Free Talk Live
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Free Talk Live |
| Country of production |
 United States
|
| Year (s) | since 2002 |
| length | approx. 120 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Monday to Sunday |
| genre | Call-in- talk radio |
| Moderation | Ian Freeman, Mark Edge |
| First broadcast | November 3, 2002 |
Free Talk Live is an American call-in- talk radio show that has been in production since 2002. The show is moderated by the libertarians Ian Freeman and Mark Edge. The show will be syndicated nationwide via the ultra-conservative Genesis Communications Network . In 2016, the moderators were ranked 31st among the US “Heavy Hundred” talk hosts.
concept
Listeners can call Free Talk Live by phone or Skype and basically comment on any topic. The two moderators comment or debate these statements of the listeners with one another and with them. When it comes to political issues, the moderators take a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist standpoint.
transmission
The live broadcast is broadcast in the USA and North America by 161 radio and 2 television stations as well as two satellite channels and is available worldwide as an Internet stream as part of various services. Past programs are available for download as podcasts in MP3 format .
The studio has been located in Keene , New Hampshire , since 2006 after the presenters relocated from Sarasota , Florida as part of the Free State Project .
financing
Free Talk Live finances its operating and personnel costs from advertising revenues and donations from listeners as part of the “Advertise, Market, and Promote” (AMP) initiative. This earns around US $ 3,750 a month, which is spent solely on promoting the show in other media and similar purposes.
Free Talk Live also encourages donations through the Bitcoin system.
Guests
The focus of Free Talk Live is on the callers and their issues. Guests are therefore rarely invited. Some of these guests were:
- Ron Paul , politician and 1988 Libertarian Party presidential candidate
- Glenn Thomas Jacobs , wrestler known as "Kane"
- Doug Stanhope , comedian
- Aubrey de Gray , bioinformatician and theoretical biogerontologist
- Cindy Sheehan , peace activist
- Michael Badnarik , also a politician of the Libertarian Party and as such a candidate for the 2004 presidential election
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.talkers.com/2016-talkers-heavy-hundred-26-50/
- ↑ http://www.freetalklive.com/affiliates
- ↑ http://feeds.feedburner.com/ftlradio
- ↑ http://www.freetalklive.com/amp
- ↑ http://www.freetalklive.com/bitcoin