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Russ Gilbert has been named vice president of Interactive for Air America Radio, including the network and its flagship station WLIB AM New York. The announcement was made by Air America President Gary Krantz. .... “I'm looking forward to working with the incredible talent at Air America to take www.airamericaradio.com to the next level,” said Gilbert.

Air America and the race hustlers By Michelle Malkin COLUMNIST Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment -- able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat. But the raging reverends are nowhere to be found as a scandal involving the liberal radio network Air America and a Bronx, N.Y.-based inner city charity for poor children brews. Why the silence? It's all about the Benjamins, as they say....

Watching Air America Radio thoroughly destroy its credibility is like last night's burning Airbus jet in Toronto: it's hard to take your eyes away from a full-fledged disaster. At least everybody escaped from the plane's wreckage, who knows what will ultimately happen at Air America's headquarters? The network's claim that all that's stopping it from repaying nearly $900,000 (boy, does that number continue to grow) it owes the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club is an official direction from New York's Department Of Investigation (DOI), is blown to bits by a fresh New York Post report.

The ratings for Air America's flagship station WLIB in the New York City market have been released. They're in 24th place overall with a 1.0 share in the Spring '05 period. In the previous two periods they had a 1.2 share, and before that 1.4 and 1.3. These ratings are even lower than when that station broadcast Caribbean music and news. New York City is the #1 market in the U.S. However, in the #18 market, Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island) they're pulling a 1.4, which is double their previous share and even above the 1.1 they received in Summer '04. More...

Is the recent talk radio listenership dropoff continuing? The first set of ratings figures for the three-month period of March, April and May, have emerged tonight and early indications are of a sustained, rocky period for talk radio. It's just a little bit too soon to know for sure, however.

Newly released Arbitron radio ratings bring some questions to mind, such as: --- Will Air America's apologists finally come up with a fresh batch of excuses, after insisting more time was needed for it to catch on? Isn't that one getting stale? --- Will some of the traditional talk stations, now showing audience declines, make changes soon?

“This show is about...relentlessly hammering away at the Bush administration until they crack and crumble this November because, don’t get me wrong, friends, they are going down!” So said Al Franken, the comedian-turned-radio host-turned-political prognosticator, opening his very first show on the liberal Air America radio network March 31, 2004. Well, as it turned out, George W. Bush didn’t go down in November. But Air America’s ratings did. The numbers are now in for Air America’s first year of broadcasting, and they aren’t good. For one thing, the network is only on the air in about 50 of the nation’s...

If there was any doubt that my fellow Democrats with white skin, the notorious white liberal, is the most intolerant creature on the planet, all you have to do is check one of their most popular daily blogs, the Daily Kos, to see how they operate. After I posted the column below, Daily Kos ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN the site and banned me from posting there. Keep in mind, I didn't use profanity. All I did was disagree with their opinion on Air America Radio. Also keep in mind that Daily Kos himself called for a boycott of Time Magazine after...

The latest radio ratings are in, and they show continued bad news for Air America, the liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Randi Rhodes, Janeane Garofolo, and others. While it is difficult to pinpoint Air America's ratings nationally — it is on the air in about 50 stations across the country, and has been on some of them for just the last few months — it is possible to measure the network's performance in the nation's number-one market, New York City. The new Arbitron ratings for Winter 2005, which covers January, February, and March, show that WLIB, the station which...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air America Radio, the upstart liberal talk show network that has been plagued by management troubles, is seeking to raise new money in efforts to pay off debts and steer the business back toward profitability. A group of early investors that include Florida plaintiffs lawyer Mike Papantonio, Chicago entrepreneur Sheldon Drobny, and Rob Glaser, chairman of RealNetworks Inc., have committed to invest new capital, people familiar with the company said. Air America has also moved to fill a void in its executive ranks. Doug Kreeger, also an investor, assumed the role of chief executive last week....

<p>April 21, 2004 -- All-liberal "Air America" is down to one big-city station - in New York - after falling out for good with the landlord who kicked it off his L.A. and Chicago stations last week.</p> <p>A judge ordered the all-lefty talk network back on in Chicago last Thursday - after a vicious, public fight over leased-time payments - but Air America said yesterday it will go silent there next week.</p>

Air America, launched on the premise that the left wing view is a minority view on the radio airwares has itself been criticized for it's negative impact on existing minority access to the airwaves. In light of that impact, let's spell out the call letters of the Air America affiliates. Considering Air America's reviews calling it boring, yet it displaced the "Black Voices" program in New York City which had a loyal audience, the call letters WLIB now stand for "We Layoff Interesting Blacks". In Los Angeles, where Air America displayed Korean language programming, KBLA now stands for, "Korean Broadcasting...

WLIB: The Station NEW YORK (NNPA) - New York’s radio station WLIB-1190 AM has been loyally "serving New York’s Black community"—as its logo states—for decades now. In the early ’90s, WLIB was lauded as a resource for "Afrocentric" programming and became known for featuring Imhotep Gary Byrd’s "Global Black Experience" show. The station was, in many ways, a Black activist outlet. But, by the end of March, WLIB will be taking on a different hue, as it joins the launch of Progress Media’s "Air America Radio," the new, predominately White, liberal talk-radio network. Air America has reportedly partnered with Inner...

After listening to Air America for a week, I now know what liberal radio is. It is Janeane Garofalo bantering with her co-host about swallowing her own saliva, and then dismissing the American victims of the Fallujah lynch mob as a pack of mercenaries. It is a woman named Randi Rhodes talking dirty and cracking on Condoleezza Rice's "plastic hair." It is an announcer intoning: "The station Rush Limbaugh would listen to if he hadn't lost most of his hearing to drug abuse" - followed, without irony, by an empathetic public service announcement aimed at drug abusers. It is, in...

New Liberal Talk Radio Network Drives Out Minority Cultural Programming Air America: Putting Minorities Second Air America, the new liberal talk radio network, is sending minorities to the back of the bus. The network, owned by former Democratic National Committee executive Mark Walsh, debuted March 31. Ironically, the three radio stations broadcasting Air America's programs were all stations with formats featuring black and Hispanic culture. By preempting black and Hispanic cultural programs to promote their own ideology, Air America is very much in concert with the liberal policy of using minorities for their own purposes. Air America is leasing time...

“You remember things like WLIB’s logo ‘Keeping the business in the family,’” Irwin Claire, co-director of the Queens-based Caribbean Immigration Services said. “You remember that you used to hear comments like, ‘Rip the knob off your radio, because you wake up and go to sleep with WLIB on the dial.’ “I put it in perspective,” Claire added wistfully, as he spoke about the sense of regret and offense many feel about the abruptly announced scheduling changes at New York’s radio station WLIB-1190 AM, which as of March 31 will help launch “Air America Radio,” the new, predominately white, liberal talk-radio...

In a rally at Harlem’s large and influential Abyssinian Baptist Church (once under the pastoral care of the late Cong. Adam Clayton Powell), “community leaders” agitated against the new liberal radio network Air America, as a victimizer of the black community. None of the American newspapers which have lavished loving coverage on the tiny four station operation — the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, among them — bothered to cover the rally against it. Toronto’s Globe and Mail which did have the integrity to cover an event which went against the left wing press's obvious agenda commented: Something...

<p>Gets nighttime slot.Liberals who have been moaning about all the conservatives on talk Liberals who have been moaning about all the conservatives on talk radio launched a counter blab- attack yesterday.</p> <p>Putting big money - some $30 million - where their mouths are, they debuted "Air America," a collection of lefty yakkers who vow to challenge Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and about a half- dozen other conservative heavyweights.</p>

Whoever said that liberal radio couldn't be entertaining certainly hasn't listened to the first hour of this "monumental event". This show is so bad. Just to amuse yourself with what the liberals want to air in a head-to-head showdown against Rush Limbaugh, give it a listen. It will make your day. Needless to say, no worries of success here.

NEW YORK (NNPA) - New York's radio station WLIB-1190 AM has been loyally "serving New York's Black community" - as its logo states - for decades now. In the early '90s WLIB was lauded as a resource for "Afrocentric" programming and became known for featuring Imhotep Gary Byrd's "Global Black Experience" show. By the end of March, New York's WLIB-1190 AM will taken over by "Air America Radio," a predominantly White, liberal talk-radio network. The station was in many ways a Black activist outlet. But by the end of this month, WLIB will be taking on a different hue, as...