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TOP DOG JUMPING SHIP After Just A Year, Air America CEO Goldberg Out Exclusive To The Radio Equalizer By Brian Maloney After just over a year at the helm of financially troubled liberal radio network Air America, CEO Danny Goldberg is on his way out. Still unclear is who, if anyone, will replace him as top dog. The changes take effect Friday, April 7, according to an internal source. Goldberg, a former record label executive overseeing rap, hip hop and pop acts, joined the ailing network in early 2005. He's also a partisan activist and lefty book author, contributing...

In what appears just short of outright panhandling, a desperate Air America Radio is now begging listeners for cash donations. From a mass email pitch sent Wednesday afternoon, Air America supporters were taken to a webpage where a direct solicitation is made. Resembling an online PBS or NPR pledge drive, the site offered paltry "benefits" for cash "gifts" to the liberal talk network. Is Air America unintentionally a not-for-profit enterprise?

Al Franken, explain this one Published September 11, 2005 Al Franken appears to be caught in a fib -- a "lying lie," he might call it -- about Air America's loans-from-children scandal.     To his employers' credit, Air America is seeking to put the scandal behind it: On Thursday, the network wired the remaining $825,000 it "borrowed" from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club in the Bronx to the club's lawyers. Air America's parent company, Piquant LLC, had initially denied responsibility for the total of $875,000 in questionable transfers, claiming a previous owner was liable. But the negative publicity from...

Check out the linked defense of Air America by its CEO, which recently appeared in the form of a letter-to-the-editor in the Los Angeles Times. Talk about lying with statistics! He claims their audience as "quadrupled since nine months ago." But what he doesn't tell us is what those original ratings were, or what they are now. Acoording to the letter-writer to whom Goldberg is responding, Air America's ratings: "are pitifully weak, even in places where you would think they'd be strong. WLIB, its flagship in New York City, has sunk to 24th in the metro area Arbitron ratings —...