Shock Jock's Audience Is Beating Him to the Door (Stern story-Air America ratings story at end)

Washington comPost ^ | 10-20-05 | Paul Farhi

[dynachrome]

Air America, the liberal talk network carried on WWRC-AM (1260), went

from bad to nonexistent. After WWRC recorded a mere fraction of a rating

point in the spring with syndicated shows from the likes of lefty talkers

Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo and Stephanie Miller, Arbitron couldn't

detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.

[dynachrome]

Pardon me while I wipe away a tear.

[brivette]

Rush just read this.

[Lancey Howard]

Arbitron couldn't detect a measurable listenership for the station this time around.

Oh, man! LMAO!!!!
Great, great post.

[dynachrome]

Damn, have him on in background and missed it.

[Argus]

The potential audience for Air America France don't even own AM receivers, and when they dial in the FM band, they never go above wherever the NPR station is.

[LS]

Too cool. Course, the libs don't know about Air America because they are still at NPR.

[rwa265]

Duplicate post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505764/posts

[lilylangtree]

Al Franken is still drooling over the mike on channel 249 (directv) with its "Al Franken Show".

[Gil4]

Trying hard not to LMAO - the baby is sleeping in the room here - but it sure is funny!

[dead]

The real question may be why Infinity has stuck with Stern as he's repeatedly gnawed on the hand that has fed him. The most important reason is that Stern's bash-Infinity/promote-satellite shtick has held up pretty well in the ratings -- until recently. What's more, Infinity has no one waiting in the wings who is likely to produce the same kinds of regular ratings windfalls as the putative King of All Media.

Well then, "the real question" isn't really much of a puzzle at all, is it?

Employers tend to put up with a lot from an employee who generates hundreds of millions of dollars for the company.

Employers are weird that way.

[hobbes1]

It's nice the way they bury that, at the end of the Stern article.


No, Oops, Hey, you remember that Radio expirement we endlessly hyped before the election?

[2banana]

The shock jock won't jump to satellite radio until January, but in the meantime, his listeners in the Washington area seem to be heading for the exits. Stern's nationally syndicated morning program, which is heard locally on WJFK-FM (106.7), suffered a dramatic fall in the summer audience ratings, which in turn helped drag down WJFK's overall popularity.

Since Howard Stern announced he was moving his show to satellite radio, his ratings among 25-to-54-year-olds have sunk. (By Gregory Bull -- Associated Press)

Stern's share of radio's most lucrative audience (adults age 25 to 54) fell by nearly one-third during the July-September period, bottoming out at 3.4 percent, according to Arbitron Inc., which measures radio audiences. That was the lowest total for Stern in years, and possibly decades, given his long and successful career

And this too.

[abb]

If a radio show was broadcast, and no one listened to it, was it ever really on the air?

[finnman69]

Good riddance to Stern and Air America.

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course Air America is going over like a lead balloon. They have to compete with NPR,PBS,NBC,ABC,CBS........

The other part of this story that also gladdens my heart is to see that Howard Stern's numbers are tanking.That filthy,foul-mouthed worthless piece of poop is the lowest of the low.

[John Jorsett]

Maybe their listener died?

[dynachrome]

ah, thanks. searched by Air America instead of AirAmerica.

Admin, please pull as this is a duplicate.

[doug from upland]

MIDI - VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR

(musical intro)

I was listening to Hannity or Rushbo
When I tried another station...why?...I don't know
I heard someone and I said, man does this guy blow

Oh-a-oh

In no time I quickly reached the right conclusion
I determined that he needs a brain transfusion
The poor guy was really suffering delusion

Oh-a-oh...the guy was crazy...oh-a-oh...he's freakin' crazy

Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...now, it's in the trash can

CNN and Jennings spew the same old prattle
Those who watch them follow like they're sheep or cattle
In their heads we're sure we heard something rattle

Oh-a-oh...the guy was crazy...oh-a-oh...he's freakin' crazy

Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...and that decision had not been tough
Now, it's in the trash can...stuffed down in the trash can

(musical interlude)

I'll miss that old Grundig

Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Just 10 seconds...that's enough...and that decision had not been tough
I won't put up with that stuff...always whining while in a huff

(musical interlude)

Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...liberals stunk my radio up
Liberals stunk my radio up...(fade)

(musical finish)

[Phantom Lord]

Is this on DU anywhere? Would love to read that thread.

What I think it says...

This story can not be true. AA is expanding all over and a network about to fold wouldn't build a new state of the art studio!