Even Bob admitted (on his long running WJIB progam "Let's Talk about Radio") that Air America is "poorly done radio"...and that from a liberal.
Posted on 09/21/2006 11:39:46 AM PDT by raccoonradio
WBZ-AM --CBS Radio --News/Talk 5.7 WRKO-AM --Entercom-- Talk 3.3 WTKK-AM --Greater Media-- Talk 2.7 WXKS-AM/WKOX-AM--Clear Channel--Talk 0.6
(WXKS and WKOX are Air America. Both stations combined get only half the ratings of 250 watt WJIB-AM, an Adult Standards station. Country stations from New Hampshire; foreign language stations, etc.--all get higher ratings than Air America)
oops, should say WTKK-_FM_
They already have the MSM, what do they need Air America for?
My microwave oven is more powerful than that.
Air America is a flop in Boston, but KSFO is a hit in San Francisco. (not to mention KNOW)
Indeed! Say, Howie has had Kerry Healey on (just last night) and maybe he'll have Deval on if he agrees to go on...I wonder if the Air America stations will do the same, on THEIR
weekday afternoon show?
Uh, oops, WKOX and WXKS HAVE no weekday local show. All the run on weekdays is syndie crap like Young Turks, Steph
Miller, Al Frankenfraud, Ed Schulz, Randi, et al..."All politics is local", as a famed Dem politician once put it.
But not on Air America Boston. Nobody would listen anyway
(other than a few moonbats in Harvard Sq.)
Even Bob admitted (on his long running WJIB progam "Let's Talk about Radio") that Air America is "poorly done radio"...and that from a liberal.
I thought ScAir America went bankrupt?
I used to listen to Lee Rogers' morning show, but it seems he's around less & less nowadays.
Sussman doesn't do much for me, and Mrs. Swanson is like nails on a chalkboard.
Officer Vic is the best thing about that show.
The obvious solution for all liberal programs is to "Pour more money into it -- endlessly more money."
It's a perfect job-creation machine.
It's always been a failure, consistently less than 1 per cent of the audience in the 12 + ratings. Still on because owners like Clear Channel want to protect themselves in case the libs try to bring back the (un)Fairness Doctrine.
My college radio station was 435 watts. On a good day, you could tune it in on the other side of town.
...FM or AM, though? 250 watts AM is fairly puny but can
carry well, depending on where they are on the dial.
(WJIB is 740...lower powered stations on the left side of
the AM dial can do better than higher powered stations on the right side...the AAR stations in Boston are 1200 and 1430...)
My own college station (I still do shows for them,
some 25 years later!) is a puny 130 watts...
I used to love listening to 1430 when the played stuff from the 50's and 60's.Needless to say when they changed,I changed.
...and when the old WXKS, The Music of Your Life, changed to Air America (Oct of '04), WJIB suddenly started picking up listeners...wonder why.
KCOU 88.1 FM (Columbia, MO). It was just as well that it was low powered. I used to do their news and I'm glad that almost no one heard me. I was a total beginner and my broadcasts stank big time. I did, however, learn basic production and got comfortable being on the air. That got me a gig at a commercial station later on.
Interesting comment by an AAR listener (Eric) on RadioEqualizer blog:
"I turned on AA today for the first time in weeks specifically to see if they had any other topic to talk about except "Bush sucks." I think it was a nanosecond after commerical break when Randi Rhodes presented Sidney Blumenthal plugging his new book: "Bush sucks" (something like that).My God, don't these people EVER talk about anything else?"
Could this be why their ratings suffer? Broken record! (ONE reason...)
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