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Booted In Providence--
Ratings Losses Clobbering Air America Station
The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^
| September 10th, 2005
| Brian Maloney
Posted on 09/10/2005 5:07:30 PM PDT by chuckpez
The plug's finally been pulled at Air America affiliate WHJJ-AM, where enormous ratings losses have nearly killed a once-successful Providence conservative talk station.
While at least two tiny stations have already dropped Air America, this is significant because the Rhode Island talker has been one of the network's largest outlets.
According to the Providence Journal, Jerry Springer's show is the first to be yanked and will be followed by Al Franken's imminent cancellation:
(Excerpt) Read more at radioequalizer.blogspot.com ...
TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: airamerica; alfranken; clearchannel; franken; frankenfraud; jerryspringer; liberaltalkradio; libs; providence; radio; ri; talkradio; theend; whjj
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:07:31 PM PDT
by
chuckpez
To: chuckpez
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:09:18 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: chuckpez
Does Error America even have 20 stations left? Does anyone have a list of cities where it can be heard?
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:09:49 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: chuckpez
I wonder if the station will fold from its stupid decision to run Air America at all.
I wouldn't feel comfortable listening to a turncoat station turncoat again. How many listeners do they want to miff off?
To: Petronski
Never had the chance to listen to Air America.
Guess I won't miss them either.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:12:47 PM PDT
by
minerboy
(Proud to be banned by the DU.)
To: chuckpez
No listeners = no advertisers = no money.
money talks, BS walks. start hikin' franken..
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:13:03 PM PDT
by
lrb111
To: minerboy
One time I visited a machine shop--metal lathing and all that. I've also been trackside at a Formula 1 event without earplugs. Both compare favorably to the mere idea of Gawdawfulho and Stuart Smalley
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:15:19 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: minerboy
One time I visited a machine shop--metal lathing and all that. I've also been trackside at a Formula 1 event without earplugs. Both compare favorably to the mere idea of Gawdawfulho and Stuart Smalley bitching about Halliburton.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:15:39 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Petronski
I haven't seen that before. I like it.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:15:58 PM PDT
by
FOG724
(RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
To: FOG724
That's actually their real, supersecret logo. They all have it tatooed to the inside of their left arm, just above the elbow.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:17:10 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Petronski
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:19:53 PM PDT
by
FOG724
(RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
To: FOG724
Sign of the SS. They had tats like that.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:20:35 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
To: Petronski
Stop, you are cracking me up.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:21:36 PM PDT
by
FOG724
(RINOS - they are not better than leftists, they ARE leftists.)
To: chuckpez
A cousin of mine sells time for several Clear Channel stations in this area, including WHJJ-AM. I asked him how were the ratings for the Air America affiliate. He said, "It's like you and me having this conversation." The only good thing about the station, he said, was that he could throw in the Air America station into a multi-station package, for free.
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posted on
09/10/2005 5:33:50 PM PDT
by
MRMEAN
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
To: chuckpez
Another one? COOL! Buh-bye!
To: chuckpez
From the Sunday lineup section of the WHJJ website:
>>3:00pm-4:00pm
The Best of Air America
An hour of dead air, no doubt! :)
(In all honesty I tuned in briefly yesterday afternoon
to see what they had on,
and WHJJ was running college football. Probably the highest ratings they get is for stuff that _isn't_ AAR.)
To: chuckpez
Rumblings at radio-info.com's messageboards are that a guy named Thom Hartmann, who has been hired to do a Sunday show at AAR, may be the one who's _eventually_ replacing Franken nationwide...poor ratings for Stuart Smalley, plus he actually has a Don Quixote-ish plan to run for the Senate.
To: chuckpez
The problem is that Rhandi Rhodes reminds everyone of their crazy aunt--the one they stopped talking to years ago. :-)
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posted on
09/11/2005 8:38:51 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A cigar a day keeps secular Puritans away.)
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