Hey, MAGAheads, Kansas City is here to help

A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a “propaganda machine,” for six hours a day through a lease agreement struck by a local radio operator.

RM Broadcasting LLC, a Florida-based company that has agreements to broadcast the Russian state media program Radio Sputnik, reached a deal on Jan. 1 to lease air time through Alpine Broadcasting Corp. in Liberty. Alpine Broadcasting Corp. broadcasts on three frequencies in the Kansas City area: KCXL 1140 AM, 102.9 FM and 104.7 FM.

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A 2017 report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that evaluated Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election described Sputnik as “another government-funded outlet producing pro-Kremlin radio and online content in a variety of languages for international audiences.”

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RM Broadcasting in 2019 was ordered by a federal judge to register as a foreign agent under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires political agents in the U.S. acting on a foreign government’s behalf to disclose their relationships, finances and activities.

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The lease agreement lets RM Broadcasting air its programming from 6 to 9 a.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. seven days a week. KCXL’s website, which says that it’s the radio station that will “tell you the things that the liberal media wont (sic) tell you,” lists Radio Sputnik in its morning programming.

  Kansas City Star

Interesting.  Normally Russian content is considered leftist, so I wonder what they're going to get on Sputnik in addition to 2020 election interference to favor Donald Trump.

Actually, I'm not a scare-monger about Russian news outlets. There's often good content on Russia's RT (or at least there used to be - I haven't checked on it in months), and if you're complaining about propaganda: Fox News. need I say more?

As an aside, I recently asked why The Wall Street Journal had a period after its name in the title. The Kansas City Star has the same. And it makes me think (which is almost always good) that it might well be - probably is - to distinguish it as their online edition. As in .com.