National Radio Personality Thom Hartmann Now Airing on TV

National Radio Personality Thom Hartmann Now Airing on TV

-- Also launches The Big Picture, a daily stand alone half-hour issues television program

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann is now being carried on Free Speech TV (www.freespeech.org). FSTV reaches 30 million US homes and airs full time on DISH Network (channel 9415) and more than 200 local cable television affiliates (check local listings). On Free Speech TV, the third hour of The Thom Hartmann Program is simulcast from 2pm-3pm ET adding "live" callers from Free Speech TV to Thom's radio audience.

Also launching is Hartmann's, "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann", a daily stand alone half-hour issue-focused program that includes debate, analysis, and an overview of the political and cultural news of the day. This program follows Al-Jazeera news at 9:30 PM ET on FSTV.

Free Speech TV General Manager Jon Stout said: "FSTV is thrilled with our new alliance with Thom. It's easy to see how his combination of thoughtful commentary, rigorous debate and spirited audience dialogue has earned him such a large and loyal following. The call-in component of Thom's show makes it truly unique for us. This is the first time our viewers will be able to add their voices to one of our daily shows. He added: one of Free Speech TV's goals is to foster a vital and inclusive public discourse, and The Thom Hartmann Program provides an important new platform for this kind of dialogue.

The Thom Hartmann Program (live daily, NOON - 3pm, ET), national radio show, now in its seventh year on the air, is distributed by Dial-Global and Pacifica to stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Hartford, Washington DC, Boston, Grand Rapids, and 100+ stations nationwide as well as both Sirius & XM Satellite radio, and to Africa and the UK. Talkers Magazine recently named Hartmann the #10 talk show host in America.

Thom Hartmann (www.thomhartmann.com) is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. Radio Ink Magazine calls his program "talk radio with a rational perspective, solid facts, and grounded in the history of America." More people listen daily to The Thom Hartmann Program than any other progressive talk show in the nation.

Free Speech TV (www.freespeech.org) is an independent, non-profit TV network promoting voices and perspectives under-represented in the media. Free Speech TV broadcasts and webcasts independently-produced programs, such as Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and GRITtv with Laura Flanders, Al-Jazeera News, as well as weekly public affairs programs, investigative documentaries, personal stories, and keynote talks by leading thinkers.

Management services for The Thom Hartmann Program and Thom's other media interests are provided by Ron Hartenbaum/WYD MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LLC. (www.wydmedia.com)

CONTACTS:

Thom Hartmann
THE THOM HARTMANN PROGRAM
(503) 977-7988
louise@thomhartmann.com
www.thomhartmann.com

Henry Kavett
WYD MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LLC
(908) 771-0773
kavett@wydmedia.com
www.wydmedia.com

Source: WYD MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LLC

CONTACT: Thom Hartmann, THE THOM HARTMANN PROGRAM, +1-503-977-7988,
louise@thomhartmann.com; or Henry Kavett, WYD MEDIA MANAGEMENT, LLC,
+1-908-771-0773, kavett@wydmedia.com

Web Site: http://www.wydmedia.com/

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