Posted on 01/12/2005 6:01:51 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Err America Radio is flopping bigtime in the ratings and the DUmmies analyze this situation in this THREAD titled, “Uh-Oh....Air America ratings slipping in NYC?” Yes, Err America Radio, launched with much fanfare a year ago, is going straight down the tubes. But the Left need fear not. They will still have National Public Radio if Err America gives up the ghost. As usual the DUmmie whinings are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wishing that he could receive Laura Ingraham on the radio, is in the [brackets]:
Uh-Oh....Air America ratings slipping in NYC? This is from Drudge, so one has to consider the source. But if true, it's not good news.
'AIR AMERICA' RATINGS TURBULENCE IN NY CITY: 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...
[24th place? What was in 23rd place? The Static Sound Hour?]
Get rid of Jeanine Grafolo maybe 7-10 will become listenable again
[The sound of paint drying would get higher ratings than Grafolo. Or is her name Crayolo?]
They need to work on the FUNNY and the SNARKY...and lighten up on the earnestness a bit. There's a fine line between an outraged, though humorous, rant and HECTORING.
[They also need to work on the RATIONALITY.]
I hate to say it, but some of AA is getting very tiresome...and it rhymes with Sandi Sodes. If I hear this woman blow shit and go high-and-mighty on one more friendly caller... Well, that won't happen, because I stopped listening to her weeks ago. My blood pressure has dropped probably 20 points since then.
[Take it easy on Randi Rhodes. The other day she spent two hours whining that countries could have been warned that a tsunami was coming with a mere phone call. She kept repeating that over and over for only a couple of hours. In the old days, Randi would have spent three whole hours beating that subject to death.]
I like Randi, but I think Morning Sedition (and ESPECIALLY Marc Maron) is 3 hours of un-listenable sophomoric drivel. A third rate comic hack who is amazingly unfunny should be doing a stupid sitcom for WB - not trying to educate an audience.
[Strange. I feel exactly the same way about the Glenn Beck show. Maybe we should have a contest over who is a more boring comedian wannabee. Glenn Beck or Marc Maron.]
I dislike it when Randi goes postal on liberal callers. I finally had to stop listening to her, too.
[Randi has been going postal for years.]
they need to get a better signal (I can barely hear the radio through the static when I'm not streaming)
[I heard that the Err America New York station is powered by Chris Heinz riding a stationary bicycle pedal generator.]
Find more people like Randi and Mike that speak with conviction and passion.
[Holding auditions in the mental asylums might be a good start.]
Randi, she is great, but her tangents get tiresome, sometimes it is her voice.
[The rest of the time it is just her annoying personality.]
Yes...you are right about the XM...I BADLY let my subscription lapse...smack head, smack head...but then again I drive 3 miles each way to work every day! I just stream her show...it's the best!
This would be much more interesting if they had good ratings to begin with.
I believe 23rd place was the weather emergency station, the one with the computer generated voice.
I saw a post on another thread from a Minnesota Freeper - seems that Err America's affiliate there (I assume Minneapolis) has to fill a lot of the commercial time with promos for other shows and PSAs. Not a good sign for a show when the station can't sell air time.
And now for something completely different...but I don't know where else to ask it!!! Why did the Mods pull the Masonic ZOT thread? That was hysterical! I'm mystified...any answers?
DUmmie math! I think they're using that new fangled "easy" math. HAHAHAHA!
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #557.
Last time I checked, that station's listener base consisted of two old codgers who are trying to get the latest updates on one of "them Florida hurricanes."
Welcome aboard, PINGEE #558.
What did Sean say about DUmmies? Share please!
Thank you!
It kinda sounds like "Stephen Hawking does the Weather".
I feel the same way. He yells to much, for starters.
Mucho Grassy Ass
"They don't pay me enough to be FUNNY. They don't
pay me anything. In fact,I pay them. But SNARKY? That I can do."
Maybe someone bought two radio stations and didn't broadcast from them so they could turn on static rather than AA?
Glenn Beck is the WORST! A couple of months ago he was doing DUMB Game Show shtick so I refused to listen to that banal garbage until last week when I decided to give him one more try. Big mistake. He was doing even MORE boring game show shtick again. Something about where the callers had to call him "Flap Jackson." Terrible stuff. Beck is the radio equivalent of slamming a pie in your own face for cheap (and boring) laughs.
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