNF has at times become the focus of controversy.

In 1997, Florida state Senator John Grant zeroed out $104,000 in state funding from the annual budget, citing his displeasure at the lyrics of a song he had heard broadcast (Iris DeMent's "Wasteland of the Free"). In response to the shortfall, the station staged an emergency fund-raiser that took in $122,000 in a day and a half.

In the wake of the 2000 presidential election, some accused the station of having contributed to Al Gore's defeat through its extensive coverage of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign