KOMY [Air America] radio station finds it hard to sell ads

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | September 12, 2005 | SHANNA MCCORD

[DTogo]

"For liberal programming to continue ... you need to support it," his ad said.

Doesn't he understand that in true Liberalism, a local tax on public goods and services should be enacted and then used to support Liberal programming (like PBS).

[clee1]

"You have to spell it out, especially in Santa Cruz where everybody thinks they deserve everything."

Sadly, the same could be said for a majority of the population of the USA.

[nk_47]

Air American is looking for handouts? That's...appropriate.

[injin]

the grunge punks and anarchists that listen to this crap are too busy saving up their bread to by drugs with ....
they'll listen for 'free' but " like ,hey man....."

[Nateman]

So what is a 30 year old unemployable loser still living in his mom's basement going to buy? Advertisers could try and sell him some pot but that has it's own set of problems.

[msnimje]

Personally, I don’t think Al Franken is as entertaining as Rush...

Al Franken is not as entertaining as a ham sandwich.

[nk_47]

KOMYtose.

[ozzymandus]

This guy made a bad business decision, but doesn't want to admit it. He gets a few ad buys from people like the credit union guy who doesn't want to be "political", but that's mostly charity.

[tophat9000]

Isn' a Y some time user for a double or long e ... so KOMY might be pronounced Com-ee?

[Billthedrill]

Oh, but I do know liberals who listen to Rush. Rush is funny. Franken is not.

[Troublemaker]

....especially compared with Rush Limbaugh, who has ruled the KSCO airwaves for more than a decade blasting conservative tirades.

Author had to slip that in there, eh?.

[spinestein]

[Olson said it’s too soon to rush to judgment,...]

No it isn't. If you've heard five minutes of Air America, you've heard all there is to hear.


[...though he believes Air America will one day hold its own.]

Based on what? Pure faith? Air America has been broadcasting for over a year, on as many stations across the country as they can beg and buy their way onto, and they still can't get more than a handful of zombies to listen to even 5 minutes of their blather.


["Will it get as many listeners as Rush? I doubt it," Olson said.]

Don't go out on a limb with your prediction there, Olson.


["Personally, I don’t think Al Franken is as entertaining as Rush, but I do think he will pick up a nice audience."]

Agree with Rush or not, he knows the business of politics and the business of journalism better than anybody, and the resultant commentary and discussion on his show is intellectually stimulating. On Al Franken's show, you get an endless drone of "It's all Bush's fault. Bush is an idiot. It's all Bush's fault. Bush is an idiot." over and over. If he hasn't picked up "a nice audience" by now, with such monotonous twaddle as that, he isn't going to, and NO audience, results in NO advertising dollars.

[L.N. Smithee]

Isn' a Y some time use[d] for a double or long e ... so KOMY might be pronounced Com-ee?

It fits well with the San Diego LiAAR affiliate, KLSD.

That's not a joke.

[zip]

Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, lags in advertising appeal, Zwerling said, especially compared with Rush Limbaugh, who has ruled the KSCO airwaves for more than a decade blasting conservative tirades.

I am so glad that the reporterette with the 3rd grade mentality didn't show any bias. /sarcasm off

[Daaave]

"Liberals don’t even want to listen to conservatives," he said. "And conservatives don’t want to listen to liberals. I think it’s a sad state of affairs."

When I thought I was a liberal, I listened to liberals, like Jimmy Carter, Dan Rather, and read the newspapers.

But I wised up to their BS, and realized that they were idiots. I stopped listening to their lies. I stopped reading their propaganda.

Businesses are smart to avoid advertising on Air America. I view any support for them as support for socialism, liberalism, and pinhead-ism, in general.

I certainly would boycott any business advertising during their programming.

[alaskamomma]

Ok, you start a station with the lest talenteded, no knowledge of politict's, (except they alway's vote democrate), and they don't know why, just because???? The lowest of slime ball's with no knowledge of the other party, except, we hate any Rebullican's, and all our listener's should listen to us!!!!!! hahahqahahah

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Ditto. It was put on the air in using the flawed dot.com model. To paraphrase, If you build it for free, they will come ( advertisers and listeners ). They didn't and aren't.

A Charleston South Carolina's station ( Clear Channel ) just got rid of AA a couple of weeks ago. Another couple of stations are seriously considering dropping them soon. Clear Channel was given AA for free on a majority of AA's 70 stations *. The experiment has failed and I expect CC to do a major house cleaning soon.

In the end AA may have a few stations left, but not enough to support a national network, or high salaries of the overpaid personalities.

* The AA claim of "70 stations nationwide" isn't entirely truthful. If a station airs just one of their only two marketable shows, Al Franken or Jerry Springer, they're considered an AA station.

[ncountylee]

"...not a single business has stepped up to buy air time specifically during Air America’s slot."

That says it all and explains why the libs fight so hard for NPR.

[Hugin]

not a single business has stepped up to buy air time specifically during Air America’s slot.

What? Business owners don't relate to the socialist crackpots (or is that crackheads?) on Airhead America? Can't imagine why.