Air America

[Jimmy Biggs]

The Liberal Radio Network......has less ratings then the Jamacan Music Stations.....Why hasn't this Network taken off like Conservative Talk Radio ?? (Please Note this is funded in part by the DNC and AlGore)

[Monty Mikho]

The above is 100% false!! There is a documentary on Comcast On-Demand about the problems they encountered when the show first started. Within weeks they hit a record of 400,000 listeners making them the fastest and biggest talk show on radio. They beat Rush within a few weeks. It’s the conservative talk shows that are trying to beat the show into the ground by slamming them. But the numbers posted on the show and also on the internet that they are still the most listened to political talk show on the radio

[Chris Uratchko]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah okay that's why Demoncrats are scurrying around trying to figure out it's poor ratings themselves.

[Jimmy Biggs]

:-D ...Rush is 20 million a week......My shoes are still on so I can't figure the math....but it may be more.....Plus poor Rush is forced to get advertisers....he doesn't have $$$ from the DNC...or Move on. org

[Monty Mikho]

Can we compare Rush against Stern??? :-D Doesn't Stern hate Bush??? LOL

[Jimmy Biggs]

YEA that Turned the entire Election :shock: .....Sterns Ratings down 17% from last year......its time to retire....some people don't get it....as for hating W........Stern only has Democrat listeners anyway.......I was a Stern fan.....until he Dumped his Wife......here I go again....I'm gettin off the Divorce Bus :oops:

[Monty Mikho]

Jimmy, your best bet is to stay on the short bus!!

Your buddy Stern was forced off the air by Mr. Powell cause like everything else the conservatives do.. They tell you about a new rule but can't produce any documentations on the guidelines..

[Jimmy Biggs]

Mr Powell didn't do it out of thin air.....Stern created more complaints in the history of Radio....I myself don't care....I can spin the dial.....Stern is headed where he should be......10 years ago Stern was funny....then he got PC.......and because he is trying to ride the wave all the way past the beach....he went over board because of declining ratings.....Sienfeld was smart....go out on top.....Stern's Ego is his worst enemy as he doesn't know when to retire.....also every day that goes by....more people are no longer having radio's in their cars......they are going Satilite......Stern brought out more conservatives to the Election....by pushing for Carey.....he no longer can get people to jump for him......he's becoming the person he hates......IMUS :roll:

[Sledgehammer]

Howard can't blame anyone but himself for his professional existance.

"How did you get your job? It is apparent to most of us in broadcasting that your father got you your job, and you kind of sit there and you're the judge, you're the arbiter, you're the one who tells us what we can and can't say on the air,"

"And yet I really don't even think you're qualified to be the head of the commission." Over the course of a 12-minute back-and-forth debate, Stern tore into Powell, alleging that his father, Secretary of State Colin Powell, got him his job and that he was unqualified to handle the position.



Tisk....tisk.....I used to be a listener till I got tired of the extremes.

[Sledgehammer]

Liberal radio Air America loses 2 stations

CHICAGO, April 14 (UPI) -- Air America, the new liberal talk-radio network that premiered in six cities two weeks ago, was off the air in Chicago and Los Angeles Wednesday.

Air America programming featuring comedian Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo was pulled by Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc., which owns WNTD-950 AM in Chicago and KBLA-1580 AM in Los Angeles, after a check bounced, the Chicago Tribune said.

MRB owner Arthur Liu said an Air America check bounced and they are in default owing more than $1 million. The Chicago and Los Angeles stations substituted Spanish language talk-radio programming


Now there is a way to work on getting ratings......LOL

[Sledgehammer]

The above is 100% false!! There is a documentary on Comcast On-Demand about the problems they encountered when the show first started. Within weeks they hit a record of 400,000 listeners making them the fastest and biggest talk show on radio. They beat Rush within a few weeks. It’s the conservative talk shows that are trying to beat the show into the ground by slamming them. But the numbers posted on the show and also on the internet that they are still the most listened to political talk show on the radio

Monty...as Flava Flav of Public Enemy said.....
"A rap burgler, false media
We don't need it do we?
It's fake that's what it be to 'ya, dig me?
Don't believe the hype..."

Despite a huge effort by radio syndicators and online supporters to make liberal talk radio appear successful, the truth is that it continues to struggle to gain listenership, as measured by the Arbitron ratings service...

So far, the conversion of a significant conservative talker to a "progressive" format in Providence, Rhode Island, has been an unmitigated disaster...

Air America's flagship New York station [WLIB] is failing to generate any audience growth, both in-city and in outlying areas. The ratings information is for the broadest listener measurement category, persons 12 and older, 6am to midnight daily...

...Boston liberal talker shows anemic, miniscule 0.6 audience share in numbers released minutes ago. Conservative talker WTKK increases again to 4.3 from 4.1 share. Conservative WRKO steady with a 4.0. This is Boston we are talking about here!

San Diego "progressive" talker KLSD drops from 2.3 to 1.9 in brand new data. Conservative talkers KOGO and KFMB miles ahead with 5.5 and 4.5, respectively...

[Jimmy Biggs]

Eric....Conservative Radio is NOT FUNDED....it is supported by FREE Market Advertising.....not grants from the GOP

[63 Vette]

Hey Libs...........so how is that talk radio thing working out ?

Liberal talk radio will never succeed. The average Lib
eral would rather watch MTV or the newest reality show than actually debate both sides of an issue for an hour. I routinely listen to liberal talk radio and watch that idiot Olberman's TV show. The biggest difference between conservative and liberal talk radio, other that the obvious idealogy, is that every conservative radio talk show hosts put disenting liberal opinions on the air as much, or often times more, than like opinions. I have never seen a disenting opinion on Olberman's show, EVER, and very, very rarely hear one on lib radio. The average liberal wants to complain, blame, call names, vilinize, etc, but has no real interest in debate. That is why there will never be a successful liberal talk radio host. They fail even when proped up by big doner money.

[Dan Neumann]

I can't stomach hearing even one word out of Rush's mouth. There is nothing I loath more than pompous, self-absorbed people like Limbaugh.

[George Klass]

I think the reason that Republican and right wing based talk radio is listened to by more people is that people are starved for comedy. What could be funnier than Rush pontificating about stuff that he knows absoluely nothing about. He's a crack up. I listen to him and he's a laugh a minute.

[hhott71]

I can't stomach hearing even one word out of Rush's mouth. There is nothing I loath more than pompous, self-absorbed people like Limbaugh.

You are self-hating, that is the truest sign of being a Liberal.

[63 Vette]

I think the reason that Republican and right wing based talk radio is listened to by more people is that people are starved for comedy. What could be funnier than Rush pontificating about stuff that he knows absoluely nothing about. He's a crack up. I listen to him and he's a laugh a minute.

Nice try George,

[protruck70]

You are self-hating, that is the truest sign of being a Liberal.

Of coarse your onboard telling him what he is doing is the wrong way, the true sign of the right side.

[Shelton_Barrs]

You are self-hating, that is the truest sign of being a Liberal.

How does somebody that doesn't like someone they think is a pompous ass make them a self-hating liberal?

[63 Vette]

Of coarse your onboard telling him what he is doing is the wrong way, the true sign of the right side.

I agree his comment was trivial; but are you saying it is the right that is constantly trying to change the way people do things ? The left is constantly trying to legislate behavior i.e, the global warming histeria (now called global climate change since the newest data out suggests a 10 year cooling cycle) guns, taxes, what our kids eat in school, fast food tax, alcohol tax, cigarrette taxs, luxery car tax, gas guzzler tax, I could go on for hours. I could probably name at least 10 laws that liberals come up that "tell us what to do" for every one that a conservative tries to get passed . The lefts intrusion into our daily lives is much more obtrusive than the right.

Before one of you leftist counter with your favorite argument; the patriot act demolishes the constitution and alows the Feds to over see every thign you do, name ONE person who's rights have been violated and has suffered personally becasue of the patriot act. Want a list of bad guys, and bad intentions, we have stopped becasue of the patriot act ?

About the only place conservatives want to "tell you what to do" revolves around gay marriage and associated issues.

[George Klass]

About the only place conservatives want to "tell you what to do" revolves around gay marriage and associated issues.

There is a term for this. It's called trying to legislate personal freedoms for some and not others, and personal equality under the law. I would say that the ramifications of that might be considered important.

I hear some of you holy rollers preaching that "God doesn't approve of same sex marriage". Fine, let Him deal with it then, not us mere mortals.

[protruck70]

I agree his comment was trivial; but are you saying it is the right that is constantly trying to change the way people do things ?.

Did not say the right was changeing things.. I said it was typical of them to stand back and tell everyone they areing doing it wrong and their way is the correct way.:rolleyes:

I hear some of you holy rollers preaching that "God doesn't approve of same sex marriage". Fine, let Him deal with it then, not us mere mortals.

Example # 1 (above) Mind your business ;)

[Bubstr]

I'm waiting for the independent radio. One that picks on the dumb asses on both left and right. Even if the policy flip flopped It would be expected form the middle. Most of the people that listen to either Air America or Rush aren't independent thinkers. They are looking for some one to tell them how to think or confirm the twisted logic they have.

If I could run a radio program, I'd piss everyone off. Look at the feed back, change positions and piss everyone off again. Take any topic and treat it as if it was Gospel one day, oppose it the next day and sort the Straight poop from the bull shit the next. You could really teach people to think for themselves. I believe unsubstantiated common sense is worth more that all the documented slanted facts in the world.

[quickwrench]

...name ONE person who's rights have been violated and has suffered personally becasue of the patriot act...
This site is devoted largely to racers and their efforts, so I'll simply start and end with the government's self-appointed intrusion into drag racing. Their bullshit federal oversight and requirements raised the cost of Nitromethane earlier this year by what...$360 a drum? Don't get me started, I could go all day...

...Want a list of bad guys, and bad intentions, we have stopped becasue of the patriot act ?...
Yes, please. My tax dollars are funding it. I'd like to see some ROI.

[bigpoppapreston]

I'm an Independent and listen to both liberal and conservative talk daily, specifically Ed Schultz representing Air America on the left and Micheal Medved on the right. I find myself listening way more to conservative talk than the liberal station.

With Micheal Medved at least, he has said on air that he's extremely partisan and has an agenda as a republican. However his show in my estimation has more substance than the show of Ed Schultz. Micheal Medved is very intelligent and has is facts point on. Just wish that he wasn't on the extreme right but in the center putting out fair and honest thought.

Ed Schultz appear to cocky for me, like a wantabe bad ass or something but do not has substance to back it up.

A side note though with Micheal is that while he has his facts together, you have to realize that he still has an agenda (I'm positive that Ed has one too but hasn't stated it) and you have to take his facts to come up with the truth. Facts is not truth. Facts change but the truth do not.

For instance he is very quick to say that while president Bush has an approval rating in the high 20's, the "democratic" lead congress is doing worse and the "democratic" lead congress is getting nothing done.

However the truth is that while the democrats have a razor sharp lead in congress, it's the honest truth that the republicans in congress actually have a worse approval rating than the democrats and before the midterm elections in 2006 nothing was getting done when the republicans lead congress either, but the fact remains that the democrats leads congress because of the slim majority that they have.

In this case and others, Michead Medved facts are accurate and he did not lie, he just is not honest and tell the whole truth because of his affiliation with the republican party.

[George Klass]

If the "facts" are not the truth, then what is?

[Chuck L.]

$4.00 a Gallon Gas!

Who running What!

[Bubstr]

If the "facts" are not the truth, then what is?
If you ordered an aluminum head and I said it is a fact documented on my computer and shipping receipt, but you received an old cast double hump. what is the fact.

[bigpoppapreston]

The truth is something that is real whether we accept it or not.

Fact is something namely information that could be either true or false as we accept it and can change.

For example: FACT- I seen a green camilion. Fact- You see that same camilion tan. TRUTH is the camilion changed it's color.


FACT-Most republicans say that Bush is not that bad if not a good president, but the TRUTH is that most Americans say that Bush is the worst president in history. In this case the both is not the same as the truth has it that most people say that Bush is not a good president but regarded as the worst.

Fact is that Warren Jeffs think that marrying and having sex with underaged girls is acceptable Truth is it's not acceptable and is illegal.

[63 Vette]

There is a term for this. It's called trying to legislate personal freedoms for some and not others, and personal equality under the law. I would say that the ramifications of that might be considered important.

I hear some of you holy rollers preaching that "God doesn't approve of same sex marriage". Fine, let Him deal with it then, not us mere mortals.

No George, it is not "legislating freedoms for some and not others" it is the Liberals who are trying to redefine the definition (by legislation) of marrige. Wrong again.

[N2Ojunkie]

You are self-hating, that is the truest sign of being a Liberal.
Here you go proving that you are an idiot again.