Is Frankenitis Contagious? Could Be Time To Quarantine Air America's Headquarters

We've heard some pretty outrageous claims made about Air America's programming in recent months: that it was available to 60% of Americans via radio, that liberal (including non-Air America) talk shows have grown faster than Rush did in his first year.

And we were lectured on the "fact" that radio ratings weren't available to the public, therefore we couldn't possibly know whether the network was performing well, or not.

I saw the link to the list of top 20 radio talk show hosts.

Are you seriously telling me that Kim Kommando, the gal who gives computer info, draws at least DOUBLE the audience that ANYONE on Air America does???? Kim draws 2 million but, not one person on AA is in the top 25 or draws even a million listeners!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Today, a new radio ratings roll-out begins with New York City, we'll have the latest here after 5pm EDT. As other cities see their data released later in the week, it will be updated.

That will be very interesting to see ...

Boston will have a ratings update on the 23rd according to Radio and Records. In the most recent (5/26/05) ratings for 12 and older:

WRKO (conservative talk) 4.3
WTKK (conservative talk) 3.7

You will not see any listing for WXKS and WKOX, the two stations running Air America in Boston. That's because they
got a 0.0! (or at least below 0.4--not sure what cutoff point is for "audience too low to measure"). Yes...in Boston!

And libs say "they're on two small stations with weak
signals". Actually during the day (and to some extent at night) the two stations can be heard quite well in the Boston area. WXKS is located in Medford about 5 miles from
downtown and well within reach of Cambridge, etc. So
why the no-show in ratings?

Libs say, "They're not being well-promoted!" They forgot the many articles (often praising the network) in the liberal
Globe and even the conservative Herald. They forgot the
billboards and taxi tops with Franken's ugly mug that
Clear Channel put up all over Beantown. They forgot that
TV stations like WBZ/4 did puff pieces on Air America.
So why the no-show in ratings?

A Boston radio station owner (who is liberal) came out and admitted it: their programming is simply not good.

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