More of Air America's Dirty Little Secrets

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[litany_of_lies]

Oops. bace=face

(spellchecker is your friend, spellchecker is your friend, spellchecker......).

[litany_of_lies]

XM provides plenty of conservative talk. Go to this link:

http://xmsr.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=166

They've got two hours of Bill Bennett, full Glenn Beck, full Laura Ingraham, full Medved, one hour of Reagan, and full Savage.

[Right Angler]

"250 watts!!!"

That wouldn't melt a Snickers bar in an Easy Bake oven.

[litany_of_lies]

There's even more if you scroll through this link:

http://xmsr.com/programming/talk_stars.html

I noticed that full Reagan is tape-delayed, and there's Mike Gallagher, live Drudge, Dave Ramsey, Dennis Prager, Phil Hendrie, Hannity, and others, including plenty of the family-values types.

Point is that even if the XMers are ideologues (which I doubt from my discussions with their IT manager) they have to make money, or actually figure out a way to stop losing money. They won't succeed without successful channels. Commerce trumps ideology in real businesses.

[TC Rider]

My office is about 10 miles of open country from WCHL, 1360.

Nothing but static.

[Inyo-Mono]

At the small station I worked for back in the late 80s and early 90s, WE PAID Rush BIG BUCKS to air his program along with his spots (commercials). To make a profit we sold limited avails (spots) per hour to local advertisiers. No one, except local preachers or some company hawking cheap trinkets paid US to be on the air.

[GeronL]

I think Sirius satellite also carries Airy Amerika

[GeronL]

250 watt hairdryer....

[Doctor Stochastic]

Air America didn't even make it on in Santa Fé, NM. Even (now defunct) IE Radio Network (Hightower, etc.) did.

The stations have been swapping frequencies (just like a spread spectrum phone) so I'm not sure what's where now. There's a smattering of talk and lots of sports.

[Plutarch]

XM provides plenty of conservative talk...

They've got two hours of Bill Bennett, full Glenn Beck, full Laura Ingraham, full Medved, one hour of Reagan, and full Savage.

First they foisted the AmericaLeft channel on their listeners. A very short while later AmericaRight was announced, which appeared to be a sop for the complaints they were surely getting.

[Rocky]

Everyone knows the liberal party line on every topic already. There is no thought process required, nothing to stretch the gray matter. What they continually accuse the conservatives of - just parroting a party line - is exactly what they themselves are guilty of. Therefore, no one listens. They have nothing to say.

[Ottofire]

~Not an original thought-credit the lovely and gracious Ann Coulter.

I hate to point out that this requires obligitory Ann pics. This is written in
stone somewhere deep in the Bill of Rights of the Free Republic. I believe
this can be prosecutable by ZOT from above, but I might be mistaken...

[litany_of_lies]

A very short while later AmericaRight was announced, which appeared to be a sop for the complaints they were surely getting.

I'll take your word for it on the history. At the time they were starting, they probably pursued Limbaugh, who probably turned them down because he goes direct from his web site (I think), and I'm guessing he's NOT on XM. They may have then concluded that conservatives weren't interested. So maybe America Right began as a sop, but it now has more solid content than America Left (surprise, surprise).

Regardless, my point that business trumps ideology in real businesses stands, even if they (or lower-level employees) began as exclusionists.

[litany_of_lies]

I think the pic regulation refers to actual Coulter article posts, not mere mentions.

But since you asked, you can click on the link to get your fix (too lazy to remember how to post actual pics):

http://anncoulter.com/images.html

[litany_of_lies]

'Liberal radio network down to 1 major city'

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38152

"New York only Top 10 market for struggling, new Air America"

OD'ing on Schadenfrude.

[Fausto]

A three tower directional AM running....get this...TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY CONSTANTLY COOKIN' WATTS! WOO-HOO!!

But, if you look at the station's website it covers part of a very important media market for Airheads America.

WKIZ

At the top of the page "Serving the Caribbean and Cuba" Is a Havana "affiliate" too far off?

[lewislynn]

Geez, if they're having a hard time in SF, they really can't make it anywhere.

Contrary to that thinking, Michael Savage is or has been the #1 afternoon show in the S.F. Bay Area.