Liberal talk-radio network Air America to cease operations - washingtonpost.comAir America, the talk-radio network that helped boost the careers of liberals Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, said Thursday it was going out of business.
In a statement to employees of the New York-based network, Air America's chairman, Charlie Kireker, wrote: "It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.
I always thought Air America's biggest problem by far is that they never got over being reactionary, an "answer" to something else. They were never doing it for its own sake. That's especially true of Franken and Garofalo. They never took it seriously on its own terms. They weren't in it for the sake of serious talk radio, but for the spectacle.
It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon
Maybe, but there was all that fanfare and grandstanding right at the beginning. They were out to beat Limbaugh and other right-wing radio hosts at their own game.
As such, both Franken and Garofalo hosted shows which appeared to be liberal copies of what they thought those shows were. The problem was, it wasn't. They didn't understand the medium, they didn't understand what the other hosts actually do, and it showed.
The only "real" radio host who actually got it, in the first crop, was Randi Rhodes. Of course, she went nuts and turned ridiculously crude and nasty, and that was the end of that.
I thought those assclowns were defunct years ago.
Liberal talk-radio network Air America to cease operations - washingtonpost.com
The thread they were hanging from finally snapped.
They're blaming their demise on the decrease in ad revenue that has plagued all of talk radio over the past couple years - but given that Air America didn't have much competition, the real problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
I always thought Air America's biggest problem by far is that they never got over being reactionary, an "answer" to something else. They were never doing it for its own sake. That's especially true of Franken and Garofalo. They never took it seriously on its own terms. They weren't in it for the sake of serious talk radio, but for the spectacle.
Primarily there is substance to his program.Hmmm....they're blaming the economy.
Is the EI Network suffering under the "poor economy"?
No.
Why not?
Because Rush has something called "listeners".
Primarily there is substance to his program.
I'll take that as doubt, but whatever. He is successful and the left sucks air. If you think that 20 years of success can be maintained without substance, then I suspect that you believe there is some other cause that could.Hmmm....you think that's why people listen to his show?
Why, of course it is.
I'll take that as doubt, but whatever. He is successful and the left sucks air. If you think that 20 years of success can be maintained without substance, then I suspect that you believe there is some other cause that could.
Hmmm....you think that's why people listen to his show?
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Liberal talk-radio network Air America to cease operations - washingtonpost.com
The thread they were hanging from finally snapped.
They're blaming their demise on the decrease in ad revenue that has plagued all of talk radio over the past couple years - but given that Air America didn't have much competition, the real problem was that nobody wanted to listen.
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