The biggest hurdle facing the venture is assigning blame to who when the venture fails. You can be assured that they are not investing their own money. If you noticed, these are people who use other peoples money.
When I see Al Franken and Susan Sarandon emptying their portfolio's to fund this type of stuff, I'll put it on the radar.
Every dollar spent on these idiots will also be one less dollar going to NPR.
That's easy. It is the stationa managers with their greedy focus on Profits and the Rich Capitalist Owners with their focus also on that almighty dollar. They refuse to keep the Liberals on the air and finance the right wing extremists because rich corporate owners are necessarily rightwing oppressors.
Actually the left faces an impossible task in getting their word out through the media because most of Big Media is owned by those big conservative corporate capitalists. At least that is their current occasion for breastbeating.