ROB REDDING NOW HEARD IN BAY AREA

March 5, 2009, 8 p.m. - Talk radio show host Robert "Rob" Redding Jr. has extended his nationally-syndicated program, named after his award-winning Web site Redding News Review, into the Bay Area.

Redding's three-hour radio show is now airing every Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m. PT in the Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose listening areas on Green 960 KKGN-AM.

"I am thrilled to have Rob in the lineup," said John Scott, KKGN's program director. "His centrist politics and his great energy makes this show a great fit for the Green 960 brand."

"This is the only program able to handle up-to-the-minute news on politics and issues of race from a truly independent perspective," Redding said. "These issues are even more important given the harsh economic climate and a new president, unlike any we have ever seen. In short, this program's time has come."

Redding show is already heard in all 50 states on XM 169 and terrestrial radio via the Genesis Communications Network. GCN airs the show in the Austin and Orlando areas and throughout Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Redding, who is known as "America's Independent Voice," already has a weekly podcast that is downloaded by hundreds each week on his "Black Web Award"-winning Web site, ReddingNewsReview.com. He is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio and the Fox News Channel, and has been quoted in some of the nation's top newspapers.

His radio program uses exclusive headlines taken from ReddingNewsReview.com. The site has been called a "clearinghouse for African American news" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

Author of "Hired Hatred: Why politicians, political parties and the political prejudices they tout are mutually exclusive from good government," Talkers magazine noted Redding's uniquely Independent views on government by listing him as one of the "100 Most Important Radio Talk Hosts In America."

What's more, Redding has been called one of the most "respected names in the media," by urban magazine Upscale, and "one of the most intellectual and intriguing radio talk show hosts since Tavis Smiley" by urban industry authority Radio Facts.

Clear Channel-owned Green 960, is the home for Progressive Talk for the Bay Area.