Dave Maley, 9/9/2009
Thom Hartmann
ITHACA, NY — The nation’s top progressive radio talk show host will broadcast his program before a live audience at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites from noon to 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. The airing of the “Thom Hartmann Program” is cosponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications and the Cayuga Radio Group, which carries the show on WNYY AM 1470.
Free tickets for the general public to attend the live broadcast are available from WNYY by going to http://1470wnyy.com, clicking on the Thom Hartmann link and filling out a ticket request form. Beginning on Thursday, Sept. 10, Ithaca College students, faculty and staff can pick up free tickets from the Campus Center Ticket Office by presenting their Ithaca College ID. All tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Named the 10th most important talk show host in America — and number one among progressive hosts — by “Talkers Magazine,” Hartmann is also an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, author, entrepreneur, and innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology and economics.
Hartmann began his radio career in 1968 and worked for a decade as a disc jockey, reporter, news anchor and program director for a variety of commercial radio stations. He returned to the microphone in 2003 to host a liberal talk radio show that is now syndicated on stations from coast to coast, on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio, and streamed live on the internet.
In between, Hartmann helped establish hospitals, famine relief programs and refugee centers throughout the world, founded the New England Salem Children’s Village for neglected and emotionally disturbed children, and originated the “hunter vs. farmer” theory to explain the origins of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Attention Deficit Disorder.
Hartmann is the author of “Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class,” “Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights,” and “We The People: A Call to Take Back America.” His book “The Prophet’s Way” led to an invitation to a private audience with Pope John Paul II in 1998, while “The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight” led to an invitation the following year to spend a week with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India.
Hartmann’s books will be available for sale at the event, and he will sign copies following the broadcast from 3 to 4 p.m. outside of the Emerson Suites.
For more information: http://www.thomhartmann.com/.
Originally published in News Releases: Radio Talk Show To Broadcast Live From Ithaca College.
