After a gig at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, Bacon’s Rebellion alum Norm Leahy (right) has joined forces with Scott Lee (of the radio Lee Brothers fame here in Richmond) to launch The Score Radio Network. With the tag-line of “free market radio for free people,” the Score provides an outlet for rational yet passionate conservative views on the radio and in the blogosphere.
It’s an interesting combination. Other radio show hosts publish a blog as an afterthought, but The Score puts Norm’s blogging front and center… which makes total sense because Norm is one of the best bloggers in Virginia (some say he’s the best blogger). The radio show is not unlike Norm’s blogging — irreverent but very substantive. Scott is entertaining, as a talk show host must be, but he has a great line-up of guests and addresses serious topics from a conservative perspective.
At present, The Score produces an hourly show once a week and is broadcast on WLEE radio in Richmond, WMBG in Williamsburg and WLNI in Lynchburg as well as three Internet talk radio sites. The ambition is to expand the show into a network spanning the state.
Norm and Scott have interviewed some of the leading lights (or dim bulbs, depending upon your perspective) of Virginia politics, as well as think tank gurus, pundits and other odd, assorted characters such as myself. Earlier this month, Scott and I pontificated (or ranted, if you will) on the budget debate in Washington, D.C. Later in the show, Scott interviewed former Del. Chris Saxman and former Republican Party chairman Ron Nehring.
Listen to the podcast.
Update: Speaking of blogs branching into other media, Bearing Drift does a super job of melding blogging, podcasting and now a magazine. It is fascinating to see blogs climb out of the primeval ooze and evolve into real-live media enterprises. I don’t know if they meet Ed Risse’s standards for “citizen” media, but they do represent the honest voices of citizens before they have become rich, successful and corrupt.
