New Liberal Radio Network Picks Celebrity PR Man [1]
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"Dan Klores Communications is helping to introduce Progress Media's plans for a liberal radio network to an intensely interested, but highly skeptical press," PR Week reports. The agency has been helping shape Progress Media's communications strategy. "The network has been billed as a way of balancing the strong influence of conservative talk radio, but so far media reporters have been wondering aloud why this would be different than other less-than-successful attempts at left-of-center radio programming, such as journalist Jim Hightower's show," PR Week writes. DKC's Matthew Traub explains that Progress Media would provide "programming 24/7" that aims to be, above all, "entertaining, rather than didactic." DKC's list of recent high-profile clients includes Paris Hilton, Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Mike Tyson and Lizzie Grubman [3]. According to PR Week, Progress Media is presently in talks with comedians Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo to host programs.