Liberal-radio sale (Drobnys DITCH Their Losing Project)

Washington Times (Inside Politics) ^ | November 21, 2003 | Liberal-radio sale

[PJ-Comix]

A group headed by a former adviser to the Democratic National Committee has taken over the effort to create a liberal-radio network to compete with conservative-talk radio.

Mark Walsh, who is also a former America Online executive, said his investors' group bought the proposed network from the venture capitalists who started AnShell Media LLC in February. The purchase price was not announced.

[irgbar-man]

At the time, Sheldon and Anita Drobny said they had lined up $10 million and hoped to be on the air by this fall. But the Drobnys never hired any talent, purchased any stations or signed any distribution contracts, the Associated Press reports.

No there there, Shel?

All hat and no cattle? BWAAAAA-HAAAAW!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So you're saying that the Drobnys came up with this whole Liberal Radio Talk Show as a way to scam money off some sucker?

Why didn't I think of doing that?

[2Hot4You]

I heard Randi Rhodes for the first time a while ago, turned her off fast- she followed Rush on my radio station.

Isn't Randi Rhodes a porn-star?

[PJ-Comix]

Isn't Randi Rhodes a porn-star?

No. Even The Hedgehog would refuse to do the scenes with her.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times AnShell Media Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[gridlock]

My hero!

[gridlock]

So you're saying that the Drobnys came up with this whole Liberal Radio Talk Show as a way to scam money off some sucker?

It would be very interesting to see the Drobnys cash balance on this venture. My guess is that they waved their check-book around, but never got around to writing the check. The questions is, how much money did they bilk out of other unsuspecting suckers (the best kind...).

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Don't forget NPR. Let's sell that to them. We'll all be better off.

[PJ-Comix]

It would be very interesting to see the Drobnys cash balance on this venture. My guess is that they waved their check-book around, but never got around to writing the check. The questions is, how much money did they bilk out of other unsuspecting suckers (the best kind...).

I'm sure it was a scam with some liberal feel-good smoke and mirrors thrown in. The bottom line is that despite the Drobnys big song and dance act about setting up a vast syncated liberal radio talk show, they put NO money nor effort into it except for Mrs. Drobny showing up on a few talk shows to boast about how her network would beat Rush. I think her organization was called Amshell but a better name would be Amscam.