Jon Sinton

Jon Sinton is a serial media entrepreneur American working in the radio, television and online industries.

Early Life

Jon graduated from Upper Arlington High school in Columbus Ohio in 1972 where he was active in student government

Early career

Sinton's early radio career was as a program director moving from WIOT in Toledo, Ohio to KDKB in Phoenix, Arizona in 1978.[1] By the 1980s he became a radio consultant and vice-president of research and development for the Atlanta-based Burkhart/Abrams consulting company.[2]

By the 1990s he started his own consulting company, Sinton, Barnes and Associates.[3] In 1994 he worked to get Jim Hightower, a populist radio host, a syndicated radio show, to counterbalance conservative host Rush Limbaugh.[4]

Air America
Main article: Air America (radio network)

In 2003 he began a venture to start a liberal-leaning radio network.[5] That station would become Air America.[6]

Sinton would later use his clout in the radio industry to become outspoken against the Fairness Doctrine[7]

Progressive Voices Institute, Inc.

In 2011, recognizing that progressives would never catch up on conservative-dominated talk radio or cable television, Sinton and original Air America sales director, Reed Haggard, were joined by online specialist George Vasilopoulos, in starting the non-profit Progressive Voices Institute, Inc. PVI's first educational project is a progressive portal that aggregates all progressive video, audio, and written word in a smartphone application called Progressive Voices App. PV App is an attempt to leverage the burgeoning Mobile internet revolution, and create a Progressive Media Universe on that platform.

gollark: You pick a "subcommand" with a capital-letter flag like `-S` (sync, which seems to be a fancy word for "Install packages"), `-Q` (query information aboud stuff) and then pass extra flags to configure how that works.
gollark: > what's a pacman-like CLI?Arch Linux (btw I use that) has a neat package manager called `pacman`.> what counts as package updating support?Updating packages without breaking things horribly, including not overwriting user-edited (config) files.> and library interface as in an API you can use from scripts?Precisely.
gollark: Oh, and a library interface.
gollark: Well, I would want a pacman-like CLI, probably configurable repos, multiple files in a package, good package updating support, and... other stuff?
gollark: If CC had symlinks, which it doesn't without a ton of FS hackery, you could make a busybox-type thing.

References
  1. Hall, Doug (19 August 1978). "Vox Jox". Billboard. p. 24. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  2. "Lee Michaels dies in car accident". Billboard. 5 January 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  3. Shiffman, Marc. "Barnes sees pay-for-play branding in radio's future". Billboard. p. 78. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  4. Howe Verhovek, Sam (9 May 1994). "Talk Radio Gets a Spirited New Voice From the Left". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  5. Hancock, David (17 February 2003). "Chicago Venture Capitalists Want To Start Liberal Radio Network". CBS News. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  6. Steinberg, Jacques (31 March 2004). "Liberal Voices Get New Home on Radio Dial". Common Dreams. Archived from the original on 12 July 2010. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  7. "Limbaugh gets support from Air America". Radio Business Report. 22 December 2008. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
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