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Air America radio going down the crapper!

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Stu Ghatze

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Air America is close to losing its New York flagship station-knocking Al Franken & his liberal colleagues off the air in their second anniversary.

The network has a two year lease with WLIB (AM 1190) that is reportedly set to expire april 1, & at least one reliable report says it is extremely likely the deal will not be renewed.




LINK: www.nypost.com/entertainment/60684.htm



IF liberal talk radio cannot make it in NYC, ..where can it make it?
 
This should surprise no one. EVERY SINGLE attempt liberals have made to gain a foothold in the radio business, in TV opinion journalism, and most strikingly in book sales, has been an utter disaster for the last twenty years.

From Phil Donahue going down in flames to the abysmal book sales of liberal authors, the closest thing to a success liberals can claim is Bill Clintons million page, self-absorbed snore fest of a biography and Keith Olbermann's Countdown-which struggles to compete even with the late night reruns of its 8:00 competitor, Bill O'Reilly. (not that the left would ever admit Comrade Olbermann is liberal :roll: )

Liberals always get gigantic advances to write books, and until Regnery came out, the best way to describe an outspoken conservative was, "unpublished." Yet, despite constant million-dollar advances and being adoringly hyped on nearly every channel, liberal books bomb nearly every single time.

Conservative books sell wildly, and always have. And this is without all the Christian books being considered, since the NYT refuses to count Christian books in its best-seller list.

The undeniable popularity gap between liberal sentiment and conservative sentiment leads to these inevitable conclusions:

1) Conservatives read, liberals don't. (Franken tries to explain this away by claiming conservatives are obsessed with hearing people agree with them, and that's why so many conservative books fly off the shelves so strikingly much better than liberal ones. Of course, this could be true, since nearly every kind of media Republicans see is obscenely liberal, but after my experiences on campus, I am certain it is liberals who need incessantly validated by pats on the forehead from the unthinking herd)

2) As I have said many times here, the numbers on book sales and the success of conservative radio prove that middle America is Republican. Liberals, on the other hand, represent the ultra-wealthy Arianna Huffingtons and Hollywood lunatics, trial lawyers, criminals, and welfare abusers-i.e., the fringe. The facts don't allow any other conclusion. In fact, for further proof of this, check out the intro to the "Liberals favor the rich" thread.
 
I don't live in the states so i don't know the ins and outs of the talk radio business but surely a big liberal success in the last couple of years has come from Micheal Moore:

Fahrenheit 9/11:


and the bestsellering books:
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore (Warner) - October 26, 2003

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (ReganBooks/HarperCollins) - March 24, 2002
 
Liberal radio going down the tubes; I'm simply heartbroken. One of those radicals on Air America was this feminist Randi Rhodes. I listened to her for a while when I lived in Florida. She is the epitome of radical anti Americanism that has plagued the liberal media. What a witch.

Some female liberal on this board told me to stop getting my news from Rush Limbaugh. Had to laugh with that one. I was all set to give Air America a try to give the other side equal time. Now like every other liberal radio program--this one has seen the writing on the wall. LOL! Remember, my objective to posting on DP is to get one liberal a day to smarten up by coming over to the 'RIGHT' side. I do believe I have gotten one person to see the light.
 





You are SOooo right! IF free liberal radio cannot make it in NYC, .."liberalism" & the "democratic party" really is NOT the force that the media portrays it to be!

So what else is new? I'm begining to believe that maybe there was vote tampering in the 04' election.

Yeah, ...perhaps Bush really won by more than the near 4 million votes more that he recieved over Kerry.:smile:

Of course dead people voting, non-citizens trying to vote, convicted felons voting, voting more than once in different precincts has always been a democratic party trademark while running to the media & charging the republicans with racism, & discrimination by not allowing minorities to cast their vote!

Amazing...its never considered a violation of civil rights to go down to the welfare board & prove identity, ..but to the "democratic party" bean counters its considered a violation of civil rights to ask voters to show their I.D., ...huh huh?:smile:
 

Well, if the mooney paper says it's so.... All hail the moonies.

I don't have any inside info on WLIB yet.

I do know that some fundies bought an AAR affiliate in Phoenix (giving the fundies 9 stations in the market) so I guess anything is possible.

If you want to look at the actual ratings,then look below. Rhodes is beating Hannity in NYC and Franken is beating O' Reilly and has one hour rated higher than Mr. Oxycontin.

Whether Pat Dobson and friends want to come in and buy out the station is another matter. Developing...

http://www.airamericaradio.com/node/1488
 
OMG a liberal radio talk show is going belly up. I guess I better become a Republican right away. I mean, this proves the Republicans are right about everything! Abortion, gay rights, the environment, this changes my mind about all those issues! :roll::roll::roll:
 

Losing WLIB would be a drag for sure, but they are on the following stations too:
http://www.airamericaradio.com/stations
 
Well I guess that's good if their plan is to be a one city radio station.
 
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