Posted on 12/08/2004 9:18:05 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Air America Radio Signs Franken for 2 More Years The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Air America Radio, a startup radio network that offers liberal talk and commentary, has signed a new contract with comedian Al Franken to stay on as its lead personality for at least two more years, the company announced Wednesday.
Air America also said that Rob Glaser, the chairman and chief executive of the technology company RealNetworks Inc., had joined the company as the chairman of its board. Glaser has also been an investor in the company, although he declined to disclose the value of his stake.
The company also said that its interim CEO, Doug Kreeger, had stepped aside and that it had begun a search for a full-time chief executive. Kreeger will remain on the company's board. In the meantime, the company is being run on a day-to-day basis by its president Jon Sinton, a longtime radio executive, and Carl Ginsberg, its executive vice president.
Air America has been signing up more stations and gaining its footing following a shaky start earlier this year. The company went through a management shakeup in May, about five weeks after going on the air, that included the departure of its previous chairman, Evan Cohen, and other executives.
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Like to know who those 'new investors' were that sank another 13 million into DeadAir America.
Who listens to this moron?
I ran into him at the airport when I was trying to calm down my baby daughter and he let her play with his keys and read her her baby book that she was carrying.
I've met a few leftist pundits living and working in NYC, and unlike the rest he was actually human.
Fools and their money are soon parted..
Two more years? Talk about optimistic.
Probably the same ones who sink a couple of hundred thousand into Salon.com every quarter to keep them from going into receivership.
I gotta admit, I'm stunned that anybody's even talking about the radio station surviving past next Thursday. I figured it was the Disposable Bic Lighter of the 2004 elections, meant to set as many brushfires as possible and then get chucked in the can. If they're actually going to try to make a -profit- on it, long term, all I can say is... bwahahahahaha!
Qwinn
Obviously you did not tell Frankin you were a conservative.
Good thing the locked him up! I'm sure lots of other outlets were just waiting to swoop in and give him an offer.
I think he could tell. I was wearing my Bush/Cheney pin.
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic ...
"The company did not disclose how much it was paying the personalities."
Anything more than the local dog catcher gets is too much. Good money after bad methinks.
Liberals Who Hate America
ping
Mighty Optimistic of them (and him...)
Uninstalling as soon as I hit "Post."
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