RedandNater.com

RedandNater.com (also known as Red And Nater or abbreviated as R&N) was a web-based message board dedicated to the broadcasting industry, mostly the radio industry in the Upper Midwest. The site followed in the footsteps of the wildly popular Northpine message board. When that site removed the forum, current Z100/New York City DJ JJ Kincaid (employed at KDWB/Minneapolis at the time) started a site called Southpine, which lasted for a few years before stepping aside for RedandNater.com. Other sites have come and gone in competition, most notably, Netdjs.com, which provided a link to RedandNater when they went out of business.
The site was occasionally quoted in local media reports as the source of information on broadcasting hirings and firings. The site broke the news that longtime Clear Channel GM Mick Anselmo was terminated. Also, the site beat the mainstream media to the firings of numerous radio and television personalities.
The site was banned by broadcasting giant Clear Channel nationwide due to the site's owners refusing to delete frequent posts criticizing the company and its management.
History
The founders of the site were Eric "Red" Redlinger and Nate "Nater" Dybvig. The site was originally created to advance the efforts of Red and Nater as they attempted to sway votes in the contest for Bemidji State University Mass Communication Department Alumni of the year. With the fluctuations occurring in the broadcasting media board sector, the two started the message board to compete with Southpine. In the early days, the site was little more than a personal battle site for Red and Nater with a particularly ornery DJ named Ugly Del Roberts. But as the other sites began to fade, RedandNater.com became the home for broadcasting chat throughout the upper Midwest. The site claimed 15,000 hits a day from broadcasters and interested outsiders throughout the United States.
The site's influence and stature as a prime destination for media discussion in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market and Minnesota was often defined by the relatively low number of posts about the market on a primary competitor, RadioDiscussions.com. The Minneapolis/St. Paul and Minnesota discussion areas there has only a few dozen topics and not even 500 posts, whereas many other markets have activity levels of thousands of topics and individual postings numbering in the tens of thousands. RedandNater.com is also the primary media discussion message board for North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
While the site contained frivolous material, libelous material and silly topics (such as green baseballs, the fictional "Tim Poven" character, pancakes, etc.) as it was not moderated and registration was not required, it could also be an informative and useful destination for those seeking current news of the Upper Midwest radio and TV broadcasting industry and information and opinion on contemporary programming theories and local station policies. It was also a site where the illustrious past of Minneapolis-St. Paul radio was discussed with many war stories, historical recollections and other anecdotes shared by those who experienced or perpetrated them. You could often find links to other sites that presented the market's history through audio exhibits known as "airchecks" and sites that present other material, in the form of audio, video and still images. Three resources often referenced on RedandNater.com are the free aircheck websites RadioGeekHeaven.com, RadioTapes.com, MostlyUpperMidwestAirchecks.com and TwinCitiesRadioAirchecks.com
On Oct. 20, 2012, the site went dark after months of neglect by Redlinger and Dybvig.

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