{{short description|American serial media entrepreneur}} '''Jon Sinton''' is an American serial media entrepreneur 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.<ref name="Hall">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Jon+Sinton%22+radio+atlanta&pg=PT25|title=Vox Jox|last=Hall|first=Doug|date=19 August 1978|work=Billboard|page=24|access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref> By the 1980s he became a radio consultant and vice-president of research and development for the Atlanta-based Burkhart/Abrams consulting company.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ByUEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Jon+Sinton%22+radio+atlanta&pg=PA11|title=Lee Michaels dies in car accident|date=5 January 1985|work=Billboard|page=11|access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref>
By the 1990s he started his own consulting company, Sinton, Barnes and Associates.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQ0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Jon+Sinton%22+radio&pg=PA78|title=Barnes sees pay-for-play branding in radio's future|last=Shiffman|first=Marc|work=Billboard|date=25 April 1998|page=78|access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref> In 1994 he worked to get Jim Hightower, a populist radio host, a syndicated radio show, to counterbalance conservative host Rush Limbaugh.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30913F73E5D0C7A8CDDAC0894DC494D81|title=Talk Radio Gets a Spirited New Voice From the Left|last=Howe Verhovek|first=Sam|date=9 May 1994|work=The New York Times|access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref>
==Air America== {{main|Air America (radio network)}} In 2003 he began a venture to start a liberal-leaning radio network.<ref name="Hancock">{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liberal-radio/|title=Chicago Venture Capitalists Want To Start Liberal Radio Network|last=Hancock|first=David|date=17 February 2003|publisher=CBS News|access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref> That station would become Air America.<ref name="Steinberg">{{cite web|url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0331-01.htm|title=Liberal Voices Get New Home on Radio Dial|last=Steinberg|first=Jacques|date=31 March 2004|publisher=Common Dreams|access-date=23 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712030854/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0331-01.htm|archive-date=12 July 2010|df=}}</ref>
Sinton would later use his clout in the radio industry to become outspoken against the Fairness Doctrine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rbr.com/media-news/11968.html?referer=sphere_search|title=Limbaugh gets support from Air America|date=22 December 2008|publisher=Radio Business Report|access-date=23 November 2010}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==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.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130216165546/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/interviews/sinton.html PBS interview]
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