Happy 2nd Anniversary Air America! You're Thrown Off Your New York City Station

[PittsburghAfterDark]

AIR AMERICA TUNED OUT?

By JOHN MAINELLI

March 7, 2006 -- AIR America is close to losing its New York flagship station - knocking Al Franken and his liberal colleagues off the air on their second anniversary.

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

Losing its New York outlet would be a serious blow to the fledgling liberal radio network. "Radio Equalizer" blogger Brian Maloney - who blew the whistle on questionable loans to the lefty network last year - published the first report that WLIB was on the verge of evicting Air America some time soon.

Air America's options for a new home are not promising. All of the city's other strong-signal stations are spoken for, leaving only weak-signal "fringe" stations that do not cover the entire city and suburbs.

Air America parent Piquant LLC has reportedly been paying Inner City Broadcasting - controlled by former Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton and his son, Pierre - $2.5 million a year to air Franken and others.

An Air America spokeswoman told The Post, "It's business as usual," and declined further comment.

Air America got unwanted headlines last year when it was learned that previous management had received what investigators called an "inappropriate" $875,000 loan - since repaid - from a Bronx charity.

Calls to Inner City execs were not returned.

The leading contenders to take over the WLIB lease are former Clear Channel exec Randy Michaels, who syndicates competing lefty talker Ed Schultz, and the new Radio One black-focused talk network that includes Rev. Al Sharpton.
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Awww, poor Air America. First no one listens and now their 24/7 infomercial is going to be pulled in the most liberal city in the bluest of blue states. I guess $2,500,000 a year just isn't enough for WLIB to keep broadcasting lie after lie after lie after lie.

I guess in this case "Your money is no good here." really isn't a form of flattery.

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']at least one reliable report says[/QUOTE]

"one person who we can not name" said. That's some intense reporting there.

At any rate, I've given up on political talk radio; it still has its appeal to me, but it's all just ing junk food. When the only true moderate on the radio, Ed Schultz, is labeled a "liberal," then it's time for me to step away from all that crap.

I'm going back to npr and my Ramones cds.

 

[RedvsBlue]

Now if only the same thing would happen to Bill Bennet, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Rush Limbaugh, and Hugh Hewitt.

Michael Medved and Jerry Doyle can stay because they're actually respectful to all their callers, agree or disagree.

 

[dennis_t]

PAD's admitted that he's only here to agitate and annoy, not to debate or provoke thought. I think someone referred to it as akin to a "monkey throwing his own poop."

So I think actually rewarding him with attention really is counter-productive at this point, and I would urge everyone to refrain from responding to posts like this one. He isn't interested in dialogue, and you are only egging him on.


http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86484&page=2

"Actually it's like a field trip for me dennis.

I get to come see all the kooks in one place. I can point and laugh at them or pound on the glass, as it were, to make them crazy, spook them and watch them flail about in the confines of their captivity.

It truly is for my own amusement that I come and laugh at the likes of you.

I'm sure though that you have a far more noble purpose of visiting online message boards such as this. I'm next to certain you're putting together a doctoral dissortation of some sort or another and this is merely the forum in which you are pusuing your academic and world changing work."

 

[Drocket]

Actually, I think this may be proof that liberals really are smarter than conservatives. Talk radio is shit no matter what its political lean. Liberals are bright enough to turn to another channel. Conservatives - well, not so much.

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='Drocket']Actually, I think this may be proof that liberals really are smarter than conservatives. Talk radio is shit no matter what its political lean. Liberals are bright enough to turn to another channel. Conservatives - well, not so much.[/QUOTE]

I think there's a huge parallel between political talk radio and professional wrestling, but I don't want to go into it here. If you have ever watched the WWF, you'll get it; if you haven't, then it's too burdensome to try to explain.

 

[Cheese]

It's the NY Post quoting an un-named source, suuuuure.

Let's see, Air America regularly beats all the top conservative talkers in the market, by a wide margin. That includes the King of all painkiller addicts and "Go ahead, blow up the Coit Tower!" Bill, both of whom lie like fountains. (Bill saying the head of Fox Security will hunt you down for mentioning Keith Olberman's name last week was great.) And WLIB is going to replace AA with, Al Sharpton? Yeah, OK. Sure thing.