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AIR AMERICA' RATINGS TURBULENCE IN NY CITY
http://www.drudgereport.com/ ^

Posted on 01/12/2005 5:59:20 AM PST by jasoncann

Surprising many observers who expected it to shine during election season, all-liberal upstart WLIB (1190 AM) -- base station for Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo -- actually headed south, shedding 15% of its summer audience to finish fall at 24th place in just-released ARBITRONS...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberaltalkradio; nyc
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1 posted on 01/12/2005 5:59:20 AM PST by jasoncann
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To: jasoncann

all i have to say is.. HAHAHAHA wait make that BWHAAA BWHAAA


2 posted on 01/12/2005 5:59:53 AM PST by jasoncann
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To: jasoncann

They need Dan Rather.


3 posted on 01/12/2005 6:00:45 AM PST by ReadyNow
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To: jasoncann

They have far exceded my life-span projection of 2 weeks after the elections. 24th place, even in NYC, sucks.


4 posted on 01/12/2005 6:01:09 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (MY COUSIN GREG IS HOME SAFE FROM IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: jasoncann
Site Meter
McCullough Muscle is the only radio worth listening to in NYC...WMCA 570 and 970! "Beating the smog out of Air America daily"
5 posted on 01/12/2005 6:02:15 AM PST by KMC1
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To: jasoncann

And to paraphrase, if you can't make it here, you can't make it anywhere!


6 posted on 01/12/2005 6:02:47 AM PST by Redbob
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To: jasoncann

Wonder how they feel knowing their brand of ideology isn't much appreciated even in liberal NYC?

Rush and others said some time back it wasn't time to gloat, I think there's no better time like the present to gloat and have a good laugh at the expense of those who are trying to sell out our country.

Hahhahhahha!


7 posted on 01/12/2005 6:02:49 AM PST by Stringfellow Hawke (#6: Be seeing you!)
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To: jasoncann

El Rushbo's flagship(WABC/770)RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 01/12/2005 6:02:57 AM PST by bandleader
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To: jasoncann
Just can't understand that:

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

9 posted on 01/12/2005 6:02:59 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: jasoncann

*Smirk* and **Double Smirk**


10 posted on 01/12/2005 6:04:09 AM PST by CarolTX (Onward through the fog)
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To: jasoncann

It finished behind "Lets Talk Derivatives!"


11 posted on 01/12/2005 6:05:26 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: jasoncann
Air America made a very bad business decision in NYC. They took over WLIB, which had been a very popular "ethnic" radio station. So WLIB's ratings went down after AA chased away all the existing listener base.

Meanwhile there's plenty liberal radio in NYC already.

12 posted on 01/12/2005 6:06:36 AM PST by Salman
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To: CarolTX

This was pretty much expected, and predicted here often ..post election..wither and ide..


13 posted on 01/12/2005 6:06:49 AM PST by ken5050
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To: jasoncann

Alright its time to post this link again "Its time to Gloat!" hahahahahahah hahahahahah
http://69.93.61.74/~newsfly/media/afterelection.htm


14 posted on 01/12/2005 6:06:51 AM PST by jasoncann
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To: jasoncann
Should we start an Err Amerika death watch?
15 posted on 01/12/2005 6:07:43 AM PST by The_Victor (Calvin: "Do tigers wear pajamas?", Hobbes: "Truth is we never take them off.")
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To: jasoncann

People just don't appreciate high quality anymore. </sarcasm off>


16 posted on 01/12/2005 6:07:57 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: Mike Bates
Under normal circumstances I like to see someone wearing a thin t-shirt without a bra... but somehow, this isn't working this time.
17 posted on 01/12/2005 6:11:12 AM PST by The_Victor (Calvin: "Do tigers wear pajamas?", Hobbes: "Truth is we never take them off.")
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To: Mike Bates

Had not seen that picture of Al Frankenstein before. It struck me for the first time how much he looks like the Joker on the old Batman TV series.


18 posted on 01/12/2005 6:11:18 AM PST by reelfoot
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To: jasoncann

Liberal ideas and policies just simply cannot be sustained in a talk radio format. Secondly, one cannot simply create a market in this venue. All talk radio personalities have built their audiences over time, and have grown to where they are now. The idea that one can just simply create a network and start blabbing and bring in the ratings is....well, just another liberal pipe dream. Idiots.


19 posted on 01/12/2005 6:11:30 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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To: bandleader

El Rushbo's flagship(WABC/770)RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

%%%%%


An observation that I never see mentioned, especially by those who fear and envy the power of Rush, is

every half hour listeners of WABC and other major radio stations carrying his program are subjected to the ABC (or possibly CBS) brand of "News." This includes at least one soundbite that is anti-Bush or anti-republican.

During the Clinton years, we were subjected to a soundbite of Clinton's own voice practically every half-hour.

To libs the top of the hour "news" was normal. To me it was a cause for teeth-grinding.


20 posted on 01/12/2005 6:11:40 AM PST by maica (Dems play to "MSM"...and we have learned they cannot defeat anyone.)
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To: jasoncann
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUSH!
21 posted on 01/12/2005 6:12:35 AM PST by mental
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To: jasoncann

I guess AL will be back on the book circuit soon. I always thought he was funny.......looking.


22 posted on 01/12/2005 6:14:23 AM PST by DOGEY
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To: The_Victor

Hahahahaha. Good one!


23 posted on 01/12/2005 6:15:09 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: jasoncann
Ah, this starts my Wednesday off right.......


24 posted on 01/12/2005 6:15:57 AM PST by Viking2002 (Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
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To: jasoncann
I guess Babs and the rest of Hollywood will have to write a few more checks to Air America
25 posted on 01/12/2005 6:19:53 AM PST by ghitma (MeClaudius)
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To: jasoncann

"Help me. I have fallen and can't get up".


26 posted on 01/12/2005 6:20:52 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: jasoncann

As we all know here, most people do not want to hear what a rotten, arrogant country the United States is....our country where we live. It appears that even libs can't stand it very long either. I tried to listen to Franken a while back, I lasted about 3 min. I could imagine a drooling lib being able to stand it for a couple of months, but it soon would wear on even him. It takes a slobbering, rolling on the floor lib like , say, Moore to be able to listen to KLIB for any length of time.


27 posted on 01/12/2005 6:22:04 AM PST by B.O. Plenty
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To: jasoncann

I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And gosh darnit, people like me! - AH(deep breath)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


28 posted on 01/12/2005 6:34:22 AM PST by FilthyHands (He who conquers endures.)
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To: mental

Is today actually Rush's birthday,? If so, I want to send my greetings.


29 posted on 01/12/2005 6:42:08 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: jasoncann

This doesn't surprise me at all. Air America (I get it on XM) is nothing but shrill name calling for hours on end. No attempt is ever made to substantiate an accusation or logically argue a point. The so-called "comedy" is just horrible. At least NPR does try to rationally put forth the liberal point of view and does have some good programming. Imaginge listening to Susan Estrich's voice for eight hours straight and you have a pretty good idea of Air America.


30 posted on 01/12/2005 6:45:15 AM PST by joebuck
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31 posted on 01/12/2005 6:47:01 AM PST by Alouette (Abu Mazen: Arafat after a shower and shave)
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To: The_Victor
Well, since you insist:

32 posted on 01/12/2005 6:47:14 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: jasoncann

I'm a man of peace - and I usually don't wish bad things on people.

That said, I'd really like to see al franken viciously mauled to death by a pack of three Rottweillers - then eaten by a couple of grizzly bears.

Once the bears crap him back out, I'd like for the feces to be force-fed to john kerry, hillary klinton, and janeane garofalo.

(Hey - cut me some slack...I didn't use a single cuss word!)


33 posted on 01/12/2005 6:47:59 AM PST by Don Simmons (Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)
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To: reelfoot
It struck me for the first time how much he looks like the Joker on the old Batman TV series.

A big difference is the Joker was actually funny sometimes.

34 posted on 01/12/2005 6:48:16 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: Mike Bates

You're lucky I'm leaving for work, or I would have reported you for abuse! Bleeeaaccchhh!!!!! ;^)


35 posted on 01/12/2005 6:51:13 AM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("Oh no, not Hans Brix!")
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To: Bahbah
"A year older"

I thought that everybody knew January 12th is Rush's birthday.
36 posted on 01/12/2005 6:52:32 AM PST by mental
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

Thanks, I will consider myself lucky. :)


37 posted on 01/12/2005 6:53:08 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: mental
"I thought that everybody knew January 12th is Rush's birthday."

I do now and thank you very much. He is the best!

38 posted on 01/12/2005 7:01:20 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Mike Bates
Well, since you insist:

Can we put a bag over her head. Or maybe the Kennedy trial "blue dot".

39 posted on 01/12/2005 7:06:01 AM PST by The_Victor (Calvin: "Do tigers wear pajamas?", Hobbes: "Truth is we never take them off.")
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To: Salman
Meanwhile there's plenty liberal radio in NYC already.

It's called NPR and it is subsidized by out tax dollars.

40 posted on 01/12/2005 7:38:36 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Lefty Suicide Hotline: 1-800-BUSH-WON (thanks PJ-Comix!))
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To: Mike Bates

Mike, Franken must be funny. After all, the MSM labels him a comedian, and they're NEVER wrong.


41 posted on 01/12/2005 7:43:42 AM PST by CivilWarguy
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To: jasoncann

Actually they didn't head SOUTH. They are still in the NORTHEAST. Most of us in the SOUTH don't fall for liberal propaganda.


42 posted on 01/12/2005 7:49:12 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: CivilWarguy

You got me there!


43 posted on 01/12/2005 7:53:13 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: CivilWarguy

You got me there!


44 posted on 01/12/2005 7:53:19 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: The_Victor
Alright a blue dot... as you requested
45 posted on 01/12/2005 7:53:58 AM PST by jasoncann
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To: Mike Bates

I'm flattered.


46 posted on 01/12/2005 7:54:44 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mike Bates

That double posting was not because I stupidly pushed the key twice in a row. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it.


47 posted on 01/12/2005 7:55:06 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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To: The_Victor
or do you prefer the bag
48 posted on 01/12/2005 7:56:28 AM PST by jasoncann
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To: Mr. Lucky
Well, if I'd known that's all it took. . . .
49 posted on 01/12/2005 7:56:45 AM PST by Mike Bates (Start the New Year with a good book. Modesty prevents me from suggesting which one.)
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Alright a blue dot... as you requested

Much better... kinda nice actually. < / perverted leer >

50 posted on 01/12/2005 7:58:14 AM PST by The_Victor (Calvin: "Do tigers wear pajamas?", Hobbes: "Truth is we never take them off.")
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