Leftist Air America Radio off the air in L.A., Chicago

grapevine ^ | April 14, 2004 | unattributed

[tdadams]

Sorry for the vanity, but this is information I thought Freepers would like to hear about.

Apparently due to unresolved contractual disputes, the Los Angeles and Chicago affiliates of leftist Air America Radio have pulled the programming from their airwaves and returned to local programming.

I'm hearing this second hand, so if anyone has verifiable information or clarifications, please post them.

[SZonian]

I went over to DU and the conspiracy theorists run amock, They are blaming everybody from GWB and the Repubs, to Halliburton, GE, Radio Unica, etc. and they are claiming it's a vast right wing conspiracy to shut them down.

I echo the sentiments...........HA HA!

Cheers!

[BushisTheMan]

Darn...I had Halloween as the day the last one goes off the air. This was earlier than I expected so maybe my guess of October is WAY TOO LATE!

LOL! I guess "satire" is boring when you are only talking to yourself.

[ChadGore]

The DNC can't even PAY PEOPLE to listen to this drivel.

This should inform the party, on a whole, that it's not the delivery method of the message that is their problem, but the message being flawed that drives people away.

[COBOL2Java]

Here's Air America's "official" explanation:
Click Here for Breaking News from Chicago and L.A.

[ChadGore]

Re: Darn...I had Halloween as the day the last one goes off the air.

I picked The morning after election day, and WOW, was I way off. ERR America is an outright failure.

[goldstategop]

Hardly surprising. The search for the liberal Rush Limbaugh continues.

[ChadGore]

I read the link and these liberals are down right HOSTILE toward the station owners who are owed real money. Bouncing checks is a sucky thing to do, but being hostile toward the person who doing you the kind favor of giving you access to the station.

ERR America has proven that they not only are cluless about todays business world, but down right hostile toward an entire swath of the American Electorate. That's bad for business, bad for their politics, and once they start bouncing more checks at more stations and calling the owners names, they'll make more enemies than friends.

Who is going to be the next station owner to be holding the next bounced check ?

[BushisTheMan]

I went over there to check it out:

-- 10 deleted trolls (way to go Freepers!)
-- multiple posts by a minimal number of posters (repeats)
-- The profanity fits the posters mentality
-- The try to act intellectual but are ineffective at it.
-- Losers of the world unite at the DU site!

[Alcibiades]

Air America's version:
"But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor."
My version:
"But Bill Clinton --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we're chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It's a metaphor."

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Two big 1000 watters.

Pffft. I put out more than that from my radio shack on Saturday mornings when I talk to my favorite radio hounds in the UK.
For a commercial radio station, that's small potatoes.

[CougarGA7]

I don't know. How long would you watch a piece of wood?

[uncbob]

Wonder if the cable networks and mags after all the balleyhoo upfront will cover the demise

[soycd]

I want a list of AA sponsors.

I have notified Onstar that I am dropping their service and I want a complete list of people giving these traitors money! Help?

[RetroSexual]

But  Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor. Here’s what really happened: This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can’t do that, that’s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more. You can touch Evan for the occasional meal or drinks but a million bucks is crossing the line. And if we ever get low on cash, we can always call Barbra Streisand. Or any of the Baldwins. Except Stephen. So we got screwed, Liu’d, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of payment. Liu’d and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What we’re getting at is that we hate him.

Is this the way to speak about someone you want to remain business partners with? And the judge, will he think this is funny? These people are about to learn a lesson in manners. Big time.

[guitfiddlist]

WBBL: "Ok...caller you're ON!"

OTTO: "Yeah, man....like Bush is like really STUPID, dude!....'nd like.....y'know.....................

WBBL: "Yes....we...uhh...agree....and....caller? Was there anything else you wanted to say?"

OTTO: "Wulllll....like....that like says it ALL, man...."

WBBL: "...........................We'll be...uh...right back."

Idiot useless schm*cks. All of them.
(Credit to leftist Matt Groening - who at least could get the wacko-left caricatures down)

[steveegg]

I was planning to do a daily dose summary but I couldn't listen after two days. I have not listened since. Today I just tuned in to see if they were playing Bob Marley instead of that butthead Frankenfurter.

Daily dose - DUh, DUh, DUh.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"I don't know. How long would you watch a piece of wood?

On radio?

Most liberals wood plant it, then wait, and watch it grow.

Or smoke it. 8<)

[handk]

[Robert A Cook PE]

What demise?

Heck, they claim they're going strong in Portland.

So now everyone’s saying we’re going down the dumper in Chicago and Los Angeles, but what they don’t tell you is that we’re still on in Portland. And we OWN Portland. And let’s not forget Riverside and Plattsburgh. And New York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And Sirius. Actually we’re fine. ,,,

[lainie]

Is Groening anti- or pro-guns? I can't tell from watching The Simpsons.