Liberal Air America Radio stuck in cellar

The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 07.28.05 | Beth Gillin

[Prov1322]

I am shocked I tell you!

[mainepatsfan]

Capitalism is a wonderful thing.

[PJ-Comix]

Isn't there some sort of financial scandal that Err America is now involved in?

[neodad]

Why haven't the libs at AAR figured out that they're real competition is NPR? Al just needs to call Bill Moyers and then he won't have to worry about ratings.

[kevkrom]

Jerry Springer, who is mulling a run for governor of Ohio

And Franken is supposedly considering a run for US Senate from Minnesota. Shouldn't Air America be regulated as a political campaign considering its main purpose is getting exposure for potential political candidates?

[goldstategop]

Its not so hot even in Blue State meccas like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Gotta wonder why liberal talk shows don't find a big audience. Could it be the message?

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Franken would carry Dinkeytown but not much else.

[smiley]

....Air America needs to understand...there's no market in hate.

[2001convSVT]

If he is rebroadcasting his best of shows they ran out of material in the first hour. The best part of the show was when he said good bye for the day. Someone needs to stick a fork in this turkey because it is done!

[Shazbot29]

dishing up reruns in a "best-of-Franken"

IOW dead air.

[RexBeach]

Me, too!

Hey, let's face the music here, Air America was a dud, is a dud and will always be a dud. It has nothing to offer even people who listen to it. Its shows are populated by wise-ass whiners who have never done anything for their country other than complain about it.

If you hate America, you'll love Air America!

[AppyPappy]

Horse doo doo. Limbaugh took off like a rocket when he went national. Err America has been in steady decline since Soros sunk his money in that boondoggle.

[kAcknor]

His show is now "dark," meaning it's dishing up reruns in a "best-of-Franken" format.

1. The network is so broke they can't afford to hire a fill in unless they pulled in a drug addicted homeless person.

2. They were worried that the homeless guy would get better ratings....

[digger48]

Garafalo and Franken are so unhygenic, you can smell them over the radio.

[Aquinasfan]

meaning there were too few listeners to measure during the second quarter of this year - the so-called spring book.

Hmmm... What could the potential listeners be up to?

[IMRight]

Isn't there some sort of financial scandal that Err America is now involved in?

Depends on how you define "involved". A public charity in NY illegally "loaned" AAR a tidy sum of money that was supposed to go to the kids. The charitiy(ies?) have lost their funding and the individual(s) involved are being prosecuted.

But how much of this was AAR aware of when they dot the loan? Who knows?

[DoctorMichael]

While visiting my elderly mother in Kennedyland recently I was forced to hit the SEEK button on the car radio repeatedly in search of something to occupy my mind. My consternation grew as I surfed again and again and again, hitting the ubiquitous broadcast of AIR AMERICA that seemed to appear 10 to 15 times across the AM dial in this chronically Leftist New England state. Indeed, nowhere was to be found some of my favorite radio shows in their usual time-slots due to their preemption by this trash.

Its no wonder that the Northeast is irretrievably deranged.

[mainepatsfan]

I wonder what percentage of their audience are conservatives just listening out of morbid curiosity?

[eggman]

Both WHAT and the show have fallen off the charts, according to radio-rating service Arbitron, meaning there were too few listeners to measure...

His show is now "dark," meaning it's dishing up reruns in a "best-of-Franken" format.

I guess dark is opposed to the usual dim shows he normally does.

[Dolphan]

Yeah, something about a NY Boys and Girls Club funneling funds to it..