Latest Rating for Air America

[Squawker]

Everything we get now is so slanted.

Today is better that is was 20 or 30 years ago when you only had a limited amount of news outlets. They gave their version of events, and that was it. The Internet is opening up a whole new world of information. The main stream media can't get away with their spin and lies anymore. Dan Rather's story about President Bush, would have been taken as fact even 10 years ago. We have individuals, doing a better job with the facts.

 

[Fantasea]

Because you accept the help of someone doesn't mean you like them.

If you were being attacked by someone who happened to be black, and the KKK came by and killed that person, they'd be "helping you out," but it doesn't mean you'd be any less revulsed by them afterwards.

I will say, I admire the ACLU's willingness to stand by their principles, even when it involves defending someone who they most likely despise. They're one of the more principled organizations in existance today. I just disagree with many of their principles.

What better way for a wolf to gain legitimacy than to don sheep's clothing?

 

[Stinger]

It matters not what side it's biased towards, conservative or liberal. All media bias must be destroyed.

Hard news perhaps but don't forget that some of the finest writing and discourse throughout history has been political and it has been biased. I have no problem with commentators and editorialist who express their political slant, in fact I would have a problem if they didn't let it be known. Without bias political discourse would be quite boring. The problem with the leftest media is that they just don't have many people who know how to entertain an audience and the fact that the left has been without message for a long time.

 

[raccoonradio]

Air America is literally getting a 0.0 in Boston (WKOX, WXKS). Stations with fairly good signals, and there has been publicity in newspapers, TV, and on billboards. While conservative talk stations like WRKO and WTKK get 3.8 and 4.1 per cent of the audience, AAR can't get any ratings at all. Poorly done radio, some are saying. I will admit their Stephanie Miller show isn't bad though I disagree with her politically on many issues.

 

[LaMidRighter]

Air America is literally getting a 0.0 in Boston (WKOX, WXKS). Stations with fairly good signals, and there has been publicity in newspapers, TV, and on billboards. While conservative talk stations like WRKO and WTKK get 3.8 and 4.1 per cent of the audience, AAR can't get any ratings at all. Poorly done radio, some are saying. I will admit their Stephanie Miller show isn't bad though I disagree with her politically on many issues.

If a liberal talk radio station can't get a rating in Boston it's time to pack it in. Worst thing about it is it has to be privately funded through donations because it was canceled the first time around, talk about not getting your money's worth on an investment.

 

[raccoonradio]

There's a difference between bias in news reporting and opinionated talk radio/talk TV. You can say that CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. show bias in their news reporting (as shown in Bernard Goldberg's book BIAS). When Fox News has Bill O'Reilly, Hannity and Colmes, etc., on, they are offering opinion and commentary.

Fox News and conservative talk radio were a response to the liberal media bias (hello Dan Rather) in this country. There was a need for it. Both entities are doing well in the ratings...Now Air America wants liberals to have their own voice on talk radio. If it's done well, they could also succeed. Realize that a)many liberal attempts at talk radio have failed before but maybe they can find "their Rush"), and b) "Rush wasn't built in a day". It took awhile for Limbaugh to get his audience.

The book South Park Conservatives pointed out that Limbaugh came along right after the Fairness Doctrine was repealed. Now, a talk radio station didn't have to offer both sides--they could put on a Rush and not have to also put on a Franken. Talk radio is a business and if a station feels Rush draws ratings and Franken doesn't, the government shouldn't force them to carry Franken as well.

Should the government force a country station to play hard rock as well? No...

Of course listeners are invited to call in and debate the host. Talk radio isn't news, it's commentary about news. Conservative-based stations have made their mark. Now it's up to liberals to do the same. The (un)Fairness Doctrine helped spur conservatalk, true. But many liberals want to bring it back because they feel it'll give them equal time.

But stations, given that situation, would rather not put controversial issues on the air.
It would cause a drop in ratings if they had to air some liberal hosts (by force).

So opinions of all types are welcome on radio but since it is a business, it's up to talk hosts and their producers to give us shows to entertain and enlighten. If they fail to deliver, so be it.

 

[flip2]

Al Franken has moved on and gone back to television, it seems. Knowing the "Daily Show" target market and fan base, I think Franken will do fairly well on Comedy Central.

 

[LaMidRighter]

I don't think that will be changed. It would be argued by ACLU-wannabes who would argue that it creates an unfair and racist nature to elections because of the plight of those who live in underpriveledged communities, essentially the same argument as last time except with a few alterations, and it would be judged under strict scrutiny, as the court would have to. bam. court. illegal. :doh

Literacy tests would have to be deemed illegal in court, you are absolutely correct. I actually had a better idea, a simple issues tests at the poll with maybe five simple questions to provide some evidence that at least a voter has basic information. This last election, many voters did not know who the incumbent vice president was or the vice presidential candidate, they didn't know platforms, or even one thing about the candidate, that is seriously dangerous considering they have the same vote that we all do.

 

[raccoonradio]

Yes, they can't get ratings in Boston. Recently when Stephanie Miller did her show from Boston, there were features on TV (WBZ 4) and more than a few articles in both the left-leaning Globe and right-leaning Herald. Will that publicity help AAR in Boston? Who knows, but probably not.

Many Air America stations are run by a big company called Clear Channel. In Akron, OH, they put AAR on an AM station and dubbed themselves Radio Free Ohio--an alternative to "big corporation radio". They failed to admit that the owners were a big radio corporation...one which gets good ratings with conservative hosts, and they'll willing to put some liberal hosts on, too, but the ratings probably won't be nearly what Rush or Hannity will get. Poorly done radio.

Providence: conservative talk WHJJ dumped its hosts to run Air America and suffered a big drop in the ratings. In many markets AAR barely gets one per cent of the audience. (Portland,ME and Seattle are notable exceptions).

 

[Stinger]

Geez did you hear about Franken's melt down yesterday. When will these people learn that there is not an audience that wants to hear 24hours of anti Bill Riley diatribes. Unless left-wing radio comes up with an interesting, viable, reasonable message it will continue to fail.

 

[aquapub]

"There are precisely two reasons most of the major publishers won't give conservatives the time of day: 1) Their books sell off the shelf, and 2) Their books make any publisher who publishes them truckloads of money."

One Smart Lady

Despite towering, insanely disproportionate grants liberals get for writing books, despite gushing full page propagandistic raves by the NY Times and adoring interviews with Katie Couric about liberal books and programming like Air America, liberal books and programming ALWAYS BOMB. (yet they always continue to get this shameless amount of promotion from those who constantly lose money on them....hmmmmm)

I say the numerous failed attempts (for decades) to get liberal radio stations to succeed and to promote liberal books is a result of the thoughtless, young, hysterical minds of the left rarely exposing themselves to books (except for comically biased, anti-American textbooks) and of adults not taking adolescent stupidity that perpetually spews from mindless drivel-kings like Phil Donahue seriously.

 

[Fantasea]

There's a difference between bias in news reporting and opinionated talk radio/talk TV. You can say that CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. show bias in their news reporting (as shown in Bernard Goldberg's book BIAS). When Fox News has Bill O'Reilly, Hannity and Colmes, etc., on, they are offering opinion and commentary.

Fox News and conservative talk radio were a response to the liberal media bias (hello Dan Rather) in this country. There was a need for it. Both entities are doing well in the ratings...Now Air America wants liberals to have their own voice on talk radio. If it's done well, they could also succeed. Realize that a)many liberal attempts at talk radio have failed before but maybe they can find "their Rush"), and b) "Rush wasn't built in a day". It took awhile for Limbaugh to get his audience.

The book South Park Conservatives pointed out that Limbaugh came along right after the Fairness Doctrine was repealed. Now, a talk radio station didn't have to offer both sides--they could put on a Rush and not have to also put on a Franken. Talk radio is a business and if a station feels Rush draws ratings and Franken doesn't, the government shouldn't force them to carry Franken as well.

Should the government force a country station to play hard rock as well? No...

Of course listeners are invited to call in and debate the host. Talk radio isn't news, it's commentary about news. Conservative-based stations have made their mark. Now it's up to liberals to do the same. The (un)Fairness Doctrine helped spur conservatalk, true. But many liberals want to bring it back because they feel it'll give them equal time.

But stations, given that situation, would rather not put controversial issues on the air.
It would cause a drop in ratings if they had to air some liberal hosts (by force).

So opinions of all types are welcome on radio but since it is a business, it's up to talk hosts and their producers to give us shows to entertain and enlighten. If they fail to deliver, so be it.

Broadcasting costs money. Commercials pay the expenses. Commercial rates are based on the number of listeners. It's simply a matter of economics.

No talk radio host, left or right, stays if he doesn't generate a large enough audience.

Not even the socialist-lib-dems listen to Air America. Why is that?

 

[Fantasea]

Al Franken has moved on and gone back to television, it seems. Knowing the "Daily Show" target market and fan base, I think Franken will do fairly well on Comedy Central.

Sure he'll be a comedy hit. He'll just take all of the radio transcripts of the venom he heaped upon the administration (which no one took as fact) and read them with his kind of sarcastic slant and they'll get laughs as jokes.

 

[Fantasea]

Literacy tests would have to be deemed illegal in court, you are absolutely correct. I actually had a better idea, a simple issues tests at the poll with maybe five simple questions to provide some evidence that at least a voter has basic information. This last election, many voters did not know who the incumbent vice president was or the vice presidential candidate, they didn't know platforms, or even one thing about the candidate, that is seriously dangerous considering they have the same vote that we all do.

That's why Election Day is a school holiday. In the big cities, many of the folks you describe are rousted out by the Dem party workers, herded onto school buses and led to the polling booths with instructions to pull all of the levers on the Democratic line to keep the benefits flowing.

 

[Fantasea]

Geez did you hear about Franken's melt down yesterday. When will these people learn that there is not an audience that wants to hear 24hours of anti Bill Riley diatribes. Unless left-wing radio comes up with an interesting, viable, reasonable message it will continue to fail.

Is there such a thing as an interesting, viable, interesting left wing message?

All I hear from them is negative, negative, negative, followed by negative, negative, negative.

An original, positive idea would be a novel experience.

 

[Fantasea]

"There are precisely two reasons most of the major publishers won't give conservatives the time of day: 1) Their books sell off the shelf, and 2) Their books make any publisher who publishes them truckloads of money."

One Smart Lady

Despite towering, insanely disproportionate grants liberals get for writing books, despite gushing full page propagandistic raves by the NY Times and adoring interviews with Katie Couric about liberal books and programming like Air America, liberal books and programming ALWAYS BOMB. (yet they always continue to get this shameless amount of promotion from those who constantly lose money on them....hmmmmm)

I say the numerous failed attempts (for decades) to get liberal radio stations to succeed and to promote liberal books is a result of the thoughtless, young, hysterical minds of the left rarely exposing themselves to books (except for comically biased, anti-American textbooks) and of adults not taking adolescent stupidity that perpetually spews from mindless drivel-kings like Phil Donahue seriously.

All of this is a testament to the the duplicity of the man-in-the-street socialist-liberal-democrat who has been brain-washed by the mavens into believing that the capitalist-conservative-republicans won't let him rise above his origins.

He'll listen to all the drivel pushed through the air waves because it is free. When he has to pay for it out of his meager wages, he draws the line.

 

[GottaHurt]

Bring back the literacy tests.

Can't have that now, it might hurt someones feelings.
Instead, we'll turn a blind eye to the problem, graduate another generation of illiterates, so we can spend millions more on them in job training programs, so they can get fired and collect unemployment.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[LaMidRighter]

Can't have that now, it might hurt someones feelings.
Instead, we'll turn a blind eye to the problem, graduate another generation of illiterates, so we can spend millions more on them in job training programs, so they can get fired and collect unemployment.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

That's so funny that I have to laugh, yet so true that I want to cry.

 

[Fantasea]

Can't have that now, it might hurt someones feelings.
Instead, we'll turn a blind eye to the problem, graduate another generation of illiterates, so we can spend millions more on them in job training programs, so they can get fired and collect unemployment.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Give proper attribution where it is due.

All of the above continues to cheerfully be brought to us by the duplicitous and self-serving efforts of the NEA, the UFT, the ACLU and their socialist-liberal-democrat acolytes, apologists, and sycophants.