Posted on 03/29/2005 6:54:52 AM PST by dead
ALL-liberal Air America gets a great first-birthday gift this week: an HBO documentary in which everybody — who's still there — is a hero, and evil forces will be vanquished from the land. Maybe not by November, but soon.
"Left of the Dial: America Undercover," which airs Thursday night, is all about the rocky start, near doom and the somewhat-premature happy ending to the left's answer to politically powerful conservative talk radio… < snip >
Not knowing what's ahead, everybody is in liberal heaven during the much-trumpeted March 31 debut designed to stop — as Walsh tells a lavish p.r. bash — "satanic forces of the night."
Then-chairman Evan Cohen, told a newspaper reporter is inquiring about Air America's advertising receipts, asks a sales exec and is told they're "$639,000, pushing 650." In the next scene, Cohen is on the phone with the reporter saying, "Over a million dollars of sold advertising as of today. That's a fact — a documentable fact."
After an ad salesman tells Cohen he just closed a $6,000 deal with Hewlett-Packard, Cohen reports on his cell phone: "We sold a Hewlett-Packard contract for April — $16,000." < snip >
"Left of the Dial" has a fairy-tale finale — fresh financing, 50 affiliates, encouraging ratings — even if Kerry did lose the election, something many of Air America talkers are seen taking personally. But since shooting stopped last December, massive media coverage has faded, ratings have sagged, record-industry exec Danny Goldberg took control — and Jerry Springer was just inked.
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But none of that is in the schlockumentary.... how nice.
Jerry Springer signing on has raised the average IQ of TWO networks.
Never in the history of the MSM has so much been written about so puny and effectless an enterprise as Err America.
" as Walsh tells a lavish p.r. bash — "satanic forces of the night." "
My former CEO. Ran two companies into the ground and then helped launch a fraud radio network! Great guy.
Except for his politics and his cocaine habit, he was a great guy. (Sarcasm lamp is now lit)
The worst part of "Air America" in the Seattle area, they took the station that played Classic country, and converted it to an AlFrankenstein monster.
No kidding. Especially when you consider that advertising that had been pre-sold to the stations in their old formats was repeatedly yanked once Air America took to the air. GM was one of the first.
Is anyone here planning to watch this? I have HBO so I thought I might TiVo it, and report back to all y'all. Should be good for a laugh. Like I said yesterday, I'm sure even Clear Channel will give up on them by the end of the year. Their ratings are in the toilet in most markets, and IIRC, most of their stations are what? 5,000 watts, if that?
Be careful. New Coke was ultimately one of the most successful undertakings ever started by the Coca-Cola Company. It totally rejuvenated Coke Classic.
My suggestion to you: Hank's Place, XM13
http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=13
I've got HBO too but I doubt I could sit through this. Al Franken, Garefalo, Rhodes, and appearances by Michael Moore and Tim Robbins? It's a nightmare, but may have some redeeming comic value.
I hope the show mentions that RANDI RHODES, at a holiday party, URINATED ON A CHRISTMAS TREE in the host's livingroom.
Not a chance that they'll mention that.
Yeah, I'll probably need heavy meds (aka Coors light). I pretty much thought that the "network" of Bill Maher wouldn't say proffer a documentary that makes this tin-pot radio network look bad.
Dead! Where'd you get the picture of Gar-awful-o?
ouch...
Well, after that little visual, I see I can skip my usual Sausage McMuffin at the Golden Arches.
I refuse to watch all those A holes.
Based on . . . ?
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