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Air America to Lose NY Flagship on Aug. 31
MediaWeek ^
| April 27, 2006
| Katy Bachman
Posted on 04/27/2006 2:21:54 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Air America Radio will lose its New York flagship station, WLIB-AM, on Aug. 31. While the left-leaning radio network’s original lease for the Inner City station ran out March 31, AAR managed to get an extension which only lasts until Aug. 31, according to an informed source.
Through an agreement with ICBC, WLIB will be operated as a joint venture and programmed by P1, a company run by former Clear Channel and Jacor Communications executive Randy Michaels. Michaels is expected to program a progressive-talk format, but replace AAR’s network programming with more local programming. A likely addition to the new lineup: Ed Schultz, the left-of-center talker syndicated by P1.
“To be clear, Air America will not go silent on the New York City airwaves. We do not, however, comment on hypothetical speculation,” said an AAR spokesperson.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airamerica; alfranken; biasmeanslayoffs; boohoo; erroramerika; liberaltalkradio; nyc; schadenfreude; trysellingthetruth; wlib
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To: PJ-Comix
Air America to Lose NY Flagship on Aug. 31 How can one tell? Were they ever really on the air? Did anyone listen to them? If no one listened, how can they claim to have done a broadcast?
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:27:40 PM PDT
by
abb
(If it Ain't on FreeRepublic, it Ain't News)
To: ConservativeMan55
It was supposed to be the left's answer to so-called right-wing radio. I guess it is not quite working out for them....:) Al Franken is one of the host and I really don't know the others. Of course, it is not broadcast anywhere in Oklahoma.
BTW....on a different subject, did you catch "The Today Show" special with Michael Delgiourno(sp?). I heard the replay on the radio but did not actually get to see it. Wish I could have seen it as I love Michael D.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:27:55 PM PDT
by
yellowdoghunter
(I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
To: mainepatsfan
Capitalism is sweet. Man.... ain't THAT the truth. Especially when it's foisted upon the leftie socialists at Err America!
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:28:08 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: PJ-Comix
I am deeply saddened -- OH the horror!
ROTFLMAO
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:28:56 PM PDT
by
DBeers
(†)
To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
If only NPR existed in the free market.
To: cmsgop
Your response reminds me of the finale in "The Neverending Story."
You know, the scene where Bastian finally gets even with the school bullies by chasing them down the street on a flying luck-dragon named "Falcor?"
Falcor's laughter was priceless.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:29:22 PM PDT
by
Emmet Fitzhume
(America: Shining with brightness, Always on surveillance.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:29:22 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: PJ-Comix
For the record, there is another thread where women seek to get pregnant by the 5,000 year old iceman.
strange things happen.
So I wouldn't count AA out until the last second of the last minute on the appointed day.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:29:22 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: PJ-Comix
To be clear, Air America will not go silent on the New York City airwaves...
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:29:50 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: PJ-Comix
It would seem that the Dems/Libs aren't as good at drumming up dead people to listen to their broadcasts as they are at getting dead people to vote. This is just too good!
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:29:59 PM PDT
by
onevoter
To: mainepatsfan
To: abb
Democrats....Dumbasses...
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:31:33 PM PDT
by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: PJ-Comix
To be clear, Air America will not go silent on the New York City airwaves.We are unhappy with the fact that only 5 people listen to our radio program. We have learned that we can reach more people using a new method. 
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:31:40 PM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(In decline, the Old Media gets more shrill, thrashing about like a dinosaur caught in the tar pits.)
To: My Favorite Headache
Remember folks, I was the one who got Randi Rhodes here Err America gig. I kid you not. The details were posted
HERE on the FR in Jan. 2004. At the time, Randi was still a fairly unknown loony left radio host in Palm Beach county but I gave her the notoriety on the Web she needed to come to the attention of Err America. Remember, Randi got her Err America gig just a few months after this posting.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:31:55 PM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
What does "schaudenfreude" mean? I missed that thread.
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:32:23 PM PDT
by
SnarlinCubBear
(My dawgs love Kitty Mittens)
To: PJ-Comix; All
How does radio measure audience share? Is it similar to the Neilson ratings for television?
To: yellowdoghunter
How on earth could AA not make it in the biggest liberal city in America?Yeah, I don't understand it with entertaining programming like this:
Al: George Bush sucks!!
Randi: Yeah, he really sucks!
Jeanine: He's the biggest sucker!
Al: OK, let's go to a caller....Sunflower, you're on the air...
Barking Moonbat: George Bush can suck my...
Randi: Whoa! That was too close! I think she meant to say that George Bush sucked--what do you think, Jeanine?
Jeanine: Yeah, George Hitler Bush sucks!!
Al: Don't edit yourself, Jeanine, tell us how you really feel about how bad George Bush sucks...
Repeat ad nauseum...
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posted on
04/27/2006 2:32:37 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Their tears taste so sweeeeet!
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