NEW YORK: Dan Klores Communications (DKC) is helping to introduce Progress Media's plans for a liberal radio network to an intensely interested, but highly skeptical press.

The agency has been assisting Progress Media with media relations strategy and execution. Most recently, the company's owners, a group of liberal-leaning investors, announced that they're close to buying radio stations in five major cities.

The network has been billed as a way of balancing the strong influence of conservative talk radio, but so far media ...