Posted on 07/28/2006 1:19:40 PM PDT by new yorker 77
After being plugged relentlessly by the New York Times and other "objective" media outlets, the ratings for Air America continue to drop. Brian Maloney has the details:
Like an ice cream cone left in the hot July sun, Air America Radio's ratings are melting in some key (read: liberal) regions of the country.
Based on fresh ratings data released Thursday evening, the "progressive" radio network has lost strength in three cities where it had previously found the most listener support: Portland, Seattle and Denver.
Representing the spring 2006 Arbitron reporting period, these results provide one of the two most important report cards for the entire year.
A quick rundown:
In Seattle, AAR affiliate KPTK-AM had increasingly been providing a rare bright spot for liberal talk radio, but that wasn't the case this time: it fell from a previously respectable 2.8 share to a bottom-feeding 1.7 among all listeners 12 and older. That had KPTK tied for 23rd place overall.
Up against baseball on rival KOMO- AM, the increasingly left- leaning KIRO- AM also fell, from 4.3 to a 3.9.
Conservative talkers were mixed: KVI- AM dropped from a 3.1 to a 2.5, while competitor KTTH- AM held just about steady, with a 2.8 share.
In Portland, KPOJ- AM, which had been Air America's biggest nationwide success story, also took a dive: it dropped from 4.1 to a 3.5 share.
Conservative and other talk formats had better luck in the Rose City, with KXL and KEX-AM both up slightly and far ahead of Franken & Co. Until now, KPOJ's ratings had held fairly steady and it was considered a model for liberal radio's potential future national success.
Denver's KKZN-AM had also provided a previous pocket of libtalk support, but that proved to be short- lived. The station finished the spring ratings book with a mere 1.3 share, leaving it near the bottom in the overall market.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha......Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Libs have discovered a way to fall off the bottom? Kewl!
I guess Al Franken finally stopped listening.
So demented ranting and raving isn't catching on??
Daddy Warbucks Soros better keep the cash flowing to keep this ship afloat.
OR they can just rob another unwitting boys and girls club.
Portland ---------Seattle --------- Denver
"Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'..."
You can bet the further the ratings slide, the nuttier they will get.
"Zero minus Zero = ErrAmerika"
A station in Boston, an even more liberal market than Moscow, said Friday that it would run "dead air" rather than the controversial left-wing drivel, starting "as soon as we can unplug the feed."
This is bad news.
We need highly visible outlets for the best the left has to offer, and if Air America goes down, I mean, who's going to go on campus to listen to a history prof rant?
Air America helps to educate people what the party is about and what its beliefs are- it gets the message out, and we need that!
Good!
What do you expect---the country is not liberal.
I like playing my Randi Rhodes game. I tell myself I'll listen as long as she doesn't rip on Bush for anything. I usually get to listen for all of about 6.2 seconds.
Remember that in the far-left liberal world, there is no reality -- just what the libs want to view as reality. That is why they keep putting these LOSER STATIONS on the air, and keep failing. There is no failure in the liberal mind...even though they are pathetic leftist failures.
You simply cannot apply logic to the liberal mindset -- kinda like watching the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. About the same mentality.
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