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Air America Dead Pool

N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
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How long until the lib's figure out that leftist radio cannot be commercially viable and is yanked from the airwaves???



1. 6 months

2. 1 year

3. May Day: The commie new year

4. It will live on as a 1 hour program on Public Radio forever




 
Spud

Spud

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Aug 9, 2001
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Don't see it being viable in my local market period. Overall 12 months or so for am/fm version. Probably be a stream on XM or Sirius satellite radio for longer.
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
So a liberal media channel can't be profitable? The left leaning media must already be flooding the market.
 
Spud

Spud

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Drudge Report sez they've bounced checks to the owner of stations in L.A. and Chicago and have been booted from those markets until their cashflow problem is solved....


:eek:
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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From Drudge:

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies...

A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...

Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations... Developing...
 
Spud

Spud

Monkey
Aug 9, 2001
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Oh, the Drama!
Air America Website

The Sludge Report

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and that really loud woman from Florida, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

Stop the presses!!! There’s nothing more exciting than half a story from a third hand source!!!!

Insiders tell SLUDGE, that the reason the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, was because, the owner of both stations, Arthur Liu of Multicultural Broadcasting, said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! The run-on sentence, tortured grammar and the exclamation point clearly means it’s true!!

Only it isn’t.

Normally we’d let this go because “habitual liars” like Drudge are laughable, and ridicule is our business.

But Arthur Liu --- not funny. He lied to us, he ripped us off and now we’re chasing him down with a pipe wrench. It’s a metaphor.

Here’s what really happened:

This Liu-ser was ripping off our boss Evan Cohen big time (he can’t do that, that’s our job). Evan found out about it and he stopped payment on a check to keep Liu-cifer from ripping him off even more. You can touch Evan for the occasional meal or drinks but a million bucks is crossing the line. And if we ever get low on cash, we can always call Barbra Streisand. Or any of the
Baldwins. Except Stephen.

So we got screwed, Liu’d, and tattooed. How Liu can you get? In Liu of payment. Liu’d and lascivious behavior. These write themselves. What we’re getting at is that we hate him.

So now everyone’s saying we’re going down the dumper in Chicago and Los Angeles, but what they don’t tell you is that we’re still on in Portland. And we OWN Portland. And let’s not forget Riverside and Plattsburgh. And New
York. And streaming on the internet. And XM. And Sirius. Actually we’re fine.

So cool your jets. Air America Radio isn’t dead, we’re in court and we’re going to slam Liu’s head in a car door. Another metaphor. We hope to be back on the air tomorrow or the next day in those markets.

In the meantime, why don’t you give Arthur a call at (212)966-1059.

Arthur Liu, I wouldn’t show your face around here.

Or Riverside. Or Plattsburgh.

DEVELOPING……
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N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
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Top Air America Execs Leave Choppy Network

In the latest development in what has been a chaotic inagural month, Air America Radio is losing two if its top executives, including the networks co-founder.

Mark Walsh the former AOL executive and Democratic National Committee operative who announced the network's launch to much fanfare five years ago, said Monday that he had stepped down as chief executive officer.
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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The Cleft of Venus
Liberal Talk Show Shuts LA, Chicago Sales Offices
Wed May 12, 2004 09:21 PM ET
By Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Air America has shut its sales offices in Los Angeles and Chicago and is recasting its business plan, the network's president said on Wednesday as troubles beset the liberal talk show network.

With Air America not broadcasting in those two cities after a financial dispute in April, network president Jon Sinton said, "There's not much sense in having sales offices in cities where you don't control a station."

About 15 to 20 people were laid off in the closing of the sales offices, the latest sign of problems for Air America, launched on March 31 as a liberal alternative to the country's predominantly conservative talk show culture led by right-wing icons like Rush Limbaugh.

Since it started, Chairman Evan Cohen, Vice Chairman Rex Sorensen and Head of Programing David Logan have left while co-founder Mark Walsh has stepped down as chief executive to take a smaller role in the organization.

Sinton said Air America was in "high-level affiliate discussions in Chicago and Los Angeles" and other cities.

Sinton said the company had moved away from its original business model, which was to lease and totally control the radio stations in which its programing ran.

Rather, Sinton said Air America has found success with traditional affiliate relationships, under which it provides about 20 hours of programing per day in many cases in exchange for the ability to sell a certain number of minutes per hour of advertising.

"The business model has changed with our on-air success. The fact that we are moving the needle so quickly with affiliates has surprised us and negated the need for us to control our own stations," Sinton said.

After its launch, a dispute with business partner Multicultural Radio Broadcasting led to its programing being yanked from the air in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Air America, which is said to have more than $30 million in financing, is operating in about nine markets, and on satellite radio and the Internet. Its Web site said that 15 more stations will be coming in May.

"We're always looking for new financing, but the investors we have are committed and we would we like to raise more money," said Sinton, who said that certain people on the board with long-term radio experience have recently taken over key decision-making roles in a departure from the past.

Serious errors in business judgment account for Air America's problems, rather than its slate of programing, say various radio industry insiders.

"It makes you wonder why everybody is leaving the company," said Michael Harrison, editor for Talkers, a magazine about Talk Shows.

"I think the concept of liberal radio is great, but they went about it wrong. They first insisted that stations take an entire line-up. The odds of getting enough stations to take a whole line-up are so impossible."
 
Slugman

Slugman

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Apr 29, 2004
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Originally posted by N8
How long until the lib's figure out that leftist radio cannot be commercially viable and is yanked from the airwaves???



1. 6 months

2. 1 year

3. May Day: The commie new year

4. It will live on as a 1 hour program on Public Radio forever
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Too long already...

Have they learned nothing from history - you can not win a war (even when it's a war of ideas) by fighting someone on their own turf using their rules!

Dumb!

Even dumber is putting a comedian as their big name... yeah, that's always good for a serious discussion of the nations future.
 
$tinkle

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
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Originally posted by Slugman
Too long already...

Have they learned nothing from history - you can not win a war (even when it's a war of ideas) by fighting someone on their own turf using their rules!

Dumb!

Even dumber is putting a comedian as their big name... yeah, that's always good for a serious discussion of the nations future.
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it's about hate, dude; that's why it failed.
i liked chuck D back in the 80's
i liked al franken when he was stuart smalley
i liked janneane garafolo in that stupid irish movie

they're just noise now, and soon, not so much.
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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Eat **** and die you mouthy fat bastard, Al Franken.

Airhead America, GONE!!! To be replaced by Spanish language programming and talk shows about Sexual Reassignment Surgery.

:cheers:

Air America Radio Files for Chapter 11
Oct 13 11:05 AM US/Eastern
By SETH SUTEL
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK

Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network that features the comedian Al Franken, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told The AP.

The network had denied rumors just a month ago that it would file for bankruptcy. On Friday, Air America spokeswoman Jaime Horn told The Associated Press that the filing became necessary only recently after negotiations with a creditor from the company's early days broke down.

The network will stay on the air while it resolves issues with its creditors, Horn said. In addition to Franken, the network also features shows from liberal talk show host Randi Rhodes and Jerry Springer.

Horn declined to name the creditor with which talks had reached a logjam. The company will operate in the interim with funding from its current investor group.

Air America also said Friday it had named Scott Elberg as its new CEO. Elberg, a former general manager of the radio station WLIB in New York, has been with the network since May of last year.

The filing marked the latest turbulence at the liberal talk radio network, which went on the air two years ago. This April, Danny Goldberg stepped down as CEO and was replaced by an interim chief executive from a management consulting firm.

"Nobody likes filing for bankruptcy," Elberg said in a statement. "However, this move will enable us to concentrate on informing and entertaining our audience during the coming months."
 
H8R

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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BTW: good thing Err America is shutting down, that was some lame ass embarrassing name calling bullsh!t.

Hope something better comes along.
 
spincrazy

spincrazy

I love to climb
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Air America wasn't what it was cracked up to be for certain. I'm with H8tr, something better had best come out.

I like NPR, am I an utter moron?
 
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