Posted on 04/01/2006 4:20:26 PM PST by new yorker 77
WLIB-AM
Wi'05 - 1.2
Sp'05 - 1.0
Su'05 - 1.2
Fa'05 - 1.4
Wi'06 P1 - 1.4
Wi'06 P2 - 1.2
The weird thing is there's only 23 radio stations in NY.
They may not be growing in NYC but at least they are consistent. Wasn't the caribbean music station they displace getting higher ratings than 1.2s in NYC?
Boy, doin' a heck of a job with the 1190 AM 50,000 watt license.How about shipping it back to WOWO in Fort Wayne?
They are running out of Children's charities to loot. Just imagine if Rush had to rob Children's charities to stay on the air. The media would have a field day. That story was never reported in the MSM.
Lets be fair. I was born and raised in nyc, and lived there over 33 years. The reason that WLIB is doing poorly is that the Air America lineup is in English, and most NYCers can't understand it. :-)
Wouldn't a bum on Times Square get a higher rating? Heard by more people, no doubt.
It was doing better when it was all Caribbean before the Bigot Progressives stole their station to promote urinating on the troops.
I tried to listen to a little bit of it on XM when I first got it last month. I had to get rid of it before it put me to sleep and I drove off the road. And this was their big "star", Al Franken. Maybe the lesser known gerbils are more entertaining.
"Maybe the lesser known gerbils are more entertaining."
If shrill and profanity is more entertaining, then
maybe.
lmao
The reason Airhead America is doing so BAD is because the peeples are being forced to listen to right wing radio. That is why libs want the Fairness Doctrine back.
The peeples still have not figured out that they can change the channel.
On a serious note, the libs know that the peeples can change the channel, can listen to what they want to listen to. That is unacceptable to the libs. Ergo, the Fairness Doctrine.
"Vee Vill Force Zee Masses To Listen To US!"
I hope they keep sinking more money down the rat radio rathole.
Unfortunately, Al Franken's bloated salary is being used as a way for Soros and Glaser to circumvent campaign donation laws. They pay Al way above industry standards, and he socks the money into his '08 senate campaign. Kind of like the booster who pays the great athlete $100 an hour to do yard work.
I honestly don't think Air America can hold out more than two more months. Air America's ratings around the country are at rock bottom. There have been lots of cancellations. In my city, we get the entire menu. Randi Rhodes appears live three or four times a month and some of her previous shows are re-run when there are no ball games. Mike Malloy takes several days off about every other week. Janeane Garofalo has been getting more air time recently to spew and screech. Franken is the champion liar. They all sound like druggers.
Air America is the opposite of what they call "hate radio", so it must be "love radio". For being "love radio", they sure hate everybody.
"Air America Radio Station WLIB Ranked 24th in NYC with a 1.2 Share.."
Yes but they wear condoms and have health care and isn't that what really counts? Who cares if no one is listening, they HAVE to get the message out hee hee hee .
Air America Will Displace Black Talk on WLIB
[by Karen Juanita Carrillo (NNPA), Amsterdam News, Mar. 2004] New York's radio station WLIB-1190 AM has been loyally "serving New York's Black community" -- as its logo states -- for decades now. In the early '90s WLIB was lauded as a resource for "Afrocentric" programming and became known for featuring Imhotep Gary Byrd's "Global Black Experience" show.
The station was in many ways a Black activist outlet.
But by the end of this month, WLIB will be taking on a different hue, as it joins the launch of Progress Media's "Air America Radio," the new, predominately White, liberal talk-radio network. Air America has reportedly partnered with Inner City Broadcasting Corporation (ICBC), which owns WLIB.
"We are excited about the diverse and important voices Air America Radio is bringing to the airwaves, both on our own WLIB signal and others," said ICBC Chairman Pierre Sutton. "This strategic partnership allows both companies to combine our resources and deliver relevant messages to a broad and diverse audience."
Sutton added, "That's what you call 'high-class B.S.!'" one former WLIB staffer said when told that Sutton said the station's changes were necessary because African Americans had just stopped listening to WLIB. The former staffer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, insisted that if WLIB's talk shows were promoted the way conservative talk shows are - and the way Air America's shows will be - the station would have made money.
Air America Radio plans on using what it terms a roundup of "progressive activists" and "celebrities" as part of the activist left's efforts to counter the national popularity of White, Right-wing conservative talk shows and radio personalities. The network will begin broadcasting shows from across the country on March 31 over WLIB and radio stations WNTD in Chicago and Los Angeles' KBLA.
"I don't get it. I mean, I do not get it," local activist Elombe Brath said about Air America Radio's takeover at WLIB. Reports are that WLIB's 40th floor station has been remodeled for Air America, and that the 30th and 39th floors are also being re-built to suit the needs of the new network.
Brath, who hosts and produces the show "Afrikaleidoscope" on WBAI-FM, and who played a part in the Afrocentric reorganization of WLIB's programming back in the early 1980s, complained that if listenership was down at WLIB, the station should have restructured from within as it did in the 1980s.
"All of the talk should be organic, from within the Black community," Brath insisted. "How can they think about coming into New York with a package program like this? We have people here already who know radio, who can do shows. And they want to come in with a program from other people trying to talk to Black people in New York City? (WLIB) is just a station that has been stripped of what it's supposed to be!"
In its heyday, WLIB and shows like "Night Talk with Bob Law" on WWRL-AM, Samori Marksman's "Worldview" on WBAI-FM, Bob Slade's "Open Line" on WKRS-FM, and WWRL's "Drive Time Dialogue" formed part of its own advocacy radio network. They highlighted Black community health concerns, cultural awareness and political activities. Many have even claimed that WLIB's efforts helped to get out the vote for David Dinkins as he ran to become New York City's first Black mayor.
But now as WLIB joins with Air America Radio, plans are to keep only a few of the station's leading Black radio personalities. Mark Riley will be a co-host on "Uprising," Air America's 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. show, while Dahved Levy, Ann Tripp and news director Wayne Gilman will also remain with the station.
Air America Radio's featured on-air personality will be Al Franken, a comedian who helped create NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and who recently wrote the book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," a scathing anti-FOX News, anti-Bill O'Reilly book that became a best-seller.
Alongside Franken, Air America Radio will feature comedienne Janeane Garofalo; environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; author and activist Laura Flanders; Lizz Winstead, a co-creator of "The Daily Show"; radio personalities Mark Riley and Randi Rhodes; and political humorist Sam Seder. Chuck D, lead rapper for the group Public Enemy, was initially announced as part of the Air America Radio staff, but sources now say that the hip-hop icon is backing away from that commitment.
"I don't know how Air America is going to broaden the reaches of 'LIB," said one radio personality who chose to speak anonymously about the situation. "How is this going to impact the Black community? As far as I've heard, they've got a couple of Whites who just really want to go after Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and all the others. You can't convince me that that's going to be something good for Black and Hispanic people."
Brath agreed with that analysis: "You've got people here in New York who believe in Black culture, so I don't see why they're ... they're like outsourcing in a sense. In reality what the station needs is to have some people who know the community and can speak to its needs."
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