Genre | Talk radio |
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Running time | 119 min |
Language(s) | English language |
Syndicates | Genesis Communications Network |
Hosted by | Ian Freeman Mark Edge |
Created by | Ian Freeman (Bernard) |
Recording studio | Keene, New Hampshire |
Original release | November 3, 2002 – present |
Audio format | stereophonic |
Website | www.freetalklive.com |
Podcast | freetalklive.com/netcast.xml |
Free Talk Live is an American call-in radio talk show heard seven nights a week. The program is hosted primarily by Ian Freeman and Mark Edge. They are typically joined by a rotating cast of changing co-hosts. It is a chiefly libertarian political talk show and topics range from current events to philosophy, from politics to personal issues.Free Talk Live engages in only a very basic form of call screening. The show is broadcast from Keene, New Hampshire. Before moving to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project, the show was broadcast from Sarasota, Florida.
The program is syndicated on over 160 radio stations via The Genesis Communications Network, 2 television stations across the United States, as well as on a KU-band satellite channel across North America and Africa, and multiple Internet radio networks around the globe. The nightly shows are alternatively available on the Free Talk Live website through podcast. Archives of more than 10 years of past shows are also available for download in MP3 format from the website.
The first broadcast was broadcast on November 3, 2002 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM in Sarasota, Florida.Free Talk Live became a weeknight show from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. After the radio station changed format in June 2003, the show was available only on Internet radio until it was picked up by WTMY, an AM radio station in Sarasota. The show began syndication program in September 2004. Free Talk Live currently airs seven nights per week from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Eastern time on over 120 radio and five television affiliates carrying audio simulcasts. In addition to over-the-air radio/TV, the show broadcasts on several internet radio affiliates and XM Satellite Radio channels 166 and 165, on weekdays and weekends respectively.