That brunette in the striped shirt looks like Richard Simmons if he ever stopped exercising!
(Is that Janine Garofalo on the left? If so, not as good looking as 
this picture.)
Cheers!
Posted on 03/03/2006 8:37:21 PM PST by LdSentinal
While Air America Radio's loss of two affiliates in Phoenix and Missoula, Montana is generating news this week, the company itself probably hasn't been able to give either city a second thought.
Why? In a development sure to rip the heart right out of the liberal radio network's already ailing body, it appears extremely likely their leased New York City flagship station WLIB-AM will soon abandon Air America programming.
Even worse, litigation looks probable over the station's lease.
While the network's last day on WLIB isn't known for certain, an internal source providing backing documentation points to the end of March. At this time, Air America parent Piquant LLC has no firm back-up plan for where in the nation's largest radio market its programming will now air.
Some inside the firm are already referring to WLIB in the past tense.
Without WLIB, Air America faces an immediate, crushing blow. Worth perhaps 100 small markets combined, an on-air presence in New York City is absolutely vital to the company's survival. If an immediate and suitable replacement isn't found, the consequences would be dire.
What percentage of Air America's audience would disappear overnight, the Radio Equalizer can't say for sure. Could it be 40%? Fifty percent?
Taking control of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation (ICBC)- owned WLIB is said to be a consortium of industry heavyweights, including former Clear Channel executive Randy Michaels and Boston-based broadcast investment firm Alta Communications, in partnership with ICBC.
I still think we should sell NPR & PBS to ErrAmerica for $1 and see how long they stay in business.
That giant sucking sound youhear is the air coming out of Air America.
There never was a market for it, but they compunded that by hiring non-broadcasters. If they had gone to Donahue and Springer, or example, they might have done a little better. Those guys are crazy left liberals like the rest of the Scare America crowd, but at least they're professional broadcasters. That's mor than you can say for Al Frankenstein and Janine Garofalo.
I think xm already has air america. They also have a right wing channel too.
They just need to go steal some more money from under privileged inner city kids.
Torture! Torture!
Ooops. Sorry. One and the same.
More good news - on a slightly related note the two-bit station (WTDY in Madison WI that's not even good enough to be an Err America affiliate) continues to slide in the ratings. This is the station where unhinged talk show host John "Sly" Sylvester took the cheap shot comparing Condoleeza Rice to Aunt Jemima last year. The Arbitron Ratings data for Jan. 2006 shows the station falling from AQH share of 1.7 in the winter book to 1.0. Sly deserves full credit, as he's Program Director and he calls the shots, like taking Sean Hannity off the air "because he was boring". A typical Mad City left-wing partisan, vehement Bush-Hater and Russ Feingold suckup. Now the out-of-town country station pulls more listeners!
Cheers!
Anti-lib Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
Not even Tammy Bruce would volunteer?
It's too early for Halloween.
That brunette in the striped shirt looks like Richard Simmons if he ever stopped exercising!
(Is that Janine Garofalo on the left? If so, not as good looking as this picture.)
Cheers!
How much plastic surgery has she had done? Cheeks, um, facial cheeks, and breast augmentation?
Maybe she needs speech lessons. She and Hillary might be able to get a "buy one, get another at half-price" deal.
Oh this is really funny and couldn't have happened to a, errrrrrrrrrrrrr...ummmmmmmmm....more deserving.........hehehehehehehehehe !
Can you say, "Faces made for radio" ?
Cheers!
Dipwad Al Franken, disgrace to MinnesotaTM
Two-face from Batman...
Geesh, that pic scared the hell out of me. Now I'll be having nightmares the next few nights. Thanks a lot.
That's Rosie O'Donnell!
O'Donell looks like Babe Ruth.....just not as attractive.
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