sry DirtyGreek I know you were so excited about this station, but the fact of the matter is, liberals suck at talk radio and an audience can't be bought with all the liberal money in the world.

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/60684.htm

Quote :

"AIR America is close to losing its New York flagship station - knocking Al Franken and his liberal colleagues off the air on their second anniversary. The network has a two-year lease with WLIB (AM 1190) that is reportedly set to expire April 1 - and at least one reliable report says it is "extremely likely" the deal will not be renewed. Losing its New York outlet would be a serious blow to the fledgling liberal radio network. "Radio Equalizer" blogger Brian Maloney - who blew the whistle on questionable loans to the lefty network last year - published the first report that WLIB was on the verge of evicting Air America some time soon. Air America's options for a new home are not promising. All of the city's other strong-signal stations are spoken for, leaving only weak-signal "fringe" stations that do not cover the entire city and suburbs. "

Once again proving that liberals should never be entrusted with the care of any business.

3/7/2006 10:40:07 AM

oh well

we've still got every other form of media (save for fox news)

3/7/2006 10:43:27 AM

George Soros. You lose. Again.

3/7/2006 10:43:50 AM

oh man, I haven't cared about air america since that argument. Whatever. too bad for them. the only good show on there was majority report

[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 10:59 AM. Reason : .]

3/7/2006 10:59:34 AM

Majority Report... I see what they did there... no wonder they're going under.

3/7/2006 11:08:29 AM

yes

it has nothing to do with inability to get stations(its not like they're just freely handing airwaves out), and having bad deals on the stations they do have

and it has nothing to do with the demographics of talk radio

it has everything to do with the way they named their programs




seriously enjoy this "victory"

until you complain about the liberal media again

and you have to remember WE'VE STILL GOT EVERY OTHER FORM OF MEDIA, save for fox news

[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 11:20 AM. Reason : `]

3/7/2006 11:20:06 AM

ah, woodfoot, that was sarcasm my man. What this does say is that there is no market for liberal talk radio. Either that, or it was executed very poorly.

3/7/2006 11:42:26 AM

I'll celebrate when they actually go off the air. That NY Post story is hedging like crazy...

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Quote :

"Woodfoot: and you have to remember WE'VE STILL GOT EVERY OTHER FORM OF MEDIA, save for fox news"

[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 12:35 PM. Reason : ---]

3/7/2006 12:35:11 PM

^ Honestly, do we? I dont think we have every other form of media.


And frankly, damnit, I want the damned facts unskewed and make my OWN opinion thereof. But i'm one of those nutty idealists.

3/7/2006 12:44:27 PM

^
omg Faux News

3/7/2006 1:13:10 PM

yeah, no

we do

3/7/2006 1:17:03 PM

People with jobs that are so simple they can listen to the radio while doing them, tend to be conservative.

NO WAI!!1

3/7/2006 2:02:44 PM

People with minds that are so simple that they can't listen to the radio while doing their job, tend to be liberal.

NO WAI!!1

3/7/2006 2:07:15 PM

People that don't know how to use commas properly, are stupid.

3/7/2006 2:09:43 PM

<trying to work a "people who ______ tend to be libertarian" here>

3/7/2006 2:11:31 PM

People without ears tend to be libertarian?

NO WAI!!1

3/7/2006 2:14:42 PM

^^
People with minds that are so high they can listen to the radio without it being turned on, tend to be libertarian.

NO WAI!!1



[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 2:15 PM. Reason : ]

3/7/2006 2:15:38 PM

You guys have Boortz, so you're pretty much lumped in with conservatives.


Air America was doomed from the start because liberals tend to prefer intelligent discussion (NPR) over punditry?

NO WAI!!1





[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 2:20 PM. Reason : .]

3/7/2006 2:19:08 PM

Quote :

"boonedocks: intelligent discussion (NPR)"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ::breathe:: hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

3/7/2006 2:23:40 PM

If liberals fail at beating conservative talk-radio head-on, I fear their return to attempting to legislate it away by trying to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine"

3/7/2006 3:04:14 PM

I wouldn't be proud of having all the other media

3/7/2006 3:07:16 PM

rabble

3/7/2006 3:09:02 PM

i mean

who actually thought this would work

liberals listen to NPR

that's really it

3/7/2006 3:20:29 PM

it was shame they stopped producing their paintball tanks as they were supposed to have good regs. then again, they were ugly as balls. how many of you really owned a messiah reg, i mean REALLY.





[Edited on March 7, 2006 at 3:40 PM. Reason : eww gross pics]

3/7/2006 3:38:32 PM

^^^^ I agree with you there Ncsutiger

3/7/2006 5:03:03 PM

^so why is anyone happy this happened?

3/7/2006 10:20:36 PM

Quote :

"i mean who actually thought this would work liberals listen to NPR that's really it "

Almost everyone I know listens to NPR, Republican and Democrat alike. It's just good radio. It's amusing that people in here think that listening to NPR somehow makes them more intelligent. It's equally ignorant to believe that only liberals listen to NPR.

3/7/2006 11:22:16 PM

^ i know this, just alot of stupid people think NPR is the devil

3/7/2006 11:26:22 PM

I love NPR. It's the best comedy show on the radio.
Their smug, BBC-wannabe vocal tones, the banjo bluegrass music they play to show everyone they're just-plain-folks, Their inability to tell Diane Rehm that she no longer has a pleasent voice for the radio, the left-wing game shows, the girl who announces herself as Meee-shell Norris, the commercials that they try desperately to make sound like announcements, and the endless hawking of tote-bags and Gordon Lightfoot CDs during constant pledge drives.

It keeps me laughing all day. I'm almost in favor of continuing the tax-support.

3/8/2006 1:25:08 AM

^ this guy for example

3/8/2006 1:42:52 AM

I love how conservative radio seems to be funded entirely by mattress manufacurers and diet pill companies.

Apparently conservatives tend to be fat and have trouble sleeping at night.

Go figure.

3/8/2006 3:22:37 AM

I listen almost exclusively to NPR... and I don't think anyone here would label me a liberal

3/8/2006 9:37:05 AM

i don't even know what station(s) carry NPR...and i doubt anyone would label me anything but a liberal

3/8/2006 9:39:50 AM

I wonder why there isn't anything like NPR on TV.

3/8/2006 9:42:48 AM

^..... is that a joke?

3/8/2006 10:19:52 AM

I'm mostly libertarian, but I listen to NPR, Fox News, local "news", and have even been know to watch that (damn, I really hate to call it "news", but,) 700 Club uber-Christian brainwash "news".

Also, I read Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets, Adbusters, Libertarian Communicator, and The Independent Weekly.....just to name a few.




Why?









































Know Your Enemy!!!!!!




[Edited on March 8, 2006 at 10:32 AM. Reason : AND I'M STILL WATING FOR MY TOTE-BAG!!! ]

3/8/2006 10:27:09 AM

Quote :

"Know Your Enemy!!!!!! "

that's about the only thing that keeps me on TWW.

3/8/2006 7:46:22 PM

thus proving that no one wants to hear whiny liberals on the radio

3/8/2006 8:54:54 PM

...New York Post?

Hail the Messiah!

3/8/2006 11:24:56 PM

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1aa.htm

Quote :

"Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, newly released stats show. A book hyped by major media as documenting a progressive revolution of "blogs" and political power, DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE,' has sold only 3,630 copies since its release last month, according to NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN. [NIELSEN claims only 2,062 copies of DAILY KOS have been purchased at the retail level; the rest coming through 'discount' outlets.] Meanwhile, the just released radio Winter Book [Jan-Mar 2006] from ARBITRON shows AIR AMERICA in New York City losing more than a third of its audience -- in the past year! Among all listeners 12+, it was a race to the bottom for AIR AMERICA and WLIB as mid-days went from a 1.6 share during winter 2005 to a 1.0 share winter 2006. During PM drive, host Randi Rhodes plunged to 27,900 listeners every quarter hour, finishing 25th place in her time slot, down from 60,900 listeners every quarter hour in the fall. A network source says the radio ratings released today do not reflect the overall growth of the broadcast. "The demos are better, and listeners trust AIR AMERICA to give them the real truth on issues and the Bush presidency," says the insider. Developing..."

4/26/2006 1:26:15 PM

anyone who has listened to Randi Rhodes would knwo why. i had it on my sirius radio, but she was always on, so i never bothered to listen to it (not that i listen to talk radio a ton anyway).

4/26/2006 1:54:43 PM

RANDY RHOADS!

[Edited on April 26, 2006 at 2:12 PM. Reason : i like to hear him on the radio, too]

4/26/2006 2:08:55 PM

it's true. i'm not at all surprised, their shows basically went madly downhill.

4/26/2006 2:34:11 PM

btw, to provide some balance to the dailykos claim:

Quote :

"Bookscan just surveys a sampling of big box retailers, so it's not a complete market analysis. Merely a snapshot of major retailers (and not even all of them). And it absolutely fails to capture online sales. So let's see. The book has been out three weeks. It has sold 5,100 copies of the special edition and 3,630 according to Drudge (if he can be trusted) in a sampling of the big box bookstores. That's 8,730 right there. Now throw in the indy bookstores (we've probably sold close to 1,000 just in the book signing events I've attended), and we're getting close to 10,000. Then there's the online retailers. Currently, CTG is ranked #25 on Amazon.com, and is ranked #5 in the politics category. Through the links at the top of the this page alone I've sold 700 copies of CTG. So to recap -- top ranking on Amazon, over 10,000 copies sold in three weeks the book has been out. Distributors have ordered 50,000 copies of the book, which has gone through three printings already (our small publisher can't afford to do large first printings). And we're just halfway through our book tour. And this is somehow supposed to be a failure? "

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/26/144354/599

4/26/2006 3:21:20 PM

If the dems take over this fall, you can bet they will resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine" to eliminate that talk-radio thorn in their side.

4/26/2006 11:47:15 PM

kinda like they did in 93?

fucking dumbass

4/26/2006 11:51:27 PM

and if the libertarians take over...

oh wait, they wont

4/27/2006 12:22:44 AM

zing!

4/27/2006 12:31:35 AM

the drudge report commenting on dailykos and the dailykos commenting on dailykos?

jesus christ. just stop

4/27/2006 12:32:02 AM