Posted on 05/10/2006 6:02:37 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Air America Radio will lose its New York flagship station, WLIB-AM, on Aug. 31. While the left-leaning radio network’s original lease for the Inner City station ran out March 31, AAR managed to get an extension which only lasts until Aug. 31, according to an informed source.
Through an agreement with ICBC, WLIB will be operated as a joint venture and be programmed by P1, a company run by former Clear Channel and Jacor Communications executive Randy Michaels. Michaels is expected to program a progressive talk format, but replace AAR’s network programming with more local programming. A likely addition to the new lineup: Ed Schultz, the left-of-center talker syndicated by P1.
“To be clear, Air America will not go silent on the New York City airwaves. We do not, however, comment on hypothetical speculation,” said an AAR spokesperson.
Meanwhile, the socialist financed liberal Air America can not hold an audience or make a profit to the point that they will now lose their station in the most liberal city in America next to San Francisco.
Their death is real.
Bush's MSM polls are marshmallow fluff.
FYI
I agree with your analysis, and your assessment of MSM polls!
But, but new hero to some on FR, lou dobbs called air america "star" randi rhodes one of America's "most popular" talks show hosts, while their flagship NYC station goes under.
I'm not surprised. Air(head) America never had good ideas to offer.
The money that Air America stole from the kids was swept under the rug rater quickly by the MSM.
the free market is the most effective poll
What?
They couldn't steal enough money from children's shelters to keep it going?
He left off the word "Air" in front of "America."
Whatever happened with that? It's like a longer running version of Jihwad Cyndy running the checkpoint and slugging the cop.
If they were being listened to, the advertisers would be there.
I thought this was pretty interesting:
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/05/randi-rhodes-air-america-wlib-new-york.html
This fellow's been a very reliable source on the Air America beat.
D
I actually heard Air America for the first time a couple of days ago on XM radio. My God!!! I felt like I was listening to deranged juvenile delinquents. Just pure nonsense, hatred, bitterness, and insanity. I didn't know whether to be afraid of these lunatics or to laugh at how far gone they are.
Bump!
Actually this is a good/bad news situation. Good that it is one more nail in AAR. Bad though because Randy Michaels is a great radio programmer. Where AAR was inept in it's business model and excecution, Mr. Michaels has none of those fallacies. This will have a very good chance of success as he will have a deep pool of talent to choose from. He knows how to create compelling radio.
He was instrumental in bringing Rush into the Clear Channel fold and knows how to develope talent. This could be very interesting.
"left leaning"??? Jeez, theyre so far left they almost come full circle to right lol. Yet, notice when describing Rush,Sean.etc., they are "far right"???
If Randi has three listeners and the other aar hosts have two, Randi would be "most popular aar host". The term "most popular" also doesn't have to take into account drooling, knuckle dragging, or Depends usage in the listeners, either.
It looks like Free Speech TV is hurting too.
I heard it for the first time, also on XM, last summer. I tried to listen.....worst 15 seconds of my life....(Frankin is about as entertaining as a octogenarian strip-tease....)
You can't listen to Err America for more than 15 minutes and not conclude that liberalism is a mental disease. At least if you have more than half a brain. Franken is so painfully inept and unfunny, you almost feel sorry for him. But then he opens his bass-like mouth again and that feeling quickly dissipates.
To paraphrase the song "New York," if Err America can't make it there (even stealing from widows and orphans), they can't make it anywhere!
Air America is starting to look more and more like a vacuum!
The phrase "good riddance to bad rubbish" was never more apropos.
How dare you insult "marshmallow fluff".
New York may be more liberal than Portland Oregon, but we have enough crazies up here that AA is actually a success in this market.
I guess besides having the highest number of nudie bars per capita, we also have the highest number of gray pony-tailed loons per capita here in PDX.
Lasted almost as long as the car, 1958 - 1960.
These liberal jerks are so dense. They just don't get it even when the Grim Reaper is tap, tap, tapping his scythe on the doors of their padded cells.
They'll clutch the bars and won't let go when their "network" expires because they can't stand the thought of their next radio gig at WDUD in Peoria.
I bet they'll stubbornly keep broadcasting to their crazy fans with tin cans and string from a janitor's closet at CNN.
They're hoping for another rich Robin Hoodlum to ride out of the forest to save them again, mark my words. That's why they've been hanging on by their fingertips, probably putting their own money in to stay alive till someone rescues them again.
I just hope Franken, Rhodes and company don't ask anyone I know and love to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on them.
Ugh.
Leni
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